… 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. 💪

If you’re going to spend your energy on caring about slimy Zuckerberg you should at least have the decency to learn about The Molly Rose Foundation.

I just completed a full piece of writing for @TIL. The last time I did this was over five months ago.

That feels so good.

There must be a bug with MB profiles because @KimberlyHirsh only has one word in their bio.

It feels so good: my work on @TIL has moved forward from “Planning and Organising and Catching Up With The Space” and into “Work, write, edit, and schedule.”

Not only excited to publish the work but also to open up on how the work is going, more than I have previously.

I somehow only just got the latest update to MarsEdit, and am happy to see this change:

Blog defaults for publish status, comments, text filter, and trackbacks are now applied to Microposts

This means I can use MB Drafts as my place to quickly start and save certain long posts.

Reading Aaron’s post about thunderstorm weather immediately reminded me of two mornings ago, on Friday, when we awoke after heavy sleep to the sound of thunderstorm rain… it was glorious.

When I said we’re settling, that even includes the soothing effect of superior rain.

The Things They Carried is Gruber right in his groove.

Better conversations, by Annie Mueller.

Fucking phenomenal.

As well as personal blogging, I’m also back to working on @TIL in a much better way. A big part of that has been internalising scheduling and planning to an extent that I now have clarity with regard to my time, a general sense of awareness if you will.

Next up: walk the dog together.

Glad to have signed the guestbook for Numeric Citizen. Such a nice way to give a tip of the hat to people on the web.

Now it feels like a good idea to post whenever I sign other guestbooks.

Frightening stuff from Chris Welch regarding the “advancement” in AI technology for image manipulation.

Just listened to an episode of iPhreaks featuring Manton Reece.

This was from January of 2014, and in it Manton and the hosts talk about how Apple makes it difficult to have even a basic relationship with your customers in the App Store.

Ten years ago.

Finally watched and listened to Vlad Campos’ interview with Manton Reece. Lots of good stuff in there.

It’s particularly interesting to see how MB develops alongside the big protocols, as well as the massive silos.

The status page for Micro.blog shows that everything is fine — I think? It’s not entirely clear to me — and yet there is a blog post I cannot access.

I’m frustrated since the title of the blog post alone has me excited, whilst the helpful MB page isn’t helpful at all.

Changes Ahead by Alan Jacobs is not the first post of its kind that I have read in the seven years since joining Micro.blog.

A good broad, long-term goal for platforms such as this would be to change this dynamic. To truly be the best option for anybody who just wants to blog.

Apple finally realised people also use maps in browsers.

To follow Leon’s post, itself a nod to Alan’s post, I say:

• Narrow the audience.
• Broaden the context.
• Deepen the understanding.

We must help ourselves, otherwise we cannot hope to help others.

(Yes I’m ranting here and I know it.)

It’s tiring to see so much of The Little Boys Club culture on show when it comes to the tech industries.

Why are so many of the decision-makers in tech just shitty men who have failed to grasp even the most basic skill of asking first. It’s beyond pathetic.

If you eat eggs, that’s great. But, I don’t care? This is not a callout. I was not thinking about you when I wrote what I wrote. I was thinking about the fact that I don’t like eggs. This was not an eggs-based personal callout to you.

— James Spencer, This is not a callout

John Voorhees, over on MacStories:

Industry-wide, AI companies have scraped the content of websites like ours, using it as the raw material for their chatbots and other commercial products without the consent or compensation of publishers and other creators.

Good stuff.

👀 The Light Phone III

Vincent Ritter, introducing Sublime Feed makes a point that feels like it was just for me:

There is also no concept of “unread”. I don’t need that in my life… and I know some of you do. I think having an unread count isn’t healthy. Each time you load up your feed it’s a snapshot of this very moment in time and you can just pick and choose. I think it’s easy enough to remember the post you just read and move onto the other.

I agree with this, mostly. Given that I’ve given up on remembering every little thing, Sublime Feed will be a place in which I will only read my favourites.

Finished a (too) late night with a deeply satisfying task: re-developing the TIL roadmap. The first part of Orchid was, by necessity, weighty. To fulfil my goals with the programme future updates will contain fewer changes.

The primary benefit is that I’ll quickly make improvements.