![]() Yet somehow, Neil Gaiman has outlived them all, watching from the shadows of his own dashboard. This is notable, because celebrities have notoriously been bullied off of Tumblr. Neil Gaiman has been an active Tumblr user since 2011, and he still actively uses the microblogging platform to this day. (And wouldn’t it be nice if trying out a new social network was that easy?)įrom a nice new Polygon article, Our favorite Neil Gaiman books, comics, and more:īefore I elaborate - yes, people still use Tumblr and it’s far more popular than most people think. If you haven’t tried Pocket Casts yet, install for iOS or Android, and here’s how to import your subscriptions using a format called OPML. I love Spotify and Apple, and I hope that Pocket Casts can do for podcast clients what Firefox in the early days and Chromium now does for browsers - push the state of the art, be manically focused on user control, and grow a more decentralized and open web. It’s also unusual to be able to peek under the hood of a consumer mobile app that is this widely used and see how it works.Īudio publishing and consumption is a beautiful complement to the web publishing that WordPress is already so good at, and that Automattic tries to nurture an ecosystem around. If your code gets merged into core, it’ll go out to users listening to literally millions of hours of podcasts a week. You can see all the code behind the iOS app and the Android app, and modify it, make it your own, suggest a change, fix a bug, add a feature, fork it and make your own client, anything! The team has been working really hard to make those clients totally open source and available to the world, and it’s now happened. □Īll birthday posts: 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39.Īutomattic acquired Pocket Casts last July, and since we’ve been tapping away trying to make the best podcast client for people who love listening to podcasts. I’m committing a million dollars to the fundraise, and myself, Illuminate director Ben Davis, and the artist Leo Villereal are happy to personally connect with anyone considering a larger donation.īecause of some family health reasons I’m back in lockdown, so going to try and throw an online party tonight in the “Matterverse.” We’re going to party like it’s late 2020. It’s a lot to raise, but every little bit helps so please donate here, and if you are interested to do a larger gift please get in touch. I’ve heard 25 million people see the Bay Lights every year. The idea is to find ten people or organizations to put one million each, and raise the final million in a broader crowdfunding campaign, to re-light the Bay Bridge and give an incredible gift to the people from every walk of life that see the bridge, and hopefully have their spirits lifted by the art. If we raise it soon we can shorten the time they’re down to just a few months, so I’m working with the 501c3 non-profit Illuminate to help fundraise. Like the Foundation series, we can’t stop the coming period of darkness from happening, but if we raise $11M we can bring the lights back. Finally, the lights were not visible from Treasure Island or the East Bay before, but this new version 3.0 will be, which is why the artist behind the lights, Leo Villereal, is calling it Bay Lights 360. Fortunately it’s now been a decade since the lights first went up, and there’s much better technology both for the lights and how they’re mounted and attached to the suspension cables. This has to happen - the vibrations and corrosive environment of the Bay Bridge is taking lights out strand by strand. Usually when people ask me what I want for my birthday I don’t have a good answer, but this year I do! As Heather Knight wrote about in the SF Chronicle, the beloved Bay Lights are coming down in March. It’s also my last year to get on 40 under 40 lists! □ There were some beautiful moments, and I consider myself the most lucky in my family, friends, and colleagues, yet among that same group there was a lot of loss, existential health challenges, and that weighed heavily on me. This morning started well I pulled the hammock out of the garage (it had been hiding from the rain) and read for a bit, trying to get my 5-10 minutes of sun in the first 30 minutes like Huberman suggests.Ĭandidly, the last year was a really challenging one for me personally. There’s so much that has happened in the past decade yet it feels very much like we’re on the cusp of something even more exciting. ![]() Automattic is now ~2,000 people across 98 countries. The last year of my thirties! WordPress turns twenty this year. ![]()
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