@johnbrayton Adding Microsub servers would be an excellent addition to Unread! Microsub is a client-Server communication spec that allows for people to host their own RSS feeds and use different clients to see the data: https://indieweb.org/Microsub-spec

🤯 Mind. Blown. Season 2 Premiere of Westworld was amazing.

Probably not. Just wasn’t enough information there. It really is just for someone that is tempted to do debt consolidation, to point out its flaws and to push someone to use the YNAB method. There are better books for reading the YNAB method, though.

What are morning pages?

Well, I’m starving now! I’ll have to try out broccoli this summer!

That looks incredible! I’ll have to add that to the Utah visit list!

Jealous! That looks comfy and warm!

So stoked!!

Wow congrats!

Take a few minutes to watch this 👀 http://story4.us/SC2018

Looking forward to @secret_church this evening #SecretChurch18

Definitely! I think that will be huge. My microcast will talk about tech on occasion because that’s what I do both as a job and a hobby, but the goal of my microcast is to just follow topics in my life. (Fun outings, stuff with my cats, my writing projects and most of all, parenthood, as in July my first child will be born)

Yeah, that’s great to reduce mental pressure. The options already exist for each channel to either not track read/unread status, only show an unread indicator (the read dot in the screenshot) or to display unread counts. I actually find that not knowing the unread count in many cases creates MORE mental pressure because I don’t know how many are there. I do use it in select cases like the Saved and IndieWeb tweets channels.

This is a great idea! @marco a new feature for the next version of Overcast? 😉

I just published the first episode (well technically episode 0) of my new microcast, 30 and Counting. You can listen to the first episode now and follow me on micro.blog or subscribe to the podcast feed in your favorite podcast player. The podcast will be in Podcast directories shortly.

The bad news is the web app doesn’t remember your timeline. The good news is that the iOS app doesn’t either so you’re not missing anything 😉

Looking good!

Hahaha 😆😆 That’s awesome.

I really hope it will happen because I do not have macOS experience but would love to be able to build a Mac app with my iOS experience.

Yeah, he definitely wants to add it. The main challenge he has currently is where are the photos hosted for people who reply using the micro.blog app? For people who host their replies like us, it’s fine. But unless micro.blog posts the replies to the hosted accounts/Wordpress accounts, then micro.blog the service would have to have photo hosting. So until he decides which way to go he’s held off on allow photo replies. If we can do it but others can’t then that would open up even more questions.

micro.blog doesn’t support photos in replies, only initial posts. That’s what happened :)

Wow! This is incredible!

Hmmm I think the audio is missing?

I tried this path. I really enjoy my 12.7 BUT, it does feel very heavy. I wish it was smaller and more portable. Also, I’m a programmer so I’m not able to use the iPad for all my portable needs. So it’s definitely do-able but some possible catches that can make it tricky.

Wow! That wasn’t what I was expecting to see on my feed today! Have fun!!

Oh my! Be safe in those winds!!

Make sure you post about it on micro.blog so all of us can check it out!

Awesome!! Congrats!

Hey, I have a photo almost identical I took this year! 😁

Congrats! That’s great to hear!

I really enjoy these development logs. I think you’ve inspired me to start doing them for my own app, Indigenous, which is more IndieWeb focused but will support micro.blog kind of as a sibling relationship.

Well said, I really enjoyed this thoughtful response and completely agree. The future of a nice open internet requires we lower the barrier to entry.

Picked up some paint samples for the nursery. I’ll be testing out the colors on the wall this week, so we can buy the official bucket of paint.

I definitely have some large post channels as well! Although for Twitter I’ve opted to follow specific twitter users in specific channels rather than having them all in the same area.

You should! Welcome back! 👋

Awesome job! I still need to work on inline images. It makes me nervous to thinking about parsing them out.

Oops! 🤭 Did that actually get included in the screenshot??? Haha 🤫 That isn’t fully working yet. It’s just a prototype right now but it’s fully planned: https://github.com/EdwardHinkle/indigenous-ios/issues/97

Nice! I need to catch up on Season 2 soon so I can watch Season 3 in real time.

Wow, this kind of blew my mind. Regarding losing social media “audience” when quitting Facebook and Twitter:

Perhaps signing off is not necessarily as much about ‘losing’ an audience as it is about rejecting the illusion of one? @jamesshelley

Ohh haha! It looks convincing!

That is really profound and actually makes the idea of turning my silos off much easier to swallow!

