IndieWebCamp starts tomorrow.
Friday, February 22, 2019
IndieWebCamp starts tomorrow. I’m downtown this morning, heading over to Capital Factory to do a walk-through of the venue and make sure we’re all good for the weekend.
Essays
Marzipan 2021
Friday, February 22, 2019
On the latest Core Intuition we covered this Bloomberg article from Mark Gurman about Marzipan. Many bloggers have written about it this week, skeptical that Marzipan will ever produce great Mac apps, but maybe we’re not giving enough credit to Apple’s strategy. Let’s start with this part of the article: By 2021, developers will be able to merge iPhone, iPad, and Mac applications into one app or what is known as a “single binary.
Writing a post today that links back to one of my blog posts from 2003!
Friday, February 22, 2019
Writing a post today that links back to one of my blog posts from 2003! Love it when that happens. You never know what ordinary blog posts today will take on new significance 15+ years from now.
Why attend IndieWebCamp
Thursday, February 21, 2019
This weekend is IndieWebCamp Austin, an event for bloggers, web developers, designers, and anyone who wants to create something for their own web site, or to build tools based on IndieWeb standards. You can register here. After my first IndieWebCamp, I wrote: There’s nothing like meeting in person with other members of the community. I know this from attending Apple developer conferences, but the weekend in Austin only underscored that I should be more active in the larger web community as well.
Doors open for IndieWebCamp Austin at 9am on Saturday.
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Doors open for IndieWebCamp Austin at 9am on Saturday. We’ll have coffee and breakfast tacos. Full schedule and registration details: 2019.indieweb.org/austin ☕
We just posted Core Intuition 361.
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
We just posted Core Intuition 361. Looking forward to IndieWebCamp Austin and talking about whether new Marzipan rumors will influence our plans this year.
Started the day with JuiceLand. Love these silly prints on the wall.
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Started the day with JuiceLand. Love these silly prints on the wall.
This week’s Micro Monday features Tom Cutting of Stickman Diaries.
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
This week’s Micro Monday features Tom Cutting of Stickman Diaries. “One of the things I like about Micro.blog is that I don’t feel like I’m performing. If somebody likes it, they like it. I’m doing it really for myself, as a record of things.”
Got to see a few things in Fort Worth with family over the weekend.
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Got to see a few things in Fort Worth with family over the weekend. Great to have some time to explore instead of just driving through.
IndieWebCamp Austin is this weekend! You can still register here.
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
IndieWebCamp Austin is this weekend! You can still register here.
Just posted the new Core Intuition.
Saturday, February 16, 2019
Just posted the new Core Intuition. More about WWDC travel, IndieWebCamp Austin, and Daniel considering dropping Blogger from MarsEdit.
IndieWebCamp Austin is coming up in a week at Capital Factory.
Friday, February 15, 2019
IndieWebCamp Austin is coming up in a week at Capital Factory. Bunch of IndieWeb-related things I want to think about for Micro.blog that weekend. Everyone’s welcome!
I’ve been saying Apple’s 30% cut is too high for 10 years, so it won’t surprise anyone that I think…
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
I’ve been saying Apple’s 30% cut is too high for 10 years, so it won’t surprise anyone that I think a 50% cut for subscriptions in Apple News is also ridiculous. It’s completely out of line with the value Apple could provide to news organizations.
I was already making WWDC plans for June 3rd, so it’s nice to see MacRumors uncover clues that…
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
I was already making WWDC plans for June 3rd, so it’s nice to see MacRumors uncover clues that it’ll be that week. But Apple could minimize the chaos with hotels by announcing dates much earlier. There are a lot of wasted temporary reservations.
Apple Stores in Austin
Monday, February 11, 2019
On the latest episode of Core Intuition, we talk about Daniel’s trip to Paris for dotSwift, the state of podcasting after the recent Spotify acquisitions, and then we close talking about Angela Ahrendts leaving Apple. Reflecting on the progress of the Apple Stores, I was thinking back to 11 years ago when I was waiting in line to buy the original iPhone. Here’s a photo of me from Damon Clinkscales while we waited in line.
New photos API
Monday, February 11, 2019
I added a new API endpoint to Micro.blog for getting recent photos for a user. This is something we’ve been wanting for Sunlit, and hopefully it will be useful for other developers as well. It works for any Micro.blog user, even if they are hosting their blog somewhere else. For example, a request to Micro.blog for my username would look like this: GET /posts/manton/photos Authorization: Bearer ABCDEFG The response is JSON Feed, and includes the photo thumbnail URL in addition to the HTML for the blog post and full-sized image.
Sorry @coreint was late this week!
