//Jason

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?

Blue Bird. Fading Away.

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

😃🏃‍♂️

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! 🎮

🎉🎉🎉

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

Oh joy. I am now getting text message spam / phishing. 🤬

🙌 Internet Connection Restored! 🎉

~10 hrs of downtime.

🔴 Red Light = 😭

UPDATE
Connection restored! ~10 hrs of downtime.

Hello no. Pass. 🔥

Twenty Eighteen Summary | June

I have been receiving @Belle’s email list regarding monthly reviews, and I wanted to see if I could start writing up a summary of each month as a way to document (and remember) what is happening in my life month-to-month.

Let’s get into it!

EVENTS

WWDC Although I did not attend officially, it’s always a fun week! Especially since it moved into my backyard starting last year!
Talk Show Live This is such a great wrap up to the new announcements that come out at WWDC. So happy we were able to get tickets again this year!
Micro.blog Meetup So many people came out to hang out with fellow micro.bloggers! I made some shirts to give out to ~15 lucky people at the meetup also. 😃👕
E3 I thought there would be more to say here, but there wasn’t really anything that caught my attention this year. The Fornite Pro-Am was a neat event though!

SOFTWARE

iOS 12 BETA Time to install betas and 🤞! This latest release of iOS packs some excellent new features, and it just gets better with each beta release. Only had a few issues with this first beta this year, namely the navigation not working very well.
macOS Mojave BETA Although I did install this as well on day 1, I ended up reverting as there were too many applications/system-tweaks that I rely on that were incompatible with this release. I will probably try again after a few more betas come out.

HARDWARE

Still playing around with the “Mac Pro Upgrade.” Finally got it to update to 10.13.5!

WORK (Warning: this section is always going to be super vague.)

Started working on a new software venture related to the healthcare space. I can’t say much more than that right now, but it’s an exciting project.
Having some great conversations with various companies regarding future projects! I know, this is very vague, but hopefully can share more in the July review.
Still working with my good friend on the childhood cancer awareness company. We are aiming to have it launched in September!

RUNNING LOG

As of July 30, 2018, I completed 158.54 miles of my 250-mile goal for 2018!

TRAVEL

A trip to Wisconsin. Only had to travel once this month! We went to a wedding our in Madison, WI. Travelwise, it went pretty smooth, and the few days we spent in Madison were very lovely!

BLOG POSTS

🎮 Playing Games Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles

GAMES I PLAYED

Fortnite - Battle Royale
Fortnite - Save The World
Octopath Traveler - Prologue Demo
Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles
Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion

OTHER

ScanCafe. @alcedine and I gathered up ~900 photos that we had around the house and sent them to ScanCafe to get them digitized. The process was, and the resulting digital copies we got back were stunning. It feels so good to be rid of all the single copies of paper and have them safely cataloged and backed up!

I believe that sums up June for me. There were some things I probably missed, but pretty good for a first go around. For July I am going to try and keep a running list as the month progresses, rather than trying to remember everything at the end.

//Jason

Link garbage is out of control.