2025-10-09 09:10:58
Sora is not really for me. It’s fun to watch, but I’ve never wanted to create this style of video. Then I thought, could I use it to create some animated videos with public domain material like 1920s Mickey Mouse? Nope! Their guardrails are too strict.
2025-10-09 08:03:14
Good post by Michael Tsai on Apple’s exclusive control over app distribution and how the problem is more fundamental that just the ICEBlock removal:
They designed a system with a kill switch, and now people are surprised and upset that they used it. The problem is not that they pressed the button this one time when you didn’t want them to. The problem is that there is a button and Apple likes having it.
2025-10-09 06:46:54
Picked up my car from the repair shop. Nice new bumper and paint, “like new” for a 2008 car. Itching to drive somewhere.
2025-10-09 00:46:18
Matt Baer writes on the state of the web and looking for real-life connections:
Now we create “content” for the masses, and consume others' commodified lives; we self-censor and are careful not to post. The light, fun space the internet once was is now heavy and consequential.
Really feeling this.
2025-10-09 00:10:06
I think with optimizations this week I inadvertently made some blog publishing times slower. Rolling out a potential fix and continuing to monitor. Also deploying a bunch of behind the scenes infrastructure for the new video stuff.
2025-10-08 09:31:37
Spent some time reading through Mastodon’s early draft for starter packs. Too soon for me to implement anything. We’ve supported browsing Bluesky starter packs inside Micro.blog for a while, so would still like to do more there.