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 to traditional nonprofits or direct distributions to specific populations.
A little mysterious. I wonder what they have in mind (or if they know).
There’s a fun site that keeps track of Codex resets. OpenAI is in the middle of a nutty 28-day challenge to ship new features every day or give resets. Feels like a “bank error in your favor” every few days.
Crossing into Wisconsin. π
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.
Doesn’t bother me, but I know some developers are annoyed that they can’t test their apps for months.
Along the Mississippi River as we head out of Minneapolis. π
I’m feeling so lucky that I get to build software for people like @patrickrhone. We were able to catch up this morning as my train stopped just long enough at the Minneapolis - St. Paul station.
Looking over stats for the Mac app. 90% of users on macOS 26 or 27. 98% on Apple Silicon. Only thing I’d like to change going forward is to check for new versions a little more aggressively, so people don’t miss out on improvements. I’m not sure the 2006-era Sparkle UI is the best in 2026.
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. Actually it turned out pretty neat. If I had known, I’d have tried again and fiddled with the exposure.
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? This doesnβt make sense.
I was thinking about this too. All I can come up with is that Apple doesn’t want you to buy the wall-mounted version unless you’re really sure that’s what you need. If the wall-mounted version was cheaper, some people might buy it based on price, then be unhappy because it’s too much trouble to install.
No wi-fi and intermittent cell coverage for this trip, as expected. Somehow I managed to upload a video when we got back near a town. I used the offline time to write some code by hand (gasp!) and do yet more editing on the book.