An indie reader (I probably shouldn’t have used caps. Haha) is an attempt at getting the Facebook/Twitter like experience into feed readers. So that one can control what content they read and yet enjoy the reply/like/save functionality that exists in modern social media. This page provides some additional info: https://indieweb.org/reader

Thanks! 90% of North America Internet is horrible. Verizon FiOS is still expensive but the closest to feeling free of the captivity! Haha 😆

Yeah, I try to listen to full length podcasts when I can, but I LOVE being able to listen to microcasts. I only had a couple in my podcaster player before micro.blog just did their announcement. Now I have already almost doubled my microcasts. Only time will tell which of them continue on a routine basis rather than just being a test.

It’s tough. I’ve felt the fear that removing myself from social media (rather than using it to syndicate content from my site) will render anything I’m saying into a void. I’ve also been surprised at how few of my Facebook friends (and family) have signed up to receive my updates as an email digest when I leave Facebook. However I think it’s an important step I still want to take, regardless.

Yeah that was good! I’m rewatching the whole Marvel Cinematic Universe to prep for the new Avengers movie.

I absolutely hate the spring weather we’ve been getting 😡

Wow! That is awesome.

There’s an interesting article on Stack Views in iOS apps that I agree with. Stack Views seem convenient but when dealing with complex layouts it can quickly become easier to just do the constraints yourself.

That is so cool! I love that you both restored the original domain name AND imported the data into cleverdevil.io!

Oh yeah, that’s nice! Slack has that in a way as well. That’s a great idea.

Yes! I loved visiting those!

Yep, I’ve got that up here in Maryland…

… seriously?

Super jealous. We moved from an area with Verizon FiOS to a Comcast Xfinity area 🤢

Harry’s is the best!

I figured as much since it didn’t list a price on the App Store. Definitely easier than remembering to go download it on launch day :)

FYI in terms of easy and iOS. One option on Jekyll or Wordpress is Micropub (https://indieweb.org/Micropub). Wordpress has plugins and Jekyll has options (https://indieweb.org/Jekyll). Then you can use Indigenous (https://indieweb.org/Indigenous_for_iOS) to post

It was a first for me too!

That is terrifying! (I don’t like heights)

That’s always an awesome treat!

It was a very long and hot day! But extremely fun 😁

Yeah, that does seem like that would be pretty awesome!

I just pre-ordered it!

I agree, my iPad has been my favorite computer for awhile with one issue: programming. As a programmer I just can’t find a programming workflow that is enjoyable on the iPad, it always feels like a hassle. Everything else, I love!!

Awww!! Cats can take a bit! Our small one still gets the big one into fights, haha!

Very cool! I have plans to work on one as well!! I experimented with one last fall but I have a better idea for longevity now and Wavelength will help as well!

Welcome to the area! Glad you enjoyed it. Were you able to see the Cherry Blossom trees around the Tidal Basin while you were here?

A microcast is generally considered a podcast that is on average around 10 minutes or less, give or take a little. As opposed to “regular podcasts” that generally take between 30 minutes and 2 hours depending on your genre

This is very interesting! I have a novel I’m thinking through, I’ll have to make a note of this and think through how it might influence the story!

Awesome!! Glad you’re enjoying the community!

That is awesome! My wife and I love themed mini-golf! One vacation we spent a day playing 100 holes of golf across 3 connected mini-golf places!

Awesome! Those are some great updates! Especially the automatic webmentions (something I want to do soon) and the h-card embedded of person tags.

Awesome! Congrats!! 🎉

A great article! Thanks for writing it. I especially like the point about how it “democratizes” podcasting. I feel like this is something that @marco would really be behind. Maybe Overcast might get a “Microcasting” section?

There is a new season of the magic school bus??? I guess I know what my son and I will start watching soon! 😆😆

Hello! 👋

I completely agree. There are a lot of insane drivers out near me…

What a beautiful photo! Thanks for sharing.

Awesome! A great intro and first episode! Happy to have been able to add this to my Overcast microcast’s category!

Awesome! Let us know if you have any questions!

Everyone is free to their opinions but incompetence is a very strong word. I don’t think that is QUITE applicable in this case.

That’s a great idea!! A Microcast Discover page

Haha an awesome episode 🙂 This is really fun! What a great way to get microcasts going

Haha! Nice!

Any word on when iOS Font Awesome 5 support will get here? The Pro dashboard just shows it as grey and incomplete.

Apparently not only my neighborhood but my entire county must have an issue with people not picking up their dog’s 💩 because my county has a survey about it. It’s easy, people. Pick up your dog’s 💩

Wow! Yeah, the same for me. That never worked in the past! Glad this works now

I agree. I think it’s always important to be improving old things and making new things. People using the old things will never fully be happy with it, but you’ll never make new people happy just improving stuff that already exists.

