Thinking of Robert Redford, what a career. Sneakers is one of my favorite films, and arguably the best film about computers ever made. All the President’s Men is so good. Watched both of these countless times. (Also just learned his mother was born in Austin.) 🍿

Added a help page for upcoming Open Graph improvements in Micro.blog, including a template system to override the default styles. This is rolling out over the next few days. Very flexible, so hopefully plug-ins can be created for various styles.

Micro.blog Help Center

ℹ️ Open Graph templates

Micro.blog will auto-generate Open Graph cards to use on your blog based on a setting and optional HTML templates. These cards are commonly used in...

Tracks at North Lamar and Airport Blvd. 🚂

Finished reading: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan. A short book, but it’s something special. 📚

Small Things Like These

A heads-up for Micro.blog theme developers: I’m revamping our experimental Open Graph support with more advanced features. If your theme doesn’t have its own Open Graph image, I recommend adding the og:image tag based on the page’s .Params.opengraph.image, which we’ll fill in automatically.

Paul Frazee blogging on Leaflet about whether Bluesky’s AppView should be renamed to more clearly convey what it does: "At this point, it seems better to just call it an App and then explain that the data gets stored in the PDS, like a kind of universal cloud filesystem or datastore."

We probably need to rename the AppView - Paul's Leaflets

It should be called an API server, App server, or backend.

Fair intro in Jason Snell’s macOS 26 review: "macOS 26 Tahoe is two things at once: It’s the broadest and most productivity-focused update for macOS in years, while also taking collateral damage from Apple’s broader design ambitions on its other platforms."

Six Colors

macOS 26 Tahoe review: Power under glass

macOS 26 Tahoe is two things at once: It’s the broadest and most productivity-focused update for macOS in years, while also taking collateral...

While age-gating often creates new problems, I like the fallback in this New York law: "Under the proposed rules for New York’s SAFE For Kids Act, social platforms must serve unverified users or kids under 18 only chronological feeds or posts from people they follow, as well as ban notifications from 12AM to 6AM."

The Verge

NY could force TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram to roll out age verification

New York is clamping down on “addictive” feeds.

Waiting on hold. “There are currently 146 callers ahead of you…” Seriously?!

Looking through Federico Viticci’s iOS 26 review. He starts on a fairly positive note about Liquid Glass. Or at least, not a “the sky is falling” panic: "I can’t stress this enough: the first thing you need to understand about Liquid Glass is that it’s not a drastic, groundbreaking redesign that changes the look of your iPhone overnight, like iOS 7 did for millions of people in 2013."

iOS and iPadOS 26: The MacStories Review

Old and new through the liquid glass.

Watching the Emmys. 📺 “…and laugh out loud comedies like The Bear.” 🤣

ActivityPub is notorious for being a little chatty, and FEP-044f (quote posts) is sort of an extreme example of that. Lots of back and forth between servers, approving quotes, fetching content, deleting approval stamps, etc. I’m not saying I have a better idea… except <blockquote>. 🤪

Cookie monster!

From Mastodon’s blog post introducing quote posts: "Quoting is a powerful tool, and like any tool, it can be misused. That’s why we’ve taken time to introduce quotes in a way that aligns with Mastodon values, focusing on safety and mental health – not just on engagement." Micro.blog will have limited support for this after it’s rolled out on mastodon.social next week.

Mastodon Blog

Introducing quote posts

Over the years, we’ve learned just how essential quoting is to many of you. Here

Nick Heer blogging about the win Automattic got this week in having some of the charges in the lawsuit from WP Engine dismissed: "Even if this case ends with a complete victory for Mullenweg and Automattic, his actions have shaken my support of — and faith in — the WordPress ecosystem." While I do think there has been damage to the WordPress community, if Automattic wins most of the case, maybe settles the rest, I don’t know if there will be significant lasting damage. The views from WordCamp US this month didn’t look like a community in decline.

Judge Dismisses Some of WPEngine’s Claims Against WordPress &ndash; Pixel Envy

Matt Mullenweg: Just got word that the court dismissed several of WP Engine and Silver Lake’s most serious claims — antitrust, monopolization, ...

Working in Go this morning! Micro.blog obviously uses Hugo, written in Go, but we also have a little custom Go tool that runs behind the scenes for newsletters, with more to come. Nice to have a common template language.

I think some of the worst-case scenario AI worries are overblown, but I do like this book title: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

The race to superhuman AI risks extinction, but it's not too late to change course.

Good feedback from folks on whether and how to adopt macOS Tahoe menu item icons. After experimenting, menus seem to look better with icons in most places so that major sections of menu items are aligned together. I’ll ship this in a few days.

I’m noticing some new faces and some returning customers. Means a lot to me. From Pedro: "I went elsewhere for a while. I tried other services, they are fine. But they don’t come close to what Micro.blog offer." https://blog.pcora.eu/2025/09/12/pedroblog-is-back-to-microblog.html

Matt Mullenweg blogging on the recently-announced RSL spec for describing how content is licensed for AI: "I have a lot of scars from the web standards wars, so I’m hesitant to dive back in, but this is from a lot of the early Web 2.0 people, as TechCrunch writes about."

Matt Mullenweg

Really Simple Licensing

It&#8217;s been a busy (and tragic) week but one of the more interesting things to launch was the Really Simple Licensing standard. I have a lot of...

TechCrunch

RSS co-creator launches new protocol for AI data licensing | TechCrunch

A new system called Real Simple Licensing would allow AI companies to license training data at a massive scale — if they&#039;re willing to pay f...

For rail fans in the London area, Museum Open Depot days: "Discover rare road and rail vehicles spanning over 100 years, signs, ceramic tiles, original posters, ephemera, ticket machines, and more." 🚂

London Transport Museum

Depot open days | London Transport Museum

Explore the Depot on three open weekends each year. Discover rare road and rail vehicles spanning over 100 years, signs, ceramic tiles, original po...