@colinwalker Do you have a different feed that is fed to micro.blog than your exposed rss? Your titles are shortened for longer posts in your rss, while not in m.b. I was recently exploring the option to control the titles in my feed.
This how-to series from Apple on Twitter is brilliant marketing. Showcases the product, guiding users at the same. Done well too.
★ Liked “An Interview with Andy Hertzfeld - Architect of the original Macintosh”
We’ve all seen the legendary Apple keynotes and how personal computing has transformed the way we live and work, but what I was really interested to learn from Andy was what it was like to shape that vision from scratch, what it was like to work as an engineer when most people didn’t even really understand what a computer was, when the frontier of what it could become was wide open.
I and queues have some animosity. I know everyone thinks so, but it’s not the regular “my queue moves slowest” complaint that I have. It’s that the only place with queues is where I need to go.
And, of course, they move slow 🙄
Though micro.blog hosted blogs typically are a lot cleaner, I still prefer to read the long posts in a reader view. However, I do not think it is ever enabled for any such blogs — very similar to medium posts. @manton
★ Liked A Vision of Paradise by Jeremy Martin
Amy Hoy writes so effortlessly about the web and websites as the internet around was changing. With one plaint to end with.
There are no more quirky homepages.
There are no more amateur research librarians.
It is good premis to explore, but wit such a shitty, linkbaity headline - “How blogs broke the internet”.
All thanks to a quirky bit of software produced to alleviate the pain of a tiny subset of a very small audience.
Blogs didn’t break the internet, it made the internet mainstream.
Not every user is a tinkerer — early natives of the web may have liked the web controlled that way. But most users have stories to tell. Blogs, might be quirky for some, gave them voice. And that’s no “tiny subset”.
I would have liked a Shortcut invite getting into the weekend — but then now that I haven’t got it, better. I already have too much of experimenting planned for this week.
I’ve finally decided to give blot.im a try. I like the simplicity of posting. Couple of surprises the moment I got in though — I think blot does not like title-less posts much. May need some additional work to get it working.
Anyway always wanted to try this out, heard so much.
Whenever I read a book instead of Twitter for half an hour, I’m like: “Oh yeah! Words can make you feel good sometimes!”