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Finished reading: Magician’s Gambit by David Eddings 📚

Realized last week that I need to actually use the email newsletter feature of Micro.blog myself so that I notice more of the quirks that we can smooth over. You can now subscribe to weekly emails on manton.org. Got the first one today and it looks pretty good!

We watched the Oscars live last night and were confused and then stunned by what happened with Will Smith and Chris Rock, and I hoped by this morning I could focus on other things. Still can’t stop thinking of what Denzel Washington told Will Smith: “At your highest moment, be careful, that’s when the devil comes for you.”

Working on Epilogue this morning, and Android + iOS builds have my Intel MacBook fans going at full speed. Not ready to jump to M1 yet, though. When I bought this 16-inch MacBook Pro, I said I’d keep it for at least a few years and trying to stick to that.

Congrats to @marco on the new Overcast redesign. I’ve been using the beta and it’s a really nice update.

Following up the new bookmarks improvements with more changes today: added Pinboard import and fixed some other problems. Thanks to folks who have upgraded to Micro.blog Premium to take full advantage of bookmark archiving, highlights, and search! That helps us make it better.

The last time I was here (Wright Bros Brew & Brew), you could park across the street because it was just a dirt parking lot next to the train tracks. Now it’s a Whole Foods and Target. ☕️

New Spurs mural on east 4th. Getting coffee around the corner at Wright Bros. ☕️

We’ve started to get the videos from Micro Camp up on the YouTube channel. Thanks again to our speakers and everyone who joined us!

I’m reading through Mozilla’s vision for the evolution of the web. On web sites being too difficult to create:

Building websites has gotten substantially easier in many ways, but it’s also become more complex, and there remain a number of pain points which make the experience more difficult than it needs to be. This has several negative consequences. First, it disempowers site authors by hampering their ability to express themselves. Second, it drives content to native app platforms, which diminishes the Web’s reach. Finally, it encourages centralization by tilting the playing field towards large publishers and platform providers with sophisticated engineering teams and complex infrastructure. Our goal is to reverse these trends by making it easier to build and maintain sites.

There is a lot of good stuff in this document.

Today we rolled out a few improvements to bookmarks, including an import from Instapaper and Pocket. This is meant to complement Micro.blog’s bookmark archiving, where Micro.blog archives a copy of a web page and allows making highlights in it. Like the archiving and highlig...

So impressed with Ketanji Brown Jackson. What a great pick for the Supreme Court. 🇺🇸

We’ve been glued to KXAN for the last couple hours. Tornados in the Austin area, just unreal. Missed us, with only some rain that quickly passed through. 🌧

Homebrew Website Club tomorrow! 6:30pm at Mozart’s Coffee. We’ll keep it informal as we get back into holding this meetup. Time to review recent IndieWeb events, Micro.blog progress, or talk about updates to our sites.

Last week I added a new archive page to Micro.blog-hosted sites. It includes dates and the first part of each post, marked up with Microformats. Jonathan LaCour used this to write a script that parses the HTML looking for posts on today’s date in previous years, then pulls t...

You can add any Micro.blog timeline to Feedbin and it looks really good, with profile icons next to each post and inline photos. Check out this screenshot over on Feedbin’s blog.

On my almost-daily podcast, Timetable, today I talk about rebuilding the Facebook integration in Micro.blog and getting organized.

Monday morning, lots of phone calls. Not my favorite thing.

It’s a little late this week, but we published Core Intuition 338 today. Thanks for listening!

Loved the new episode of Internet Friends. Covers a lot: @drewcoffman coming to terms with using Twitter too much, how the user base has changed, what we need from a community, staying creative, blogging, and how @ablaze is using Micro.blog.

In other Slack news this week, they moved their blog from Medium to their own domain name, powered by WordPress VIP. Because they had medium.com URLs before, none of their old posts redirect. At least they’ve got things future-proof now.

You usually can’t control or predict what other companies do. On the latest Timetable, I talk about going ahead with an idea despite some competition. Plus basketball. 🏀

Much faster home page updating for Micro.blog-hosted sites rolling out now. Also, moving to a separate “Archive” page in the navigation and away from pagination. Feedback welcome. (This is a first step. Better year/month organization will come later.)

Today’s Timetable covers microcasts, Facebook changes for Micro.blog, and Twitter’s API announcement this week. Just 7 minutes. Enjoy!

Upcoming meetups: NSDrinking tomorrow night at Radio Coffee & Beer. 8pm. Also, Homebrew Website Club returning first Wednesdays: August 1st at Mozart’s Coffee. 6:30pm. Hope to see some of y’all there!

Dirk is back for a 21st season with the Mavs. Looks like he will pass Wilt Chamberlain on the all-time points list. But not before LeBron passes them both. 🏀

On today’s episode of Timetable, I go into more detail about the recent performance improvements, related glitches, and thoughts on podcast hosting business models.

Nir Zicherman has a post on Medium about how podcast hosting should be free. Nir is the co-founder of Anchor, a company with $14 million in venture-capital funding. Nir writes: Back in the day, you would have had to pay to store your photos online. But that outdated busines...

Last week I parked myself at a coffee shop one morning and re-architected how blog publishing in Micro.blog works. As some of you know, hosted blogs on Micro.blog are based on Jekyll. While this has some advantages that I wrote about in 2016, it brings some performance drawb...

Happy Monday, everyone! There’s a new episode of Micro Monday up. Great to hear from new voices who haven’t been on a podcast before.