Manton Reece

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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. I’ve learned a lot since then, and if I was rewriting those old podcasts now I’d improve them. There’s a combination of embarrassment and pride for anything we create long ago. But I never have time for something like what I tried to do in those old podcasts — they include audio I recorded around Texas and California — so I love that they still exist.

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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.
• Fixed default size when scaling photos.
• Disabled username auto-complete on iOS 10 to work around crashes. This feature now requires iOS 11 or later.

You can download Micro.blog from the App Store. If you don’t see it in your Updates tab yet, it should be there soon.

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