Elon Musk can send a car into space but people in his country still don’t have access to clean water.
You know, for a (relatively) long time I’ve been planning on going all in on Apple. The repeated anecdotal evidence of software decline has me thinking twice; if Google’s hardware is good enough why shouldn’t I go to where the best software (and therefore experience) is?
In 1999, David Hyde Pierce said this:
The greatest honour the Academy has ever given me, is to put me in the same category with John Mahoney.
RIP
Normal people need help setting up a blog-centred website whilst retaining a decent level of control and ownership. Unfortunately indie developers generally don’t have the ability to truly help. However, @manton is, with Micro.blog. He’s my Micro Monday. 👏
The Day After Failing At An Attempt To Do Something New is usually difficult. Fortunately tomorrow comes with an exciting house viewing, the perfect distraction.
That was a fun day. It’s fair to say I’m not hosting my own site, certainly not for the foreseeable future. Sometimes the only option you have to discover whether you have the personality suited for something, is to try it. I’ll continue with WP-Hosted.
I just remembered people mentioning they host Jekyll on GitHub Pages and now think maybe… I should have done that all along. 🙃
Well that was fun. Tried Linode, using PuTTY to get a website going. Totally failed since I really don’t have room in my life for investing in all of that time and effort; probably never will, unless the alternative efforts I’m putting into writing don’t work out.
Nothing like a stalled Apache install to maintain my serious doubts about going deep into indie web. 👍
I ran into a problem with getting my server going and… I solved it. I forgot just how good that feels.
I wonder if @gruber has seen the latest pop-up based bullshit from Medium. Coercing people to create an account with “Hey, you’ve come back to us so let’s make it official.” and other such phrasing is bad enough but to push it via pop-up is gross.
I am full of 👏 for the beginning to this week’s atp. Siracusa on fire.
Started planning out my site’s move from WordPress Hosted to a self-hosted option. Seem to be settling on Sunday as the likely day for this kind of work, planning and such.
Are there Superb Owls? Is that tonight?
Recent talk about web feeds inspired me to edit my Feeds page. It’ll be improved, hopefully with something that is useful to more people much like the Now page idea.
Marco Arment’s recent observation about software and how Apple appears to be continuing to decline made me think of something else I recently came across: Jared Sinclair’s post about Architecture.
Subscribing to newsletters in Feedbin is my new favourite thing. Thanks for mentioning that, @belle. 👍
If the web is a river, Micro.blog is water, where Twitter and Facebook are dams.
Understanding that Micro.blog is not an attempt to replace Twitter feature-for-feature is the key to understanding the whole idea.
International Correspondence Writing Month looks like a lot of fun. Typically, I am in the midst of a move. (via @jw)
It’s good to see Apple clarifying HomePod audio but as @ismh says, the confusion is unnecessary. Hopefully it’s just down to this being a new product category.
Liverpool’s Camp And Furnace is holding an anti-Valentine’s Day event, “Burn Your Ex – Anti-Valentine’s Disco”. This is brilliant.
If there’s one thing I always enjoy about Apple events it’s the new music. Right now I’m listening to Keep On Lovin' (feat. Seinabo Sey) by MagnusTheMagnus. 🎵