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2026-05-05 05:06:34 CEST

Looks like this might be a tough series. Spurs and Timberwolves tied with only 45 each at the half. Anthony Edwards is fine. Wemby already has 7 blocks! 🏀

2026-04-28 19:41:26 CEST

We just released the 2.2 update to Epilogue for iOS. Android to follow later. I’m happy with this update. One nice improvement to book search: if you search in e.g. “Want to read”, it will find book matches in the current bookshelf and show them at the top.

2026-04-25 07:30:52 CEST

Big sigh a relief from Spurs fans tonight. Whew. This team is well coached. Love seeing Dylan Harper show up just when he’s needed. Steph Castle great too. 🏀

2026-04-25 06:46:42 CEST

If the announcers say that Wemby is out one more time I’m going to lose my mind. Yes, we know! 🏀

2026-04-25 04:52:27 CEST

Tonight UT is remembering staff and faculty who have passed away by darkening the tower except for two rings of lights near the top. We sat for a while and listened to the bells. https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/10/2026/09aa391266.jpg

2026-04-24 22:46:20 CEST

LLM prices https://www.manton.org/2026/04/24/llm-prices.html

2026-04-24 21:37:47 CEST

Marked-up Mac minis on Ebay, going for almost $1k… Nutty. Better to just get a MacBook Neo. https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/24/mac-mini-price-expensive-ebay-shortage-ai-memory/

2026-04-24 16:49:20 CEST

Super short 8-second video of the new reply window in Inkwell 1.2 for Mac. https://www.manton.org/2026/04/24/super-short-second-video-of.html

2026-04-23 23:42:19 CEST

GPT-5.5 https://www.manton.org/2026/04/23/gpt.html

2026-04-23 17:49:00 CEST

Still annoyed that Twitter / X remains so popular with some groups, like AI developers and NBA fans. New teasing post “NS41” from the OpenAI devs account this morning is “5.5” base64-encoded. Presumably GPT-5.5 is almost ready. https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2047328878268760547

2026-04-23 17:49:00 CEST

This looks good. A new book from the Internet Archive called Vanishing Culture:
"…brings together essays, research, and case studies that document a growing crisis: the erosion of access to the knowledge, media, and history that shape our collective memory." https://blog.archive.org/2026/04/23/introducing-vanishing-culture-a-new-book-on-the-loss-of-our-digital-memory/

2026-04-23 16:38:40 CEST

Cool to see Inkwell featured in the Own Your Web newsletter, along with posts from great bloggers like Ana Rodrigues, Dave Rupert, Jeffrey Zeldman, and others. https://newsletter.ownyourweb.site/archive/own-your-web-issue-18-curators/

2026-04-23 16:07:20 CEST

Just had a surprisingly good rescheduling experience with a healthcare provider. Text to confirm appointment. Reply with 2 to reschedule. Then it texted with available dates and times, press 1-3 to pick one. Done. No phone calls, no hold music.

2026-04-23 04:44:50 CEST

Went to see Project Hail Mary again, this time without Spanish subtitles. So good. 🍿 https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/687163 https://www.manton.org/2026/04/01/project-hail-mary-came-out.html

2026-04-22 20:15:14 CEST

Please no drinks on ledge. At Palomino Coffee. ☕️ https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/10/2026/50dc1e900e.jpg

2026-04-22 19:41:10 CEST

AI branding https://www.manton.org/2026/04/22/ai-branding.html

2026-04-22 17:33:43 CEST

Joanna Stern launching her new website and YouTube channel:
"Every word you read here—every review, every story, every bad joke—is written by me or by a human on my team. […] Don’t get me wrong, we’re using AI all day over here. In fact, we hope to introduce you to our intern agent soon. But the thinking, the reporting, the voice, the calls about what’s true and what’s worth your time—that’s all human." https://thenewthings.com/p/meet-my-new-thing

2026-04-22 17:06:28 CEST

Making a lot of careless mistakes this morning. I blame the Spurs loss last night, still lingering. I edited an old post, then accidentally deleted it… Happy to remember that Micro.blog now has a trash can and restore feature.

