From earlier today, McKenna Park in Denton. 🌳

Finally got my local Android build setup working again. Had to nuke everything. This has been really holding me up on testing and bug fixes.

Now that I have two whole videos of me talking to the camera, time to make a Videos page for my blog. Having a place for anything is actually an encouragement to do more of that thing.

Neat cups at Communion Coffee with the Richardson water tower and skyline.

The new Nostr-based video app Devine also includes an archive of original Vine videos. Rabble spoke to TechCrunch about it:

“So basically, I’m like, can we do something that’s kind of nostalgic?” he told TechCrunch. “Can we do something that takes us back, that lets us see those old things, but also lets us see an era of social media where you could either have control of your algorithms, or you could choose who you follow, and it’s just your feed, and where you know that it’s a real person that recorded the video?”

Music Hall at Fair Park in Dallas, for The Outsiders. Great show. First time I had seen it. 🎭

Made a short video of driving up to Dallas today, with a stop in Waco.

Michael Tsai blogging about the Apple-funded study on DMA fallout:

Now Apple is acting as though it and end users are the only parties that matter, so by implication the money must have been wasted. There’s no consideration that maybe these funds helped some developers stay in business or invest more in the products, both of which would be beneficial to the platform as a whole (including Apple).

Oh cool, Jarrod Blundy’s blog post about Micro.blog Studio made it on Hacker News.

Surprised to read that Sonder has gone bankrupt, despite the Marriott partnership. It seemed like Sonder was a good balance halfway between hotel and Airbnb. I booked one last year in Arizona… although I got the date wrong and ended up having to stay somewhere else!

Thanks @jarrod for the kind words about Micro.blog Studio. His post actually does a better job of answering the “why” of video hosting than my own announcement post!

Good move from Google for privacy, building servers similar to Apple’s private cloud compute. From The Verge:

The compromise is to ship more difficult AI requests to a cloud platform, called Private AI Compute, which it describes as a “secure, fortified space” offering the same degree of security you’d expect from on-device processing. Sensitive data is available “only to you and no one else, not even Google.”

Dave Winer has been updating the web page about Markdown in RSS. This is an RSS extension that adds source:markdown elements to your feed. Micro.blog supports this by default for all blogs. For one of my recent microblog posts, it looks like this in my feed: <item> &...

We’ve launched the first version of a new subscription plan called Micro.blog Studio. This plan joins the standard Micro.blog hosting, the Micro.blog Premium plan, and our Micro.blog Family plan, providing options at a bunch of price points: Micro.one: $1 Micro.blog: $5 Micr...

Another great game from Wemby. Unreal. 5 blocks, 5 assists, 6 3s, a bunch of points. This season is so much fun. 🏀

Tim Berners-Lee is the guest on the latest episode of Decoder:

You want to have control of your own destiny. We call it digital sovereignty. In the old days, the early days of the web, anybody used to be able to make a website. So that feeling of sovereignty as an individual being enabled and being a peer with all the other people on the web, that is what we are still fighting for, and in fact, we need to rebuild.

Starting to roll out the new Micro.blog Studio subscription plan. I blogged last week with an overview. I just created a help page with a few more technical details.

There will be tweaks and improvements as we go, based on feedback.

Cold morning in Austin. Lots to do. Working at the coffee shop but accidentally left my headphones at home! I know, life is hard. 🤪

Started watching: The Diplomat Season 3. Good first two episodes. Also great to see both Allison Janney and Bradley Whitford on the show, gives it even more of a West Wing vibe. 📺

Watching Edge of Tomorrow. Love this movie. We put it on randomly sometimes, have seen it dozens of times. Still holding out hope for a sequel. 🍿

I didn’t know about subway surfing. Tragic. From a story in The New Yorker:

We blame the digital platforms, and deride these kids as idiot stuntmen, addicts—even as the savviest adults among us exhibit a similar dependence on platforms to tell them who to be.

Working on video improvements ahead of tomorrow’s launch. One thing I like about the automatic cross-posting is that for videos less than 3 minutes, Micro.blog copies them natively to Bluesky, reassembling from HLS to a single file. You can see this in this Bluesky post.

Lily Allen’s West End Girl feels like a complete album, meant to be listened to in track order. Really good. (Not safe for work!) Queued it up this morning on my walk to find coffee and wi-fi. 🎶

Watched: Little Amélie or the Character of Rain. Glad I was able to see this in the theater today. Beautiful. 🍿

Sometimes I forget about the way Micro.blog archives any web page you link to or bookmark, including images and styling. I just checked the database and there are hundreds of thousands of web pages and millions of resources. Slowly turning into a personal, miniature Internet Archive.

I think Sandbar is on to something with their ring. I’ve wanted a faster way to record notes and post drafts for a while. But the Apple Watch should really be able to do this.

Thinking about how much code is written by AI is becoming less interesting to me. We didn’t used to care how much code was written by literal copy and pasting. Although maybe we should have? 🤪

I’ve seen the new Mac ad on TV several times now and really like it. There’s obviously something special about it. Didn’t realize at first that it was voiced by Jane Goodall.

Watched: Pluribus S1E1, We Is Us. Not sure what to think of this yet. Rhea Seehorn is good, but want to watch a little more to see where the story is going. 📺

Not sure if this is fair or not, but I think of Bird Bird Biscuit as a hipster version of Chick-fil-a. And to be clear I love both.