Friday, January 11, 2019
It’s become a tradition during WWDC that I always head out to the Presidio on Sunday to have lunch and visit the Walt Disney Family Museum. Looking forward to this exhibit of Mickey Mouse drawings curated by Andreas Deja.
Friday, January 11, 2019
We’ve got a new help site! Special thanks to @paulrobertlloyd for the redesign. Love the new search box.
Friday, January 11, 2019
What a game. Spurs get the win over the Thunder in 2 OTs. All sorts of records in this one. Spurs start with 14 3s in a row, then Aldridge finishes the game with 56 points. 🏀
Thursday, January 10, 2019
On today’s Core Intuition — the tech and business podcast pretending to be a developer podcast — @danielpunkass and I talk about whether Apple is leaving their core values behind as they grow into services and media, plus an update on Black Ink for iOS.
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Homebrew Website Club is tonight in Austin! 6:30pm at Mozart’s Coffee. Join us for a coffee and chat about the IndieWeb and plans for IndieWebCamp Austin. (Which will be February 23–24… Registration open soon.)
Sunday, January 6, 2019
We’ve been playing Catan this weekend. I love the design and how balanced the game feels. Nice way to spend some time as the holiday break winds down for the kids.
Saturday, January 5, 2019
For the first episode of 2019, we catch up a little on what Daniel has been coding on, then talk about our hopes for growing our businesses this year. From the show notes: Daniel and Manton greet the New Year with a vague sense of optimism, as Daniel moves closer to serious iOS development, and Manton remains confident and focused on Micro.blog. They talk about finding a balance between optimistic enthusiasm and realism about chance of failure.
Thursday, January 3, 2019
DeRozan gets the first triple-double of his career against his old team. Kawhi gets boos. I had hoped the crowd would give him a warmer reception… But a great win. I love how well DeRozan fits on the Spurs. 🏀
Thursday, January 3, 2019
We’ve extended our holiday giveaway through this weekend. If you invite someone to Micro.blog, they’ll get 3 free months of blog hosting.
Wednesday, January 2, 2019
Shawn Blanc on making small changes instead of big New Year’s resolutions: I do not overhaul my life on January first. Instead, I pick a few things that I know I can stick with. The compounding impact of small routines done regularly is so much more powerful than that one giant event. I started using Streaks on January 1st and put it on my home screen. I’ve added just a few tasks to it so far — fairly easy tasks, but things I want to do every day — and already it has made a big difference.
Wednesday, January 2, 2019
Sorry for the late notice — no Homebrew Website Club in Austin tonight. Because of the holidays and weather, we’re pushing the meetup to next week. Jan 9th, 6:30pm at Mozart’s Coffee.
Wednesday, January 2, 2019
Dialog for M.b got a major update for the new year, including a new posting screen. Available as a public beta in Google Play.
Wednesday, January 2, 2019
Very cold and rainy day in Austin as it’s starting to feel like 2019 is really here. I’ve been wrapping up a new foundation for themes and customization on M.b that I can’t wait to share.
Monday, December 31, 2018
Walked by this abandoned toy store the other night. I guess they keep the lights on long after the place is empty and the letters removed.
Monday, December 31, 2018
After living here forever and visiting a new coffee shop every day for a month a couple years ago, it’s not often I find a new place… Working at Irie Bean Coffee Bar while in south Austin for a bit.
Monday, December 31, 2018
We really loved Mary Poppins Returns and Into the Spider-Verse. This Spider-Man is stunning — my favorite Marvel adaptation. And don’t miss the blog post about Mary Poppins from Floyd Norman, who worked on the original film 54 years ago.
Monday, December 31, 2018
For the last Micro Monday of the year, @macgenie edited together 10 clips from the previous 40+ episodes in 2018. This is a great intro to Micro.blog and the podcast.
Thursday, December 27, 2018
Baylor at the Texas Bowl in Houston.
Wednesday, December 26, 2018
Worked on some performance improvements for external blogs this morning. RSS and connection errors are also now reported on the web to help troubleshoot feed problems.
Monday, December 24, 2018
Zilker tree. Another fun year at the Trail of Lights. 🎄
Sunday, December 23, 2018
We wanted to do something special for the holidays. Starting today through January 2nd, if you invite a friend to Micro.blog they will get 3 months of free blog hosting. If you already have a paid account, you can optionally pay for their entire first year on Micro.blog. Happy holidays! Thanks to everyone in the Micro.blog community who has been so supportive as we grow the platform. I can’t wait to share everything we have planned for 2019.
Sunday, December 23, 2018
Between 2005 and 2008, I published 4 episodes of a personal podcast, each episode about a different topic. When migrating my blog to Micro.blog this year, I accidentally broke the old podcast feed. I’ve just fixed it by uploading the MP3s to Micro.blog and updating the podcast feed URL in the Apple podcast directory. Here are the 4 original posts with updated audio links: Trains (2005) Video Games (2006) San Francisco (2006) Hillary (2008) These were all over 10 years ago and in that time I’ve co-hosted 350 episodes of Core Intuition and recorded over 100 episodes of my own new podcast Timetable.
Friday, December 21, 2018
We just released version 1.4.1 of Micro.blog for iOS. Here are the changes: Improved sharing from Safari to include both the URL and selected text. Use the share button in the bottom toolbar. Improved text size to more closely match system defaults. The text in the timeline is slightly bigger now. Fixed accessibility when writing a new post so that VoiceOver can be used. Fixed sharing images from some apps. Fixed prompting for multiple blogs when posting to an external site.
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
There’s another big story in The New York Times today about Facebook sharing personal data. You may also have heard that Walt Mossberg has stopped using Facebook and Instagram: This is just a note to say I’ve decided to deactivate my Facebook and Facebook Messenger accounts around the end of the year. After that, I won’t be posting here, or reading what you post. I will be deleting the apps from my devices.
Thursday, December 13, 2018
Very nice design customization to the Kiko theme on Micro.blog by Kahlil Lechelt.
Thursday, December 13, 2018
I woke up this morning, picked up my phone like I always do — to make sure that Micro.blog servers hadn’t quietly burned to the ground in the middle of the night — and the first thing I saw was a notification about Apple’s new campus in Austin. Here’s John Voorhees writing about it for MacStories: At the center of the announcement though is a new facility that will be located in North Austin not far from Apple’s current Austin campus.
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Icro is a beautiful third-party iPhone app for Micro.blog. Version 1.2 just shipped this week with new icons and other improvements. Here are a couple of screenshots from the updated Discover tab: You can download Icro from the App Store. www.manton.org/2018/12/1...
Monday, December 10, 2018
Upgraded from Ruby 2.3 to 2.5 this morning and it appears to have completely fixed some issues I was having with Sidekiq processes unexpectedly quitting.
Monday, December 10, 2018
On last week’s Core Intuition, Daniel and I talked more about WordPress 5.0 and the disruption that will be caused by the new block-based editor, Gutenberg. Daniel also addresses compatibility with MarsEdit in a blog post. Meanwhile, WordCamp US was a few days ago in Nashville. WordPress founding developer Matt Mullenweg gave his State of the Word talk to wrap up the conference. The talk + Q&A is long, over 1.
Saturday, December 8, 2018
Love the way the Spurs finished this game against the Lakers tonight. First of 6 games at home, might be the turning point to climb back into the playoffs picture. 🏀