NSHipster is back again with a bunch of tips for running AI models on a Mac with Ollama. Also this:

If you wait for Apple to deliver on its promises, you’re going to miss out on the most important technological shift in a generation.

There are so many new (sponsored) rules in the celebrity all-star game that I stepped away for a minute and there was a mascot playing on the court. Which honestly makes me just want to see a full game of only team mascots. 🏀

Nice single-page site from Pixelfed about social web technologies. Think about if more platforms supported everything on that page.

Wrote up some documentation for the first phase of our blog post “summary” feature rollout. Like a lot of things in Micro.blog, this is a foundation. Other things can be built on top of it.

It has now been a couple days since I stopped federating my posts to Mastodon. As expected I get effectively no replies from Mastodon now. I still get replies from Micro.blog and Bluesky. RSS still exists. Good experiment so far.

Good updates and bug fixes out today, especially the new Micro.blog for iOS release. Tomorrow, releasing the first phase of the blog post summary feature I mentioned yesterday.

Spurs have lost 3 of the last 4 since De’Aaron Fox joined, but 2 games were lost by only 1 point. Meanwhile Wemby is doing everything:

That stat line makes Wembanyama the first player in NBA history to record multiple games of 20+ points, 15+ rebounds, 5+ blocks and 5+ made 3-pointers.

Won’t be surprised if he eventually has the record for most 5x5s too. 🏀

Nice new developer site and technical design overview for Bridgy Fed. Whenever I’ve looked at the Bridgy code, I’ve always been impressed that it’s not over-engineered considering how much it can do. The same project in the hands of another developer might be 5x the amount of code.

I sent Micro.blog 3.4.2 off to Apple for TestFlight beta review. If approved, will send it to Apple again for the release build, where presumably a different human will review the same build. 🤪

I’m going to attend this Bluesky & Beyond event next week and FediForum next month. I’ve felt like withdrawing from active participation in standards work, though. I can only do so much and need to focus on where I can actually make a positive difference.

It took me a while to decide to add official support for blog post summaries, but now that I’m committed I’m finding all sorts of little things that should make things better for long-form posts. Hugo already has nice support with .summary, just need to finish a new editing UI and timeline tweaks.

We added ActivityPub support to Micro.blog in 2018. In the years since, we’ve improved it a lot. And we’ve seen how people actually use it. Mastodon and other popular fediverse software have had a huge impact on the open web. There is a lot to like. By focusing on tens of th...

Playing with Kagi again. The first result on my blog when searching the web for just “manton” is this post I wrote back in 2013 about the multiplane camera and iOS 7. Miss the days when I wrote posts like that.

Jason Snell writing at Macworld about Apple’s AI missteps being more about rushed UI design than even the technical underpinnings:

It’s clear that when Apple began its crash program to add Apple Intelligence to its operating systems, the goal was not to solve user problems but to insert AI features anywhere it could. This is the antithesis of Apple’s usual philosophy of solving problems rather than adopting the latest technology, and it has burned the company in some high-profile ways.

Micro.blog is getting clobbered today with thousands of dumb requests for phpinfo and .env. Hello hackers, this does not work! Sigh.

There are several principles that led to Micro.blog, but everything is built on the premise that if social networks are based on blogs it will encourage more people to blog, some people even writing longer posts, and so the web will be better. Social is a roller coaster today but this fact remains.

Trust is built by consistently doing the same thing, hopefully the right thing, over years. There’s no shortcut. And to destroy trust requires either that same kind of repetition, in the opposite direction, or for people to have missed everything that came before. Misinforma...

Excited to see a new iOS app for Micro.blog released: Micro Social. From developer Greg Morris:

Micro.blog is an incredible platform, but I wanted a cleaner, more intuitive way to engage with my timeline, conversations, and the things I care about most—books, photos, and blogging.

Amazing post from @heyloura about using Micro.blog’s private notes API. Personally I’m using notes more and more, often for posts that could be drafts but where my thoughts aren’t really put together yet.

NPR article on immigrants in Chicago skipping care because of fear of ICE raids. I expect nurses all over the country have heartbreaking stories like this. And it’ll just exacerbate problems in our upside down health care system since everyone is worse off when people who are sick can’t get treated.

Cool to see hints that Tumblr is continuing with the WordPress backend transition. TechCrunch:

Automattic confirmed to TechCrunch that when the migration is complete, every Tumblr user will be able to federate their blog via ActivityPub, just as every WordPress.com user can today.

Ben Werdmueller adds:

Given the long tail of ActivityPub and the simultaneous rise of Bluesky, which is connected to the ActivityPub network via Bridgy Fed, the future of the open social web is very bright.

Now I wonder if Automattic pulling folks from WordPress core has actually made more time for Tumblr.

Wrapped up coding on a couple new fediverse settings that will ship in Micro.blog tomorrow. I’ll have a full blog post about it. There wouldn’t be much point in having our own ActivityPub implementation if we didn’t do things a little differently than Mastodon. See also: IndieWeb monoculture.

I’ve linked to magician Dani DaOrtiz before and this new video from him is so good too. His style just makes me happy. A master with cards and misdirection.

Loved this blog post by Robin Sloan on whether AI is okay. The subject is complicated and deserves longer posts like this. It’s a whole new thing. It’s not definitely good or bad. The part about writing code also resonated with me: I think the case of code is especiall...

Great post at Daring Fireball about Fox’s new scorebug, with relevant points for a lot of design:

I say Fox’s new scorebug is better, and raised a ruckus only because it’s so much better that what most viewers noticed is only that it’s so different.

Also covered on today’s episode of Dithering.

After the move, our TV started making a faint noise occasionally that seemed new. Today it won’t turn on! The movers wrapped the heck out of it in bubble wrap, seems like it would’ve been very hard to damage. I’m tempted to try to get it repaired just to fight the “everything is disposable” economy.

I didn’t end up watching the Super Bowl. I used the afternoon to unpack boxes and other tasks leftover from moving. But I did really like this ChatGPT ad. It has a little whimsy reminiscent of some Apple ads, while still uniquely its own thing.

Hope folks are having a good weekend. I rolled out a few changes this morning, including this “New Post…” menu option on the Uploads page. Surprised we never had this before.

I missed the memo for the outside space at this coffee shop… There are like 20 little kids and families running around here. Not a distraction, just makes me smile remembering how good life was with little kids. The bittersweet irony with parenting is not knowing until years later what you had.

John Gruber on the implications for sideloading if TikTok remains unavailable in the App Store:

If I’m wrong and TikTok remains in this half-zombie state in the US — unavailable in the App Store or Play Store, but operational if you have the app installed on your phone — it’ll be interesting if TikTok is the app that makes the mass market actually care about the lack of sideloading on iOS. It’ll be interesting too if sideloading on Android goes mainstream because of this.

TikTok should make an iOS marketplace app in the EU to demonstrate to US customers what they’re missing.