Decided against Liquid Glass-ifying Epilogue for now. It’s such a huge distraction, some developers spent the whole summer dealing with this. Luckily there’s a UIDesignRequiresCompatibility opt-out.

I stopped for a minute to look at this sign, just as a flock of birds took to the sky.

Finally catching up on WWDC sessions and documentation for Liquid Glass. Took me way too long to realize that hidesSharedBackground is what I wanted. And because this is React Native, I get to swizzle UIBarButtonItem to customize things. JavaScript plus a sprinkling of Obj-C.

Revolution.Social is becoming one of my favorite new podcasts. Great episode with Chris Messina. Rabble is on a roll with this.

Chris Messina on Hashtags, Google+ & the Unintended Consequences of Building Social Media — Revolution.Social — Overcast

Very nice video preview of smart replies in @gregmorris’s app Micro Social. I think a lot of people on Micro.blog are going to like this. https://gregmorris.co.uk/2025/02/01/there-was-a-long-discussion.html

Micro.blog - @gregmorris

Last little bit of the sunset.

Oops, while testing something I accidentally sent out another random post (that I didn’t write!) to my blog and other services. Time to step away from the keyboard.

Playing with private note tags in the latest update to Lillihub. It is based on the Micro.blog API but adds its own features and user experience. This is what is possible when there’s an API that developers can just run with. https://lillihub.com/

In the context of Apple services revenue, I want to mention something I noticed yesterday. I opened the App Store to check something, and staring me in the face right on the home page was an ad for Truth Social. Between that and search ads clutter, ads only make the App Store worse. 💰

For the first time in over a week, today I felt like I could catch my breath. There has been a lot going on.

Tragic what happened with the crash in DC. I’m sure the next time we watch a figure skating competition, even years from now, it will be hard to shake the memory. Every day, every minute, small and big events rewrite the future.

Commuter train heading downtown. From the other side of the fence at Cosmic.

Manton Reece

Now that Core Intuition is over, we need to give a little thought to the permanent archive of MP3s. Unfortunately the files are spread across our own servers, S3, and Libsyn. It’s probably about 15 GB and sort of difficult to move around.

Great points in this conversation about how Micro.blog handles longer blog posts with titles. Maybe the time has come for a change here. I’ve never wanted Micro.blog’s timeline to be a bunch of summaries and “read more” links, but right now we should be encouraging longer posts, not relegating them.

Another upcoming theme from @Mtt! This looks great. It solves a problem that many people ask about: In my opinion, longform content should have higher visibility than microposts. Unfortunately, that content is often lost in the constant stream of thoughts we push out. As a remedy, I’m soon to release a Micro.blog theme that prioritizes longform content without losing your microposts.

Pouring down rain this morning, so maybe not a good time for that walk I was planning. Today is the first day in a week that I don’t have anything on my calendar. That means coding and email progress.

Another upcoming theme from @Mtt! This looks great. It solves a problem that many people ask about: "In my opinion, longform content should have higher visibility than microposts. Unfortunately, that content is often lost in the constant stream of thoughts we push out. As a remedy, I’m soon to release a Micro.blog theme that prioritizes longform content without losing your microposts." https://mattlangford.com/2025/01/29/in-my-opinion-longform-content.html

Micro.blog - @Mtt

Pika Pulse is shutting down: "We’re a small team and we want the bulk of our time and energy to be spent building the best software we can. It’s not possible for us to read everything…" I wondered how they handled it and now we know it was a random selection of posts. I wanted Micro.blog’s Discover to feel like a snapshot of posts from the community, but we really do look at each one. It is hard. We’re overdue for changes too. There will always be some community aspect to Micro.blog, even if small, because I’m unsatisfied with every other social network.

Building Pika Out Loud

We’re Shutting Down The Pika Pulse - Building Pika Out Loud

When we turned on The Pika Pulse, we thought it would be a fun way for people to discover some of the great writing being done on Pika each an...

Looking out over the trees and mist from the parking garage at the title company. Just signed our life away for the next 30 years.

Recently there have been some sporadic problems with custom CSS and themes in Micro.blog — basically a glitch when I rolled out an optimization to make Hugo static files faster. I’ve made more improvements today. Please reach out if your blog is hosed in any way.

Still digging through support email. Happy to announce that starting next week, @sod will also be joining on a very part-time basis to help answer email questions. We worked with him a year ago on Micro.blog templates too. I’m inspired and thankful for the help!

Micro.blog - @sod