{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Chris Silverman","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/csilverman","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"648","username":"csilverman","bio":"Artist, spline reticulαtor, senior designerist at Vassar College. I know the difference between α font αnd α typefαce, but I'm not obnoxious αbout it.","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":35,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://micro.blog/csilverman/avatar.jpg"},"items":[{"id":"11138968","content_html":"<p><img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fcsilverman.micro.blog%2Fuploads%2F2021%2F16a84d2e34.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://csilverman.micro.blog/2021/03/09/121854.html","date_published":"2021-03-09T17:18:54+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-03-09 17:18","date_timestamp":1615310334,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"10836205","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/joslyn\">@joslyn</a> I was always good at the “how many X do you see in this picture” puzzles as a kid :-)</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/csilverman/10836205","date_published":"2021-01-09T21:45:41+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-09 21:45","date_timestamp":1610228741,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"10836203","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/joslyn\">@joslyn</a> Looks like seven to me, including the real cat to the far left and the guy on the book spine.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/csilverman/10836203","date_published":"2021-01-09T21:43:08+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-09 21:43","date_timestamp":1610228588,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"10836202","content_html":"<p>Eesh—image compression on here does not make those colors look good.</p>\n\n<p>Eh well, real thing is here: <a href=\"https://codepen.io/csilverman/full/fd458d604f35569e6a0592b1cdbd7aca\">codepen.io/csilverma…</a></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://csilverman.micro.blog/2021/01/09/eeshimage-compression-on.html","date_published":"2021-01-09T21:40:44+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-09 21:40","date_timestamp":1610228444,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"10836120","content_html":"<p>Working on a few experiments. These patterns are generated entirely via the CSS conic-gradient() function. Blog post coming.</p>\n\n<div class=\"microblog_collection\">\n<img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fcsilverman.micro.blog%2Fuploads%2F2021%2Fa744783d5a.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"567\" alt=\"3D checkerboard pattern \" loading=\"lazy\"><img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fcsilverman.micro.blog%2Fuploads%2F2021%2F0f915a55c1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"567\" alt=\"Brightly colored pattern\" loading=\"lazy\"><img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fcsilverman.micro.blog%2Fuploads%2F2021%2F9ad6e89b43.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"571\" alt=\"Green geometric pattern\" loading=\"lazy\"><img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fcsilverman.micro.blog%2Fuploads%2F2021%2F25b8e4e7c0.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"572\" alt=\"Colorful geometric pattern\" loading=\"lazy\">\n</div>\n","summary":"","url":"https://csilverman.micro.blog/2021/01/09/working-on-a.html","date_published":"2021-01-09T21:20:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-09 21:20","date_timestamp":1610227226,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"10835835","content_html":"<p>Interesting how “put aside division and promote healing” means “give me everything I want and forget about all the things I did to you”.</p>\n\n<p>This, from people like Cruz, is not high-minded political boilerplate. It’s how abusers gaslight their victims into ignoring what was done.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://csilverman.micro.blog/2021/01/09/interesting-how-put.html","date_published":"2021-01-09T19:41:46+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-09 19:41","date_timestamp":1610221306,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"10835742","content_html":"<p>Three months ago, I did not even dare to imagine we were seeing the end of the tunnel.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://csilverman.micro.blog/2021/01/09/three-months-ago.html","date_published":"2021-01-09T19:24:32+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-09 19:24","date_timestamp":1610220272,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"10827720","content_html":"<p>Hello?</p>\n\n<p>This is the United States calling, are we reaching—</p>\n\n<p>See, he keeps hanging up, and it’s a man answering…</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://csilverman.micro.blog/2021/01/07/hello-this-is.html","date_published":"2021-01-08T02:15:10+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-08 02:15","date_timestamp":1610072110,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"10825897","content_html":"I’ve been worried by Biden’s rosy talk of “bipartisanship” for a while now. It doesn’t sound like decency—it sounds like naivety, like he really just doesn’t grasp the situation he’s walking into. And more unnervingly, it sounds like the beginnings of unconditional forgiveness; a refusa... <a href=\"https://csilverman.micro.blog/2021/01/07/ive-been-worried.html\">csilverman.micro.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://csilverman.micro.blog/2021/01/07/ive-been-worried.html","date_published":"2021-01-07T17:08:59+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-07 17:08","date_timestamp":1610039339,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"10821736","content_html":"<p>@AlanGMarz I noticed that. VSCO does that, too, and I really like it. Feels much more like an adult community than a high school hierarchy that way.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/csilverman/10821736","date_published":"2021-01-06T20:35:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-06 20:35","date_timestamp":1609965350,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"10821732","content_html":"<p>@sku<span>_</span>b Interesting. I didn’t know about Social Fixer. Thank you.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/csilverman/10821732","date_published":"2021-01-06T20:34:41+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-06 20:34","date_timestamp":1609965281,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"10821728","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/Cheri\">@Cheri</a> Yeah, I didn’t believe this could happen.</p>\n<p>It’s incredible. Gives me faith in a way I haven’t felt for a while.