2025-11-19 04:24:17
New trailer for Project Hail Mary! This is going to be great. I’m going to try to re-read the book before the movie comes out.
2025-11-19 02:56:53
Love this blog post from Ton Zijlstra about discovering a train ticket in an old book:
While the book is in excellent condition, not at all ‘well traveled’, it does make me wonder about its path through the world. From that 1991 train trip up the valley towards the St. Gotthard massif, to a bookshop in Galway, Ireland. And now to my bookshelves.
In 1999 when my wife and I were traveling in Europe, I left a book in a hostel in Italy. I wrote a note in it for the next reader. I still wonder where that book ended up.
2025-11-19 01:53:42
Good episode of Dithering today, talking about the impending Gemini 3 release and why OpenAI will probably be fine even if their models fall behind the state of the art. It’s increasingly about products, not models, because all the models are quite good now.
2025-11-19 01:14:08
Last week when I announced Micro.blog Studio — our new subscription plan with improved video hosting including up to 20-minute videos — I also mentioned we would be adding more features for podcasting. Today we have the first of those new features.
Exclusively for Micro.blog Studio subscribers: Micro.blog can automatically adjust the audio levels and reduce noise for uploaded MP3s. We want to make podcasting easier, with more tools and defaults so that things “just work” without requiring a lot of podcasting experience.
On your blog settings page, you’ll see a new checkbox: “Level audio and reduce noise”. This is a feature that some people would previously use services like Auphonic for.
Now when you upload an MP3, Micro.blog will make it available right away but also process it in the background, replacing the uploaded file with the new version. We preserve the original file, so you can visually compare the waveforms. Click on the audio file on the Uploads page on the web.
Is this as good as Auphonic? No, they have some secret sauce for cleaning up audio with lots of configuration options. For Micro.blog Studio, I wanted a single checkbox that will improve most audio, especially if recorded on-the-go from your phone or without a good microphone. It’s optional. If you find it doesn’t help your audio uploads, you can leave it turned off.
Thanks again for everyone who has tried Micro.blog Studio. More to come!
2025-11-18 23:20:24
Wow, Eugen Rochko stepping down as Mastodon CEO. Congrats to him on all the success in helping the open web move forward! This part also resonated with me:
You are to be compared with tech billionaires, with their immense wealth and layered support systems, but with none of the money or resources.
2025-11-18 11:26:08
Watched: Frankenstein. I liked this more than I was expecting. Some visually great scenes… Wish I had seen it in the theater instead of Netflix. 🍿