Manton Reece

A few days ago at Salt Point. After camping, detoured into San Francisco for a day of being a city tourist with reliable wi-fi.

Moving away from App Store-focused development: https://www.manton.org/2022/02/09/moving-away-from.html

IndieWeb Meetup this week in Austin! Wednesday at Mozart’s Coffee, 6:30pm. Stop by to chat about the open web and the upcoming IndieWebCamp. ☕

@maique@social.lol @manton@manton.org Yep, fixing a longstanding issue with threading Mastodon replies to Micro.blog in some cases.

Finished reading: Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson. Love the premise, characters, and strong first half, then I started to wonder if Stephenson had lost the plot… but it comes together and he sticks the landing. 📚 https://micro.blog/books/9780063028074

Rolling out a fix for cross-posting in Micro.blog, which broke when we optimized publishing performance this week. Apologies for the glitch.

Marking the halfway point on our walk today, took this photo of downtown Austin from the pedestrian bridge. Day 2 prompt for Microblogvember.

@GR36 Just noticed this reply over on Mastodon, so figured I might as well reply here too… I happened to roll out an improvement today to hosted photos. This shouldn't happen anymore.

Day 2 of Catalina, now hitting more issues with full disk access and Ruby-related commands. Using rbenv and starting to wonder if I need to throw everything out and re-install to make Catalina happy. I’ve added all the obvious paths to System Prefs.

Today at 2:30pm central time, Tantek Çelik is giving an IndieWeb talk — Take Back Your Web — at WordCamp US. Check out the livestream for room 240 to watch it live. https://2019.us.wordcamp.org/session/take-back-your-web/

RE: https://www.manton.org/2025/09/21/mark-gurman-writing-about-recent.html

Testing a quote post of a post written on Micro.blog.

More presenters announced for Micro Camp 2022. 🏕 https://micro.welltempered.net/2022/02/10/more-presenters-join.html

Running a series of exports and scripts to do some number crunching and update Micro.blog mailing lists. Nothing fancy. In some cases just pasting Ruby code into the console.

With a couple new releases of Micro.blog and Sunlit out the door, I think it’s time to upgrade to Catalina. I had it on an external drive for testing over the summer and so was happy to avoid upgrading for real.

Micro.blog 1.7.2 for iOS is now available in the App Store. Just a few more bug fixes and minor improvements.

Core Intuition episode 394 with @danielpunkass@mastodon.social reporting on his first meeting “with his boss”, plus a discussion of Micro.blog’s new domain name registration. https://coreint.org/2019/11/episode-394-facing-hard-facts/

IndieWebCamp Austin will be February 22-23, 2020. Registration is now open! Just $10 for the weekend. https://2020.indieweb.org/austin

I finished NaNoWriMo in 2005 and recommend trying it if you have time. For something shorter, just post once a day to your blog this month to get into a routine of writing regularly. We have a daily Microblogvember prompt at M.b → Discover on the web. https://manton.org/2005/12/01/154328.html

Disappointed that Beto is suspending his campaign before we vote, but it is difficult to recapture momentum after the media has moved on to other candidates. Hope others can advocate for the buyback of assault weapons and speak as clearly about immigration. Thanks Beto! 🇺🇸

If you’re new to Micro.blog, we have pins you can earn just for fun and to encourage posting to your blog. There’s a link under Account. Today, unlock a secret pin by mentioning “Halloween” or “pumpkin” anywhere in a microblog post. 🎃