Very nice video preview of smart replies in @gregmorris’s app Micro Social. I think a lot of people on Micro.blog are going to like this.

Last little bit of the sunset.

Oops, while testing something I accidentally sent out another random post (that I didn’t write!) to my blog and other services. Time to step away from the keyboard.

Nice simple teaser site for Tapestry, shipping next week. It combines a bunch of sources into a single timeline, extensible with JavaScript.

Playing with private note tags in the latest update to Lillihub. It is based on the Micro.blog API but adds its own features and user experience. This is what is possible when there’s an API that developers can just run with.

When I read the tech news or listen to podcasts, my mind sometimes wanders into how I would talk about this with @danielpunkass on Core Int. It’s going to be hard to break the habit. But I packed up my microphone and threw away the mic stand. “Let the past die. Kill it if you have to."

In the context of Apple services revenue, I want to mention something I noticed yesterday. I opened the App Store to check something, and staring me in the face right on the home page was an ad for Truth Social. Between that and search ads clutter, ads only make the App Store worse. 💰

For the first time in over a week, today I felt like I could catch my breath. There has been a lot going on.

Tragic what happened with the crash in DC. I’m sure the next time we watch a figure skating competition, even years from now, it will be hard to shake the memory. Every day, every minute, small and big events rewrite the future.

Commuter train heading downtown. From the other side of the fence at Cosmic.

Now that Core Intuition is over, we need to give a little thought to the permanent archive of MP3s. Unfortunately the files are spread across our own servers, S3, and Libsyn. It’s probably about 15 GB and sort of difficult to move around.

Great points in this conversation about how Micro.blog handles longer blog posts with titles. Maybe the time has come for a change here. I’ve never wanted Micro.blog’s timeline to be a bunch of summaries and “read more” links, but right now we should be encouraging longer posts, not relegating them.

Pouring down rain this morning, so maybe not a good time for that walk I was planning. Today is the first day in a week that I don’t have anything on my calendar. That means coding and email progress.

Another upcoming theme from @Mtt! This looks great. It solves a problem that many people ask about:

In my opinion, longform content should have higher visibility than microposts. Unfortunately, that content is often lost in the constant stream of thoughts we push out. As a remedy, I’m soon to release a Micro.blog theme that prioritizes longform content without losing your microposts.

Pika Pulse is shutting down:

We’re a small team and we want the bulk of our time and energy to be spent building the best software we can. It’s not possible for us to read everything…

I wondered how they handled it and now we know it was a random selection of posts. I wanted Micro.blog’s Discover to feel like a snapshot of posts from the community, but we really do look at each one. It is hard.

We’re overdue for changes too. There will always be some community aspect to Micro.blog, even if small, because I’m unsatisfied with every other social network.

Looking out over the trees and mist from the parking garage at the title company. Just signed our life away for the next 30 years.

Recently there have been some sporadic problems with custom CSS and themes in Micro.blog — basically a glitch when I rolled out an optimization to make Hugo static files faster. I’ve made more improvements today. Please reach out if your blog is hosed in any way.

Still digging through support email. Happy to announce that starting next week, @sod will also be joining on a very part-time basis to help answer email questions. We worked with him a year ago on Micro.blog templates too. I’m inspired and thankful for the help!

While I don’t think it’s likely, if in the future, the only EV allowed to be sold in the United States is a Tesla, as Elon Musk has an office in the White House, that won’t be the most ridiculous thing to happen in Trump’s term. Not even close.

From the Verge: Volkswagen cancels ID.7 sedan for US.

Batch, a new favorite. I can’t believe I’ve been living within walking distance to this place for over a year and never tried it before this week. A misty, gray morning.

Seth Godin as usual has the perspective I need to hear, about prioritizing the important things instead of the urgent:

Waiting for trouble means that you’re going to spend your days dealing with trouble.

Over the weekend, I made a few pretty big, probably overdue changes. A couple will be visible, like Core Intuition.

This blog post about AI trying to “polish” Jenny Lawson’s email is so great. Just a snippet:

Y’all, if you get an email from me it will be signed with HUGS, LOVE, FIGHT THE PATRIARCHY, DOWN WITH POWDERED GRAVY or SORRY I SUCK SO MUCH. It will be filled with typos and rambling parentheticals and apologies for answering several months too late. This is how you know it’s me and not a robot.

I use AI a lot but I don’t want it rewriting my stuff. What works better for me is just asking AI if a particular phrase makes sense. I’ll do my own edits.

Today we have the final episode of Core Intuition. 16 years. 626 episodes. Thanks for listening and thanks @danielpunkass for recording the show with me!

Taking a short break from support email and questions to edit the latest Core Intuition. If you have ever listened to our podcast before and liked it, you will probably want to hear this one. (How’s that for hyping it up?)

Micro Social is looking really good! Upcoming app for Micro.blog from @gregmorris.

This post by Bear creator Herman Martinus is great. I probably could’ve written the same thing about Micro.blog but with a few twists. It’s always been about slow growth and lasting decades. Ben Werdmuller also has some good counterpoints about funding.

Really nice FAQ-style format for today’s Stratechery update on DeepSeek. Even if you don’t read the whole thing, you can tell something big is happening. I downloaded a medium-sized R1 model last week to test with Ollama on my Mac. Very impressed.

Good morning! This week I have two goals: respond to every email I received in January, and fix some bugs. There is low hanging fruit and a few more difficult problems to address.

I finally sorted through an old box of my dad’s stuff that I’ve had for over 25 years. I could never bring myself to open it after he died. I knew there would be some letters in it that were heartbreaking, but if I had also known there would be gems like this I would’ve looked sooner! Made me smile.

Brandon Sanderson brings so much joy to his writing class. I’ve been going through old boxes and papers (we’re moving again!) and found some sci-fi stories I wrote when I was a teenager. Younger me would’ve loved this.