Data center pause

Manton Reece - Data center pause

Really happy with the new full-screen post editor that we’ve been working on. It’ll ship on Monday. I think it solves multiple problems at once: sort of a distraction-free mode for writing, and more control over the accessory panes like categories and cross-posting.

I’ve noticed over the last couple of years that my shorter posts are often too tightly edited to come across clearly. My short blog posts from twenty years ago might’ve been better. Going to try to write more slightly long-form posts… Not really full essays, just a couple paragraphs.

Read the code

Manton Reece - Read the code

NetNewsWire for Mac was updated for Liquid Glass, and now the iOS update is out too. Nice work. 2026 is shaping up to be the year of feed readers.

NetNewsWire - NetNewsWire 7.0 for iOS

NetNewsWire 7 for iOS 26 and up is available now on the App Store! This version adopts Liquid Glass — and we think it’s a better looking versio...

Andrea Bocelli singing Nessun dorma at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics is really something. Got chills listening to it.

The new Muppets Show is fun. Hope they make some more episodes. 🍿

The Movie Database

The Muppet Show

Music, comedy, and a whole lot of chaos is bound to ensue when The Muppets once again take the stage of the original Muppet Theatre with their very...

Om Malik blogs about the greatest invention of his lifetime, the internet: "Like all great inventions of the past—the wheel, the steam engine, and the internal combustion engine—it has compressed time and distance. It is like a time machine. It has essentially made us question every premise."

The Greatest Invention is….

Day One is a great journaling service. And every so often it has a good prompt (via the JetPack app) to help you get started. I have no problem wit...

On my Om

Our mobile & networked Victorian age

Our Mobile, Networked World Is Ushering in a New Victorian Age. If you think the world has been transformed by technology, we’re just getting sta...

What to grow

Manton Reece - What to grow

Behind the scenes in our GitHub comments.

A beta is starting for Terry Godier’s feed reader Current. I love his thinking behind this, but I’m going to resist trying the beta so I don’t get distracted or influenced on building my own RSS thing.

Terry Godier

Current: Open Beta for iPhone, iPad & Mac

An RSS reader built around calm and clarity is now in beta. Here's how to get in.

If you look at the news blog, we have shipped new features or bug fixes nearly every day until the last couple of weeks. It’s been unusually quiet because so much is going on in separate branches that aren’t quite ready. Two big things coming: the RSS reader and a redesigned full-screen web editor.

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Spurs in Dallas. 🏀

Waiting at the 45th street crossing.

Not sure I’ve ever seen Sam Altman as upset as in this long Twitter / X post: "Our most important principle for ads says that we won’t do exactly this; we would obviously never run ads in the way Anthropic depicts them. We are not stupid and we know our users would reject that." I get his frustration because OpenAI is trying to avoid what is shown in Anthropic’s ads. But again, the problem is perception. Anthropic is making an argument that ads will have a corrupting influence on ChatGPT. Whether that happens or not almost doesn’t matter.

X (formerly Twitter)

Sam Altman (@sama) on X

First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed. But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. ...

Manton Reece

Jatan Mehta on exploring where to host his fediverse presence, from Mastodon to Ghost to Micro.blog. Whenever I read something like this, it reaffirms our decision to take a quieter approach to the social web. Less counting, less noise.

Journal J

One sanitized and sandboxed Fediverse profile to rule them all

After musing over having my social web presence on my own domain thanks to the book Indie Microblogging, I’ve decided to try having such a pro...

Logan Land blogging about IndiePub, in the same spirit as IndieWeb and POSSE but expanding to self-published books and other things too: "Now we’re facing something new, with the rise of AI-generated content, these platforms are becoming saturated with noise. Human authenticity is at a premium."

Why IndiePub Matters More Than Ever

You might have heard the term IndiePub. It’s short for independent publishing—the practice of creating and distributing your work (books, s...

WordPress’s new Link Fixer is in some ways similar to the archiving features that we’ve had baked into Micro.blog for years. But I like their option to routinely fix broken links. I’ve been thinking maybe a report that makes it easier to do this, even if it’s not automatic.

Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org

Dave Rupert wants to see more writing about making things better: "It’s cheap and easy to complain and say “[Thing] is bad”, but it’s also free to share what you think would be better." Good post. Complaining can sometimes be valuable, but also too often we target people instead of ideas and institutions, achieving nothing. The constant negativity can be overwhelming.

daverupert.com

Write about the future you want

There’s a lot that’s not going well; politics, tech bubbles, the economy, and so on. I spend most of my day reading angry tweets and blog posts...

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