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.
Baylor at the Texas Bowl in Houston.
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.
Zilker tree. Another fun year at the Trail of Lights. 🎄
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.
Testing Markdown reference-style links: for example, here. Hello world.
Testing Markdown links. And URLs: www.manton.org
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.
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.
Testing. @manton
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.
Very nice design customization to the Kiko theme on Micro.blog by Kahlil Lechelt.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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. 🏀
Speaking of tonight’s Homebrew Website Club, Tom Brown and I were guests on the Plutopia podcast that just posted this week, talking about the IndieWeb, posting to your own blog, and Micro.blog. I misspoke at the beginning about the founding of the IndieWeb, incorrectly saying “Distributed Web Summit” when I meant “Federated Social Web Summit”. I actually interviewed Tantek and Aaron about those early days of the IndieWeb when I was in Portland this year, for my upcoming book Indie Microblogging.
Good morning, Austin! Tonight is Homebrew Website Club, 6:30pm at Mozart’s Coffee. We’ll meet at a table outside to talk about the IndieWeb, plan for the upcoming IndieWebCamp Austin, or work on your own web site.
We released a new version of Micro.blog for iOS today with several new features and improvements: Added full-screen viewer for photos in the timeline. Added auto-complete of usernames when composing a new post. Added tapping on your blog hostname in the post screen to switch to a different blog if you have multiple Micro.blog-hosted blogs. Added option to set description on uploaded photos for better accessibility. Tap an attached photo thumbnail before posting to edit the text.