2026-02-21 02:06:00
I’m still surprised that Mozilla shut down Pocket. Lots of competition in the bookmarking / read-later space, but that’s because it’s such an important complement to a web browser. I think the organization should’ve refocused around 2-3 great web things that work with Firefox.
2026-02-21 01:13:08
Good post by Victoria Song at The Verge about distrust of smart glasses:
Meta’s glasses are great because they’re discreet. That discretion is also unnerving because it means they’re perfect monitoring tools. I’ve written this many times, but wearing modern smart glasses often makes me feel like I’m a spy. It doesn’t matter if the Ray-Ban Meta glasses have a privacy indicator light.
I’m curious how Apple (without Meta’s poor reputation on privacy) is going to handle this. Not sure it can be solved. In the future, there might be places that have signs like “take your smart glasses off”.
2026-02-21 00:44:12
Got a preview from @vincent of something new coming up for Micro.blog Studio subscribers. Can’t wait to share it. It looks so good. 🎙️
2026-02-20 23:24:52
CNN: “Supreme Court rules that Trump’s sweeping emergency tariffs are illegal.” A much-needed check on Trump’s power. Next up is the midterms. 🇺🇸
2026-02-20 06:40:08
Recently I was drafting a post and had to catch myself as I almost inserted a jab at someone else, a callback to something from a while ago that no longer matters. That kind of post is not me. I sometimes brainstorm reactionary posts that I wish I could write, but always think better of it, staying away from extremes.
I think I’ve been listening to the pessimists too much. It’s true that some things are bad, and I’ve blogged about many of them, but the only way out is hope. Otherwise we get stuck, caught in a spiral of outrage, never moving forward.
When I quit Twitter in 2012, I was outspoken in my worry about developer-hostile, centralized platforms. I paired the dissent with advocacy for open formats and eventually built my own social network. Complaints should lead to progress, not paralysis.
