With today’s addition regarding Bookmarks and AI-based summaries, Micro.blog is getting very close to be a read-later service, too. Which I like a lot. Synching highlights to Readwise would be cool too. Hint hint @manton 🙏🏻

Our @nileane reviews feeeed, a very nicely designed alternative to classic RSS readers. Instead of just following RSS feeds, this app supports RSS *and* a variety of sources like Mastodon, YouTube, Reddit, newsletters, and more.

We're going to see a lot of apps along these lines thanks to decentralized social media. This one looks very intriguing to me: macstories.net/reviews/feeeed-

Similar to the Tapestry project? Seems really well done.

About This Permanent State of Being Undecided With Apps

I have been a happy user of Apple Safari for the last decade. If possible, I prefer using Apple’s browser, thanks to its privacy protection and features. If something doesn’t work in Safari, I will try Firefox. I’ll do everything possible to skip Google Chrome. I use Microsoft Edge because of its integration with Microsoft 365 at work. But Safari is never too far, just in case. It’s now my fall-back plan. Why this change? Because of the Arc Browser, which is now my main browser.

I’m the type of user who always tries to find a use case for an app that I really like, even if it is superseded with a better one. I love Craft. I always use it in my creative hobbies, but I found a great use case for Notion at work. I like Apple Reminder for family-related tasks but use Things 3 for my creative hobbies. I like Apple Calendar for my personal life but prefer Fantastical for the office. I keep both. I like HEY mail but must use Outlook at the office.

This constant duality in my choices about which app to use sometimes looks like psychological trouble. 😬🤷🏻‍♂️

Craft release v2.7.0 is a big one. There are lots of improvements that should please a majority of users. I played with it while in beta and created a video to give users a visual look at what’s new. The Craft Bible also was updated to include the release analysis, now part of the subscription.

I learned a lot of things over my long career in IT. But, there is one thing that I fail to learn and master is everything related to CSS1. I don’t get this, at all. If I could master this thing, plus some of Hugo2 concepts, I would create my own Micro.blog visual theme. 😔

  1. I learn so many languages and dialects: Pascal, Cobol, C, Assembler, Fortran, Lisp, Objective-C, etc. What is wrong with me and CSS? ↩︎

  2. I do get Hugo more than CSS, strangely. ↩︎

Let me guess again the upcoming “big” new feature for Micro.blog: a fully-featured Read Later feature. It could complement Bookmarks wonderfully1. 👀 That’s the only feature that I can think of that would require a separate app and a browser extension.

  1. If not replace it altogether. ↩︎

If you’re a Craft user and are looking for ways that Gen AI could add value to the Craft Assistant, I wrote this document. I think there is an untapped potential in Craft because of minimalistic support for the ChatGPT entry-level model. Feedback is welcome.

The Next One Is My Best

I just completed recording my next YouTube video (my YouTube channel), which will come out early next week. It’s probably the one I’m the most proud of at many levels. The release will match the release of a new version of an app that I like a lot 🤫. Technically, the sound is good. I’me using Bezels to demo the app on the iPad and the iPhone, a first for me. The video structure seems logical and should help the viewers in learning new things. Can’t wait to share that one. I hope it will get the attention I’m hoping for. 🤞🏻

The Arc Browser is the perfect browser to consume my Micro.blog timeline. In fact, it’s the best browser to consume, period. I’m (mostly) in love. I know, I may be late to the party.