What is Avatar? – David Chen saves you a web search.

To-do:

• regular blogging
• update site
• microcasting
• Micro.blog community groups

I’ve stopped trying to customise the icons on my iPhone Home Screen. It’s too awkward and feels fragile once you’ve set something up (yes, including Shortcuts).

Forced labour eh, James Dyson.

When I see comments from people who haven’t realised that a photo they’re looking at is years-old, and my first thought is “well because this was clearly taken years ago, just look at it”… that’s when I realise I should invest much more energy into photography.

I never realised Write.as was doing so much… look at all that. It’s so good to see blogging and social network alternatives being so fully developed.

… wait, you can do private blogs and private commenting? Wow.

The other life-long hobby that has recently come to a halt: football.

From playing when I was younger, to full-on enthusiast bordering on pursuing a career (as a writer), much like video games it would have been a big part of my life.

But not anymore. Again, weird.

I’ve played video games for… 3 decades? At least? Most of my life.

That has gradually slowed over the past couple of years, and now since moving last summer I have not played a single big game. You know, the intense ones that demand all of your energy.

Feels weird, and good.

One of my favourite Micro.bloggers returned and I totally missed it:

See London through the eyes of Robert Brook.

Mac App Store not showing updates when one my most used apps does in fact have an update. Thanks Apple.

I’m not commenting on performance improvements to Micro.blog. I feel we’re at the point now where it’s correct to expect not just continuous improvements but a certain standard, whether for the timeline, individual sites, theme editing…

Now only problems are noteworthy.

Warmest day of the year so far here. A nice reprieve from the frost.

Let’s see how quickly this appears in the timeline…

Update for @TIL: full return next week.

Also:

Would it be good if there was a Facebook page for TIL, which functioned as a resource to help people see Facebook alternatives?

Or does this kind of thing already exist? Even if it does already exist, would it be good to have more?

Oh, NFTs from the British Museum. Just as Dr. Sloane envisioned, I’m sure.

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Waiting for iCloud to sync 2 very basic jpeg scans and wondering about the people at Apple who have decided that this isn’t important enough to nail down.

I swear Apple could effectively put Dropbox out of business if they improved this.

Homescreen: February, 2022

(Thought Detox; Doppler; Camera; Messages)

I’m going to Micro Camp 2022 📅

We’re Thinking About Facebook Wrong

Hank Green with 20 minutes that are worth your time.

Thinking about the crappy replies to Josh Wardle’s news.

This doesn’t help the web at all.

You’re going to be an arsehole about a free website? Guess what, now fewer people are motivated to make good free websites.

I feel like there was something I wanted to communicate about the seemingly illusory nature of human identity, the criteria we use to decide when someone no longer gets our empathy, how little we actually know about each other, especially online…

– Simone Veil

The moment Kurt Cobain exhales during “Where Did You Sleep Last Night”