Micro Monday

Noisy cafe alert! Jean is in Minneapolis to support the launching of a new App Camp For Girls organization, and had a chance to attend a Micro Meetup with Patrick, Tim, Rob, and Isaac. The recording conditions were less than ideal, so this is a short one, but very educational for the first-time visitor to the Twin Cities.

This week, Jean talks with Josh de Lioncourt on the day his new novel Haven Divided, Book 2 in his Dragon’s Brood Cycle, was released. In addition to fiction, Josh also writes software, music, and tech articles, but we didn’t get to discuss any of that because we were too busy talking about ice hockey.

This week, Jean has a nice chat with Jason Burk. Jason has been actively curating several resources for the Micro.blog community, including a directory of Tagmoji used or proposed for the Discover section, a listing of Micro meetups, and a microcast directory.

In this special extra edition of the Micro Monday Microcast, Kelly Guimont and Jean have enough time before their plane home to Portland to talk about the fantastic experience they had at the 2018 Macstock Expo and Conference, and to start making plans for the 2019 event.

Jason Dettbarn, a UX analyst in his day job, is a partner and programmer at Relic Scout, a tool to track and buy the comic books on your want list. He’s also a husband and a father to three girls. His twins saved up their allowance to adopt Laverne and Shirley, two adorable guinea pigs, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that this episode of Micro Monday runs a little longer than usual.

This week, Jean talks to Eddie Hinkle. He’s a software engineer who lives in the Washington DC area, and he is working on several interesting projects, including Indigenous, an iOS app that provides an interface for the IndieWeb. Jean was grateful that Eddie could make the time to chat, especially as he is also a father-to-be whose child is due this week!

Eli Mellen, an art historian and printmaker turned web developer, talks to Jean about how he went from his “angsty LiveJournal” to being a proponent of the IndieWeb, and why he likes the new IndieWeb Ring. Eli is also the maintainer of Micro.wiki: Community resources for the avid Micro.blogger.

Vanessa Hamshere is a musician, a crafter, a photographer, and one of the “fountain pens, paper, and planners gang.” We talk about how online communities evolve and thrive, and how a good mix of technical expertise and interests helps everyone. > It’s nice to have a group of people from across the world with different interests. I love random conversations.

This week, Jean interviews the host of the the mnmltek microcast, Chris Powell. Chris’s passion is sharing tech knowledge and other help for humans. In addition to the microcast, Chris blogs, podcasts, and writes a newsletter. “If you’re not sharing your thoughts, opinions, or what’s inside of you, you need to know that your voice matters.”

Jim Withington, joins us on Micro Monday. Jim is currently a web developer in Portland who describes himself as someone who likes getting excited about things and blogging about them. We talk about the XOXO Conference in Portland, about the unexpected delight of photoblogging with Micro.blog, and whether Micro.dog should be a thing.

This week, we talk to Fiona Voss. She is is a software engineer and a computer science student. We talk about how the theoretical can inform the practical, how one gets started in programming, and why she appreciates the Micro.blog community. “We feel we have something in common because we are on Micro.blog. We are on it because we care about community and we care about the open web.” Mentioned: RailsBridge

This week we hear from Smokey Ardisson, a historian and specialist in Middle East studies—who also worked on the Camino browser. We talk about the intersection of technology and the liberal arts, introverts and social networks, and how the historians of the future might judge Micro.blog.

Mike Haynes, creator of Dialog, talks to Jean on the Micro Monday Microcast about how the creatively ambitious and prolific Micro.blog community has inspired him to blog regularly and to try many new things. “The positive atmosphere is so contagious,” says Mike.

This week, Jean talks to Serena Ho, who lives in Melbourne, Australia. She appreciates the work of those who are building tools and apps for the community, but emphasizes that you don’t have to be a coder to contribute. “Because Micro.blog is so new, it’s one of those exciting opportunities where you can help shape something… What are the social norms on this platform? People are still trying to work that out.”

Jean welcomes Jess Nickelsen to the microcast to talk about living in New Zealand, how she found out about Micro.blog, the shutdown of Diary-X, and why the early days of blogging were like a window into another part of the world. Episode 9: @herself Transcript

Sergio Ruiz talks about how being a drummer in a band and a backstage photographer led him to create his first blog, before the days of blogging software. Besides music and photography, Sergio is into coding, both professionally and as a hobby. He likes Micro.blog as a place to seek out and engage with like-minded people. Read the transcript.

For this week, Jean welcomes Rosemary Orchard to the microcast to talk about how she uses her microblog, why microblogs make for great blogs to experiment with, and her thoughts on the Micro.blog community.

Jonathan Hays joins Jean to talk about Sunlit and Wavelength for Micro.blog, how he met Manton, and what makes Micro.blog a unique platform.

This week, @kitt joins the microcast to talk with Jean about her blog, discovering new people and topics on Micro.blog, and what makes the community special.

Jean talks with Patrick Rhone about web sites that link to interesting things, taking an online sabbatical, how he uses a microblog, and why all software should have a philosophy.txt file.