Manton Reece

This is a nice write-up by @leonp of the iPhone app Beluga, which essentially publishes a static microblog site to S3. Includes a tip for integrating with Micro.blog too.… read more

2024-01-21T13:12:13-06:00
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Speaking of Alec Baldwin, I loved his Trump impressions on SNL, but James Austin Johnson as Trump is uncanny. It’s funny but also real, not overplayed. Last night’s opening (video clip on YouTube here) is one of his best… Just perfect.… read more

2024-01-21T09:18:57-06:00
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I’ve read too many articles about the accident with Alec Baldwin’s gun firing on the Rust set, like this new one in The New York Times, and I still don’t get it. Prosecutors really don’t have anything else to do? It’s a tragedy, but I’m not losing sleep that Alec… read more

2024-01-20T21:09:52-06:00
/2024/01/20/ive-read-too.html at://did:plc:pko7wbcggok753hnvndxh3ni/app.bsky.feed.post/3kjhkbjgpch23

John Gruber asks the relevant question for Apple’s new linking rules: Here’s a simple thought I had today regarding whether Apple’s new External Purchase Links entitlement policy is a good faith compliance with Judge Gonzales’ order: Will any developers actually choose to use it? It is hard to imagine even… read more

2024-01-20T18:01:46-06:00
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David Pierce at The Verge on the Vision Pro and Safari-based web apps: Embracing the web will mean threatening the very things that have made Apple so powerful and so rich in the mobile era, but at least at first, the open web is Apple’s best chance to make its… read more

2024-01-20T16:09:45-06:00
/2024/01/20/david-pierce-at.html at://did:plc:pko7wbcggok753hnvndxh3ni/app.bsky.feed.post/3kjgzj5irxy2u

About halfway through the 4th season of For All Mankind. Enjoying it. Sort of forgot some of the characters from previous seasons… Would love to rewatch the whole series when it wraps up.… read more

2024-01-20T12:45:15-06:00
/2024/01/20/about-halfway-through.html at://did:plc:pko7wbcggok753hnvndxh3ni/app.bsky.feed.post/3kjgoq7muqa2d

On the latest Core Intuition, Daniel and I talk about Apple’s new external linking rules and their attempt to audit developers for 27% of revenue. From the show notes: They talk about what Apple’s balance of priorities with money-making vs. world-changing should be, and whether they are on the right… read more

2024-01-20T09:39:21-06:00
/2024/01/20/on-the-latest.html

Micro.blog has always stubbornly stuck to static-site generation (first Jekyll, then Hugo) and probably always will, even as there is a lot more complexity layered on top. There’s just something future-proof about having a folder of HTML files. We need to better expose this foundation, not hide it.… read more

2024-01-19T18:50:55-06:00
/2024/01/19/microblog-has-always.html at://did:plc:pko7wbcggok753hnvndxh3ni/app.bsky.feed.post/3kjes27usl62v

While troubleshooting today, I took a minute to notice how many posts are on my blog. About 6400, of which 4700 are short microblog posts, 1700 long-form posts. But the surprise was over 12,000 replies, which I don’t really think about. All of this needs to funnel through Micro.blog and… read more

2024-01-19T16:27:26-06:00
/2024/01/19/while-troubleshooting-today.html at://did:plc:pko7wbcggok753hnvndxh3ni/app.bsky.feed.post/3kjek5mcdla27

Life is short, make the most of it. This is on the old El Milagro building. Shame about the misspelling. Mural that says one day you’re here and the next day your gone.… read more

2024-01-19T15:25:33-06:00
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Good post by Paul Frazee on why Bluesky uses rich-text facets. I’m not quite convinced — I think a subset of HTML is a more universal solution that scales from microblogging to feeds to the full web — but lots of respect for the thought Bluesky has put into this.… read more

2024-01-19T11:23:28-06:00
/2024/01/19/good-post-by.html at://did:plc:pko7wbcggok753hnvndxh3ni/app.bsky.feed.post/3kjdyznfaio2x

I’m not ordering a Vision Pro, but I went through the buying process out of curiosity. Apple put a lot of work into this. The integration with the face scanning and web checkout is very nicely done.… read more

2024-01-19T10:43:00-06:00
/2024/01/19/im-not-ordering.html at://did:plc:pko7wbcggok753hnvndxh3ni/app.bsky.feed.post/3kjdwriqslz26

I said I’d stop writing about Apple for a minute, but this is a really good post over at Daring Fireball: Essential to the Mac’s continuing relevance is that it is continuously evolving. Much has changed since 2010, and much will surely change between now and the Mac’s 50th anniversary… read more