2026-04-22 16:01:54 CEST

This is a first for us. Inkwell for Android is available now, before the iOS version. Apple has rejected the iOS version for various reasons, including not paying the in-app purchase tax. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=blog.micro.inkwell

2026-04-22 04:14:32 CEST

4th quarter. Close one for game 2 in San Antonio. Wemby out. Let’s go! 🏀 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/10/2026/356e774759.jpg

2026-04-21 23:03:52 CEST

ChatGPT Images 2.0 seems to be a big step forward. Neat gimmick in the announcement blog post to use text layout on images for the post text. (Bad for accessibility, but great as a demo.) https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-images-2-0/

2026-04-21 22:44:54 CEST

Cool to see Patrick Rhone on the latest Mac Power Users, talking about Apple tech and especially how we can be more intentional with our phones. On notifications, it’s so easy to be distracted by everything on the internet. Gotta deliberately turn off most of the ways our phones can interrupt us. https://www.relay.fm/mpu/845

2026-04-21 18:54:26 CEST

Shoutout to Matt Birchler’s App Store Images web app. I don’t have the patience to sort out Apple’s rules on screenshots. Now I just throw any size in this little app and use whatever it spits out. https://www.quickstuff.app/apps/appstore-image-generator/

2026-04-21 18:17:41 CEST

“Waiting for Review”… <reload>… “Waiting for Review”… <reload>… Sigh.

2026-04-21 17:25:47 CEST

The next FediForum online conference is next week. I’ve missed the last couple of events because of travel, even though I registered for them! Hope I can attend this one. https://fediforum.org/2026-04/

2026-04-21 16:10:56 CEST

Trying to get my AI spending under control, I’m having the server randomly switch to the “flex” pricing tier in GPT-5 when there’s background work that doesn’t need to be instantly fast. So far so good.

2026-04-21 15:48:21 CEST

It’s actually happening:
"The InfoWars of tomorrow will converge into a swirling vortex of content about content, talent acquiring talent, rings of concentric media mergers processing all human artistry into one endlessly digestible slurry. This will be a dank, sunless place, one where panic and capital feed on each other like twins in the womb of a hulking, unknowable monster—a monster known by many names, but which I like to call modern-day America." https://theonion.com/at-long-last-infowars-is-ours/

2026-04-20 23:25:02 CEST

Rain falling at the pond at The Village, behind Epoch. Looks like it’s going to be raining most of the week. 🌧️ https://www.manton.org/2026/04/20/rain-falling-at-the-pond.html

2026-04-20 23:10:34 CEST

Tim Cook in a letter on Apple’s website about stepping down as CEO and welcoming John Ternus:
"A new person will be stepping into what I know in my heart is the best job in the world. That leader is John Ternus, a brilliant engineer and thinker who has spent the past 25 years building the Apple products our users love so much, obsessed with every detail, focused on every possible way we can make something better, bolder, more beautiful, and more meaningful."
Heck of a run leading one of the greatest tech companies of all time. Our discussion of Tim’s legacy on Core Int probably still holds. https://www.apple.com/community-letter-from-tim/ https://coreint.org/2025/12/episode-26-2-a-little-bit-of-light/

2026-04-20 21:19:13 CEST

Victor Wembanyama when asked whether he feels the weight of legends like Tim Duncan, David Robinson, and Gregg Popovich in the building:
"I wouldn’t say weight, no. I would say it feels safe. It feels like… If you trip, you know there’s a lot of hands that are ready to catch you. From day one it’s felt that way." https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXVxLxfgMNn/

2026-04-20 19:40:30 CEST

YOLO-ing with Codex computer use. I shouldn’t trust these tools as much as I do, but it still feels like magic, and I want to see the show. https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/10/2026/paste-580f874c.png

