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@danielpunkass @manton Yes, it seems to be working now. Thanks!
@danielpunkass Will do, thanks.
@manton MacOS 13.7.8 (it’s a 2017 MacBook Pro, so can’t go any higher). Safari 18.6 (18621.3.11.19.1, 18621).
@manton I’m having a certificate problem with Micro.blog. About a week ago I got an error saying the certificate wasn’t trusted. It went away as far as using the web interface is concerned. but I’m still having the problem with MarsEdit. As part of trying to get things to change,I logged out of the M.b app on Mac, and now I can’t log back in.
cc: @danielpunkass for the MarsEdit part.
I’d attach some screenshots, but I can’t.
@JohnPhilpin Nice. My pronouns are I/me/mine.
You’re welcome for the Beatles earworm.
@danieljusticescat.bsky.social I’m not sure. I’ve got an unfinished space opera that I’d like to get back to, but I’m not sure I can quite motivate myself to deal with that one at the moment.
@matthewlang Your link is 404. And the premise seems wildly unlikely, given the prevalence of Markdown. And Apple have just announced a JSON-based file format for Xcode projects, for example. Seems for me like plain text is on the upswing, if anything.
@alexwolfe It was day 2 of Britain v Ecuador, and Britain won. I found the doubles match much more exciting than the singles. That may be partly because, once the doubles match was won, so was the whole round. But also I think doubles is just more fun.
@alexwolfe Hey, I was at the Davi’s Cup this weekend too. But it looks like you were somewhere other than the Copper Box Arena in London.
Thanks. It’s urban fantasy, though a lot of the time it wants to be a mainstream literary novel.
@sbisson Thanks for that. I couldn’t‘ve told you the title, but the story really stuck with me. And the ribbon marker in my The Stories of Ray Bradbury was just after it.
@ReaderJohn Doesn’t bother me, I’m just pleased to have learned a new word!
@ReaderJohn
> “There is one God, [fill in the blank],” is not a Christian affirmation.
If you fill in the blank with ‘The Father almighty’ you’ve essentially got the start of the RC (and CoE?) creed!
@adders It’s also nice where they let you select text and paste a URL over it to create a link.
@mmetcalfe Probably not.
@adoran2 I clicked your link in the Micro.blog Mac app, and what looks like a normal link (https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2026/07/28/13913/) took me to a page of raw JSON.
@JohnPhilpin I never noticed before that Paul is the only one not wearing a hat. An old Scouse sign of death, you know.
@manton The reply I’m replying to here has visible HTML tags, where I tried to wrap a title as a citation. Is there a way to get this kind of thing to render as expected? It works properly on posts, of course, just not replies.
@JohnPhilpin But could you, from memory, sketch out the positions of all four Beatles’ arms from the <cite>Help</cite> cover? I know I couldn’t, and like you, it’s burned into my mind. Just not clearly enough to sketch.
@JohnPhilpin Aha, you have achieved both image and text!
@manton I don’t know, man, Thompson’s suggestion smacks of mutually-assured destruction!
@vazquez That would have to be <cite>Blade Runner</cite> for me.
@JohnPhilpin I don’t see any selectable text in it, so I don’t think it’s any different?
@JohnPhilpin Yeah, quite likely! I don’t know about the Markdown accessibility thing. Would that be visible in Micro.blog? In NetNewsWire or similar? The reason being, if I want to link to something, I’d like to quote part of it, so I’d like to be able to copy & paste.
@JohnPhilpin Yes! This, so much this. All too often forgotten.
(It’d be nice if it was text, not just an image.)