Manton Reece @manton@mastodon.social

IndieWeb Meetup this week in Austin! Wednesday at Mozart’s Coffee, 6:30pm. Stop by to chat about the open web and the upcoming IndieWebCamp. ☕

Day 2 of Catalina, now hitting more issues with full disk access and Ruby-related commands. Using rbenv and starting to wonder if I need to throw everything out and re-install to make Catalina happy. I’ve added all the obvious paths to System Prefs.

Running a series of exports and scripts to do some number crunching and update Micro.blog mailing lists. Nothing fancy. In some cases just pasting Ruby code into the console.

With a couple new releases of Micro.blog and Sunlit out the door, I think it’s time to upgrade to Catalina. I had it on an external drive for testing over the summer and so was happy to avoid upgrading for real.

Micro.blog 1.7.2 for iOS is now available in the App Store. Just a few more bug fixes and minor improvements.

Core Intuition episode 394 with @danielpunkass reporting on his first meeting “with his boss”, plus a discussion of Micro.blog’s new domain name registration. https://coreint.org/2019/11/episode-394-facing-hard-facts/

Marking the halfway point on our walk today, took this photo of downtown Austin from the pedestrian bridge. Day 2 prompt for Microblogvember.

IndieWebCamp Austin will be February 22-23, 2020. Registration is now open! Just $10 for the weekend. https://2020.indieweb.org/austin

Today at 2:30pm central time, Tantek Çelik is giving an IndieWeb talk — Take Back Your Web — at WordCamp US. Check out the livestream for room 240 to watch it live. https://2019.us.wordcamp.org/session/take-back-your-web/

I finished NaNoWriMo in 2005 and recommend trying it if you have time. For something shorter, just post once a day to your blog this month to get into a routine of writing regularly. We have a daily Microblogvember prompt at M.b → Discover on the web. https://manton.org/2005/12/01/154328.html

Disappointed that Beto is suspending his campaign before we vote, but it is difficult to recapture momentum after the media has moved on to other candidates. Hope others can advocate for the buyback of assault weapons and speak as clearly about immigration. Thanks Beto! 🇺🇸

If you’re new to Micro.blog, we have pins you can earn just for fun and to encourage posting to your blog. There’s a link under Account. Today, unlock a secret pin by mentioning “Halloween” or “pumpkin” anywhere in a microblog post. 🎃

There’s a new update to our photo app Sunlit out with improvements and bug fixes. https://sunlit.io/

Reacting to the news that Twitter is banning political ads, I’m announcing today that Micro.blog has also banned political ads. And all ads, period. Massive ad-based social networks are unfixable by design. We can do better.

Almost shocked that Twitter is banning political ads. Didn’t think they had the guts to make a single hard decision after accidentally building a platform that manipulates and amplifies the worst parts of society, letting the system run unchecked. They should ban more features.

NBA west is wide open: https://www.manton.org/2019/10/30/nba-west-is.html

We’re at the point with Micro.blog where anyone considering rolling their own Hugo blog should probably just use Micro.blog hosting. Backed by editable Hugo themes but with a web front-end, posting from native apps, MarsEdit, etc.

“You choose the web you want.” — Brent Simmons https://inessential.com/2019/10/29/you_choose

Register your domain name on Micro.blog: https://www.manton.org/2019/10/29/register-your-domain.html

Dropped my bike off last week to repair the wheel and for general tune-up, and I’ve taken it for a couple rides since, but there are hills in every direction from our house. It makes me not want to venture out much. Next bike has gotta be electric.