2026-04-20 19:07:29 CEST

Cracked a crown on my tooth last week. Replaced today. The numbing from the dentist usually takes all day to wear off for me. Currently sipping my coffee, pretending I can drink properly. 🦷

2026-04-20 16:29:24 CEST

Interesting note from Simon Willison that Claude’s new tokenizer translates to higher costs:
"Opus 4.7 uses the same pricing is Opus 4.6 - $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens - but this token inflation means we can expect it to be around 40% more expensive"
Anthropic pricing is already much more expensive than OpenAI. With how good the new Codex app for Mac is, I think we’ll see more developers move to Codex. But people are also comfortable with their workflows, so there’s not going to be a quick shift, and models and features change nearly every month. https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/20/claude-token-counts/#atom-everything

2026-04-20 15:53:45 CEST

Dave Winer reflecting on UserLand’s name and now working with AI:
"I called my second company UserLand. The idea was that we’d develop software for users, always be thinking of them, and listening and give them more and more power to shape the way their computers worked. It was what I felt was missing from software in the 80s, a focus on the users creating their own future." http://scripting.com/2026/04/20/120705.html?title=whyUserlandWasTheRightName https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=UserLand

2026-04-20 00:27:21 CEST

Humanoid robot runs a half marathon fast. I’m actually impressed because it just feels like it would fall over at least a few times. But it’s not relevant to human runners… A car can finish a marathon more quickly than a human too! 🤪 https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/19/china/china-robot-half-marathon-intl-hnk

2026-04-19 23:06:04 CEST

Nice story on the Spurs in The New Yorker:
"Last season, the team had traded for De’Aaron Fox, an All-Star guard in his prime, which appeared odd to some—wasn’t he too old to be on Wembanyama’s timeline? Now it seemed like a stroke of genius."
Game 1 tonight vs. the Blazers. Excited. Nervous too. 🏀 https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/the-spurs-are-the-most-exciting-team-in-the-nba

2026-04-19 18:54:04 CEST

Terry Godier blogs about the growing disconnect between the traditional paid-up-front App Store and all the new features that free with in-app purchase apps get:
"Apple offers you no mechanism for what is arguably the most natural transaction in software: paying for major upgrades. The only option is to create a new app listing or to use an IAP. There’s a strong disadvantage to creating a new app listing, namely losing your accumulated reviews and visibility."
It’s a theme that reminds me of Marco Arment’s blog post from 2009, although that post was focused on cheap quick-hit apps. https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/04/19/a-tale-of-two-app.html https://marco.org/2009/10/09/the-two-app-stores

2026-04-19 17:44:17 CEST

I walked so much in Europe. Trying to stick with walking more places now that I’m back home. Cars are embedded into every part of life in Texas.
Related, watched a video this morning about high-speed rail progress in California. As a country we should be embarrassed about this. Come on already. 🚂

2026-04-19 16:38:45 CEST

Talisman Coffee. https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/10/2026/f7d016d809.jpg

2026-04-18 23:15:36 CEST

This new TED Talk from Peter Steinberger is a great introduction to why OpenClaw exists and what impact it might have. He’s having a lot of fun and I think that excitement rubs off on everyone in the community. 🦞 https://youtu.be/7rzYDM6vMtI?si=SMgLHQWXDGAcb_Pn

2026-04-18 18:07:03 CEST

Playdate and AI https://www.manton.org/2026/04/18/playdate-and-ai.html

2026-04-18 17:05:19 CEST

First beta of Inkwell for Android was rejected by Google, re-submitted. But good news they’ve approved a round of bug fixes in the Micro.blog app for Android.

