My favourite Game of Thrones character: Drogon. A very good boy.
My favourite Game of Thrones character: Drogon. A very good boy.
The development of Micro.blog has been steady and thorough from the day the Kickstarter campaign successfully ended. Today I Learned (@til) can help you keep track of updates.
Here’s a starter pack:
Boom. Front page. Not bad eh, @manton.
Having lots of work to do makes avoiding Game of Thrones spoilers so much easier.
For all of my Micro.blog friends: please do not post spoilers for at least a few days. Not everybody has the chance to watch it live or even soon thereafter. ππ»
See, the thing with John Wick is that I saw the first one and because of a particular scene early in the film I found it difficult to enjoy the majority of what was left, and do not have any inclination to enjoy the other parts of any of the films.
Seriously. Fuck that scene.
A blur at night.
Bloomberg: “End to end encryption is pointless.”
Also Bloomberg: “Use our website so we can harvest your fucking soul, pleb.”
Strahd von Zarovich is a dick.
I just used calc in CSS for the first time and in the immortal words of Mr. Reeves: woah.
There is currently a technical problem on Micro.blog, specifically with regard to photos. I’m going to take this opportunity, by way of two @til Tips, to remind members of the best places to get info in times like this:
The line between “I hate these silos and everything they represent” and “I like being part of the conversation with big groups and value the space where everybody can be found” continues to be a line upon which I stare.
Ugh. This is at the core of my neuroticism.
One of my favourite things about Micro.blog as an independent, opinionated platform is the team’s attitude toward the work.
Manton, Jean, and Jonathan do not spend time just talking about the work.
They do not fetishise the idea of work.
They just do the work.
Bokeh will be ad-free, have a chronological timeline, and will be private by default. That means that all accounts will start off as private.
– @smith, Bokeh: Private, independent, and user-funded photo sharing
A great addition to the diverse, independent web.
Apple could do a lot worse than ripping off the Pixel with two things:
If you’re going to brag about your camera, then let’s see the practical side of things sorted for the average customer.
The statement went against everything I had experienced as a person who stutters.
– Pratik MhatrΓ©, Self-Disclosure Statement
I like this speech a lot. It’s like a warm greeting in written form. Nice work, @pratik!
For now, Spotify is only focused on content promotion within its own service β not anything outside of its app.
– Sarah Perez, Spotify launches voice-enabled ads on mobile devices in a limited US test
Welp. There goes my Spotify account.
A part of the knowledge-based industry is its adoption of the same mindset from older industries:
The work must look impossibly easy to implement, so hide away the realities of making and maintaining goods at scale.
This is in the rotten core of silos, of the mainstream web.
Motion to move Wednesday to Friday, Your Honour.
It’s been a year already: First of May
This month was maybe three days long.
Person: “Ah this thing I’m trying to do is difficult.”
The Internet: “Oh just do this and problem solved.”
Person: “Thanks but that’s not why I posted.”
The Internet: “tHeN WhY DiD YoU PoSt iT In a pUbLiC SpAcE”
The baby is born. The mother meets with the doctor. They take care of the baby. They wrap the baby beautifully. And then the doctor and the mother determine whether or not they will execute the baby.
– President Donald J. Trump
American citizens:
But her emails.
Life is too short for paying attention to the words of miserable strangers.
It’s interesting to see the replies to Gabriel Santiago’s post, in which a group of iOS users are strongly requesting a feature for Micro.blog. Does the web app not work on iOS? Or is the app-centric model so strong that people forget, or never even think, about workarounds?
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