Manton Reece

Since enabling Threads cross-posting for my own blog yesterday, I’ve already found and fixed two bugs in Micro.blog’s Threads support.

I don’t think I’ve shown off the author books sheet in our book blogging app Epilogue.

I understand Apple wanting to get through the iOS 27 final releases before giving us a new Xcode to play with Duo sizing, but it’s still a bit of a letdown.

Wow, this Longhorns game getting interesting late

Spent a little time poking around on Tumblr because I needed to grab an export file to test.

As I mentioned on the latest episode of Core Intuition, I’ve been running the iOS 27 betas, but I very rarely use Siri AI.

When it comes to OpenAI vs.

Micro.blog was founded on the idea that more people should have their own domain name, and yet the UI to actually do that has been clunky for years.

Congrats to John Brayton on releasing a big update for his feed reader Unread.

The communities that I feel the most connecting to on Mastodon have been going through a rocky few weeks.

Words matter.

Pushed a new Mac release for Inkwell.

A reminder that we offer completely free blog hosting on Micro.blog for nurses and teachers.

Realizing that the vertical toolbars / tab bars in the iPhone Duo will mean more buttons going icon-only, losing their labels.

John Gruber, in a blog post about Apple Pencil confusion with the Duo: The easiest way to think about it isn’t to compare which devices support which features (like pressure sensitivity, or double-tapping) — it’s just to think about which devices can even…

Wired reported that OpenAI asked members of Congress if a coordinated AI slowdown would be legal: Substantive coordination on safety between AI labs may risk running afoul of antitrust law, the people say, which poses a significant obstacle to bringing ma…

The first new episode of Core Intuition this year is out, episode 27.1.

Incredible that it has been 25 years since 9/11.

Daniel Jalkut and I have figured out how to record audio again.

Great to have Jimmy Kimmel back on the air after summer break.

Watched: The Librarians.

Took a walk the long way around the block from the coffee shop.

At the grocery store this week, I walked by someone who was having trouble figuring out the label of a specific item.

Quick video demo of the new photos picker in Micro.blog for Mac.

Ben Thompson in today’s daily update about AI on the Apple Watch: It does appear that Apple has taken care with this feature, including not making raw transcripts available, even to the Apple Watch owner, but this is an area where I wish the company wasn’t

Good perspective from Dave Winer about the news that Matt Mullenweg is on leave from Automattic: I didn’t want to be the CEO of a tech company, and I expect that being the CEO wasn’t really a good fit for Matt either.

Listening to Hillary Clinton on the news this morning.

Jason Snell blogged about all the Apple news today, including the slightly controversial Apple Watch recording feature: Our culture may ultimately reject even the most privacy-focused AI recording features, whether they come in camera glasses or attentive…

I sort of tuned out during the Apple Watch part of the presentation today.

Not sure who created these, but I’m starting to notice a couple bridges from specific X accounts to AT Proto, so you can follow people on Bluesky (or in Micro.blog) without visiting X.

It looks like Apple has knocked it out of the park with the Duo.

“But actually, there is one more thing…” 🤯 Surprising to include this.

Watching the Apple event.

During breakfast I usually turn on CNN just to make sure the world hasn’t burned down yet.

New day.

Jason Snell blogged a reaction to the latest rumors that the foldable will be called the iPhone Duo!

I know I’m really late to this show, but because of the new spinoff we’ve been watching The Big Bang Theory for the first time.

Got this spam text today, just in case there was any question that data centers are going to be a big issue in November: Manton, if you live at [my address], Republicans have supported a Data Center within 15 miles of you.

Feels like the AI world is balancing on a knife’s edge.

OpenAI announced a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, which I had never heard of because I’m not a mathematician, but which is apparently a very big deal: The question of whether smooth three-dimensional fluid motion can break down has remained unreso…

Did a little Redis housekeeping, cleaning out orphaned records that were sitting around wasting memory.

I had a nap yesterday and a late Dr.

Might be about time to get a Switch 2… Ocarina of Time remake looks good

Ben Thompson in today’s Stratechery blog post: AGI is AI that learns continuously.