2026-04-18 01:54:25 CEST

Ben Thompson on the latest Dithering:
"I do feel one of the challenges I have with people talking about how AI is making them so much more productive, is because these were some of the most unproductive people in the world previously."
🤣

2026-04-18 01:41:56 CEST

Codex and Sky polish https://www.manton.org/2026/04/17/codex-and-sky-polish.html

2026-04-17 21:43:05 CEST

John Gruber commenting on a blog post from Terry Godier:
"Imagine being in a restaurant, and in the middle of your entree, the server comes to your table and hands you an iPad and asks you to rate the joint on Yelp. That’s what using most apps is like."
We are pretty close to that restaurant reality already! Rating prompts are out of control. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/16/app-store-reviews-are-busted https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/04/13/app-store-reviews-are-busted.html https://www.manton.org/2024/02/28/no-i-dont.html

2026-04-17 21:34:19 CEST

I’m bringing a new server online today to improve background queue performance. If you see Lilly in the logs, that’s it. Follows our train naming theme. https://www.disney-history.com/disneyland-secrets/blog-post-title-four-92dxf

2026-04-17 19:58:08 CEST

The new Codex for Mac update is really good. There are a bunch of new features, but computer use is particularly well done. Some great Mac-specific touches. Ari Weinstein worked on it — from the original Workflow team, and Shortcuts at Apple. https://developers.openai.com/codex/app/computer-use

2026-04-17 04:38:18 CEST

Jeffrey Zeldman blogs about taking time to edit now that text is free and abundant:
"Brevity was always a discipline. Now it’s a statement. When everything around you is excessive by default, choosing fewer words takes courage. It says: I thought about this." https://zeldman.com/2026/04/15/the-courage-to-stop/

2026-04-17 01:54:51 CEST

Updating version strings today, so here’s my official guide to acceptable version numbers:
❌ 0.1
❌ 1
❌ 1.0.0
✅ 1.0b1
✅ 1.0
✅ 1.0.1
❌ 2
✅ 2.0
✅ 2.0.1
✅ 2.1
✅ 2.1.1
❌ 2.1.10
❌ 2.123
❌ 2026.1.2
❌ 2026.123456789
I’ve been versioning apps like this for 30 years. It’s just how it is. 🙂

2026-04-17 01:20:31 CEST

Inkwell beta for Android is now in review over at Google. Feeling good about 1.0 on both mobile platforms, will ship fairly soon. All the client apps are open source too — web, mobile, Mac. https://micro.ink/

2026-04-17 00:02:09 CEST

Time for a home screen update. A few recent changes: Inkwell beta, Duolingo, Orion. Dock row is Hey plus our Micro.blog suite of apps: Epilogue, Strata, and Micro.blog. https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/10/2026/img-4329.png

2026-04-14 16:40:53 CEST

Inkwell for iOS is now available as a beta! You can join TestFlight here. We’ll be improving a few things this week, getting it ready for an official release on both iOS and Android. https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/10/2026/paste-2fa68774.png https://testflight.apple.com/join/1VJ8vYR6

2026-04-14 15:42:02 CEST

Sam Altman profile misses the mark https://www.manton.org/2026/04/14/sam-altman-profile-misses-the.html

2026-04-14 15:14:56 CEST

First coffee back in Austin in about a month! Glad to be home. Still miss Europe a little too. https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/10/2026/f523d17b56.jpg

2026-04-14 02:29:57 CEST

Internet Archive quietly continues to do great work. TechCrunch reports on digitizing Aadam Jacobs’s personal collection of taped concerts:
"Within the collection, you can also find previously unknown recordings from influential artists like Sonic Youth, R.E.M., Phish, Liz Phair, Pavement, Neutral Milk Hotel, and a whole bunch of other punk groups."
So cool to see this kind of thing preserved. https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/13/thousands-of-rare-concert-recordings-are-landing-on-the-internet-archive-listen-now/

2026-04-14 01:18:19 CEST

Another very good analysis of the AI market from Ben Thompson. OpenAI has invested heavily in compute, which will help them, but they are also squeezed by Anthropic on the enterprise side and Meta on the consumer side. It’s hard to compete with everyone. https://stratechery.com/2026/mythos-muse-and-the-opportunity-cost-of-compute/

2026-04-14 00:19:14 CEST

Back in the United States after my extended trip across the ocean by ship, around Spain and France by train, and back to Malaga for Release Notes. Had an incredible time. I feel very lucky to be able to do this.
I also got a bunch of work done. Inkwell for mobile is looking great, beta this week.

