Surprised to read that Sonder has gone bankrupt, despite the Marriott partnership. It seemed like Sonder was a good balance halfway between hotel and Airbnb. I booked one last year in Arizona… although I got the date wrong and ended up having to stay somewhere else!
November 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Surprised to read that Sonder has gone bankrupt, despite the Marriott partnership. It seemed like Sonder was a good balance halfway between hotel and Airbnb. I booked one last year in Arizona… although I got the date wrong and ended up having to stay somewhere else!
Thanks @jarrod for the kind words about Micro.blog Studio. His post actually does a better job of answering the “why” of video hosting than my own announcement post!
November 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Thanks @jarrod for the kind words about Micro.blog Studio. His post actually does a better job of answering the “why” of video hosting than my own announcement post!
Good move from Google for privacy, building servers similar to Apple’s private cloud compute. From The Verge:
"The compromise is to ship more difficult AI requests to a cloud platform, called Private AI Compute, which it describes ... https://www.manton.org/2025/11/11/good-move-from-google-for.html
"The compromise is to ship more difficult AI requests to a cloud platform, called Private AI Compute, which it describes ... https://www.manton.org/2025/11/11/good-move-from-google-for.html
November 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Good move from Google for privacy, building servers similar to Apple’s private cloud compute. From The Verge:
"The compromise is to ship more difficult AI requests to a cloud platform, called Private AI Compute, which it describes ... https://www.manton.org/2025/11/11/good-move-from-google-for.html
"The compromise is to ship more difficult AI requests to a cloud platform, called Private AI Compute, which it describes ... https://www.manton.org/2025/11/11/good-move-from-google-for.html
Markdown in RSS: https://www.manton.org/2025/11/11/markdown-in-rss.html
Linking to Dave Winer’s page about Markdown and RSS, with an example from my feed.
Linking to Dave Winer’s page about Markdown and RSS, with an example from my feed.
November 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Markdown in RSS: https://www.manton.org/2025/11/11/markdown-in-rss.html
Linking to Dave Winer’s page about Markdown and RSS, with an example from my feed.
Linking to Dave Winer’s page about Markdown and RSS, with an example from my feed.
Micro.blog Studio: https://www.manton.org/2025/11/11/microblog-studio.html
Introducing a new subscription plan for longer video hosting on your blog.
Introducing a new subscription plan for longer video hosting on your blog.
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Micro.blog Studio: https://www.manton.org/2025/11/11/microblog-studio.html
Introducing a new subscription plan for longer video hosting on your blog.
Introducing a new subscription plan for longer video hosting on your blog.
Another great game from Wemby. Unreal. 5 blocks, 5 assists, 6 3s, a bunch of points. This season is so much fun. 🏀
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Another great game from Wemby. Unreal. 5 blocks, 5 assists, 6 3s, a bunch of points. This season is so much fun. 🏀
Tim Berners-Lee is the guest on the latest episode of Decoder:
"You want to have control of your own destiny. We call it digital sovereignty. In the old days, the early days of the web, anybody used to be able to make a website. ... https://www.manton.org/2025/11/10/tim-bernerslee-is-the-guest.html
"You want to have control of your own destiny. We call it digital sovereignty. In the old days, the early days of the web, anybody used to be able to make a website. ... https://www.manton.org/2025/11/10/tim-bernerslee-is-the-guest.html
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Tim Berners-Lee is the guest on the latest episode of Decoder:
"You want to have control of your own destiny. We call it digital sovereignty. In the old days, the early days of the web, anybody used to be able to make a website. ... https://www.manton.org/2025/11/10/tim-bernerslee-is-the-guest.html
"You want to have control of your own destiny. We call it digital sovereignty. In the old days, the early days of the web, anybody used to be able to make a website. ... https://www.manton.org/2025/11/10/tim-bernerslee-is-the-guest.html
Starting to roll out the new Micro.blog Studio subscription plan. I blogged last week with an overview. I just created a help page with a few more technical details.
There will be tweaks and improvements as we go, based on feedback.
There will be tweaks and improvements as we go, based on feedback.
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Starting to roll out the new Micro.blog Studio subscription plan. I blogged last week with an overview. I just created a help page with a few more technical details.
There will be tweaks and improvements as we go, based on feedback.
There will be tweaks and improvements as we go, based on feedback.
Cold morning in Austin. Lots to do. Working at the coffee shop but accidentally left my headphones at home! I know, life is hard. 🤪
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Cold morning in Austin. Lots to do. Working at the coffee shop but accidentally left my headphones at home! I know, life is hard. 🤪
Started watching: The Diplomat Season 3. Good first two episodes. Also great to see both Allison Janney and Bradley Whitford on the show, gives it even more of a West Wing vibe. 📺
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Started watching: The Diplomat Season 3. Good first two episodes. Also great to see both Allison Janney and Bradley Whitford on the show, gives it even more of a West Wing vibe. 📺
Watching Edge of Tomorrow. Love this movie. We put it on randomly sometimes, have seen it dozens of times. Still holding out hope for a sequel. 🍿
November 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Watching Edge of Tomorrow. Love this movie. We put it on randomly sometimes, have seen it dozens of times. Still holding out hope for a sequel. 🍿
I didn’t know about subway surfing. Tragic. From a story in The New Yorker:
"We blame the digital platforms, and deride these kids as idiot stuntmen, addicts—even as the savviest adults among us exhibit a similar dependence on platforms to tell them who to be."
"We blame the digital platforms, and deride these kids as idiot stuntmen, addicts—even as the savviest adults among us exhibit a similar dependence on platforms to tell them who to be."
