Not super into this flavor…
🙌 🎉 NEW PILLOW 🎉 🙌
Interesting behavior re: macOS Mojave PB2
Standard Laptop Mode: Stable and running great.
Ultra-Wide External Monitor + Lid Closed: So many issues with apps crashing randomly.
Odd! Wondering if it has anything to do with monitor res/aspect ratio. 🤔
Dynamic Wallpaper was not working for me on Mojave Public Beta 2.
I think I may have fixed it? Turn Location Services off and back on.
It’s no secret that the Adidas Ultra Boost is my favorite shoe. Yet another pro for them, they clean up really well. Check out the before and after. This is the aftermath of the Foam Glow 5K. 😱
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😃 👍
Run Log Update
Calendar Week: 27
Total Miles
This Week: 4.07
This Year: 163.64
Notes
🏆 We did the Foam Glow 5K this week! Valerie wrote about it here.
Goal For 2018: 250 Miles 🏃♂️
I am not sure when this setting was added to Reeder 3 (I may have just never found it) but it makes Reeder a viable option for me again. The animation weirdly made me nauseous.
6:30am = CRAZY TIME for Cookie! 🐱
I am so impressed with @alcedine and her ability to make amazing things out of a ball of yarn! Great job! 😃 {Yarn Ball Emoji Coming Soon}
Update on our Foam Glow run from @alcedine! 😃
It’s almost time! 🏃♂️😃
Streaming Live on Twitch! https://twitch.tv/grepjason
Secret of Mana
Co-op with @alcedine
I have been thinking about the Micro.blog Favorites Feature.
I am sure there are a TON of great ideas out there from the community. What are your thoughts on Favorites?
Micro.blog Favorites Feature
One of the great features of micro.blog is the ‘forced interaction’ it encourages. Unlike some other systems where it’s encouraged to add a heart, star, thumb, etc to a post even if not read, micro.blog nudges you in the direction of communicating with the other person.
Let’s talk about the Favorites feature in micro.blog. With micro.blog gathering steam regarding users, it might be time to change this feature to avoid potential confusion for users coming from these other platforms.
Purpose of the Favorite Feature
To allow a reader to save a post to a separate list within their own micro.blog account. This has no effect on the person who posted the content, and they have no way of knowing if their content was favorited.
Potential Option 1
Merely remove the feature altogether? The user would then need to find some other way to collect these posts they are saving. This is not ideal since it takes you out of the system and makes for replying later tricky.
Potential Option 2
Renaming the feature? Using some other term that more accurately implies the purpose of the feature. Giving the user the sense that clicking this will allow you to bookmark it for later rather than clicking this will push out any kind of notification.
I personally use the favorite feature as a way to collect posts that I want to come back to for any number of reasons: reading later, something I want to write a more in-depth reply to, something nice someone said that I want to look back on, etc. I have no idea what the adoption and usage look like for Favorites within micro.blog, but I do find the concept and implementation of such a feature to be useful personally.
I am sure there are a TON of great ideas out there from the community. What are your thoughts on Favorites?
What are your thoughts on x-posting?
I am sending things into the system, but there is no way for information to find its way back to me. This isn’t really fair to anyone, is it?
Today (tonight) is the day!
FOAM GLOW 5K
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The only thing I can find that doesn’t function properly with macOS Majave (PB2) is the Readkit app. Definitely not one of my apps that I thought would be a problem. 🤷♂️
🎥 Movie Night 🍿
Tomb Raider (2018)
I will never understand why this kind of random crap showing up without prompt in Windows is the norm, and apparently acceptable? Ads in the browser are horrible. Ads baked into your core OS!? WTF… (This is after removing all the BS it preinstalls without asking)
Setting up a new streaming system. We will be able to stream any system that is HDMI!
(Nintendo Switch, PS4, Retron HD, Super Retron HD, SNES Classic, NES Classic, etc!)
Just need to finish the testing & wiring, and then make the stream UI not terrible! 🎮
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Podcast Friday: Automators 🎙
“Automation makes your life easier and everyone can do it. We tell you how." With @rosemaryorchard & @macsparky
A nice little update to the message you receive when viewing posts that are not processed yet. More informative. 👍😃
I used the WhenWorks App for the first time today and it worked brilliantly! 📆
Blue Bird. Fading Away.
It’s been three or four months since I actively used Twitter. I have been cross-posting everything from micro.blog over to Twitter, so it looks like I have been. This is a problem. I am sending things into the system, but there is no way for information to find its way back to me. This isn’t really fair to anyone, is it?
If it weren’t for the 10 years of history with Twitter, the account would have been closed already. I guess I am just nostalgic for the Twitter of 2008.
So what do I do!?
Feedbin is my first tactic. If they have a blog/website I have added their RSS feed. For those who do not, Feedbin has a feature that lets you add people’s twitter feeds so I can at least see what they’re up to since they are not on Micro.blog (yet). I also downloaded an archive of all my tweets and hosted them at my-tweets.com. I don’t want them all imported into Micro.blog and I see it as an excellent way to close that book and start a new one.
I can confirm that the last few months without twitter has been mentally refreshing. My interactions and conversations on micro.blog have been thoughtful and engaging. This is just a really great group of people that all want similar things from the indie web. Where twitter mostly involved liking, retweeting, blocking, and filtering; micro.blog for me has been reading, discussing, photos, and learning.
This blog post isn’t really meant to make a case for why you should leave twitter, but rather an affirmation that it’s ok for me to let go.
//Jason
