Since the new iOS app is close to the public launch, it is a good time to remember that @NetNewsWire is on Micro.blog. π
Since the new iOS app is close to the public launch, it is a good time to remember that @NetNewsWire is on Micro.blog. π
The floating animoji video from WWDC last year is hypnotic.
This kind of “security feature” in Catalina only makes me less sure of buying a Mac. It is the exact kind of issue I have come across in Windows and thought was less of a problem on the Mac, thus justifying the switch.
It feels, at some level, that it lets the people in charge off the hook. Thoughts?
Having shared Euan Semple’s thought-provoking post, Adam got a fairly quick reply from Pete Brown which only further provoked me to once again consider a general viewpoint I have been wrestling with for the past few years.
An important point of context within these issues that is often neglected: these companies, this version of the web, a lot of it is US-centric. They are literally constructs made from the culture of the US, and whilst of course they are also built with a diversity of viewpoints I think it is vital to remember that there is a difference in how these things are built even compared to that which is most similar, for example Canada.
I don’t know, maybe I live in too much of a bubble of my circumstances in life but the fact remains that I have yet to meet people who are so desparately in need of the connected web on our own little island, as compared to seemingly large numbers of Americans for whom the internet has been something of a lifeboat. Not to say it isn’t significant here, of course it is, but rather that there is difference in the difference even between our two relatively similar nations… that the environment is different, there are different motivations for the various part of our societies, and that’s before we even get to Europe and further afield.
I’ve just never quite felt that if I were to sacrifice the internet my life would be inescapably ruined; at least with regard to the social, overly worked part of the internet where the silos and the like exist. As such I have never quite felt that this is necessarily a socio-economic aspect of our lives that requires constant and immediate care. In many ways, it truly is what it is and little else.
Unfortunately our friend Sameer Vasta appears to have left Micro.blog. Don’t forget:
Sameer is one of my favourite people on the web. I suggest you follow his writing, at the very least.
One of my biggest problems with the IndieWeb movement is how the DIY nature of it is often paired with a reckless, entitled attitude.
If you’re going to touch my website with sharing-based technology, you had better make sure it doesn’t turn into theft.
CONFIRMED: Wendy is coming to stay with us in April, for the next stage of the “matching” process. π
Current version of my profile for the web: <swoods.net>
My blog stays where it has been for a while: <blog.swoods.net>
I miss @smokey. I hope everything is ok, buddy.
… the more a writer attributes the actions of Apple, an enormous corporation with thousands of talented employees, to Steve Jobs, who is just one man and neither an engineer nor a designer, the more likely the writer is an idiot, a hack, or both.
When even people like John Gruber, who have lent full-throated support for blog feed technology, are advising their readers to use Twitter notifications as an RSS replacement then you know that no single web technology can carry the heavy load of the entire populace.
Speaking of CAH, the website for their new restaurant is classy as fuck.
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Today I am grateful for @manton, @macgenie, @cheesemaker and all of the work they do to make Micro.blog. I am also grateful for the Micro.blog community, and everything you all do to make this a space I feel motivated to visit.
Thanks to all of you I can feel sane on the web. πβ€
Why did I say thoughtful so many times? Because there is value in infusing everything we do and say with empathy. Every word, every feature, considered.
– Becky Hansmeyer, Shaken Faith
@becky also hit on a broader point regarding social media. There’s a lot in that.
And it runs at less than 1% CPU usage on an iPhone SE.
– Marco Arment, Introducing Voice Boost 2: Remaster your podcasts
There are many reasons I’ve stuck with Overcast. This is not one of them but a delight to know nonetheless.
(Bonus: “Restored iOS 12 compatibility.”)
TIL about ARS-based programming.
Enjoying nothing but Les Gordon right now. So damn good. πΆ
If you think switching social networks can mask the basic fact that a lot of humans are terrible to each other on purpose, youβre in for a surprise.
I can’t stop thinking about these three tweets. Ironically, I could only find them via the Wayback Machine.
Replies hosted at your own blog – Manton Reece
It’s a good job I’m getting back to work. π
In conjunction with my new post questioning the value of the independent web, I’ve just read the following posts from @ayjay with whom I feel at least partial kinship;
I’m scaling back my blogging, to see how well that works.
I’ve stopped manually creating excerpts of my personal posts for Micro.blog. It’s too much hassle.
I’ll continue to do it for @til, however.