Jensen Huang on the Nvidia earnings call:
There has been a lot of talk about an AI bubble. From our vantage point, we see something very different.
I guess he would know, but this growth doesn’t seem sustainable to me. We’re not going to keep building data centers at the current pace.
Finally worked through some Epilogue for Android issues. Submitted to Google for review! 🤞
Bluesky is expanding their moderation tools and the granularity of reporting. Sounds like good changes:
Not every violation leads to immediate account suspension - this approach prioritizes user education and gradual enforcement for lower-risk violations. But repeated violations escalate consequences, ensuring patterns of harmful behavior face appropriate accountability.
Congrats to Gus Mueller on Acorn's recognition as a finalist in the App Store Awards! I use Acorn pretty much every day, sometimes for design or mockups, and sometimes just as a scratchpad of screenshots and other graphics that need a quick crop or edit before uploading to my blog.
Love the covers on these special TikTok editions of a few of Brandon Sanderson's books. Might've ordered a set for gifts. And I'll keep The Emperor's Soul, which I don't have in print. 📚
After a rocky bit early in the year, I feel that Micro.blog is in a really good place right now. New users are joining and the features are the best they've ever been. So now I'm nervous that something else is about to go wrong. 🤪
This report from Matthew Prince about Cloudflare's outage yesterday shows the mind-boggling scale of their network. The graph has 25 million HTTP 500 errors per second.
New trailer for Project Hail Mary! This is going to be great. I’m going to try to re-read the book before the movie comes out.
Love this blog post from Ton Zijlstra about discovering a train ticket in an old book:
While the book is in excellent condition, not at all ‘well traveled’, it does make me wonder about its path through the world. From that 1991 train trip up the valley towards the St. Gotthard massif, to a bookshop in Galway, Ireland. And now to my bookshelves.
In 1999 when my wife and I were traveling in Europe, I left a book in a hostel in Italy. I wrote a note in it for the next reader. I still wonder where that book ended up.
Exclusively for Micro.blog Studio subscribers: Micro.blog can automatically adjust the audio levels and reduce noise for uploaded MP3s. We want to make podcasting easier, with more tools and defaults so that things "just work" without requiring a lot of podcasting experience.
On your blog settings page, you'll see a new checkbox: "Level audio and reduce noise". This is a feature that some people would previously use services like Auphonic for.
Now when you upload an MP3, Micro.blog will make it available right away but also process it in the background, replacing the uploaded file with the new version. We preserve the original file, so you can visually compare the waveforms. Click on the audio file on the Uploads page on the web.
Is this as good as Auphonic? No, they have some secret sauce for cleaning up audio with lots of configuration options. For Micro.blog Studio, I wanted a single checkbox that will improve most audio, especially if recorded on-the-go from your phone or without a good microphone. It's optional. If you find it doesn't help your audio uploads, you can leave it turned off.
Thanks again for everyone who has tried Micro.blog Studio. More to come!
Wow, Eugen Rochko stepping down as Mastodon CEO. Congrats to him on all the success in helping the open web move forward! This part also resonated with me:
You are to be compared with tech billionaires, with their immense wealth and layered support systems, but with none of the money or resources.
Watched: Frankenstein. I liked this more than I was expecting. Some visually great scenes… Wish I had seen it in the theater instead of Netflix. 🍿
Good interview at Wired with Fidji Simo. I didn't know she had an illness that forces her to work remotely most of the time:
I care a lot as part of my own mission about everybody realizing their full potential. I want a world where health conditions don’t get in the way. Either because we can cure them or because companies accommodate them. We can have technologies that make it easier.
I don't think Disney live-action remakes really need to exist, but the new Moana could work well. Also, there are occasional new songs that I would love to see re-cut into the original animated versions: for Beauty and the Beast, take out Human Again and put in Evermore; for Aladdin, add Speechless.
Sometimes I drive the long way around, through old neighborhoods, imagining the people and buildings that used to be there. Time erases so much.
Great video on YouTube (via Matt Haughey) of old Pacific Electric Railway stations in Los Angeles. I would've loved to see some of these when they were active. 🚂
We’ll keep improving our community guidelines and adapting to what the community needs. The social web is evolving quickly with new platforms. Micro.blog has always had a unique philosophy: content ownership through blogs, and a safe place to interact with others. As the social web becomes more connected, Micro.blog will stick to its mission while trying to balance the right set of tools to connect with people on other platforms.
I also want to thank the folks who were interested in this role at Micro.blog. I wish we could hire several people! Maybe one day we’ll be able to.
You can enable it on Micro.blog's "Sources" page:
If you haven't checked out our cross-posting options in a while, we have built-in support for over 10 different services, from Bluesky to PeerTube to Tumblr. I think our cross-posting features are unmatched by any other platform.
For more details about Day One, see this help page.
Good article in The New Yorker about water in Texas including the failure to build a seawater desalination plant. From a hearing in Corpus Christi with residents pushing back against it:
The hearing started around noon; by midnight, it was still under way, and three women in the audience, including a former mayoral candidate and a college professor, had been arrested for disorderly conduct.
Seems like a mistake not to be working on desalination. We’re going to need this eventually.
We had to run an errand out off 620, so stopped at the park at Mansfield Dam. Short video with a few clips.
From the Financial Times via The Verge:
According to the Financial Times, Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO as early as next year.
It’s time. Tim Cook should be proud of Apple’s success, but a few things like the App Store have gone in the wrong direction. Will be good to change things up.
Made a couple careless errors this morning. I probably need to step away from the computer. Sorry for the Micro.blog flakiness. Accidentally deployed some code before a huge db migration finished.
They lost by one point, but last night's Spurs vs. Warriors game was still so good. Both loses this week took Steph Curry having a 45+ point game. Wemby is everywhere. Great basketball. 🏀
Interesting blog post from Tim Bray comparing a recent Bluesky suspension with the Mastodon moderation UI. Mastodon has done a lot of good, but one blind spot is moderator political bias. If someone is in a bubble because of their server, they may overlook hateful posts from people they agree with.
Nikita Prokopov blogs about the neediness of apps. I can especially relate to the notifications part:
Notifications are like email: to-do items that are forced on you by another party. Hey, it’s not my job to dismiss your notifications!
I still can't wrap my head around the Apple developer news about so-called mini apps. Is this to capture 15% from web apps instead of the 0% Apple currently gets? Or is this an actual discount that will encourage more developers to turn native apps into mini apps?
Reviewing EU servers. Can't believe it has been over half a year since we set those up. Adding a new server today. 🇪🇺
Finally got my local Android build setup working again. Had to nuke everything. This has been really holding me up on testing and bug fixes.
