Dear Elon Musk:

I'm on today's Really Simple Stories podcast with @martinfeld! This was a fun episode to record. I reflect on some early experiments with podcasting, talk about the open web, and more.

I haven't been tweeting my blog posts (or anything) for a while, but if you want an easy way to follow the microblog posts and full-length blog posts, they are now collected in a weekly email via s newsletter feature.

RT @microdotblog: It has been a busy last week at Manton has released the complete draft of .

RT @microdotblog: We are live for day 2 of Micro Camp! The current session is Getting Started with Sketchnotes, with Chad Moore and Chris W….

RT @microdotblog: Micro Camp is our online community event for coming up August 13-14. We've posted a list of spea….

RT @microdotblog: We've announced the first set of speakers and live panels for Micro Camp 2021!

I stopped posting to Twitter a few months ago, not even automatically from my blog. Just so much nicer to focus on But seems appropriate to post a link to my blog post today about Webmention and Twitter:

RT @microdotblog: We are planning Micro Camp, the first virtual conference for See this announcement blog post fro….

RT @microdotblog: Thanks to @ulyssesapp for the kind words about It has been great to welcome more Ulysses users t….

RT @microdotblog: Ulysses 22 is now available with support for publishing to Manton has an overview blog post here….

I turned off Twitter cross-posting from my blog a couple weeks ago and think I'll keep it off to start 2021. You can find me over on or via RSS at

This week Helge Gudmundsen joins @macgenie on the Micro Monday podcast to talk about the community, photography, beer, hobbies, and much more. Enjoyed listening to this one on my walk this morning. Thanks Helge!

NBA preseason starts tonight! Because Hulu Live and YouTube TV have dropped the regional sports networks, we’ve cancelled Hulu and switched to Spectrum TV, where we get internet anyway. No cable box, since they have an app for our smart TV, iOS, etc. 🏀.

Finished Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson. It’s fun to get back into reading fantasy. Looking forward to the rest of the Mistborn series and Sanderson’s other books. 📚

We posted a new Core Intuition today with a discussion of the recent App of the Year awards and Slack acquisition by Salesforce.

Before the cold weather this week we decided to pick all the oranges. The tree produced about 50 total counting the ones I picked early. Now looking for marmalade recipes.

Happy Thanksgiving! Lots to be thankful for despite a bizarre, difficult year. Trying to stay flexible and adjust plans as needed for the holidays. If you’ve got a break and need a podcast to queue up, @danielpunkass and I also posted a new Core Int. 🦃

We posted a new episode of Core Intuition over the weekend, talking about Apple’s new Small Business program, the App Store, and M1-based Macs.

The macOS version of has been updated to run natively on M1-based Macs. Also fixed a bug with selecting windows. Enjoy!.