Manton Reece

Yet more views from the train, earlier today going across a bay on the Hudson River

Stopped for a while in Albany

Mohawk River in Schenectady

A few more details in this Fortune story about the short-lived coup against Matt Mullenweg, but still no real explanation for why it happened: A remarkable level of secrecy surrounded the drama.

Matthias Pfefferle blogs about a clever way to render OPML in browsers using JavaScript, via @jlelse.

Working on more layout fixes for the iPhone Duo.

Last morning on the train, along Lake Erie

Chicago Union Station

In other Anthropic news today, I’ve been thinking about this bill that Anthropic proposed where it’s not a show-stopper if only 50 people might be killed or seriously injured: The bill would let the government block a model’s release or use only if it pos…

Anthropic announces a new public benefit fund, beyond what the existing b-corp can do: The Anthropic Public Benefit Fund will have increased flexibility and scale, enabling us to pursue our mission in new ways: for example, we might explore large donations

There’s a fun site that keeps track of Codex resets.

Crossing into Wisconsin

Mark Gurman is pretty down on the iPhone Duo launch: Apple has dealt with launch shortages before, but a three-month wait for a new iPhone is practically unprecedented.

Along the Mississippi River as we head out of Minneapolis

I’m feeling so lucky that I get to build software for people like @patrickrhone.

Looking over stats for the Mac app. 90% of users on macOS 26 or 27. 98% on Apple Silicon.

I took this shot of the stars from Puget Sound a few days ago, then didn’t even look at the result on my phone because I just assumed it would be blurry.

In John Gruber’s initial thoughts on the HomeView, he wonders about the odd $300 pricing for both the regular HomeView and the wall-mounted version: So the wall-mounted version, when you include a mount, costs more but sounds worse?

No wi-fi and intermittent cell coverage for this trip, as expected.

Morning in Montana

On the Empire Builder.

Seattle light rail.

John Gruber blogging about the Duo pre-orders: …pre-orders always start before reviews appear.

At the hotel lobby, a bunch of LEGOs to play with.

Happy iPhone Duo pre-order day.

The first Spurs preseason game is tonight!

Recorded a short video to explain a new batch selection interface for uploaded photos, just rolled out today in Micro.blog.

Poking around in WordPress because I wanted to see how they handle something in the UI, and I just noticed the “Create AI Podcast” sidebar menu item: Pick a date range or a few specific posts and we’ll generate a two-host conversation, complete with narra…

Love this Apple video of embroidery for the logo to announce the October 13th event

Thought maybe I wouldn’t bother downloading the latest Xcode 27.1 from a coffee shop, but I’m glad I tried.

If programming languages don’t matter much anymore, but reviewing code matters more than ever, can we resurrect RubyCocoa?

Andrew Shell actually built a Markdown browser: I quickly realized that much of this was already present with sites like mine that serve markdown for LLMs.

Nick Heer has a blog post about Meta charging if you want to link outside their silos: Instagram has never supported links of any kind in individual posts, so that is a new feature with two links per month permitted for free, and more enabled by this pric…

Margaret Hamilton: Coming up with solutions and new ideas was an adventure.

Reading Dave Winer’s notes on a hypothetical Markdown web browser.

There’s a bit of accidental gamification going on with my releases.md gist.

I like to hide tabs in GitHub projects that I don’t need.

Maybe I should’ve clarified in my post today that I stopped posting to Twitter ages ago, won’t be posting there again no matter what happens.

Casey Newton plans to return to X in the coming days.

Surely the problems with Christa Pike’s failed execution rise to the level of cruel and unusual punishment set in the constitution.

If you squint, there are parallels this week between PhotoCraft, an AI re-implementation of Photoshop, and OpenAI dropping a GitHub repo with hundreds of solutions to open math problems.

Fascinating online magazine from Microsoft.

Great start to FediForum.

Toni Schneider revealed that Bluesky is trying to make a .bsky top-level domain.

I know I’m late to the party, but I’m getting into listening to Golden from KPop Demon Hunters.

Rewrote the CSS editor in Micro.blog.

I feel like I’m drowning in managing multiple app releases, so I’m trying something new: letting AI (my OpenAI dot for now) update a single releases.md document that has high-level notes about what has shipped recently and what’s being worked on.

JA Westenberg: If you spend 45 minutes a day angry at strangers online, you’ll give them about 270 hours this year.

Perhaps as the value of individual apps decreases, with many more apps being released, the value of complex systems will go up.

App development is clearly accelerating.