2026-04-13 07:52:59 CEST

Early morning in Madrid. The moon still out and train station on the left. https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/10/2026/00764f137c.jpg

2026-04-12 17:47:32 CEST

Steve Troughton-Smith posts about Apple’s software quality:
"The story around the decline in software quality around macOS is the same as it’s been for years: Apple doesn’t have the bandwidth to maintain two copies of every app, one for macOS and one for iOS, and keep feature parity. That’s why they embarked down the road of Mac Catalyst and SwiftUI."
A related question: why does Apple have so many apps? Certainly they should have Safari, Mail, and Pages. But what about Journal, News, and Freeform? A bloated lineup of apps is like an app with too many features — difficult to maintain. https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/116392076082139599

2026-04-12 15:32:39 CEST

Optimism by default https://www.manton.org/2026/04/12/optimism-by-default.html

2026-04-12 12:02:25 CEST

Another view from Malaga. Had an amazing time here for Release Notes. @DazeEnd has also shared some fun photos from the last couple of days. https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/10/2026/17df8697df.jpg https://micro.blog/DazeEnd

2026-04-12 10:13:03 CEST

Just released an update to Micro.blog for iOS that addresses a bunch of little bugs. Glad to get this one out there. We’ll get an Android version ready soon to sync up with the changes.

2026-04-11 14:33:36 CEST

Playa de la Malagueta. 🏖️ https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/10/2026/b9f110c0c2.jpg

2026-04-11 11:39:04 CEST

Peter Steinberger temporarily blocked from Claude:
"When multiple people asked him why he’s using Claude instead of his employer’s models at all, he explained that he only uses it for testing, to ensure updates to OpenClaw won’t break things for Claude users."
I think there is one of two things going on, maybe both:
Anthropic is generally less open, as I blogged about last week.
Anthropic is constrained by limited compute, so they optimize for profitable users.
OpenAI’s massive investment in new infrastructure will look either foolish or brilliant depending on how the next year plays out. https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/anthropic-temporarily-banned-openclaws-creator-from-accessing-claude/ https://www.manton.org/2026/04/06/openai-got-its-name-right.html

2026-04-11 01:53:29 CEST

Castillo de Gibralfaro. 🇪🇸 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/10/2026/ddc589c653.jpg

2026-04-10 13:09:42 CEST

For people who like the view from trains as much as I do, here is a minute and a half video of us just rolling through the French countryside. https://www.manton.org/2026/04/10/for-people-who-like-the.html

2026-04-10 12:43:27 CEST

The new ChatGPT Pro at $100/month seems essentially just as good as the previous $200/month plan. It appears to even include Pulse. I’m gonna try to switch to get a feel for the token limits. I could never come close to hitting limits before.

2026-04-10 11:40:59 CEST

Garcia Coffee House. https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/10/2026/83ecf66735.jpg

2026-04-10 09:34:16 CEST

Morning in Malaga. https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/10/2026/6d84cc305d.jpg

2026-04-09 16:37:16 CEST

Interesting points in this blog post by Andrew Murphy (via Nick Heer) about how writing code faster isn’t the problem. But most of it is really about large teams that have bureaucratic delay fish.
AI can be empowering for small teams. I’m probably shipping software twice as fast with half the bugs. https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-thought-the-speed-of-writing-code-was-your-problem-you-have-bigger-problems https://pxlnv.com/linklog/writing-code-speed-ai/ https://www.manton.org/2023/11/20/delay-fish.html

2026-04-09 11:34:29 CEST

I’m fixing several things in the iOS app for Micro.blog… If anyone wants to get on the beta, you can join TestFlight here. Will ship to everyone and Android in about a week. https://testflight.apple.com/join/lWxM21hn