First off, thanks for writing this up! Often times discussions that happen on IRC can remain locked up in there when no one takes the time and effort to write their thoughts from the IRC conversations out onto their blogs (which is a key component to everything we are discussing, using our blogs for thoughts. haha)

I think a key issue that people producing clients (like swentel and I with the Indigenous clients) will run into is that when generation 3 or 4 people download our apps they can often be scared off by the discussion of protocols, even if those protocols are easily accessible through a user-friendly service. At the same time, you can’t AVOID using protocol names in discussing client compatibility. I think the key is finding the middle ground. This was actually brainstormed by schmarty that the key is beginning by mentioning popular services that support the protocol and only then following up with the protocol. For example “You can use this with Micro.blog, Known or any other Micropub compatible server”. It starts with the terms that a user might already know and aren’t as scary, but it also doesn’t shy away from the fact that the real compatibility lays in the Micropub compatibility.

These are great thoughts to be thinking through, how we can better aim IndieWeb-focused technologies toward a wider audience. I think one of the reason you found so much push back regarding protocols is because the IndieWeb group tends to be practical in the understanding that not all sites and/or people will use the protocols that we use. The goal is to interoperate as much as we can and when possible push for support of IndieWeb-focused protocols. That means often times people can attempt to distance themselves from the protocols because while they are vital to what we do as a community, we don’t want to be limited by them either. (Hence our push of POSSE and PESOS). Rather than saying everyone that wants to follow us has to read our h-feed, we often times will run services that convert our h-feeds into RSS feeds or JSON feeds so we can interoperate with services like micro.blog that supports Micropub and Webmention but doesn’t parse h-feeds.

Thanks, I’ll take a read!

Congrats!! 🎉🎊

@manton 👀

I recognize Things. What are the other apps and their significance?

That’s good. That is one thing I am finding challenging about working from home. There is no transition time 🙂

No need to worry. @manton makes thoughtful, intention steps.

No way, it’s going back down to 37 on Monday??? Ugh! 😒

Haha good job forcing his hand! 😉

Good luck! That is always a tricky beast! But two times with the same time seems hopeful that it’ll work out 🙂

Same, I used to pay for crossposting without using it as a way to “donate”. Now I pay for a microblog without using it. haha, but that’s because it allows me to “donate” and use it as I test out my Indigenous micropub client.

A great read by @macgenie on the similarities and differences between Twitter and micro.blog. I definitely recommend reading it and considering joining micro.blog: http://micro.welltempered.net/2018/04/10/a-guide-to.html

Oh!!! Haha 😆😆

I just registered for Secret Church 2018! Check out a location near you. http://secretchurch.radical.net/secret-church-host-list

That is my tactic as well

That’s awesome, congrats! You’re definitely not alone with the exhaustion. My wife experienced that soul-crushing exhaustion during the first trimester (and arguably for the entire pregnancy).

Why only whispering? 😉

Just bought mine! “Cortexaversary” by @_cortexfm on @cottonbureau — https://cottonbureau.com/products/cortexaversary. Only 6 hours left!

I love it! I actually read the whole series over 10 years ago, but the author is releasing a new two-book series that is roughly tied in, so I wanted to refresh myself before they come out!

This is great! I’m gonna have to try it out with Ulysses!

I know you have a micro.blog, I have really been enjoying micro.blog and it echoes what you describe here. I use it for 90% of my social net interactions and it’s great! Also, I’ve been using #microsub (https://indieweb.org/Microsub) to emulate feed based networking

That’s great to hear! I’m very interested in a HomePod and am fighting the urge, but I think I might end up getting one in the next couple of months.

Awesome, great to hear!

Oh! That’s sounds awesome! I’ll have to take a look!

That looks awesome. I was hoping it would have some type of remote option but I don’t see anything like that 😕

That is beautiful! Man, spring just feels like it won’t come out here to DC

That say command can be very fun!!

Thanks for doing the live blogging. I saw several that I’m interested in and have saved to my read it later service to enjoy at my leisure!

It is amazing how quickly time can pass! My wife loves the Cherry Blossoms so it’s an annual tradition for us.

I have had Thinking, Fast and Slow on my shelf for awhile! I’ve been meaning to read it. Also, I’m super interested in getting and reading Triggers after that podcast, it was really good from the sound of it!

That’s awesome!! And great to hear that you all enjoyed #3. We have really enjoyed 1 and 2 in the past so we have big hopes for #3! 🤞

Wow! What an awesome photo!

I’m totally gonna have to read more about this!! I love the idea of the TouchBar but in practice mode of the functions it gives me I don’t find useful.

How did you do this??? I need to know! That looks like you edited the global items???