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I created Micro.blog. I also have 2 podcasts: Core Intuition and Timetable.
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2025-12-08 08:14:32

I’m sorry for some of the flakiness in Micro.blog-hosted blogs today. Long story short, we seemed to have an influx of random traffic — bots or hackers? who knows — and to ease the pressure I enabled some extra rate limiting, which can sometimes interfere with the automatic HTTPS setup.

2025-12-08 02:11:34

For Brandon Sanderson fans, he read the first two chapters of a new Cosmere novel last week. I finished listening to it last night. The livestream was very long, so here’s a link on YouTube to the reading spot. 📚

2025-12-08 01:57:35

One of these days, gonna need to sit down and come up with a more universal way to add sidebars to Micro.blog themes that works everywhere. There’s so much flexibility in Hugo, but every theme can have a completely different structure. Feel like microhooks are the way.

2025-12-07 23:49:37

Good morning, Austin. 🏙️

A railway track curves through a modern urban landscape with tall skyscrapers and trees lining the path.

2025-12-07 23:32:58

I’ve tried to have a thoughtful approach to AI-based features in Micro.blog, like the opt-out checkbox to disable everything. I’m still open to reevaluating models too. I’ve tried my own servers, but it’s more expensive and would actually use more energy running 24/7 instead of on-demand.

2025-12-07 10:17:36

Sometimes when I rewrite a blog post or email multiple times, it becomes hard to tell if it’s actually better, or if it lost whatever spark was in that first quick draft.