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@JohnPhilpin You’re very welcome. Towards a passwordless future! 😊

@devilgate The reason you ended up in the timeline here is that @JohnPhilpin’s post is technically a reply (it starts with @).

I offer alternative, experimental Micro.blog feeds with built-in conversation links. That’s probably what you’re looking for, but they really are experimental. So, you know, don’t be too sad if they vanish one day. 😊

@settee @manton You can get an (almost) global hotkey working by setting up a Shortcut like this:

This lets me start a new post from (almost) anywhere by pressing Shift-Command-P or clicking the little speech bubble in the menu bar.

@jim I remember this Micro.blog-specific cache issue, though. Is that still a problem, @manton?

@snowracer Mys! Landade precis lagom till min lunchpromenad. 😊

@thosch @FichtelDom @marc0janssen @crossingthethreshold @fabioteixeira I can confirm that the EU servers are down and I’ve let @manton know about it. It’s morning in Austin now, so hopefully they will be back up soon. 😊

@jonah Hehe, maybe!

@earlsab Me too!

@renevanbelzen Sounds like you’re living the dream, Rene. 😊 Bug or not, congrats on reaching level 50! And hey, a page or two a night still counts as reading.

@heyloura Love a good quine, and this one is wonderful! 😍 I also really like your goal of finishing just a few #WeirdWebOctober entries. Maybe I’ll try a few too.

@maira As the caretaker of another little library, I salute your good deed. 😊

@jim Hehe, I have a lot of fun with it on my site too. I click that button every week. 😊

@kottkrig Ja, värmeböljan i Indien som boken börjar med… Riktigt vidrig! En av de mest obehagliga scenerna jag läst i en roman. Har tänkt tillbaka på den flera gånger i sommar, särskilt när värmeböljan var som värst nere i Europa.

@gannonburgett Haha, you’re welcome!

@briandigital There’s also an HTML version.

@Mtt WCAG warms this old web accessibility practitioner’s heart, and the developer mode is a really neat idea. Awesome work as always, Matt! 😍

@bobwertz The Crescendolls. <3

@birming Tack! Det avsnittet åkte in i poddmaskinen för lyssning i morgon. 😊

@crossingthethreshold Haha, oh yes! 😊

@birming Underbart att du illustrerar med en rulltårta. Eller heter det kanske rolltårta? 😋

@kev You can reply with images using Markdown syntax like this: ![A puppy fails to take a bite out of a way too big fruit, with the text 413 Payload Too Large.](https://http.dog/413.jpg).

@aeryn Feed URL updated. 😊 Best of luck over at the new place.

@dhester Nice! Always fun to see my plug-ins in action. 🥰

@kottkrig Modigt! Tack för att du går i bräschen.

@kottkrig Detta är tankar som jag också bär runt på denna tisdagsmorgon.

@MitchW The main reason is that if I do go back (and I’m still not sure I will), I want a fresh start, just to follow the people I truly miss. But also, it’s so easy to slip back into old habits. I’m just human, so unfollowing everyone was me being kind to my future self. Making it harder to slip and fail the experiment. 😊

@heyloura Me too, blogs are the bestest. 🥰

@vincent Yeah, it’s nice to do experiments like this, going without.

@pratik Hehe, no, Micro.blog has around 5,000 monthly active users. And a lot of the people I followed (I think the majority) were on other Fediverse platforms and Bluesky.

@kottkrig Hmm… Har inte tänkt på’t men nu när du nämner det… Jordgubbar & Mario Kart World vore ju inte fel, om det går att få tag på vettiga. 😋

@kottkrig Inget dåligt lördagsmys med chips och Switch! Här ser det ut som att vi får vänta ända till tisdag innan DHL levererar en Switch 2. 🫠

@jim @Mtt Nice! 🎉

@jemostrom Dagen kan bara bli bättre! Men hur gick det till? 😅

@Mtt That’s up to you (it’s configurable).

@Mtt Do you need the camera feed as a separate video file? If you’re okay with something quick and scrappy, you could open Hand Mirror to get the camera feed.

Kind of like what I did here, but, you know, using Screenshot.app or QuickTime Player.app instead of an old camcorder. 😊

@jabel While I partly feel this too, the fun, personal, and poetic web/internet is still out there. Just look at the Internet Phone Book. 😍

@NicMakesStuff I think this is one of those cases where it would be morally okay for you to download the book from Anna’s Archive while you wait for the actual ebook to be delivered. 😇

@kottkrig Ja, den som väntar på nått gott… Sanna spelar det nu och det ser hur som helst väldigt mysigt ut.

@heyloura Hmm, the only open source one I can think of is jsbin.com. I’m sure there are more… but both you and I know you’re gonna write your own little Micro.blog plug-in for that instead, Loura. It’s a good weekend project! 😉

@KimberlyHirsh That’s 17–46.2% real wage growth (inflation-adjusted), right? I sure hope so. 😅

@rlpietraszek Yay! I’m glad it’s working now—hope your fingers aren’t too sore from all that reimporting! 😊

It might not be your cup of tea, but I have a Micro.blog plug-in called Surprise me! that introduces a magic address on your blog, taking you to a random post. It’s a pretty fun way to explore the depths of one’s blog archive.

@Munish The current Switch has a huge library of great games, so if playing the latest releases isn’t a priority, you can still have a ton of fun with it. (I’m very happy with the OLED model.) If nothing else, I’m sure there will be plenty of used consoles available on the secondhand market in a couple of months. 😊

@KimberlyHirsh Yeah, it’s really hard to compare historic prices and purchasing power to today’s, especially across countries. In Sweden, real wage growth for that period (1993–2024) was 57.3%.

And just to be clear, I want video games to be cheap and accessible to as many people as possible. 😊 (While making sure designers, developers, and everyone involved get paid fairly.)

@fancysandwiches Yeah, you’re right, of course—it’s “up to 120 Hz.” That was just me being lazy with my typing. 😊

@jalcine You only get 4K when you connect it to a TV, and the frame rate will be capped at 60fps then. 😢 The built-in screen is 1080p. You’ll have to choose between high resolution or high frame rate.

@Munish I wouldn’t say it’s a huge upgrade, but there are definitely a bunch of quality-of-life improvements. What I’m personally looking forward to is beefier hardware. My eyes and brain are pretty sensitive to low frame rates in games, and the current Switch has a lot of that. So I’m hoping the Switch 2 will deliver smoother gameplay.

@manton So… Micro.blog is migrating away from Zoom to GameChat with Mario Kart World for meetings, right? 😊

@aeryn I know you took a break recently, and that can definitely help. Something that works for me sometimes is switching up where I hang out. Like, if I’m not feeling the stuff coming in from my news sources, I swap them out for a bit with more cozy, wholesome web experiences.

Perfectly Imperfect is one of those spots—it’s just people (not algorithms) sharing what they love. Hanging out there usually puts me in a good mood. 😊