John Gruber coining the term dickover for the annoying modals that obscure content:
A webpage should show the webpage. An email should show the email. I should not have to explain this.
Couldn’t agree more. You will never see anything even remotely like this on Micro.blog or the blogs we host.
Finished reading: Moonbound by Robin Sloan. Truly bizarre, and I mean that in a good way. 📚
Seriously underestimated how long this db migration was going to take, leading to a deployment blunder that introduced a temporary cross-posting glitch. I’ve been juggling too much this week, making careless mistakes. Getting a lot done, though!
Last week’s Sharp Tech about data centers is really good. Misinformation, the lost opportunity with nuclear power, and SpaceX craziness.
The most compelling point: it’s possible that the demand for intelligence has almost no limit. If so, a lot of the insane scale starts to sound reasonable.
Finished watching Hacks season 5 this week. Great series. Each season had its own theme and arc, and they knew when to call it, not drag on past the story they set out to tell. 📺
Federico Viticci blogs about RemCTL, a command-line tool he built for Reminders:
So I decided to take matters into my own hands and build the Reminders CLI of my dreams with Codex. After about two months of work and everyday tests, the result is RemCTL (short for “Reminders Control”): to the best of my knowledge, it’s the only Reminders CLI that can read and write any kind of reminder and Reminders metadata…
Really impressive. I installed it to play with, even though I don’t really use Reminders. Works well.
Feels like a great, tight series even with a couple blowouts like tonight. As a Spurs fan, that run in the 3rd quarter was fun to watch. Expecting game 7 to be close, though, maybe more like OT in game 1. 🏀
Anthropic released Opus 4.8 today. GPT-5.6 is probably soon. Which is better seems increasingly subjective. It’s hard to notice small steps forward when you’re already at really good.
People will stick to the tools they are comfortable with. The next big advance will be a new app, not a new model.
Jill Biden says she wondered if Joe Biden was having a stroke during the presidential debate. One of the great what ifs to think what would’ve happened if the debate had been a week earlier or a week later. 🇺🇸
Bluesky is now showing Standard.site info in the timeline:
Starting today, Standard.site links will have an enhanced render in the Bluesky app, with extra, actionable metadata about the post, including the publication and author.
Very cool. Support for Standard.site in Micro.blog coming soon.