Love that feeling when a new feature sort of actually works. All downhill from here to the release.

Terry Godier posted on the aftermath of shipping Current: "To not let all of the feedback (both good and bad) alter your ability to think clearly and put one foot in front the other and make a thing that’s true to you again. There’s such a strong pull mentally/emotionally to do more of what people liked, or less of what people didn’t, on the next “thing”" The best products take feedback from everywhere but filter it through the original vision. Otherwise you’ll eventually get a watered down or bloated thing with no uniquely defining purpose.

Indieweb.Social

Terry Godier (@tg@indieweb.social)

I have so much respect for indie developers who have made a thing that had a big splash and then came back and did it again. The amount of work t...

This upcoming book about Steve Jobs during the NeXT years sounds really good, via John Gruber: "With unprecedented access to unbroadcast footage of Jobs in NeXT meetings, private company documents, and interviews with his closest colleagues, Cain offers the definitive account of how failure transformed a brash wunderkind into a true business genius." I got my first Mac during those years. Steve was legendary, NeXT machines felt almost mythical, and I’m not sure I ever considered that he would return to Apple. What an extraordinary life.

Geoffrey Cain

Steve Jobs in Exile - Geoffrey Cain

Steve Jobs in Exile is the Untold Story of NeXT and the Remaking of an American Visionary. In 1985, Steve Jobs was pushed out of Apple, the company...

Daring Fireball

‘Steve Jobs in Exile’

Link to: https://geoffreycain.net/steve-jobs-in-exile/

Sometimes when I’m walking and look up at trees or buildings moving past me, I imagine the world in layers like an old multiplane camera, or as seen through Tarzan’s deep canvas. If this programming and AI thing doesn’t pan out, I need to find my pencils. My brain is still wired for animation.

ACM SIGGRAPH HISTORY ARCHIVES

“Deep Canvas in Disney’s Tarzan” by Walt Disney Animation Studios

Kiki’s Delivery Service back in theaters next month: "More than three decades after it first enchanted audiences, Kiki’s Delivery Service is returning to North American cinemas in a newly remastered 4K presentation, heading exclusively to IMAX theaters on March 13." One of my favorites. 🍿

‘Kiki’s Delivery Service’ Flies Back To Theaters In IMAX

Decided we should do a beta for the new RSS thing, starting this weekend and running about a week. If you’re interested, sign up on this form. You’ll get an email tomorrow. So excited to share this. https://cdn.forms-content.sg-form.com/ae894071-1333-11f1-a1a9-7abe16f7dc71

You can tell from the OpenClaw meetups how much this thing has captured people’s attention. There are of course a lot of dude programmers out there using it, but maybe it’s reaching more people… On the How I AI podcast, an interview with Jesse Genet who has bots helping organize her homeschool.

OpenClaw Meetups · Events Calendar

View and subscribe to events from OpenClaw Meetups on Luma. Discover community meetups for OpenClaw around the world.

5 OpenClaw agents run my home, finances, and code | Jesse Genet — How I AI — Overcast

Thanks Jatan Mehta for reviewing my book! His post includes some quotes and commentary.

Indie Microblogging

Journal J

4/5 ⭐️ - Indie Microblogging by Manton Reece

Read for free at book.micro.blog or download the Epub (official link) This book is a good history of publishing and sharing on the Web, particul...

“To send my rhymes out to all the nations Like Ma Bell, I got the ill communication”

I’ve been going back and forth about how to price the new RSS thing. It’s one of the best things I’ve built in a while. There are new costs, but it’s confusing to require Micro.blog Premium. Pretty sure the basics will he included for all Micro.blog subscribers, with one feature just for Premium.

Reading through the proposals for Growing the Open Social Web, which is on Monday. I think the best suggestions are actionable. Real ideas that can be implemented.

FediForum

FediForum | Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop 2026/03/02

Greg Mania writing at The New Yorker about Waymo: "Another car cuts in front of you. The Waymo brakes. It does not then surge forward to assert dominance. It does not briefly consider engaging in Reddit-sourced novice witchcraft to place a curse on the person who has wronged you." 🙂 https://www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts-murmurs/is-this-waymo-a-better-person-than-you

The view from the state library building. Attended a talk by Sam Haynes, author of Unsettled Land. 📚

Ben Werdmuller has a long post about what happens now that AI coding tools actually work. There’s a lot to think about, but I’m going to pull one quote to comment on, not even central to Ben’s points: "They’re also expensive: while open source tools are decentralized and free, it’s incredibly easy to spend large amounts on Claude. Based on my own experimentation and anecdotes from friends and peer companies, any engineer that relies on Claude Code as part of their daily work is likely to spend hundreds of dollars a week…" Developers who still use Claude are burning cash. Codex is good.

Ben Werdmuller

Good vibes, bad vendors

AI coding works now. Here's how to think about it.

This week we flipped the switch on better truncation in the Micro.blog timeline, preserving styles and links. It’s working well. See this screenshot of a slightly too-long post that is nicely truncated with italics, em dash, and inline link still there.

Not faster, now possible

Manton Reece - Not faster, now possible

We watched five minutes of the State of the Union last night, then went to bed. Glad to see the recaps this morning that it was basically a whole lot of nothing. Not even much of a spectacle. 🇺🇸

Mark Gurman reports about upcoming touchscreen Macs: "…the Mac will gain a refreshed, dynamic user interface that can shift between being optimized for touch or point-and-click input, said the people." I hope that for developers who have already adopted Liquid Glass in some way, there won’t be major changes needed for touch in the next macOS. Apple’s yearly update schedule tends to create too much busywork for developers. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-24/apple-s-touch-screen-macbook-pro-to-have-dynamic-island-new-interface

We rolled out some improvements for uploading audio in blog posts, including a new Record button for Micro.blog Studio subscribers. When a blog post has an MP3 attached, Micro.blog automatically adds it to your podcast RSS feed. Here’s a quick video showing how it works.

Manton Reece - We rolled out some improvements for uplo...

Mac minis in Houston

Manton Reece - Mac minis in Houston