November 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I didn’t know about subway surfing. Tragic. From a story in The New Yorker:
"We blame the digital platforms, and deride these kids as idiot stuntmen, addicts—even as the savviest adults among us exhibit a similar dependence on platforms to tell them who to be."
"We blame the digital platforms, and deride these kids as idiot stuntmen, addicts—even as the savviest adults among us exhibit a similar dependence on platforms to tell them who to be."
Lily Allen’s West End Girl feels like a complete album, meant to be listened to in track order. Really good. (Not safe for work!) Queued it up this morning on my walk to find coffee and wi-fi. 🎶
November 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Lily Allen’s West End Girl feels like a complete album, meant to be listened to in track order. Really good. (Not safe for work!) Queued it up this morning on my walk to find coffee and wi-fi. 🎶
Working on video improvements ahead of tomorrow’s launch. One thing I like about the automatic cross-posting is that for videos less than 3 minutes, Micro.blog copies them natively to Bluesky, reassembling from HLS to a single file. You can see this in this Bluesky post.
November 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Working on video improvements ahead of tomorrow’s launch. One thing I like about the automatic cross-posting is that for videos less than 3 minutes, Micro.blog copies them natively to Bluesky, reassembling from HLS to a single file. You can see this in this Bluesky post.
Watched: Little Amélie or the Character of Rain. Glad I was able to see this in the theater today. Beautiful. 🍿
November 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Watched: Little Amélie or the Character of Rain. Glad I was able to see this in the theater today. Beautiful. 🍿
Sometimes I forget about the way Micro.blog archives any web page you link to or bookmark, including images and styling. I just checked the database and there are hundreds of thousands of web pages and millions of resources. Slowly turning into a personal, miniature Internet Archive.
November 8, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Sometimes I forget about the way Micro.blog archives any web page you link to or bookmark, including images and styling. I just checked the database and there are hundreds of thousands of web pages and millions of resources. Slowly turning into a personal, miniature Internet Archive.
I think Sandbar is on to something with their ring. I’ve wanted a faster way to record notes and post drafts for a while. But the Apple Watch should really be able to do this.
November 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I think Sandbar is on to something with their ring. I’ve wanted a faster way to record notes and post drafts for a while. But the Apple Watch should really be able to do this.
Thinking about how much code is written by AI is becoming less interesting to me. We didn’t used to care how much code was written by literal copy and pasting. Although maybe we should have? 🤪
November 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Thinking about how much code is written by AI is becoming less interesting to me. We didn’t used to care how much code was written by literal copy and pasting. Although maybe we should have? 🤪
I’ve seen the new Mac ad on TV several times now and really like it. There’s obviously something special about it. Didn’t realize at first that it was voiced by Jane Goodall.
November 8, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I’ve seen the new Mac ad on TV several times now and really like it. There’s obviously something special about it. Didn’t realize at first that it was voiced by Jane Goodall.
Watched: Pluribus S1E1, We Is Us. Not sure what to think of this yet. Rhea Seehorn is good, but want to watch a little more to see where the story is going. 📺
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Watched: Pluribus S1E1, We Is Us. Not sure what to think of this yet. Rhea Seehorn is good, but want to watch a little more to see where the story is going. 📺
Not sure if this is fair or not, but I think of Bird Bird Biscuit as a hipster version of Chick-fil-a. And to be clear I love both.
November 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Not sure if this is fair or not, but I think of Bird Bird Biscuit as a hipster version of Chick-fil-a. And to be clear I love both.
If you are on the TestFlight beta for Micro.blog iOS, you will have seen our experiments to enable Liquid Glass. I’m admitting defeat today, going to opt out of the new UI for the next version. There are too many little glitches.
November 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
If you are on the TestFlight beta for Micro.blog iOS, you will have seen our experiments to enable Liquid Glass. I’m admitting defeat today, going to opt out of the new UI for the next version. There are too many little glitches.
OpenAI continues to shoot for the moon. Based on a tweet by Sam Altman, they seem fairly clear-eyed about it. It’s a gamble that AI will be needed everywhere. OpenAI will either succeed or fail spectacularly.
I would bet on OpenAI long before the likes of Perplexity and startups riding only hype.
I would bet on OpenAI long before the likes of Perplexity and startups riding only hype.
November 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
OpenAI continues to shoot for the moon. Based on a tweet by Sam Altman, they seem fairly clear-eyed about it. It’s a gamble that AI will be needed everywhere. OpenAI will either succeed or fail spectacularly.
I would bet on OpenAI long before the likes of Perplexity and startups riding only hype.
I would bet on OpenAI long before the likes of Perplexity and startups riding only hype.
Scott McNulty blogging about the new Star Trek LEGO set:
"$400 is a lot of money for some pieces of plastic, but how can you put a price on happiness?"
The minifigures look great. Wish I could just buy a few of them without the full set. We have no space for more LEGOs.
"$400 is a lot of money for some pieces of plastic, but how can you put a price on happiness?"
The minifigures look great. Wish I could just buy a few of them without the full set. We have no space for more LEGOs.
November 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Scott McNulty blogging about the new Star Trek LEGO set:
"$400 is a lot of money for some pieces of plastic, but how can you put a price on happiness?"
The minifigures look great. Wish I could just buy a few of them without the full set. We have no space for more LEGOs.
"$400 is a lot of money for some pieces of plastic, but how can you put a price on happiness?"
The minifigures look great. Wish I could just buy a few of them without the full set. We have no space for more LEGOs.
Trying something new! A short video to start my morning. Coffee at Cosmic. ☕️ https://www.manton.org/2025/11/07/trying-something-new-a-short.html
November 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Trying something new! A short video to start my morning. Coffee at Cosmic. ☕️ https://www.manton.org/2025/11/07/trying-something-new-a-short.html