2022
I’ve just started using the new Pinned Profiles feature in @gluon and it is another great example of why it is the best full Micro.blog app.
… or rebelled against the increasingly unattainable aesthetic standards and unsustainable lifestyles exhibited on social media.
Source: Oxford Word of the Year 2022
Perfect choice.
I now have my Instagram feed in my web reader, thanks to Instagram Atom, by Ryan Barrett. Much better.
(h/t @johnjohnston, whose opinion I share entirely)
Filled in the first page of my Theme System journal just now, preparing to start tomorrow morning.
It took me 3 years to do that, however I am now excited to test my theory that I should have been journalling all along… literally for the past 20+ years, let alone 3.
This well observed comment from Anna Havron is why I made @TIL. I’m attempting to be much more consistent with it, as well as make significant improvements for beginners.
This has coincided with 18 months of uncertainty at home, and the unpaid work comes last.
Garfunkel And Oates accidentally saw it in 2009.
… there’s a lot more recourse if there is a specific lie in mainstream media than there is on a random website that someone’s just put up there.
— David Mitchell, on The Graham Norton Show a few years ago
The whole comment is worth watching. Two minutes of a point well made.
This year we’re adding a movie to the holiday season rotation: School of Rock.
Unsure if it fits in pre-Christmas, New Years, or the in-between week. Maybe it’s one of those to fit in any part of the whole period. 🤔 📽
I just took my AirPods, connected to my Mac, out and rather than keep the song paused — via Apple Music btw — it weirdly switched to my non-wireless headphones and continued playing. Yet more junk…
lol Apple’s nagging notification about updating my iPhone’s software caused the device to freeze up. idk about anyone at Apple but that’s my definition of shipping junk.
TIL that Basecamp made their editor available as open source.
Let’s see if I understand:
The ActivityPub feature enables a version of your Micro.blog profile with which ActivityPub-enabled accounts from non-Micro.blog platforms can follow.
- (limited to Mastodon)
- (no access to the Mastodon version of that modified profile)
With each day I feel an increasing attraction towards people who respect the importance of context.
Quips feel good precisely because they lack context; they’re low effort with the false impression of success. It’s much harder to stay silent whilst learning.
ActivityPub support for Flickr would be an interesting idea, however the last I checked their native apps are still pretty bad.
Improved plumbing should not come at the cost of nice experiences across the board. There is no reason we cannot do both.
Just fucking do it.
— Terry Grier with some honesty
This is how I’ve been feeling more and more. My iPhone is now one of my computers; the phone part is there until I’m properly positioned (as soon as I have money; I can wait) to switch to a good, reliable mobile phone.
One of my favourite things about Micro.blog is the blog part. I know lots of people have become strongly attached to timelines and the mechanisms therein; I hope the platform is never compromised by what is, for the most part, addiction-driven behaviour and expectations.
The “it’s too complicated” complaints about Mastodon are the same as the “I’m not paying for a social network” complaints about Micro.blog.
People have been trained into wanting everything for nothing on the web, and then living in denial about the true cost of the services.
We spent four hours outside today. First Hogan’s free-run, followed by the festive market. It was awesome; we were so ready to move to the country, and we’ve only just begun.