Manton Reece

Elon Musk today again teased a hyperloop tunnel between Austin and San Antonio.

Servers getting hammered today by hackers.

Dave Winer: We’re starting to find the networky-ness of the web coming back to life.

Another shot of Austin, a little later in the morning from the Lamar pedestrian bridge.

Morning in Austin.

Went to see Come From Away tonight at Zach.

A long, well-researched blog post from Andrew Sharp that attempts to pour some cold water on the accelerating “AI is going to kill us all” narrative: The vague and unfalsifiable fears expressed by AI leaders are predicated on leaps in the technology that…

This is a streamlined version of Justin Jackson’s original page about HLS video and podcasts.

I don’t think my little $14/month server for OpenClaw is cutting it anymore.

Had my first “uh oh” moment using OpenClaw.

Re-reading Anil Dash’s endgame for the open web blog post and giving it some more thought.

Would’ve been my mom’s birthday today.

Over the last week or so, I’ve gotten way too worked up over things I can’t control.

One of my concerns with tabs going on the right is discoverability.

Doing some initial testing with the Duo simulator.

Jared Sorge’s app Baseplate has the best name and icon.

Remember in old emails and usenet posts how people would put quotes in their signatures?

It’s silly how excited I am to see the 40th anniversary release of Transformers: The Movie tonight.

There’s a great list of all flagship iPhone releases at the beginning of John Gruber’s new iPhone 18 Pro review.

Welcome news for the environment, via Ryan Barrett: For the first time, the growth in China’s clean power generation has caused the nation’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to fall despite rapid power demand growth.

Listening to the Decoder interview with Mustafa Suleyman.

This Apple developer page has a screenshot of what the new App Tracking Transparency screens can look like in the EU.

Switching gears to do some server maintenance.

For the first time, I’ve actually run out of tokens on my OpenAI plan, with a couple days in the week remaining.

Very cool to see Anil Dash announced as the keynote speaker at next month’s FediForum.

I got some pushback when I compared Muse to ChatGPT Work, where I was mostly thinking about having access to a server in the cloud to run agents from your phone.

Xserve ready to make a comeback?

I recorded a 3-minute screencast video on YouTube that walks through what it looks like for a brand new Micro.blog user to start using AT Protocol right away with our PDS, without having to create a separate account in Bluesky first.

Excited for the new show from Casey Newton and Kevin Roose, Machine Gods.

Editing the auto-generated transcript on a YouTube video.

Great blog post from John Gruber on the Apple announcements.

Microsoft’s Humanist AI document is long, I’m still reading it, but so far I like it.

We’re rolling out a series of improvements for podcasts in Micro.blog.

Muse is in the 2nd spot in the App Store now, behind the perpetually 1st place ChatGPT.

I’ve been quietly improving the saved links feature in Micro.blog, available to Premium subscribers.

Not totally sure when to update to macOS 27.

Today’s Dithering podcast is fun.

Another interesting acquisition by OpenAI of former Apple folks: Glass Imaging was founded by Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop, a pair of former Apple engineers who previously led the team that developed Apple’s Portrait Mode.

Excited that it’s The Fires of December release day for backers.

Started reading Alchemised by SenLinYu and was surprised that it felt pretty dark, because for some reason I thought it was YA.

For the last week in Codex, I’ve been using a single pinned thread for each app instead of deciding when to start new threads.

Federico Viticci’s iOS 27 review is out, with a very good chapter on Siri AI.

This quote from Craig Federighi fits the discussion Daniel Jalkut and I had on last week’s Core Int about the Duo replacing the need for both iPhone and iPad.

Just discovered this IndieWeb starter pack on Bluesky and followed a few more people from it.

I’m not sure I agree with all the implications in the closing of today’s Stratechery update, but like all good essays it is forcing me to really think about my own view: … it’s worth noting that the very idea of a national or — worse!

Congrats to Lex Friedman on the release of a new version of Strategery, taking over development after the game was going to stop working.

John Gruber blogged about XCancel shutting down yet again, adding this in a parenthetical: …let’s admit it at this point, there’s not just a lot posted on X, it’s resurgent in popularity It’s true.

Finished reading: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Congrats to the USA women’s team at FIBA!

Added a new page in Micro.blog on the web today to highlight The New York Times best sellers.