Steve Jobs would hate the trade-in banner on apple.com!
– idiots everywhere
Reminder: Steve Jobs cut the price of the iPhone to 200 dollars, continuously lowered the price of the iPod, and was ready to push the lock-in strategy a lot harder than Tim Cook has.
Very happy to get two posts out at the end of last week, especially after losing a few days to a random bout of illness.
My Micro.blog Wishlist is exactly what it sounds like, whilst the twelfth issue of For The Weekend made it out just in time for, well, the weekend. 💪🏻
This is the Micro.blog news blog. We’ll include blog posts here about recent changes or to highlight new features
news.micro.blog is the latest addition to the set of official Micro.blog blogs. It already looks really good. 🎉⭐
I don’t have a recommendation for Micro Monday but I do have suggestions:
micro.blog/USERNAME
)Enjoy! ⭐
Now that I have put the Twitter account for Today I Learned on hold until the New Year I will not be looking at Twitter at all for at least the next two weeks.
The core of the project continues to be active:
Matt Mullenweg’s State of the Word is in 2 hours. You can watch it for free but need to first register for a “free” ticket.
In the past month:
😭😭😭
I’ve just realised; the recent Questions and Answers episode of Micro Monday ought to be renamed:
Manton Reece: Meme Hater
T-shirt idea for Micro.blog:
I ONLY LISTEN TO MICROCASTS NOW
My bet on the next web-publishing company to fuck up: Squarespace.
Between their disconcerting deal with Unsplash and years-long seeding of the tech podcast industry, this dynamic has all of the elements required of a destructive fallout.
Further to the Gutenberg editor and the inadequacies of WordPress for those of us who are focused more on publishing the things we make, yesterday I posted my Micro.blog wishlist. I didn’t mention categories or custom homepage, since Manton has already spoken about those.
I have written about Gutenberg before now and I’ll say this much for people who do not like the bloated mess WordPress has inevitably become; Micro.blog is better for focusing on what you make. It’s not perfect but it is getting there.
Here is the thing a lot of people, especially those in Apple-centric circles ought to understand about Gutenberg; most people do not have an Apple computer and therefore most people do not have access to a variety of blog publishing tools. They just use the web editor.
GitHub questions: I was thinking about using it for somewhere to post the custom CSS for my blog theme. Is that a good idea or should I put it somewhere else? If it has a place on GitHub, where exactly? Somewhere in the repo? Fork? Start my own?
You know what’s super fun when you’ve got momentum with work across different projects and have your writing energy going good? Being sick, that’s what. 😐
Anyway, I’m back now. Time for more writing of the words and publishing of the posts. 💪🏻
Perhaps if Apple had the courage to reject Facebook, Twitter, and Uber we’d also see changes on those platforms.
Finally, the blog post we’ve all been waiting for:
Why write about lunch? by Brent Simmons
Oh, yeah, also Micro.blog is 1 year into its public life.
Oh, it’s Micro Monday again! I’d like to point you to @Miraz, who posts about a variety of subjects in a thoughful and considered manner and gives a look into her world all the way down there in glorious New Zealand; her photos are often stunning and make me super jealous. 😍
I just counted M&M’s. Can confirm am a super serious adult.
Five decades of Met publications on art history, available to read, download, and/or search for free.
MetPublications is yet another project of the web in which we freely share the best of our societies.