Micro Social: Reading And Books

There are many people out there that don’t realise just how much micro.blog can do, and one of my favourite things is to use it for is reading. It is a great resource for finding recommendations through all reading posts tagged 📚 and tracking the books I read through the year. So in Micro Social, you will find a toggle to turn on the Books Tab. This works with the standard three bookshelves that every user has on micro.

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31 Jan 2025

Micro Social: Your Timeline

Along with ensuring you can follow a conversation with ease, one of the biggest things I wanted from Micro Social is the ability to be customisable. To be able to shape the way the timeline of posts can be consumed. To get exactly what you want at any point. Here’s the timeline on Micro Social. With a range of filters available, you can limit and expand the posts you see depending on your mood.

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27 Jan 2025

Micro Social: Threading

Despite possibly picking the wrong time to work on micro.blog related things, I’m determined to push on a work in public to create something worthwhile. Anyway, my first target was threading, it’s one of my biggest frustrations on micro.blog and sometimes makes conversations challenging to follow, so getting this correct and intuitive is important to me. When accessing a post that is a reply now, the post view displays the post you tapped on accented slightly.

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23 Jan 2025

Making Micro Social

There’s a lot going on that I want to be away from at the minute. Couple this with my desire to push my skills forward and make something I’m working on a micro.blog app built in Swift, and its placeholder name is micro social. If you’ve been on micro.blog or any of my connected services the last few days, I’m probably muted from all the test posts I’m doing, but it’s all from a good place.

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22 Jan 2025

🔗 Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed

Meta is deleting links to Pixelfed, a decentralized Instagram competitor. On Facebook, the company is labeling links to Pixelfed.social as “spam” and deleting them immediately.

Straight from the Elmo playbook

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14 Jan 2025

Leaving Fujifilm

After the last few years using exclusively Fuji cameras, bar a short test with a Ricoh GRiiix, I am sorry to say I’ve switched back to Sony. There are a few reasons for this, but this is in no way a justification or a reason why I think they suck, merely my thoughts on the subject as a few people have asked. This won’t be a very elegant post, just a few points I feel are worth raising.

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03 Jan 2025

Not Just The End Product

Kōdō Shimon writing about the rise in AI ‘Street Photography’ Street photography isn’t just about getting images. It’s about being present in the world, engaging with fellow humans, finding the courage to put yourself in uncomfortable situations. I should preface my thoughts on this with the fact that I am not against LLMs’ use as an assistive tool. I do so daily and am a big fan of what they can do for my life and my productivity (yes, I just threw up a bit typing that word out).

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01 Jan 2025

What Do You Get Out Of It?

Manuel Moreale writing Kindness in a transactional world Kindness is the reason why I’m doing this. There’s no other reason. I don’t care about getting a reward. I care about showing people that in this stupid transactional world, we can still be kind to one another. We can still help someone, even if we’ll get nothing in return. Manuel’s posts are some of my favourite to read online. Through provoking, and revolving around pushing to the web.

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01 Jan 2025

Comparing Trials To Oranges

Manton Reece pondering about free trials whist at the coffee shop: At the coffee shop this morning I asked the barista to make my latte before I paid for it so I could try it first. Wait, no. Because demos and trials are an important complement to things that need thought and time and money, like a $40 app. But does $5 software need a trial? What about if it’s $1?

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30 Dec 2024

🔗 YouTube quietly made some of its web embeds worse, including ours - The Verge

News publishers can choose between the standard YouTube embedded player or a version designed specifically for them, which gives greater control over the ads experience, but removes YouTube branding and links back to YouTube. This version provides publishers greater control over the ads running on their videos, but YouTube doesn’t have visibility into which ads are served.

Am I the only person that things this makes perfect sense to both YouTube and the publisher?

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16 Dec 2024