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.
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
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
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.
Anti-immigration protesters keep running onto a road in Portsmouth.
It’s BYOJ day.
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.
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.
Getting some chores done and preparing for Micro Camp. Working out my window set-up, between Zoom, YouTube, and a spare browser.
Edit: I now know that we’re going back to the Help forum chat for during the sessions. I’ve used the web app Mac feature for the chat:
Another Micro Camp, another chance to win an awesome prize:
All the prizes are amazing, so you really can’t go wrong.
Fully agreed with Jean on this. Good luck!
Such good news to see Kimberly Hirsh joining the Micro.blog team! 🎉
Also fantastic news from the same post:
Vincent has also been at work behind the scenes to improve the admin features in our platform, with the hope that some of it can be available to more community members.
Yet more great work from Vincent, and also a good sign of the team taking the well-proven careful and considered approach when making significant changes to the platform.
I blew it all up and started again!
— A Person; who will, inevitably, blow it all up and start again… again.
For new users who join Micro.blog starting today, it’s turned on by default.
— Manton Reece, New AI global setting
The switch for the setting is good.
I continue to feel sad about the broken nature of our world of technology such that opt-out is deemed not just preferable, but essential.
Gibberish doesn’t have those features, it’s meant to be easy to understand. I want my users to use almost all of the features in Gibberish, not just 10%. Users are supposed to click around the Gibberish app, look at the post information etc, and ask, “Is that all?” That’s a good thing.
— Zhenyi Tan, Gibberish Is Now Available on TestFlight
The app is an intriguing idea in its own right. However, I love seeing people make anything with this mentality and am keen to support those efforts.
It’s a way to curate a list of favorite sites to link to from your blog.
— Manton, Recommendations and blogrolls on Micro.blog
One of my favourite parts of this feature is that the recommendations lists are available on a web page. Expected yet still great implementation which favours the web.
£80 -> £110
Good grief, Bob Iger.
Notes are private by default, end-to-end encrypted across all platforms, with a special companion app named Strata for iOS. (Android coming soon.)
— Manton, Introducing notes in Micro.blog
Off to a flying start with this launch 👏
Some links:
IN TRANSIT - HUB SCAN
A delayed order, now on the move. 🥹
When shared outside of Glass, your friends, family, or followers will see your photos laid out in the gorgeous Glass Grid with all the details.
— The Glass team, A Look at Series
That’s pretty damned good.
Firefox now supports creating and using passkeys stored in the iCloud Keychain on macOS.
Reminders has been dog-shit for me lately, so: Reminders -> Due for my non-shared tasks. Instantly better.
Terrible performance from Reminders might be because I’m using a less-powerful device, however if the tiny indie who makes Due can get it right then what are the excuses people have for Apple.
Regarding the case for .bar, @leonp asks:
… but how do you get everyone using it?
For everyone: Keep talking about it.
For the people who like to move between hosts: Demand support of it.
For the people who find themselves in a position to elevate it: Take that opportunity when it arises.