This is the third post I’ve written on micro.blog that hasn’t yet appeared anywhere. It’s getting so that you really can’t count on publishing being a near-immediate thing. More of a ‘post, then maybe after a long coffee break it will appear somewhere.’ Very frustrating

I’m starting to hesitate to post via micro.blog because the publishing delays and the cross-posting delays and weirdness makes it next to impossible to know when the post will actually appear to people

“Nobody reads blogs anymore” = “I don’t read blogs anymore”. One data point is only noise. A data point of you & your friends only shows that social groups form around similarities. Just say that it doesn’t interest you anymore. No need to couch it as inevitable or universal

“Is the Human Impulse to Tell Stories Dangerous? - The New York Times”

If you can get past the paywall, then this scathing review is quite entertaining.

Accidentally open a new window in iOS Safari. Spend 30m trying to figure out how to close the fucking window. Google it to find out that it’s a fucking impossible to discover two-finger gesture. How did this ship? (He asks, knowing that Apple routinely ships crap software)

“Wesley Aptekar-Cassels - web3 is Centralized”

It’s a constant disappointment for me to see people working on writing, “thought processing” (blegh!), and note-taking apps underestimate pen and paper tools and overestimate the value of complex systems.