Reflections at Thirty-Five — Matt
Yesterday was my thirty-fifth birthday, and the annual marking of a new year for me brought the chance to reflect a bit on where I am in ...
Product Outlook: Write.as and WriteFreely
After taking a bit of a sabbatical in 2022, I’m back into Write.as and WriteFreely development. My views on the product naturally change ...
Recently read a tweet pondering that maybe most software we've built could just... — Micro Matt
What if we took social media a little less seriously -- even the "better" solutions like the #fediverse? What if we didn't worry about "changing the world" with some new startup idea, and instead improved life for a few people? What if we just made cool shit online that could help pay our bills and then we do something new when that gets old? What if we forgot the 1990s-2020s delusion that the information superhighway was go...
Here’s the workshop I’ll be teaching this Saturday at Photodom in Brooklyn, on... — Micro Matt
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A Calm Summer, 2022 — Write.as Blog
As we settle into the summer, we’re taking an easier pace here at Write.as. Here’s what’s been happening lately, and what you can expect ...
Spent the last hour creating a very minimal desktop app for Write.as / Musing... — Micro Matt
earliest thoughts today were about my digital work environment, and how it’s basically just the browser, and how distracting that is as someone who always has 50-plus tabs open at any given moment. I think it’d be much nicer to, in the morning, click an icon on my desktop that opens my digital “office.” It’d only show me exactly what I need to work. And at the end of...
Haven't talked much about this here, but I've been more seriously doing... — Micro Matt
I met some very cool people at the first few walks, and we started coordinating and going to more of them together. At each one, a topic kept coming up: it'd be great to have a more consistent group, instead of relying on different stores to put on events for us. So a few weeks ago, I finally decided to organize one. I made an Instagram chat group and invited all the people I'd talked to about it. Then they...
Social Networking Utopia — Matt
In discussing the network topology of social networks — whether centralized like Facebook or federated like ActivityPub — I think the ult...
Switching from a crowded email inbox to a more organized system for customer... — Micro Matt
erything is powered by our Discourse forum. Write.as users get a certain email address to send to, based on their support level. Those emails show up in different Discourse group inboxes. The high-priority group also pings my personal email, just so I don’t forget it’s there. But the low-priority group won’t ever disturb me — I have to visit that inbox to see messages there. When my email hour starts, first I v...
Nothing exists in a vacuum, and specialization is a great way to stay ignorant... — Micro Matt
https://twitter.com/_johnsonator/status/1449810260970065923 Relatedly, I discovered a funny counterintuitive thing in college, going for my degree in Computer Science. I was very uninterested for the first year or two of school. I'd already been pr...
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