Post short thoughts or long essays, share photos, all on your own blog. Micro.blog makes it easy, and provides a friendly community where you can share and engage with others.
Micro.blog is the brain child of Manton Reece. He contacted me in 2021 to help him work on it and bring my skills to it. Can’t wait to see what this relationship brings in the long term. I am forever grateful for the opportunity and hope to blog more about it here (as one of my own).
As a funny aside, Google emailed a week or so ago saying there are issues that we should look at… and that they “might” remove the app. And so they did.
And this is why I want direct downloads. So no big tech child can do what they want.
Imagine if they could also stop a website…
Current status of getting Micro.blog back into the play store is that I need to fix build errors, which has been a rollercoaster ride. Too much work on the iOS side, including React Native upgrades, caused this (I think).
Still a few hours away from getting anywhere.
Micro.blog for Android is currently unavailable on the Play Store.
Google probably hired all the dropouts from Apple App Review… and they removed it for an issue that was resolved months ago (allowing reporting and muting). Guess they are getting mixed up with naming.
For the eagle eyed devs, on the new Micro.blog homepage, you can see we are using ES Modules, and a shim for... SAFARI. Really nice to be able to make this work without build tools. Gonna work on replacing "legacy" code for sign in and register now, so we can ditch jQuery there.
The new Micro.blog App for iOS (still in beta) and Android is now open-source. It's built on React Native. Most of the action happens in the develop branch. Happy to get this out there ✌️❤️
Hoping to open-source the Micro.blog App for iOS and Android soon. Then you can all cry how I code in Javascript 😋
And here is the HOMEPAGE of Micro.blog:
And yes, just for historical archives 😋😏
Just making some final adjustments to the new Micro.blog homepage. This is kinda the first phase of what we want to do, and we'll expand from what we have. I'm really happy with the way it looks.
Did someone say “marketing” website for Micro.blog? 🤷♂️😏
New update out to the Micro.blog Mac App. Manton has the details. Nice to see some of those timeline changes we made for the handheld apps come through, making it more consistent across platforms. Also, I really want to steal that icon for iOS now 😋
Who said the new Micro.blog app can't have settings? 😋
OK, Micro.blog app, come to daddy. Any on the side feature requests? Like small things to implement? Feeling generous.
Working on something new on Micro.blog and I wanted to take this opportunity to try out import maps and JS modules, because I want to avoid using any build tools. So far so good!
We're starting something new today. Can't wait to show you... next year when it's done. Also... I can't draw stars for the life of me.
Approaching 4AM. Yum. A bit of sleep and tomorrow I work on the Micro.blog app 😍
