Now that we live much closer to London and life here is definitively much better when compared to our previous situation, I’m going to spend some time thinking about Micro.blog meet-ups and the like. I had thought about this before now; it turns out moving is literally the worst.
I’ve been thinking about the Twitter account for TIL, especially in light of the work I’m doing for 2.0. Despite the temptation to disassociate entirely, it’s important to be realistic about the sheer number of people who still blog there; it will remain as an exit sign.
Can anybody confirm that it is the year 2023 and Apple Calendar has no Mark All As Read for the events inbox?
As well as the 2.7 release of the Mac app today, there are a couple of other very nice touches to Micro.blog. Auto-linking usernames will hopefully now involve fewer people using workarounds.
One of the things I am most looking forward to learning about Micro.blog themes is Hugo templating. Specifically the mental model involved; I’m going to understand it in such a way that I can equate template X to X part of the blog. Understanding infrastructure is helpful for me.
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Time to spend the last hour of the year putting away festive decorations and preparing a glass of whisky to welcome the new year.
Enjoyed Andy Nicolaides’ post Being An Introvert. I’m unsure if I would call myself an introvert, however much of what Andy has written here feels familiar.
Jamie Thingelstad’s post On Audience Capture is well worth a read. This is a good example as to why he is one of my favourite writers here on Micro.blog.
We didn’t buy Flickr because we thought it was an amazing business opportunity—it was losing staggering amounts of money, and nobody else seemed interested in the potential.
— Ben MacAskill, Why we’re doing this
This foundation is a very good thing. Long overdue.
Mastodon posts above 300 characters make my timeline worse. I hope there will be ways to limit such posts via timeline settings and that Micro.blog resists the temptation to go above 300 characters for truncating.
Shorter posts, even including images, are great.
Judging by the number of people using omg.lol in this conversation alone I’ve gone from maybe covering it for @TIL at some point to definitely covering it sooner rather than later.
Delighted to have seen Adam’s work progress so well over the past year.
Cruyff, Maradona, and now Pele… the touchpoints of modern football are gone.
Maybe I’m hopelessly naive, or too generous towards developers but the Release notes section of the Flickr blog looks pretty good to me, specifically in light of where the platform had been before it was bought by SmugMug.
Some of the criticism in this thread is quite harsh.
Anyways, dozens, and all with their unique handwriting. And today, for whatever reason, that was all I was focusing on, each unique handwriting. In my mind, I was like, “what typeface would that one be called?”
A great question to ask.
The packaging for the Midori is made to a higher standard than practically all of the physical objects I encountered in my youth. What a first impression. 📔
There is an episode in the final series of His Dark Materials, in which a traumatic separation occurs and… oof. That was rough.
TIL Norah Jones’ father is Ravi Shankar.
I need to not get into lego, ok Micro.blog. I’m already in the rabbit hole of pen and paper over here.
You don’t need to “bring back blogging”.
You don’t need to harp on about “the blogosphere” or other nonsensical terms.
I appreciate a lot of very online people are either marketers, marketing-adjacent, or generally exposed to marketing culture.
However, we don’t need that.
Hogan took his first trip with us on a bus today. It was a short journey but everything went well, and he got a walk around the large supermarket for the first time. We then made another couple of stops. Not that long ago this would have been an unusually active day outside.
I heard my second LP song this year. I have yet to hear more but I’m confident that I’ll be listening to her music for the rest of my life.
Tenth day of consecutive journalling complete. The positive consequences are potentially endless. 💪 📔
Just used my dictionary for the first time in nearly two years. Feels good to be back in that space, both mentally and physically.