Do we let creators/influencers/web projects end?

An important question being asked by Jason Becker. The more we embrace paid endeavours with a limited run on the web, the healthier our entire culture will become.

People: “Twitter is great because I get to follow the news in real time”

Me, thinking about how I’d rather not die of a heart attack: “cool story 👍”

How is it half-way through November already…

The greatest trick YouTube ever pulled was convincing the world it wasn’t a social network.

I think it’s time for the pro-web people (yep that includes those of us who like Micro.blog) to reconsider WordPress.

It appears to be a product being driven in much the same way as the silo networks and other parts of Big Tech. But it gets a pass because they’re not Facebook.

The return of inessential is my highlight of the week.

They should change it to “God Save the Adulterer”

Is it me or is iOS 16.1 still buggy with parts of the system, such as keeping your place in Messages between closing and opening the app?

Finding something other than a stream on literally two websites is unreasonably difficult. I understand that I’m An Old now and everything but have we really distorted the music industry to the point where the record shop convenience of merely 15 years ago is just gone?

The “Engage” page for the Bylines Network is a good example of an information hub; it’s useful as well as explanatory, and (at least on my desktop) looks pretty good.

While it may be more fun and exciting to develop new features than fix bugs, and may even bring in more users, it can end up being at the expense of your existing user base.

— Robert Rackley, When Is Software Too Indie?

I remembered why I like the concepts used on Mastodon, specifically the idea of a “local instance” vs “wider instances” — in which we just swap the word “instance” for “timeline” for those who are confused — since that is a reflection of physical communities; local vs wider.

Stephen Fry leaves Twitter was not on my bingo card for 2022.

The conversation about increasing the character limit for the Micro.blog timeline is interesting.

I’d hate to see this change happen, especially if there were no improvements made to replies.

An excerpt feature for long posts would help. I assume this is difficult to implement.

Now that I’ve failed another challenge, I can go back to rambling about tech purchases that I don’t even have the money to buy.

“Just pick a server” is not the life-changing advice some people seem to think of it as being.

The fun part about spikes in activity on Micro.blog is all of the new feature requests that people like to make. It can be an eye-opener for me, especially when I get to learn just how old-fashioned I apparently am 😂

I just learned that Riley Hawk — son of Tony — is 29 and my immediate reaction was “oh fuck off”.

I almost posted the dictionary definition of the word exempt. That is how much of a non-web day I’ve had.

The admiration I have for people who do hard work for free will never lessen.

Between the increased volume of emails and now Substack’s new Chat feature, it’s fair to say they are striking whilst the iron is hot.

I know Micro.blog is not that kind of business but I do look forward to the day when opportunistic, yet classy, PR can be used by the team.

Today I took Claire’s driver’s licence with me to deposit a cheque. Fortunately I didn’t need it — the Post Office has retained a degree of quality in spite of ruinous privatisation throughout the country — but I am increasingly reassured by physical objects in place of digital.

Currently listening to the soundtrack for Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 and suddenly I’m a teenager all over again 🥹 🎵

When a tagmoji appears in the Micro.blog timeline it would be cool if it automagically became a link to that particular timeline within Discover.

Over the summer we watched two films close together, both of which were phenomenal; “Dune” and “Everything Everywhere All at Once”. It was a cinematic feast, and now we want to watch them on a much larger screen as soon as we can. 📽