2026-04-08 10:17:11 CEST

Kimberly KG reflects on the latest from our president:
"And yet, he’s still in office. Still not being held accountable. Who are we?"
To keep our sanity, over the last year we’ve gone from outrage to mocking. Watch how late night TV makes fun of the ridiculous and dangerous things that Trump says. But surely with the Iran war this has turned a corner from the absurd and mostly bad just for our country to the potentially catastrophic.
He must be removed from office as soon as possible. See also this video predicting exactly that from James Carville. 🇺🇸 https://kimberlykg.com/2026/04/07/who-are-we.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBTHn6eTZBY

2026-04-08 08:04:40 CEST

Really enjoyed my short time in Paris. I generally think that Europeans have gotten so many things right that we Americans are still struggling with. But… what is with all the smoking, still, in 2026? Someone should tell them it’s bad for you. 🚬

2026-04-07 22:18:25 CEST

I like this thought from @patrickrhone:
"The biggest danger with AI is that it is a shortcut around things that matter. Things that matter intellectually, things that matter socially, and things that matter emotionally."
I think that’s right. We have to make deliberate choices, which is hard right now because AI is like, “Hi, I can do everything for you.” But what actually makes us uniquely human? What has more value and meaning if we do it ourselves? I want shortcuts that give us more time for those things that matter. (And it’s complicated because that might not be the same for everyone.) https://patrickrhone.micro.blog/2026/04/07/current-thought-pattern-the-biggest.html https://micro.blog/patrickrhone

2026-04-07 20:35:30 CEST

Meeting Vincent https://www.manton.org/2026/04/07/meeting-vincent.html

2026-04-07 14:50:53 CEST

The new Frozen ride is really well designed. At Disneyland Paris / Disney Adventure World. https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/10/2026/fea5e0bcce.jpg

2026-04-06 22:24:03 CEST

Got a drink at Le Train Bleu. Beautiful old restaurant from 1901, inside Gare de Lyon. https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/10/2026/70312693da.jpg

2026-04-06 14:57:42 CEST

OpenAI got its name right https://www.manton.org/2026/04/06/openai-got-its-name-right.html

2026-04-06 14:16:32 CEST

Artemis II is almost there:
"The Orion spacecraft is now in the lunar sphere of influence, meaning the moon’s gravity has more pull on the vehicle than the Earth. At 1:46 p.m. ET, the crew will surpass the record for the farthest distance traveled from Earth by humans, which was set by the Apollo 13 mission at 248,655 statute miles from Earth."
🚀 https://www.npr.org/2026/04/06/nx-s1-5773187/nasa-artemis-ii-moon-lunar-flyby

2026-04-06 12:29:27 CEST

La Petite Ceinture du 12th arrondissement. Old abandoned rail line that circled Paris to connect different stations. 🚂 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/10/2026/d12ffbfd2e.jpg

2026-04-06 10:14:56 CEST

The Beans on Fire in Paris. ☕️ https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/10/2026/196ace2945.jpg

2026-04-05 21:03:41 CEST

Amazing photo of astronaut Christina Koch in silhouette, hair floating in zero gravity, looking back at Earth. 🚀 https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/amf-art002e008487/

2026-04-05 20:28:13 CEST

In today’s update to Inkwell for Mac, there’s a new window for photos in blog posts. It’s particularly useful for Reading Recap thumbnails too, with a clickable permalink to visit the full post.
Simple, but I’m happy with how this turned out. Toolbar buttons, pinch to zoom, drag to scroll, etc. https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/10/2026/paste-ca6bbbab.png

2026-04-05 18:49:52 CEST

Paris street from the Promenade plantée René-Dumont. 🚂 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/10/2026/dfaa9ebad5.jpg

2026-04-05 11:54:03 CEST

On the train, crossing into France. https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/10/2026/fb1237a001.jpg

