John Gruber blogged about X and using XCancel: I understand not wanting to visit Twitter/X. But if you feel that way, I do sympathize, but that’s your decision, and you should use tools to redirect Twitter/X links automatically. And if you’…
Both the web and Mac versions of Micro.blog were updated today with auto-saving drafts. If you start writing a longer post, Micro.blog will quietly save a draft to the server. This makes it less likely to lose any text if something goes wro…
I’ve started rolling out an AT Protocol PDS — personal data server — for new Micro.blog users. In the Bluesky world, a PDS is what stores your posts, follows, photos, and other data from apps. In the same way that creating an account on Mic…
John Gruber thinks the OpenAI device might be very different than a smart speaker: I couldn’t give two shits about an OpenAI “smart speaker” if the point is just to play music and podcasts, but a handheld cross between R2-D2 and C-3PO, that…
This blog post from both Sundar Pichai and Demis Hassabis has the unfortunate title “The next chapter of our AI momentum”, but it does contain some interesting perspectives. Demis will be spending more time with Isomorphic: As you’ve heard
Micro.blog is often confused with systems like Mastodon or Twitter. They are really very different. Those platforms connect your writing to people. Micro.blog connects it to the web. The community is amazing too. I’m as committed as ever to…
I’ve mentioned a few times how the AI community is overwhelmingly still using X. This is annoying because I’m fascinated with AI, and I like to know throughout the week what big changes are happening in the industry. I stopped posting to Tw…
Links to this 404 Media article about scanning books for AI caught my eye because it implicates ISBNdb, which is one of the services we use in Micro.blog to get book metadata. The article says: …ISBNdb now helps AI labs source bulk printed
Dario Amodei responded to the letter about open weight models. He agrees with some parts of the letter and disagrees with other parts. And while I don’t think he intended his own post to be fear-mongering, it’s not exactly hopeful either: I…
Listen, none of us are Steve Jobs. He was unique and you can’t become like him just by trying. But I was thinking the other day, as I was writing some draft posts about current events and then discarding them, that I don’t really know much
Last year we introduced Micro.blog Studio, a new subscription plan with greatly expanded support for video hosting. You can upload a video to your blog and Micro.blog will prepare it for streaming, so videos up to 20 minutes start playing b…
It has been a while since I added anything new to my Honda Element. Some of the previous posts in this series include CarPlay, rooftop solar, weBoost, and a bed platform. I have a category on my blog with everything. Over the weekend, my so…