Monday, November 21, 2022
I’ve always been an RSS completionist. Since the days of Bloglines, which was before Google Reader. I have a few hundred feeds and I work through them — usually on a daily basis — to ensure they are read and down to ‘inbox zero’. I achieve this with Inoreader and a combination of NetNewsWire and Reeder. I’m wondering though, should I be using FraidyCat? I tried it years ago and it didn’t stick.
Microblogvember 2022, Day 21: It is late November and our swimming pool is still as cold as ice. I don’t like it.
Tipped 100% for this round of #NBL23. Thanks Shaun Bruce of Sydney Kings for knocking down the end game triple to steal that one.
Microblogvember 2022, Day 20: As a parent, I find I have to repeat myself quite often.
Recent events have almost — but not quite — destroyed musk sticks for me.
Sunday, November 20, 2022
It’s good to see new accounts and activity on micro.blog. I hope a reasonable proportion stick around. The best thing to remember about micro.blog is that it is a personal blog host as much as it is a social network. Blogs are a permanent place for your writing, and in my opinion, this makes them more weighty, and less transient, than tweets. It provides an opportunity to build a corpus of thoughts in the form of text, pictures, video and audio over time.
Microblogvember 2022, Day 19: I used to read a novel quite regularly. Nowadays, I still read a lot, but it’s mostly short-form articles and news. I should re-focus attention on books.
Saturday, November 19, 2022
Ed Zitron has published “The Fraudulent King”, a marvellous explainer on the latest happenings at Twitter, but at the same time, outlined what a petulant, unimpressive person Elon Musk is — and how the world now knows it. There were so many great lines in this article, it was hard to know which to highlight as an extract: …we are in the process of watching said timeline wholesale reject Elon Musk and his ideology.
With all the Twitter stuff, can we please get one more season of Silicon Valley?
Why have I woken at 5am? It’s Saturday! 😩
It is amazing how quickly @neatnik can roll out a new feature. His opt-in address directory at omg.lol was an idea I threw out during @HemisphericViews E071. Listen to the podcast and check out the directory!
If anybody finds Instagram isn’t loading on wifi, try disabling IPv6. That worked for me with my Eero 6. This will please my wife.
This sounds frightfully Trumpian:
In a tweet Thursday evening, Musk said: “The best people are staying, so I’m not super worried.”
Source: Hundreds of Twitter employees resign after Elon Musk’s ‘hardcore’ ultimatum - The Verge
Microblogvember 2022, Day 18: I’ve knocked off 18 consecutive microblogvember posts. I will not tire before I reach 30.
Friday, November 18, 2022
Elon Musk walked into Twitter HQ carrying a sink; in hindsight it should have been a toilet, because Twitter is now circling the bowl. Elon Musk eases return-to-office order - The Washington Post One Twitter staff member said the numbers of employees seeking to leave had alarmed Twitter’s managers, who had formed “war rooms” to determine which employees should be asked to stay on. Resignations and departures were already taking a toll on Twitter’s service, employees said.
Adam Newbold of omg.lol returns to Hemispheric Views E071 to discuss recent developments. I roll up my sleeves to offer some top-tier business advice while Jason and Martin back away slowly into a hedge.
Microblogvember 2022, Day 17: What exactly is a barrel of laughs, anyway? Were laughs once packaged in a barrel for easy transportation? I don’t get it.
Wednesday, November 16, 2022 →
Watching the Artemis I launch - T-7 minutes. 🚀
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Musk fires Twitter engineers after critical posts on Twitter and Slack: Musk had already tweeted Monday that he had fired at least one engineer who publicly criticized him on Twitter. The latest terminations come in the wake of Musk’s decision to let go of about half of all Twitter employees in a bid to cut costs. Some Twitter employees confirmed the layoffs on their verified accounts. “Looks like i just got fired for s—posting too ✌️” one wrote in response to another person who said they had been let go.
Wednesday, November 16, 2022 →
Microblogvember 2022, Day 16: Every sports team needs a franchise player to be truly successful. At the moment, for the Perth Wildcats, that guy is Bryce Cotton.