Avocado on brown toast and fussy coffee for brunch. That’s my millenial card punched for the day.

The remaining cursor error (for my current uses) looks so threatening.

Nice text you have there. It would be a shame if something…

… happened to it.

This week Mark Zuckerberg met at Mar-a-Lago with a convicted criminal who is out on bail. I stopped posting to Instagram in 2017, but I keep giving Meta second chances. No more. It’s time to burn this shit to the ground and move forward with the open web. Let the past die. Kill it, if you have to.

🔥

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.

Bake Off final time

Dogs are the best.

I wish I could choose to display an edit log of my posts. Could be a useful tool for encouraging transparency and emphasising the humanity of blogging.

(I understand the robots could probably easily fake this but I still like the idea.)

We met two New Zealand Huntaway dogs yesterday. First time meeting that breed and they’re immediately on the list of “If We Owned A Large House” dogs we’d love to add to the family.

And the freewriting train has returned. Apparently it can take extended weekends off.

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?

Ever since Hogan joined our family I have found it impossible look at or watch any sort of media that includes dogs in any sort of discomfort or uncertainty. Just impossible.

Second freewriting session in as many days. 📝

Yep. This is definitely the thing.

Just need to push to be the first thing I do in the morning. And on paper, as well as keyboard.

Freewriting feels like giving my brain a shower.

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. 🎶

Anybody else seeing false “new posts” notifications inside the MB Mac app? I click the banner and… no new posts. It usually happens when there are new posts but it’s like I first need to run through the “false banner”, if that makes sense.

Zelensky has been fighting Putin.

Now help is here in the form of Musk.

Cue the fucking clown music.

Very busy timeline. It’s like people are looking for distractions or something. 🇺🇸

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.

There’s nothing odd about the power button on the new Mac Mini. It’s like the charging port for the Magic Mouse.

Apple wants to make these things obsolete, I’d put my money on that. By physically obscuring these functions they’re exerting (conservative) influence on them disappearing entirely.

Currently taking advantage of the extra hour. Feels good.

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

Is anybody else seeing a performance hit to their MB test blog? Loading a new post, rebuilding the site, account log loading… all of that is just stuttering.