2026-04-05 00:51:36 CEST

Finally I get to watch a Spurs game live even though I’m too many time zones away, because it’s an early afternoon game in Denver. Really good test for the Spurs. Couldn’t quite make it happen in OT. 🏀

2026-04-04 09:52:20 CEST

Breakfast and coffee at Federal Cafe. Perfecto. ☕️ https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/10/2026/1d815e4390.jpg

2026-04-03 21:46:15 CEST

It’s so cool to hear from the Artemis crew. Happy for them. What an extraordinary achievement. Reminds me of the line from Apollo 13: “There’s nothing routine about flying to the moon.” 🚀

2026-04-03 15:30:42 CEST

Montserrat Monastery. It’s beautiful up here, but unfortunately this is as close as I’m going to get. Left late, then got off at the wrong stop so had lunch in a small town waiting for the next train, and then forgot it is Good Friday. Very long line with everyone on holiday. 🚡 https://www.manton.org/2026/04/03/montserrat-monastery-its-beautiful-up.html

2026-04-03 13:41:38 CEST

A little sneak peek of Inkwell for mobile in Vincent’s latest blog post. https://blog.vincentritter.com/post/2026-04-03

2026-04-03 12:31:27 CEST

Plaça Espanya. 🚂 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/10/2026/bd274ad24a.jpg

2026-04-03 12:09:13 CEST

Matt Mullenweg has a great blog post with both positive things to say about Cloudflare and a critique of EmDash. So I was right yesterday that “spiritual successor” was the wrong way for Cloudflare to pitch this. From Matt, about why WordPress can be run anywhere:
"It’s all built on open source and web standards. You can run it anywhere; there’s no lock-in.
That’s why we do what we do. It’s really hard. You can come after our users, but please don’t claim to be our spiritual successor without understanding our spirit." https://ma.tt/2026/04/emdash-feedback/

2026-04-03 11:04:06 CEST

AT Protocol standardizations is officially underway, with a new working group at the IETF:
"For folks building in the Atmosphere ecosystem, and who care about how services interoperate and share data, this working group is a big opportunity to work out any ambiguities and unresolved issues." https://atproto.com/blog/kicking-off-the-atp-working-group

2026-04-03 10:05:58 CEST

Listening to U2’s new EP, Easter Lily. Bono:
"We still look to vivid rock n roll as an act of resistance against all this awfulness on our small screens. These are for sure ‘wilderness years’ for so many of us looking at the mayhem out there in the world."
🎶 https://www.u2.com/news/title/u2-easter-lily-new-ep-out-now/

2026-04-03 09:39:35 CEST

Congrats to the Flipboard folks on launching the web version of Surf. It’s an interesting mashup of different social networks, which is what the open web is great at. https://surf.social/

2026-04-02 19:17:03 CEST

Looking over EmDash. I don’t like that they call it “the spiritual successor to WordPress”. Isn’t the spirit of WordPress from Matt Mullenweg’s vision of the project? Matt is very much still involved. Feels wrong for Cloudflare to frame it that way. https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordpress/

2026-04-02 15:10:48 CEST

Coffee and breakfast earlier this morning at Sip Coffee. ☕️ https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/10/2026/fe5172908a.jpg

2026-04-02 13:59:01 CEST

I keep missing the W3C social web calls. I feel bad about it, but there’s a lot to juggle with travel and work. As soon as I’m settled in one place for more than a few days, looking forward to getting involved.

2026-04-02 12:18:06 CEST

It’s too bad that ChatGPT Pulse is so expensive. It’s a wonderful product. Here’s an example of one of the stories it brought me this morning. It knows I’m traveling and that I had looked around Gràcia, so it researches places I might want to know about. No one else is doing anything like this. https://chatgpt.com/share/69ce343b-7f74-8325-a864-99cfaef843b0

2026-04-02 11:52:06 CEST

Drafting another blog post with a contrarian take on OpenAI… Not sure why I do this to myself when I should be focusing on my own code. I guess because I think everyone else is mostly wrong. 🤪