The steps… I deleted my tweet history in 2016. I didn’t want my archive on a site that I didn’t control. I left Twitter in 2017. Micro.blog showed up and I knew I wanted to only write on my own site. Twitter was a failed company. I removed all my connections, destroying my …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: RIP @thinglesI’m seeing a lot of people that I was connected with on Twitter X deleting their profiles. This actually ends up having an impact on my blog because of embeddings. When I left Twitter years ago I exported my archive and imported it into my blog. Over the years I’ve merged that …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: How I’m handling Twitter embeds from deleted accountsThis morning Weekly Thing 300 went out and a couple hours later my cellphone rang. It was Rajiv Pant calling out of the blue to congratulate me on the milestone. That was so great. Not a text. Not an email. A real telephone call from someone I haven’t talked to in many years. Thanks Rajiv! 🙏
I have scheduled Weekly Thing 300 to go out tomorrow morning! This project that I started in June 2017 cause I wanted to play with a newsletter is now the most widely read thing I create. 🤯
I’m continuing to experiment by announcing a membership program to support a digital non-profit. 😊
I just ordered an unofficial micro.blog t-shirt ! I went with blue. Thanks to Jim Mitchell for getting this available.
This morning we made our way to Arlington Heights and met CJ Chilvers for breakfast at Scratchboard Kitchen. I have followed CJ’s blog and newsletter for years and have a ton of respect for how he approaches his craft. It was awesome to finally meet him in person!
My cousin Josh’s column today, Night Riders Lament, was really good.
My friend Garrick recently shared about Two AI Bots Discussing His Work — a test he did using Google’s Notebook LM. I listened to the three recordings that he shared and it was incredible. I had to try this myself so I fired up Notebook LM and decided to throw some issues of the …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Two AI Bots Discussing the Weekly ThingWas feeling motivated this morning and published a robust iteration of my blogroll that has more sites and context on why I follow it.
The thing that bugs me about Now pages is that they don’t have history. How about a “Now” category and then redirect the /now URL to the most recent version? Or maybe a Now page that is very long with a section for each update? 🤔 In the meantime, my now page is back.
