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Funny how some skills don’t change. I’m sitting here typing a CREATE TABLE and it’s essentially the same thing I was doing 25 years ago.

Syria has been controlled by one family for more than half a century who ruled by repression, devastation and violence. But about two weeks ago, the regime began to falter, and then over the course of one night, it collapsed. Carlotta Gall, a senior correspondent for The New...

The New York Times reports that Donald Trump is telling advisers that his biggest regret from his first term was that he appointed “traitors.” As a result, his transition team is grilling prospective nominees to gauge their loyalty to Trump. Is there some way for Democrats to drive home how dangerous all this is? We chatted with Brian Beutler, author of the excellent Substack Off Message. He argues that even as Trump’s second-term plans are getting more overtly dangerous to the rule of law, Democrats need to do a lot more to alert the public to what’s coming—not just because it’s good politics, but because the country needs it.
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SEASON 3 EPISODE 77: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump's return to the world of TV interviews is important (and crazy) but the shooting of the head of United Health Care just blocks from my home actually seems to be one of the watershed mom...

I caved after a month and re-upgraded to ChatGPT Plus. The feature to use text in another app’s window (like Xcode) is really nice.

Also of interest for Glass users:

Updated importer RSS feeds to also download photos to your blog. For example, add a Glass profile feed and Micro.blog will copy the photos to your own domain name. This is set in Sources by adding a new feed with “import posts to blog” selected.

Testing with Glass RSS feeds today and they’ve got problems. I’ve filed a feedback item here for the Glass folks. I considered working around this in Micro.blog but I really don’t want any more hard-coded hacks for other platforms.

I have so many micro domain names that I actually have a list to remember all of them. This is a fun one that I will launch later in December: micro.christmas

Mozilla has repositioned itself as "a global crew of activists, technologists and builders, all working to keep the internet free, open and accessible." These are all worthy goals, but in my experience Mozilla has been an obstacle to these things. I wrote in a comment on Mas...

This is a nice surprise from Jamie Thingelstad:

I love to see new blogs being created. In the spirit of Christmas, I’m gifting five 1-year subscriptions to micro.blog for readers of the Weekly Thing (announced in WT304). These folks can then get their blogs going and in January I’m going to share links and introduce each of them. Fun! 🤩🎁🎄

There’s a lot to do today. Started the day with something very simple: updated the profile icon for Micro.blog news. Now in color and centered so it looks nice with rounded profile icons. We post here throughout the week with platform updates.

The host of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast and founder of the Unwell Network discusses her interview with Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of the 2024 election, her podcast’s journey from chatting about sex advice to delving into more serious subjects and how the Unwell Netw...

Brittleness is when the company fails because just one component breaks. Learn some strategies for fixing Brittle Points.

I’ve updated our Mastodon and Bluesky cross-posting to have new options to control whether to backfeed replies to Micro.blog. It also now better respects the visibility of posts to avoid leaking semi-private posts outside of Mastodon. Screenshot of the setting:

NetNewsWire 6.1.5 for iOS — which has the same bandwidth-use fixes as the recent Mac release — is available for testing now via TestFlight.

If you’re willing to help, please sign up for the NetNewsWire TestFlight program. The team appreciates your help! 🍕🎸🕶️

It looks like the Dealbook Summit had a number of great interviews this year, major props to Andrew Ross Sorkin, but this one with Jeff Bezos was particularly good.

WordCamp Asia has unveiled its official Wapuu mascot for the 2025 edition: Tahopuu. Designed by […]

So cold this morning, instead of walking I grabbed a Lime scooter up to the coffee shop. First time I’ve ridden a scooter since San Jose a few years ago. Working on making Micro.blog better, of course, because it’s Saturday morning.

Gravatar, or “Globally Recognized Avatar,” now offers its users more free domain options and Bluesky […]

With the success of Bluesky starter packs — which Micro.blog can browse natively! — every other social web platform is trying to invent their own similar format. But we already have blogrolls and OPML. I’d love to see some standardization around this so that there’s a shared format across platforms.