Looks like ChatGPT is back at #1 in the App Store. Claude had bumped it out of that spot for about a week. App Store rankings are just recent trends, so maybe we’ll see some flip-flopping going forward based on the news cycle.

As I like to note every year, today is the anniversary of starting my blog. Good day to release some new web software!

I can’t believe I’m only just now learning that Luke Kornet has a blog. Guess I need to officially offer everyone in the Spurs organization free Micro.blog subscriptions. 🏀

I designed this RSS app for the web first, and then added Mac afterwards (in beta soon). I think that worked out well. Helps push the web to be as feature-rich as possible, and lets me rethink what should be different for the Mac.

Started watching House of Guinness. Really like the look of the show. Good so far. 🍺

OpenAI delays adult mode:

We still believe in the principle of treating adults like adults, but getting the experience right will take more time.

A good and fairly obvious call, this was a distraction for a company that is pulled in too many different directions. GPT-5.4 released last week is a great model, but it’s lost in the noise.

OpenAI has an infrastructure advantage and so should be focusing almost everything on model thinking quality, background agents like Pulse that require enormous compute, and the upcoming device from Jony Ive. A new device with a good brand would help too.

Ratcheteer DX looks fun. I saw it was produced by Panic but didn’t realize until now that Shaun Inman worked on it. Very cool… Going to get it for Switch but feel like it should be played on a Game Boy Advance. 🕹️

Yet another great Spurs win, coming back in the 4th quarter down a bunch. This team is unique. They just get it done. 🏀

Watched: Hamnet. Really great. Won’t ever see Hamlet the same way again. 🍿

Eventually we’re going to have OpenClaw-like assistants that can filter or prioritize emails and calls, but for now I wish there was some kind of voicemail scripting. If a voicemail transcript contains “$”, delete it.

I have a few blog post drafts about recent AI controversy and advertising that I may post eventually, but for now I do want to note Dario Amodei’s blog post on the ongoing negotiations with the military. I thought his leaked internal post was in poor taste, overly personal, so I like his apology here to correct the record:

It was a difficult day for the company, and I apologize for the tone of the post. It does not reflect my careful or considered views. It was also written six days ago, and is an out-of-date assessment of the current situation.

Simon Carstensen has rebuilt Jottit, the web publishing tool he built with Aaron Swartz in 2007:

Aaron believed the web should be easy enough that anyone could participate. Not just people who know how to code or who can afford a platform’s cut.

Watched: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Enjoyed this more than I was expecting. Good show. 📺

Mountain laurel.

So nice to work on a brand new Mac app, Objective-C, not much code yet. Builds and runs practically instantly.

I’m continuing to tinker with OpenClaw to see how it could be useful to me. For the last week, I’ve had it wake up once an hour and pick a small change to make to a new, experimental project. It’ll track what it’s working on, fix something, then push the change to GitHub for me to review.

White House press briefing on TV in the background while I’m working. They really have no coherent message for why we’re at war, or how to determine when the mission is over. 🇺🇸

The Washington Post reporting on how Claude is being used for the Iran war:

As planning for a potential strike in Iran was underway, Maven, powered by Claude, suggested hundreds of targets, issued precise location coordinates, and prioritized those targets according to importance, said two of the people. The pairing of Maven and Claude has created a tool that is speeding the pace of the campaign…

On social media, we like to pick sides and oversimplify. OpenAI vs. Anthropic! But war is tragic and complicated. I have mixed feelings about all of this.

Naming is hard. New Kickstarter for Build Awesome, the renamed Eleventy. Both names are a bit awkward:

With Font Awesome, we made icons easy. With Web Awesome, we unlocked framework-independent web components. With Build Awesome you can now quickly build and maintain your entire web site — the full (stack) enchilada.