Manton Reece

Here’s a quick video demo of the new version of Micro.blog for Mac that we released a couple days ago.

OpenAI will add text watermarking too, but only in the EU, compared to Anthropic’s global rollout: Over the coming weeks, we will introduce text watermarking to eligible ChatGPT and Codex users across all plans in the EU only.

Micro.blog has always been philosophically opposed to like counts and retweets.

Codex has an interesting Markdown editor.

FediForum starts tomorrow and runs for two days.

Google app reviews are so fast now, and Apple so consistently a full day, that my new routine is I submit to Apple at night before going to bed.

Today we finally put up my animation drawings of Scrooge from Mickey’s Christmas Carol!

OpenAI still has UI cleanup to do, but one thing they got right is not having a model picker for Dots.

Interesting tidbit of news in Mark Gurman’s Sunday post, about upcoming MacBook Pros: The new MacBook Pros are lighter — significantly lighter.

Added the bookshelves calendar preview to the new Mac app.

Watched: Digger.

Experimenting with a new transcription feature in the notes API.

Sometimes YouTube will show me Lara de Wit’s performance of The Land Before Time and it’ll take me to a completely different world for a few minutes.

John Gruber blogging about the weird iPhone 18 Pro Max + AT&T bug: I’d love to understand how a software update can prevent existing devices from being affected, but a software update cannot restore service to existing devices that have already been affec…

OutPost for Mac — a full-featured Micropub editor that works with Micro.blog and other blog platforms — is out of beta.

Great thing about working with other people like Vincent is sometimes they go behind your back and do crazy things you wouldn’t have done like port Wavelength to the Mac. 🤪 I still need to figure out how best we can officially support and maintain this.

Sam Altman on X: I am very uncomfortable about people trying to ascribe religious force or a surrender of human judgment to AI models, and think it is a real safety issue.

Another gloomy, rainy day in Austin.

Finished reading: The Fires of December by Brandon Sanderson.

Good point from John Voorhees about potential Full Disk Access restrictions: On the one hand, it seems to suggest that users will simply have to jump through additional explicit hoops to grant Full Disk Access to their agents and other apps.

Apple says they’re planning to lock down Full Disk Access even further: Going forward, we will introduce additional controls to ensure that users who genuinely wish to grant an app this extraordinary level of access can only do so with very explicit user…

Amazon has a long blog post about data centers that no one is going to read in full.

There’s a lot of chatter about moving away from cross-platform frameworks, back to separate native code for each platform.

Now that it’s October (!)

A great but unnerving article by Elizabeth Dias at The New York Times about Anthropic’s Christopher Olah meeting with religious leaders: Mr.

Excited for Aces vs.

I recorded a short video of the next version of Epilogue, featuring a new book calendar you can put on your blog.

IMAP and CalDAV have been standards forever, yet most apps are hardcoded to work with Gmail and Google Calendar.

Jimmy Kimmel highlighted the ridiculous “Unites States” spelling mistake on the White House AI signature page.

As I remarked during DevDay, live demos fail sometimes.

David Smith is bringing back his Developing Perspective podcast: I don’t have fixed plans yet for the format or frequency, but I feel like I have something to say, and I want a venue to explore what it is now like to be an indie app developer.

The new Kindle looks very nice.

Kev Quirk thinking about moving to a solo fediverse instance since he’s not actively checking Mastodon: The majority of my timeline is fun, but the outraged minority have ruined for me.

Listening to the Vergecast podcast’s wrap-up of DevDay… I think it’s a big deal that Dots is powered by Astra.

Sarah Perez has an update at TechCrunch on the story of whether Muse can read Messages.app’s database: Meta is refuting a journalist’s claim that its AI agent Muse read the user’s private messages without permission.

Reddit announced they are winding down RSS feeds: Because RSS is now a common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse, we’ll stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13, 2026 while preserving moderation workflows that depend on it through suppor…

Incredible: A pilot on a Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight has been arrested after he stabbed the other pilot and appears to have tried to crash the plane, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.

I signed up for next week’s FediForum.

There’s lots of new stuff in Wavelength 2.1.

OpenAI’s Dots product is pretty interesting.

Casey Newton writing about Dots for Platformer: As someone who plans to use Dots for work, though, paying for the product builds my trust in it.

Catching up on the White House meeting and related video with AI company leaders.

We had quite the Micro.blog server meltdown tonight.

OpenAI really did pack a lot into DevDay.

Watching the DevDay livestream.

John Voorhees is live-tweeting DevDay over on X.

Mark Gurman has a blog post about John Ternus attempting to streamline Apple: The early ideas under consideration include relying less on traditional spring and fall product release schedules… […] Ternus wants the company to introduce products more freque…

Dave Winer reflects on the passing of Om Malik too young, and the work left to do for the open web.

Reuters on Anthropic’s IPO filing: Anthropic plans to caution potential investors in its IPO that advanced AI could pose “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity,” an extraordinary warning by a company seeking to profit from the same ‌technology.

My OpenClaw server mostly just sits there idle, but one thing I love is it automatically updates Micro.blog’s latest app versions help page.