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/csilverman/10821728","date_published":"2021-01-06T20:34:24+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-06 20:34","date_timestamp":1609965264,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"10821725","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/crossingthethreshold\">@crossingthethreshold</a> Heh. My initial exclamation could mean entirely different things depending on the time of day you read it.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/csilverman/10821725","date_published":"2021-01-06T20:33:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-06 20:33","date_timestamp":1609965230,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"10821718","content_html":"<p>The dog next door is going nuts, barking and howling the way he usually does when he wants to go for a walk. It usually bugs me.</p>\n\n<p>Today, it sounds like a beacon of normality. It’s almost relaxing.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://csilverman.micro.blog/2021/01/06/the-dog-next.html","date_published":"2021-01-06T20:32:56+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-06 20:32","date_timestamp":1609965176,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"10818534","content_html":"<p>@sku<span>_</span>b Curious, how are you able to filter out political content? I mute/unfollow when possible, but my problem is political tweets from people I don’t want to mute because their tech/design tweets are useful.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/csilverman/10818534","date_published":"2021-01-06T04:27:32+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-06 04:27","date_timestamp":1609907252,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"10818532","content_html":"<p>Oh my god, is this actually happening?</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://csilverman.micro.blog/2021/01/05/oh-my-god.html","date_published":"2021-01-06T04:25:06+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-06 04:25","date_timestamp":1609907106,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"10816340","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/lukeforis\">@lukeforis</a> That’s an interesting point—that a lot of these plague scenarios don’t feature any protective trappings, like masks.</p>\n<p>(Although it makes more sense to me than ever before why the people who’d get zombified would be the ones who <em>didn’t</em> wear masks.)</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/csilverman/10816340","date_published":"2021-01-05T18:56:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-05 18:56","date_timestamp":1609872965,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"10816332","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/Burk\">@Burk</a> I will be very curious to see where ex-Trumpers wind up after this. I said a while ago that I suspect former Trump officials will not be cited as experts by the media nearly as often as those from Obama/Bush admins.</p>\n<p>Partly because they’re toxic, but partly because they probably weren’t that smart to begin with.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/csilverman/10816332","date_published":"2021-01-05T18:53:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-05 18:53","date_timestamp":1609872814,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"10816057","content_html":"<p>Me in my natural habitat. Funny, I remember looking forwards to winter when this photo was taken, and now that we’re here, I would love to have a nice balmy afternoon where I can stay out exploring sinister abandoned structures until well after 5pm.</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fcsilverman.micro.blog%2Fuploads%2F2021%2F1955be2728.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://csilverman.micro.blog/2021/01/05/me-in-my.html","date_published":"2021-01-05T17:33:49+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-05 17:33","date_timestamp":1609868029,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"10815948","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/csilverman\">@csilverman</a> and @sku<span>_</span>b, I know exactly what you mean about that “extreme jittery feeling” you mentioned. I associate Twitter/FB with uneasy anticipation and lack of control—I never know what ugliness is going to be thrust in my face.</p>\n<p>micro seems to be remarkably free of that.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/csilverman/10815948","date_published":"2021-01-05T17:05:47+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-05 17:05","date_timestamp":1609866347,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"10815935","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/jean\">@jean</a> @sku<span>_</span>b I think one of the smartest things micro.blog did was leave out the ability to retweet. All the content here is stuff people actually wrote, and that changes the whole tone of the place.</p>\n<p>So many folks on Twitter don’t actually express anything—they just amplify.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/csilverman/10815935","date_published":"2021-01-05T17:03:24+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-05 17:03","date_timestamp":1609866204,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"10815723","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/khurtwilliams\">@khurtwilliams</a> Thanks :)</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/csilverman/10815723","date_published":"2021-01-05T15:51:13+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-05 15:51","date_timestamp":1609861873,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"10812585","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/dcpace\">@dcpace</a> That’s so cool!</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/csilverman/10812585","date_published":"2021-01-04T23:05:48+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-04 23:05","date_timestamp":1609801548,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"10812554","content_html":"<p>Blizzard night.</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fcsilverman.micro.blog%2Fuploads%2F2021%2F8a0b8b7c5e.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://csilverman.micro.blog/2021/01/04/blizzard-night.html","date_published":"2021-01-04T22:50:56+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-04 22:50","date_timestamp":1609800656,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"10812545","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/jean\">@jean</a> Thanks, Jean. Manton explained it—I realize what’s going on now.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/csilverman/10812545","date_published":"2021-01-04T22:49:53+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-04 22:49","date_timestamp":1609800593,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"10812537","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/help\">@help</a> I see. Thank you. I’d actually wanted to enable it so I could build a custom theme; I assumed “blank” contained markup without styling, so I could work on the styling in the inspector.