@randy Hi Randy — I’m using a thing I wrote: github.com/brentsimm...

Pretty stoked about the Seahawks hiring Mike Macdonald. SAVIOR OF BOOM!

@davereed Because I’m an app writer in the open web space, I figured I should have a regular Mastodon account so I could have that experience. If I weren’t, I’d probably just use my Micro.blog account, since it works with Mastodon.

(To be clear — I’m keeping my Micro.blog account! It’s just that I’ve added a regular Mastodon account.)

I think that each case is unique — some Micro.blog folks will have reasons to create a regular Mastodon account, and some will be quite happy using just their Micro.blog account, since it works with Mastodon.

Note to Mastodon users — if you’re following this account (@brentsimmons@micro.inessential.com), you should switch to following @brentsimmons@indieweb.social.

(This account is actually my ActivityPub-compatible micro.blog account, rather than a regular Mastodon account.)

@dsh1705 The where is almost certainly the very small town in South Jersey where that side of my family is from. Not sure of the when — maybe the ’20s? Somewhere around there.

Enjoying some photos from an old family photo album.

@danieltiger Crude language, sexual content, smoking, violence. (There was a dance and two adults kissed briefly. Pa smokes a pipe. Etc.)

It is shocking how many episodes of “Little House on the Prairie” are rated 13+ these days.

@SimonWoods RSS readers use the Twitter API, just like the client apps, since Twitter dropped its RSS feeds something like 10 years ago.

@pimoore Yes — same API.

Wondering how long before Twitter will stop letting RSS readers use the Twitter API.

When Apple gives a customer a refund, does all the money come from the developer, or does Apple pitch in its 30% (or 15%)?

Craig Hockenberry writes, in The Shit Show, that “It feels like the time is right for a truly universal timeline.”

@robinwit They removed RSS like 10 years ago. Or more. NetNewsWire is using the Twitter API, just like the apps that have been shut down. (But I’d bet that NetNewsWire is not on their radar at all.)

@wigging NetNewsWire is using the Twitter API, and it could get shut down, yes. But NetNewsWire is probably not on Twitter’s radar the way apps like Tweetbot and Twitterrific are.

On the NetNewsWire blog — How to Subscribe to a Twitter List in NetNewsWire.

@ehler “49ers fans should be nervous” is a thing a Seahawks fan says to have a little fun before a big game where the Seahawks are expected to lose by 10 points. 🐣🐥🏈

@magnus919 They turned off RSS like 10 years ago. RSS readers with Twitter integration are using the Twitter API — but of course your point stands in that we could have our access removed at any moment with no warning.

@skoobz Beating Denver in game one was all I needed — the rest of the season has been all gravy. Sure would be fun to beat the 49ers, though.

Here’s the help page on subscribing to Twitter feeds in NetNewsWire for Mac. Instructions are similar for iOS.

@th3storysofar Yes. It works on iOS and with iCloud sync. You do need to set up your Twitter account in the app in both places, so you can log in with Twitter.

Reminder — if you still want to read Twitter, but don’t otherwise need to engage, you can switch to one of the many RSS readers (NetNewsWire included) that have Twitter integration.

49ers fans should be nervous.

I don’t know enough about these things to agree or disagree with any of the article — but I find it interesting. Here’s Dana Blankenhorn on The Failures of the Cloud Czars.

@mjgardner Or Xcode!

Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the very definition of working with computers. It works!

@Medievalist You’d think, but it’s an issue on every single device, clean or not, new or not. I think it’s more just a thing about aging.

@leebennett Good tip — I'll try that. I don't have much optimism, because I think the wearing-down is a problem for all my fingers, but maybe it will work.

Every day Touch ID seems to work less and less well for me.

But, as annoying as that is, there’s a bright side — as my fingerprints disappear my crimes will become more numerous and successful.

@collin Yes. To the maximum amount every year. Future you will be very grateful to today you.

@jeffmerola I think that I'm just used to NSCoding because it's been around so long. But, to answer your question, ing suffixes bother me in Objective-C too. (I just didn't mention it because people don't write much ObjC any more.)

@collin My advice: think way less about what other people might think about you. Follow your own lead.

@danielpunkass I am competitive! I’m sure way more than it looks.

However, I write NetNewsWire because I’m on two teams that matter a lot to me — team protocols-over-platforms (RSS etc.) and team Mac-assed-Mac-apps.

NetNewsWire is meant to be a great app that people love, first and foremost — but it’s also for the promotion of both those teams’ goals. When there’s an Unread for Mac, for instance, I still win. :)

@johnbrayton Super-psyched for the Mac version! If you run into any Mac issues or questions, please don't hesitate to ask me or the NNW team for help. Unread for Mac so needs to happen. 🍻

@gstml Ah — I see. I use Micro.blog, and I just added the link using Markdown.

@gstml A friend of mine is on that show, and I thought it was a good article to link to.

@cleverdevil Good luck! This thing is bad enough, but then screwing up the holidays is just extra shitty.

@jonathan Loving modern science, medicine, and logistics that brought us all this helpful stuff. Otherwise I'd quite possibly be dead already

@bradellis Unfortunately not. She tested positive two days after me, so she’s still more in the thick of it.