Let’s see how well new posts are getting into the timeline.

I wonder who counts as an active user.

How quick are new posts?

Testing Collections shortcode in a post, for @pratik and co:

My word for 2025: FOUNDATION.

Listening to a remix of Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) by Les Gordon. 🎵

Finished a late night of work by sending out the new issue of bts and making two new blogs. Feels good 💪

Instead of publishing that snarky post I just wrote, I’m going to share this post of a Very Good Sweet Good Good Boy.

Now testing with a singular mention of @maique. Maybe two mentions was dangerous!

Another notification test for @maique, this time as a full post. Hi @maique 👋

For 2024 so far, there have been 277 entries on Micro.blog News.

That’s quite a productive year.

I sent out the third issue of the bts newsletter for TIL a few hours ago. This has quickly become a very good outlet for getting me back on track.

Several major changes today. If you have Mastodon cross-posting enabled, we now pull replies from your Mastodon account. There’s a new set of filter buttons on the web to show only Micro.blog, Mastodon, or Bluesky replies. Plus bug fixes, performance improvement, and note revision backups.

— Micro.blog News

Combined with default encryption, this makes MB Notes compelling.

I need to do proper testing to verify the current state of things but the only other feature I’d consider crucial would be full offline access; that includes the type performance you get from plain text editors.

One of my big goals for @TIL is that whenever a new MB feature is released, I’ll publish related materials for it as quickly as possible; short posts first, followed by detailed stuff within a few days, and so on.

Not sure how long it’ll take me to get there but it’ll happen eventually.

A big thank you to the @cygnoir and the folks in the Micro.blog Analog Tools Meetup.

I haven’t attended since the first session — a failure I will amend at the next session — and yet am so happy whenever I get the invitation via email, and see posts about it on the timeline.

Am I alone in struggling to read this grey-on-white text from the folks at Glass?

Listening to maxzwell’s vlog beats set, as part of one of my work playlists. Helps me to rest from the morning routine to get into work mode. 🎶

I have recently found Danish String Quartet. There are times like this in which I am both thankful for the web and annoyed that classical music is still not as well supported regarding quick retail access of live performances.

The other part of me—that mysterious wellspring—wants to take my pen down different paths.

— Meadow, On waking up to write every morning

There are many reasons for my love of writing, and this is one of them; to wander is to be entirely human.

Also, I need to start my own daily practise.

Read the whole thing: Chose and Lose by Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin.

A tool should have rules. When to use the tool. Why to use the tool. Why this tool and not another tool. When to put it away. How to use the tool safely.

— Patrick Rhone, This Is A Tool

Transitions is another great recent post from Annie Mueller.

This is the kind of stuff that makes the thought of resuming lengthier blogging as a practise feel much less daunting.

Annie Mueller’s Writing is a myth is brilliant. You should read it right now. I am going to print it out.

Also, this bit:

It is important, sure, but so is talking and eating and copulating and we do those every day as if they are No Big Thing so surely we could wrap our minds around writing and do it as just Another Thing too.

Hi @Annie. Please stop smacking me in the face. k thx 👍

… and the little spinny circle keeps spinning …

— Annie Mueller, Spinning your wheels

Very happy to have released the first update to @TIL in a while. 💪