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Founder of Micro.blog.
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manton 3 months ago
Tracks at North Lamar and Airport Blvd. 🚂 image
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manton 3 months ago
A heads-up for Micro.blog theme developers: I’m revamping our experimental Open Graph support with more advanced features. If your theme doesn’t have its own Open Graph image, I recommend adding the og:image tag based on the page’s .Params.opengraph.image, which we’ll fill in automatically.
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manton 3 months ago
Waiting on hold. “There are currently 146 callers ahead of you…” Seriously?!
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manton 3 months ago
Looking through Federico Viticci’s iOS 26 review. He starts on a fairly positive note about Liquid Glass. Or at least, not a “the sky is falling” panic: "I can’t stress this enough: the first thing you need to understand about Liquid Glass is that it’s not a drastic, groundbreaking redesign that changes the look of your iPhone overnight, like iOS 7 did for millions of people in 2013."
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manton 3 months ago
Watching the Emmys. 📺 “…and laugh out loud comedies like The Bear.” 🤣
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manton 3 months ago
ActivityPub is notorious for being a little chatty, and FEP-044f (quote posts) is sort of an extreme example of that. Lots of back and forth between servers, approving quotes, fetching content, deleting approval stamps, etc. I’m not saying I have a better idea… except <blockquote>. 🤪
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manton 3 months ago
From Mastodon’s blog post introducing quote posts: "Quoting is a powerful tool, and like any tool, it can be misused. That’s why we’ve taken time to introduce quotes in a way that aligns with Mastodon values, focusing on safety and mental health – not just on engagement." Micro.blog will have limited support for this after it’s rolled out on mastodon.social next week.
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manton 3 months ago
Nick Heer blogging about the win Automattic got this week in having some of the charges in the lawsuit from WP Engine dismissed: "Even if this case ends with a complete victory for Mullenweg and Automattic, his actions have shaken my support of — and faith in — the WordPress ecosystem." While I do think there has been damage to the WordPress community, if Automattic wins most of the case, maybe settles the rest, I don’t know if there will be significant lasting damage. The views from WordCamp US this month didn’t look like a community in decline.
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manton 3 months ago
Working in Go this morning! Micro.blog obviously uses Hugo, written in Go, but we also have a little custom Go tool that runs behind the scenes for newsletters, with more to come. Nice to have a common template language.
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manton 4 months ago
Good feedback from folks on whether and how to adopt macOS Tahoe menu item icons. After experimenting, menus seem to look better with icons in most places so that major sections of menu items are aligned together. I’ll ship this in a few days. image
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manton 4 months ago