2024-01-18T19:28:16-06:00
/2024/01/18/i-said-id.html at://did:plc:pko7wbcggok753hnvndxh3ni/app.bsky.feed.post/3kjcdnpxm4s2t

Recorded a new @coreint that’ll be published in a day or two. I think I got all my “App Store 27% tax” gripes out on the show, so now I can resume non-Apple microblogging. 🙂… read more

2024-01-18T15:49:16-06:00
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Fantastic blog post from Andy Baio about the fall of Ello. I would poke in on it every once in a while but didn’t realize it was completely offline now. Andy writes: I was worried that, by taking outside funding, Ello’s values were no longer fully-aligned with the community: they… read more

2024-01-18T10:56:27-06:00
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Iowa sues TikTok over the app’s 12+ age rating. From attorney general Brenna Bird: It’s time we shine a light on TikTok for exposing young children to graphic materials such as sexual content, self-harm, illegal drug use, and worse. TikTok has sneaked past parental blocks by misrepresenting the severity of… read more

2024-01-18T10:17:57-06:00
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Apple can be frustrating with the App Store because they will have policies that are plainly wrong, morally if not legally, and still try to convince you that you’re the crazy one. Increasingly this is what I hear from Apple: “I’ll only be a dictator on day one.” Hubris +… read more

2024-01-18T09:11:24-06:00
/2024/01/18/apple-can-be.html at://did:plc:pko7wbcggok753hnvndxh3ni/app.bsky.feed.post/3kjbb6u4fmp2i

Read And Find Out shirt from Dragonsteel. Brandon Sanderson picked up this phrase from Robert Jordan, answering reader questions that might be covered in future books. 📚 T-shirt that says RAFO on it.… read more

2024-01-17T17:28:58-06:00
/2024/01/17/read-and-find.html at://did:plc:pko7wbcggok753hnvndxh3ni/app.bsky.feed.post/3kj7mrbwwnh2g

Not sure if anyone noticed but there was a bit of a rollercoaster going on behind the scenes with Micro.blog’s queueing and ActivityPub the last couple of days. Lots of little tweaks later, much happier with everything. Faster and more reliable.… read more

2024-01-17T14:02:12-06:00
/2024/01/17/not-sure-if.html at://did:plc:pko7wbcggok753hnvndxh3ni/app.bsky.feed.post/3kj7axr2gm62x

Brent Simmons blogging after the new Apple linking policy: But I need to remember, now and again, that Apple is a corporation, and corporations aren’t people, and they can’t love you back. You wouldn’t love GE or Exxon or Comcast — and you shouldn’t love Apple. It’s not an exception… read more

2024-01-17T13:47:07-06:00
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I like Tim Cook, but there are moral issues he seems completely blind to, like this 27% tax nonsense. Forget iOS. By Apple’s logic, they could also charge 27% (or anything!) for any business that has a Mac app and links to their web site. Never in computing have we… read more

2024-01-17T09:51:20-06:00
/2024/01/17/i-like-tim.html at://did:plc:pko7wbcggok753hnvndxh3ni/app.bsky.feed.post/3kj6tjbsacg23

There’s some interesting stuff in Bluesky’s moderation report. Kudos to them for being as transparent as possible. The screenshot of the backend is fascinating too… It’s often hard to prioritize tools that no one else sees.… read more

2024-01-17T09:21:37-06:00
/2024/01/17/theres-some-interesting.html at://did:plc:pko7wbcggok753hnvndxh3ni/app.bsky.feed.post/3kj6rbylfg72g

Tim Sweeney reacts to Apple’s new linking rules (Twitter X): Epic will contest Apple’s bad-faith compliance plan in District Court. I’ve said before that for devs who want to see the App Store’s payment rules change, Epic was an imperfect champion, but they’re who we’ve got. Glad to see Tim… read more

2024-01-16T22:52:35-06:00
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Apple’s new rules for linking out of an app are totally unacceptable. The whole point of the court ruling is that we shouldn’t have to play these games. I’m not going to opt-in to Apple’s terms and probably no developers will.… read more

2024-01-16T20:38:38-06:00
/2024/01/16/apples-new-rules.html at://did:plc:pko7wbcggok753hnvndxh3ni/app.bsky.feed.post/3kj5gnwst4g27

My track record of blog posts that go a little against the grain (but which are later proven right) is pretty good. Early essays about Twitter and the App Store. But I’m wrong sometimes! I was wrong about AI. Ignored it for months, thinking it was a distraction. Maybe I’ll… read more

2024-01-16T16:11:13-06:00
/2024/01/16/my-track-record.html at://did:plc:pko7wbcggok753hnvndxh3ni/app.bsky.feed.post/3kj4xphxdsa26