I’m going to write fiction again.

I am back on the train of thought regarding “feature phones”. I find the idea of separating my communication from a fully computerised device increasingly compelling.

I like people who put in the hard work of focus.

It is oh so easy to throw a thousand things a day out onto the internet with little thought. But truly good things, the types of things that are worth saying and sharing? Those require the hard work of focus.

Today my account logs are full of notification errors.

Maybe there should be a ranting podcast for the Micro.blog community… we all get a chance to swear into a microphone for like 15 minutes.

The new Micro.blog feature is now public on @TIL:

ICYMI is back!

Enjoyed putting this together in a short space of time. Was made so much easier by the fact that I had existing material from the previous version of the newsletter.

Early morning Incubus, coffee, and lots of clickety clacking 😌

Scheduled posts for @TIL for the first time 😎

The new email subscription feature for Micro.blog is very good.

I’ll make email subscriptions available for @TIL as soon as I can. That’ll be the replacement for ICYMI, the weekly edition of the Post Haste newsletter that I retired last month. Much simpler for it to be built-in and there are still options for customisation. 👍

The new Micro.blog feature looks awesome.

Chocolate-chip cookies are the favored kind of cookie. Raisin cookies are for people who secretly hate themselves. A real cookie shouldn’t have fruit in it. A real cookie is bad for you. It is like a delicious nail driven directly into your heart.

– Patrick Rothfuss

I look forward to the day that Micro.blog plug-ins and themes are less of a black box of mystery. Good, easy-to-access documentation would further enable the ownership aspect of the Micro.blog philosophy. More people could make their own little world on their blog, like before.

  • get flu jab ✔️

I am so happy that I was 17 years-old when Audioslave was released.

The sound of Patrick Rothfuss typing away on his Model M keyboard soothes me, like a reset for concentration.

  • get COVID booster ✔️

Anybody else having issues with undo in the Micro.blog editor? (on a Mac -> browser)

Imagine a Micro.blog flavour of Webmentions, that was rock-solid and worked especially well with Micro.blog. Like how Safari is different from WebKit.

Now that could be an attractive alternative to the network effect of Meta.

Listening to ATP and Marco is harping on this point again, which is also shared with other tech podcasters:

Older device looks old (as in, badly).

I don’t like this mentality. It stinks of wealthy people sneering at those who aren’t interested in breathlessly spending money.