</p>\n<p>Might help to clarify in the admin area that this theme can’t actually be activated, since right now it looks like any other theme.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/csilverman/10812537","date_published":"2021-01-04T22:47:56+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-04 22:47","date_timestamp":1609800476,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"10812512","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/khurtwilliams\">@khurtwilliams</a> Ah. Good to know, thank you. Occurred to me that these sites have to be regenerated following changes, so it probably isn’t instantaneous.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/csilverman/10812512","date_published":"2021-01-04T22:42:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-04 22:42","date_timestamp":1609800154,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"10812269","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/jean\">@jean</a> Thanks, Jean! I’ll take a look at it. I was actually about to contact you—I sent a message to <a href=\"https://micro.blog/help\">@help</a> earlier, but that post seems to have vanished.</p>\n<p>I’m having a lot of trouble switching themes. Sometimes it works, and mostly it doesn’t; if I select a different theme and save settings, nothing happens, but in a few cases, the new theme was activated a few minutes later. I’m trying to switch to the Blank theme, but so far I haven’t been able to do that. Is this a bug or something?</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/csilverman/10812269","date_published":"2021-01-04T21:04:48+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-04 21:04","date_timestamp":1609794288,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"10811030","content_html":"<p>I wonder if they’ll remove the spray-painted six-foot spacer markings when this is over. I hope not.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://csilverman.micro.blog/2021/01/04/i-wonder-if.html","date_published":"2021-01-04T14:46:31+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-04 14:46","date_timestamp":1609771591,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"10807767","content_html":"<p>Three days into 2021 and the internet is abuzz with a newly minted villain named “Bean Dad”.</p>\n\n<p>I’ll try not to take this as an omen.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://csilverman.micro.blog/2021/01/03/three-days-into.html","date_published":"2021-01-03T21:51:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-03 21:51","date_timestamp":1609710685,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"10807342","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/Cheri\">@Cheri</a> Same. For me, Facebook’s awful-to-useful ratio was dismal enough that it was pretty easy to step away from; I’d been drifting away from it for a while anyway. Twitter is harder because I actually learn useful stuff from it—enough that I can’t just quit it.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/csilverman/10807342","date_published":"2021-01-03T19:00:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-03 19:00","date_timestamp":1609700400,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"10807317","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/help\">@help</a> I’m having some trouble switching themes. When I select a different theme in “design” and save settings, nothing changes on the site; but then, after I do a bit more clicking around and refreshing, it switches to the new theme sooner or later.</p>\n<p>I can’t really tell if anything I’m doing refreshes it, and the delay time varies. I’d like to switch to “Blank”, but so far I can’t. Is there a bug that’s causing this?</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/csilverman/10807317","date_published":"2021-01-03T18:50:17+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-03 18:50","date_timestamp":1609699817,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"10806162","content_html":"<p>I think my sleep schedule is pretty much broken at this point.</p>\n\n<p>It’s not looking like it’s going to be a particularly functional day, but maybe a hard reset is what’s called for.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://csilverman.micro.blog/2021/01/03/i-think-my.html","date_published":"2021-01-03T12:22:18+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-03 12:22","date_timestamp":1609676538,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"10805822","content_html":"I’ll be curious to see how I wind up using this. I was one of the original backers—I loved the idea, and then I never did much with it.\n\nSomething about micro.blog just seems cleaner. I notice people actually talk about things they care about on here. One of my frustrations with Twitter... <a href=\"https://csilverman.micro.blog/2021/01/03/ill-be-curious.html\">csilverman.micro.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://csilverman.micro.blog/2021/01/03/ill-be-curious.html","date_published":"2021-01-03T10:39:04+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-03 10:39","date_timestamp":1609670344,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"10805811","content_html":"<p>Finally deleted the Twitter app from my phone and felt about a hundred pounds lighter. It’s weird, and increasingly noticeable, how even seeing the icon has a physical effect on me: a sense of pressure, frustration, and fatigue.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://csilverman.micro.blog/2021/01/03/finally-deleted-the.html","date_published":"2021-01-03T10:33:12+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-03 10:33","date_timestamp":1609669992,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"10804339","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/danielpunkass\">@danielpunkass</a> Or the use of plural to refer to a company: “Apple have decided that…” etc.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/csilverman/10804339","date_published":"2021-01-03T01:56:44+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-03 01:56","date_timestamp":1609639004,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"116161","content_html":"<p>Another test.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"http://csilverman.micro.blog/2017/07/17/another-test.html","date_published":"2017-07-17T23:44:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2017-07-17 23:44","date_timestamp":1500335040,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"16280","content_html":"<p>Real artists ship.</p>","summary":"","url":"http://csilverman.micro.blog/2017/04/27/real-artists-ship.html","date_published":"2017-04-27T01:09:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Chris Silverman","url":"http://csilverman.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fcsilverman%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"csilverman"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2017-04-27 01:09","date_timestamp":1493255340,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}}]}