Episode 134: On your own
Quick break to go camping. Background song from the 1975 live recording of Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen.
Quick break to go camping. Background song from the 1975 live recording of Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen.
Two days after the election. Walking to the coffee shop and thinking about politics and the future of Micro.blog.
It has been another year away from the podcast. I’m back to give an update on the latest draft of Indie Microblogging, a little about my workflow for producing the ePub and PDF versions, and deploying improvements for Mastodon.
After a year away from the podcast, I talk about what I’m working on with Micro.blog, and the books 30 Days and Indie Microblogging.
The “countdown” blog post series, Tumblr support, work on 3.0.1, and looking toward Micro.blog 2.0.
Sunlit 3.0 has been approved! I talk about how and when we’re planning to release it.
Sunlit 3.0 has been submitted to Apple, but will it be approved on the first attempt? App Store uncertainty.
Jon Hays joins the podcast to talk about our work on Sunlit 3.0. Then we discuss the NBA bubble in Orlando. 🏀
On the 2-year anniversary of the public launch of Micro.blog, I’m thinking about the uncertainty of launching something new.
Sign in with Apple in the iOS 13 update for Micro.blog, blog themes, and much more planned for the web this fall. Intro music from playing Sayonara Wild Hearts.
A quick recap of last night’s longer-than-expected server upgrade. I also talk about progress on the Indie Microblogging book, and Ghost import.
Today I’m getting the 3rd email newsletter ready, plus talking about server downtime and learning how to communicate mistakes, with AirPower as an example.
Rolling out video upload and hosting for Micro.blog-hosted sites, why it’s priced the way it is, and more improvements to work on.
About the new features in Micro.blog for saving post drafts and the updated Mac app.
Taking a break today to watch the Apple services-related event. Preparing new Micro.blog features to release tomorrow.
Micro.blog stickers for Kickstarter backers are arriving this week! Also: Sunlit 2.4 is approved and will be released soon.
Troubleshooting server problems.
Some of the work this week including fixing the Sunlit crashing bug, updating the Micro.blog help site, and whether I should take the servers down for an upgrade.
This is an expanded audio version of my blog post today about Facebook and Instagram.
More recent work in Micro.blog for ActivityPub and domain name improvements.
Moving this podcast over to Micro.blog hosting, and thoughts on the Mastodon support we just launched.
An update on microcasting improvements, then thoughts on how the recent articles about Alex Jones and the problems with big social networks always stop short of any solutions. Intro music from Aaron Parecki’s 100 days of music.
Upcoming improvements to podcasting and some more thoughts on Anchor after listening to episode 35 of the Supertop podcast. Also, I misspoke the IndieWeb URL on this episode. The site deaths page is here.
Following up on the Facebook API submission and last night’s Homebrew Website Club. The meetup is the first Wednesday of each month at Mozart’s Coffee.
I just sent off the Facebook pages cross-posting for Facebook to hopefully approve, plus wondering if I should try a bullet journal to get more organized.