All of my favorite podcasts are talking about the same thing this week. Can’t listen to them. I’m making progress on some audiobooks instead.

Micro.blog does a lot. We have a handful of companion mobile apps because some things are just easier in a more focused app. That allows us to keep the main official blogging app as uncluttered as possible. Over the next few months, I’m planning to take the next step with th...

Noodling with something. I’m still waffling on what form it will take if it ships. Just a static, no-text placeholder website for now: micro.one

At the 38th 1/2 Street crossing. 🚂

My short-form podcast is back again! Timetable, episode 133, recorded today. It’s the best snapshot of how I’m feeling and what I want to do about it. Only 7 minutes long.

When you don’t know what to do, create.

Decided today was a good day to burn the old home page to the ground and start over, for users who aren’t signed in. Embracing minimalism, calm, whimsy. Still a few things to improve… Let’s see where this goes.

I almost forgot: IndieWeb Meetup tonight in Austin, 7pm at Mozart’s Coffee.

“I know what I have to do now. I’ve got to keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring.” — Cast Away We went to bed early last night, just as the county results for Georgia and North Carolina were starting to come in and you could s...

Basket of deplorables. 🇺🇸

Distracted myself today by fixing bugs and working on the Mac version of Strata. We’re going to slowly move more of the notes, bookmarks, and highlights functionality into Strata, to help keep Micro.blog streamlined.

There’s a nice new Micro.blog theme “mnml” by Jim Mitchell, available in the plug-in directory. Clean, minimal design.

Jenny Lawson:

Thank you for shining in a world that sometimes appears dark. It may seem such a small ember, but it glows like a lighthouse in the world, reminding us that we are so very far from being alone.

Speaking of voting and podcasts, I love that Lex Friedman does a daily short podcast. Here’s today’s episode. This is exactly what we had in mind when we first added podcast hosting to Micro.blog.

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Freedom, freedom, I can’t move
Freedom, cut me loose
Freedom, freedom, where are you?
‘Cause I need freedom, too
I break chains all by myself
Won’t let my freedom rot in hell
Hey, I’ma keep running
‘Cause a winner don’t quit on themselves.

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We have a special Election Day episode of Core Intuition today: Every Four Years.

Thanks everyone who has supported Micro.blog, whether you tried it only briefly, or stuck with it for years, or came back again later to rediscover it. As the United States votes today, still no politics in Discover this week, except this one thing: go vote! 🇺🇸

Feeling a bit reflective on this election day morning. 8 years ago, I had already been working on Micro.blog, but the presidential election results pushed me to get my act together so I could hit the ground running at the beginning of the new year. January 2nd, launched the Kickstarter.

Happy Election Day, America! Went for a short walk to pick up a coffee. Beautiful cool fall day in Austin.

One more day until we learn what kind of country we live in. 🇺🇸

I still have mixed feelings about SwiftUI. Trying to give it another chance, because the first 90% is so tempting. But then the final customization of little things, just wish it was AppKit.

SNL’s opening skit tonight was a lot of fun. Let’s go Kamala Harris! Finish strong. 🇺🇸

No matter what happens Tuesday, what a huge failure that Trump made it back on the ballot after impeachments, criminal convictions, and not accepting the last election. Ridiculous. 🇺🇸

Hi Austin! Reminder we’re resuming the IndieWeb Meetup. This coming Wednesday, Nov 6th, the day after the election, 7pm, Mozart’s Coffee.

Good guidelines from Bluesky about how they’re approaching misinformation in the final days of the presidential election. For Micro.blog, no politics will go into Discover until after the election, unless it’s non-partisan reminders to vote.

I was looking for old photos and diagrams of Robert Mueller airport and found this progression of satellite photos of Austin. Wild to watch time pass as the airport becomes the Mueller neighborhood.

Another photo from Oklahoma City a few days ago, the statues commemorating the land run of 1889. I learned a surprising amount of history from reading Boom Town. Still thinking about it.

Glad to see the return of the Day One podcast. I guess I had subscribed years ago and then they stopped doing the show, but today it popped back up in Overcast. On the new episode, Paul Mayne talks about how things have gone since the Automattic acquisition and what they might do with AI.

I’ve driven around a lot of Texas this week. Democratic candidates have raised so much money this year, would it kill them to sprinkle a little advertising in rural America? It’s a small thing, but small things win or lose elections. 🇺🇸

Finished reading: The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler. This was brilliant. I may need to read it again… Sometimes my mind would wonder, thinking about about the future. 📚