Sunday, February 10, 2019
Sorry @coreint was late this week! But there aren’t many tech podcasts on the weekend, so now there’s something to listen to. It’s a good one: Daniel’s trip to Paris, thinking about WWDC, Spotify acquisitions, podcasting, and crowded Apple Stores.
I heard back from Medium, and cross-posting from Micro.blog
Friday, February 8, 2019
I heard back from Medium, and cross-posting from Micro.blog is now re-enabled on our developer account. But you’ll need to go into Account → Edit Feeds and add it again. Whew!
Username auto-complete and Dark Mode for Mojave
Monday, January 21, 2019
We released another major update to Micro.blog for macOS today: version 1.5. Here are the changes: Added support for Dark Mode on macOS Mojave. Added username auto-complete when composing a new post. Fixed crash when posting photos without accessibility text. Fixed crash if a photo could not be opened in a new window. Fixed incorrect width/height when posting photos to an external blog. You can choose “Check for Updates” in the app or download the latest version here.
Still can’t believe that pass interference no-call in the Saints game.
Sunday, January 20, 2019
Still can’t believe that pass interference no-call in the Saints game. Hard to imagine anything more obvious or more decisive on the outcome of a game. Disappointing. 🏈
Posted the latest Core Intuition with a discussion of Dark Mode, maps in DuckDuckGo, and some…
Sunday, January 20, 2019
Posted the latest Core Intuition with a discussion of Dark Mode, maps in DuckDuckGo, and some optimism for Apple expanding their web services.
Tab bar feature request
Friday, January 18, 2019
I love having a business model for Micro.blog that means we can work with third-party developers instead of against them. True story from last week: I’m at dinner with family, and my kids were playing around with the Micro.blog iOS app. While we waited for our table at the restaurant, they were giving me all sorts of feedback, including that Micro.blog should have a tab bar on iOS instead a menu to switch between the timeline and mentions.
New example code: Snippets
Friday, January 18, 2019
It might surprise some developers to learn that the 4 official apps for Micro.blog — the iOS and macOS apps, Sunlit, and our microcasting app Wavelength — don’t actually share very much Objective-C or Swift code. To minimize dependencies and so that we could more easily develop each app quickly on its own schedule, in some cases we’ve duplicated similar networking or controller code between projects. Now that the apps are becoming more mature, we want to consolidate the Micro.
Speaking of Android, I’ve added a link to Dialog from the Micro.blog
Friday, January 18, 2019
Speaking of Android, I’ve added a link to Dialog from the Micro.blog “New Post” page. Plus new app icons!
Nice update from Vincent Ritter on his upcoming Android app for Micro.blog, Gluon. Looking good!
Friday, January 18, 2019
Nice update from Vincent Ritter on his upcoming Android app for Micro.blog, Gluon. Looking good!
Instagram becoming Facebook-ified
Thursday, January 17, 2019
I wrote in a post last year — and in the companion podcast episode — that pushback against Instagram is coming. This week, John Gruber didn’t hold back on how much worse Instagram already is: At the time Facebook acquired Instagram, Instagram was by far the nicest social media experience I’d seen. It is now quickly descending into a cesspool of crap. I fully expected Facebook to Facebook-ify Instagram, but it’s sad watching it happen.
Basecamp leaves Medium
Thursday, January 17, 2019
Basecamp has moved their blog Signal v Noise off Medium.com and back to their control. DHH’s post is so well aligned with what we believe in for Micro.blog that it almost reads like part of our mission statement: Beyond that, though, we’ve grown ever more aware of the problems with centralizing the internet. Traditional blogs might have swung out of favor, as we all discovered the benefits of social media and aggregating platforms, but we think they’re about to swing back in style, as we all discover the real costs and problems brought by such centralization.
Micro.blog for macOS photo improvements
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
We shipped version 1.4 of Micro.blog for macOS today. This update includes the following changes: Added clicking on a photo in the timeline to open it in a new window. Added setting alt text on photos for accessibility. Click the photo thumbnail before posting to your blog. Improved how the navigation animates when opening a conversation or user profile. As part of preparing this release, I accidentally opted in to Dark Mode in macOS Mojave before Micro.
Dialog for Micro.blog
Monday, January 14, 2019
Very happy to see that Dialog is now out of beta! Dialog is the first Micro.blog app for Android available in Google Play. From the blog post announcement by Mike Haynes: It is with great excitement that I announce Dialog is now officially out of beta. If you were a part of our public beta, there should be an update available soon — if there isn’t already — and new users can download the app now via the Play Store.
Registration is open for IndieWebCamp Austin. February 23–24.
Friday, January 11, 2019
Registration is open for IndieWebCamp Austin. February 23–24.