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Manton Reece

Founder of Micro.blog.

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2024-09-19 21:51:45

Here’s the video for my demo at FediForum. It shows Micro.blog posting, cross-posting services, and an experiment with Ice Cubes. Still not sure if the Mastodon API support will ship or in what form.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7D9Pum0Uww

2024-09-19 16:41:04

Dan Moren writing at Macworld:
"Look, I’m not ungrateful. But the truth remains that nothing stokes the imagination of what Apple could do with its products more than the release of its latest hardware and software. As iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and all the other latest OSes arrive, we not only end up picking through all of the new features and capabilities to see what’s new but also coming to grips with what’s not there and the limitations of what is."
This is so true. Software developers know that when you release feature A, people will ask why not feature B too. 🙂
https://www.macworld.com/article/2461801/apples-latest-os-updates-leave-you-wanting-for-more.html

2024-09-19 15:26:27

Letting the Republicans say “well, Democrats make up facts too” is an unforced error. We do not make things up. We do not knowingly spread misinformation. Policy is rooted in what’s really happening and a desire to make people’s lives better. 🇺🇸

2024-09-19 15:15:24

I blogged when the JD Vance couch joke started making the rounds that we should avoid disinformation even when it’s funny. So perhaps there’s a bit of karma with the fake Springfield, OH story. Trump would make up racist things about immigrants no matter what, of course! Our standard is higher. 🇺🇸

2024-09-18 21:36:01

I continue to be impressed with Bluesky’s growth. From Last Week in the ATmosphere, covering the 10 million users milestone with 5.5 million monthly active users:
"User retention after this new signup wave is also notably high, with daily active users peaking at 1.91 million, and staying at 1.57 million some two weeks later."
I hope the uppercase “AT” can be dropped over time, though. 🙂 Just “Atmosphere” is nice.
https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-the-atmosphere/

2024-09-18 17:28:44

Pre-ordered Directing at Disney a few months ago and promptly forgot about it until it arrived this week. Looks good just flipping through the pages. 📚
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/10/2024/8f9ebac749.jpg https://micro.blog/books/9781484755747

2024-09-18 16:45:24

I submitted Micro.blog’s Threads support to Meta again with a new video demo, and it was rejected again. Will try again later this week. So I guess this feature is still in beta for a while longer.

2024-09-18 14:16:58

I don’t get why people subscribe to a service or newsletter and then mark those emails as spam. You asked for the email! I know everyone is forgetful, but marking as spam doesn’t help anyone (and in fact hurts the email sending reputation of small companies like Micro.blog).

2024-09-17 19:26:29

On Jack Dorsey’s point that in the age of AI, it’s important to own your identity and content… For me it goes back to trust, and why personal blogs will be more valuable than algorithmic or retweeted posts from strangers. Lean in to the human voice and relationships with readers.

2024-09-17 19:16:30

After I made some Nostr improvements in M.b the other day, I caught up on a few conference videos to see what the community has been up to. Fascinated by this video of Jack explaining Nostr. It’s like a reset, going from a powerful social media CEO to just a dude hanging out at conferences again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YDj1QdL2Zs

2024-09-17 13:21:09

With a new iPhone coming this week, seems a good time to post my latest home screen. Same layout as before, but now using iOS 18 instead of blank spacer icons. In the dock: Hey, Epilogue, Strata, and Micro.blog.
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/10/2024/dd94bf6a09.png

2024-09-17 13:03:56

Teen Accounts on Instagram sounds like a very good change. Of course those of us with kids who were teens years ago were just guinea pigs for social media that prioritized ads over safety, but better late than never.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/17/24246423/instagram-teen-account-private-restrictive

2024-09-17 01:15:50

I mentioned recently that I was considering removing trial accounts on Micro.blog until after the election, to minimize auto-created junk accounts. I’ve rolled out the first phase of that with some internal changes, and adjusted the 30-day trial down to 10 days for new accounts.

2024-09-16 21:34:55

John Gruber’s article about last week’s iPhone event also compares Tim Cook’s Apple with what might’ve been. I agree with this part:
"I feel confident that if Steve Jobs were alive and still leading Apple product development, there would have been no iPhone-like mind-blown-the-moment-you-first-saw-it new product in the intervening years."
What we would have is a more interesting Apple. As John says, products that are more quirky, more risky. It’s also a bit tragic that we’ll never know what Steve Jobs would’ve made of AI.
https://daringfireball.net/2024/09/the_things_they_carried

2024-09-16 18:45:55

Not sure I have a favorite iOS 18 feature yet, but tapbacks with emoji are near the top of the list. Only problem is the fallback experience for iOS 17 and earlier users is bad enough that I don’t want to actually send any emoji reactions for a while.

2024-09-16 18:03:23

I don’t really understand how OpenAI’s o1 works, but I found today’s Stratechery update helpful, contrasting the approach of o1 compared to other LLMs which can sometimes blindly follow the wrong path:
"In summary, there are two important things happening: first, o1 is explicitly trained on how to solve problems, and second, o1 is designed to generate multiple problem-solving streams at inference time, choose the best one, and iterate through each step in the process when it realizes it made a mistake."
https://stratechery.com/2024/openais-new-model-how-o1-works-scaling-inference/

2024-09-16 17:48:49

Jason Snell reflects on 10 years since starting Six Colors:
"Ten years ago I took a leap into working for myself, not working in corporate media. For most days since, I’ve worked in my garage, writing articles for my site, recording podcasts, and writing the occasional piece for other places (including my former employer, which I couldn’t ever have predicted)."
https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/09/ten/

2024-09-16 15:19:28

Federico Viticci reviews iOS 18 and also writes about how to balance his love of Apple tech and dislike of generative AI:
"Technology without people behind it is just an empty chat box. I want to write about the fun, flexible, frequently flawed things humans do with tech, and I want to be remembered for having left something useful behind me."
I love the illustrations by Scout Wilkinson for the review. For me, I don’t think AI has to be an all-or-nothing choice. It’s a useful tool, but we can also embrace what humans are uniquely good at. This was the thinking behind M.b’s audio narration too.
https://www.macstories.net/stories/ios-and-ipados-18-the-macstories-review/13/ https://www.manton.org/2024/05/24/161419.html

2024-09-16 13:43:25

We’ve got a new episode of Core Intuition out today, longer than usual to talk about which iPhones we pre-ordered, thoughts on new features like the camera button, and a discussion of whether the AirPods 4 with noice cancellation are effectively a software unlock.
https://coreint.org/2024/09/episode-612-lets-just-say-im-skeptical/

2024-09-16 03:42:40

Happy for Hacks finally winning. Love that show. It has been tough competition going up against hilarious comedy show The Bear. 🤪