{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1", "title": "Manton Reece", "icon": "https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2025/22/3.jpg", "home_page_url": "https://www.manton.org/", "feed_url": "https://www.manton.org/feed.json", "items": [ { "id": "http://manton.micro.blog/2026/06/25/heartbreaking-to-hear-that-om.html", "content_html": "

Heartbreaking to hear that Om Malik has passed away. I can hardly believe it. Even just this year, it felt like he was doing some of his best writing. Very thankful for the time he gave us at Micro Camp 2023… I was so excited to talk to him. Rest in peace.

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The Spurs picked up 4 new players in the draft. Lots of potential. Some folks are annoyed with De’Aaron Fox, but he was a big part of the Spurs getting 62 wins and making it so far, even if it’s weird that he’s gonna make so much more money than any other Spurs player. šŸ€

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Due to the rising costs of memory and storage, a standard Micro.blog subscription will remain $5 for the foreseeable future. šŸ™‚

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Settled into a perfect routine while away on vacation over the last week: walk or bike for coffee, work a couple hours, picnic at the beach with family, lots of book reading, nice dinner out. šŸ–ļø Working a little each day actually makes me more relaxed. Got updates to Epilogue and Inkwell ready.

\n", "date_published": "2026-06-25T10:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.manton.org/2026/06/25/settled-into-a-perfect-routine.html" }, { "id": "http://manton.micro.blog/2026/06/25/apple-price-increases-are-significant.html", "content_html": "

Apple price increases are significant. Now that I see them, it does make sense to change the prices for all the Macs and iPads at the same time. It would feel out of balance to have e.g. the Air stay low and the Neo increase.

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I have a nice M3 MacBook Pro and plan to keep it for a couple more years.

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I prefer more open systems, so of course I lean toward supporting the EU’s DMA. Third-party marketplaces on iOS represent real progress that wouldn’t have happened without regulation. But what about Siri AI? It is not coming to the EU because Apple doesn’t trust other developers with access to user data via third-party App Intents.

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It struck me today what a contrast this is with the rest of the AI world, increasingly connected via MCP. Imagine if Gmail was only accessible to AI on Android phones. If Teams was only accessible from a Windows Surface laptop. That is the kind of environment Apple’s policies create, with data locked into silos and monopolies free to leverage their existing strengths into dominance of new technologies too.

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No thanks. Just as I should be able to sideload an app onto my own phone, I should be able to choose whether ChatGPT can access my iMessage history. The world is not going to come crashing down by giving users control of their own data.

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Ironically, Apple’s approach to AI ā€” driven by a well-meaning but almost fanatical devotion to privacy ā€” is also going to cripple their ability to build a truly universal Siri that works across even their own platforms. That leaves a small opening for competition.

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Apple is betting that Siri AI will be perfect for most iPhone users, and they’re probably right. But it’s a fairly limited vision that, while safe for users, forecloses most of the potential upside of truly powerful AI to work on users’ behalf in the future.

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Love that this bookstore (Sundog Books) had too many books to fit properly on the shelves. šŸ“š

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It took a week and a half on the waitlist, but I’ve now got new Siri AI enabled on my phone. Seems to work so far. Not totally sure what to use it for yet.

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Updated the Inkwell app for Mac this morning. If you haven’t tried it yet, I think it’s a very nice version of our Inkwell feed reader. Includes subscribing to blogs, of course, but also making text highlights, viewing conversations, and replying to Micro.blog posts.

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I still have “wow” moments with AI. Codex Security was one of those… It reviews the Micro.blog backend source regularly and not only flags potential bugs but also drafts patches. Today another one: I asked for a draft of release notes and it guessed to put them directly in the edited appcast XML.

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As we get closer (next year) to the 10th anniversary of Micro.blog, Iā€™m thinking about whether our strategy with indie blogging is still relevant for the next decade. What is true now that will continue to be true years from now? Some thoughtsā€¦

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I’m feeling good about everything we’re working on and how our priorities align with where the web is headed. Inkwell in particular will have a big role, eventually becoming easier to use as a standalone product without Micro.blog.

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Thanks as always for everyoneā€™s support on this journey to make the web a little better.

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Vacation is winding down.

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Thereā€™s a new iOS app for Micro.blog! MicroSphere from @marc0janssen. Looks great, I’m playing around with it today.

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Black Bear Bread Co. ā˜•ļø

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Ben Thompson closing out today’s post:

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The only possible way to curb Appleā€™s dominance is through competition, and if Apple wants to open up a vector for competitive hardware to arise, thatā€™s fine! And, if in response to competition, they open up their platform, thatā€™s great too.

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AI is the best opportunity to compete with Apple and Google since the launch of the iPhone. And yet hardly anyone is going for it. It’s easy to complain that Apple fumbled around with AI for a couple years, but no potential new competitors capitalized on it.

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Submitted the new Epilogue to Google for review this morning. Apple approved it really quickly yesterday. A few more quick reviews will almost make up for Apple holding up the Inkwell release for a month. šŸ¤Ŗ

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Seaside, Florida. Burgers outside at Pickles. šŸ”

\n\"A\n", "date_published": "2026-06-20T18:40:07-05:00", "url": "https://www.manton.org/2026/06/20/seaside-florida-burgers-outside-at.html", "tags": ["Photos"] }, { "id": "http://manton.micro.blog/2026/06/20/got-a-whole-bunch-of.html", "content_html": "

Got a whole bunch of little things finished this morning for the next release of Epilogue. Finally showing a checkmark for the current bookshelf, and a new default for the Movies tab to show movies and TV shows people are blogging about. Just submitting to Apple for review.

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Having so many apps, the context switch between code bases is starting to become a problem. Thinking about how we can improve this going forward. Ideally each major app or platform would have someone leading it.

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Matt Mullenweg blogged about the surprising twist with Midjourney Medical:

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David Holz, one of the most underrated pioneers in AI, has taken money from making cat pictures to build a full-body ultrasound scanner that can give you incredible visibility in 60 seconds.

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Watched: The Truman Show. So good. Havenā€™t seen it in years and it holds up perfectly. šŸæ

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Finished reading: The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee. Fantastic. Great world-building, viewpoint switch, and just the right plot surprises. šŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2026-06-19T14:24:57-05:00", "url": "https://www.manton.org/2026/06/19/finished-reading-the-last-contract.html", "tags": ["Books"] }, { "id": "http://manton.micro.blog/2026/06/19/love-the-detail-of-using.html", "content_html": "

Love the detail of using these bricks instead of just white paint. The workers put a lot of extra time into cutting everything just right.

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Manu Moreale blogs that he’s tired of all the crap:

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The problem is that thereā€™s also an infinite amount of depressing and/or enraging shit out there on the web, and even though Iā€™m not on any social media platform of any kind, Iā€™m still exposed to that crap. And Iā€™m tired of that. Which is why Iā€™m wondering if itā€™s possible to completely decouple from the web.

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It can be exhausting. I’ve been on the web since the 1990s, on Twitter since 2006, and yet I never had to mute anything until recently. Now on the fediverse I mute people and even consider muting entire domain names because I just do not want to be pulled into their drama.

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My blog is public and my email inbox is open. There are a lot of ways to get ahold of me if I miss the occasional @-mention somewhere. The nice thing about email feedback is that it’s more personal, not a public performance for another audience.

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As I get older, I’ve had to settle into this compromise of closing off some channels of communication so that I can focus my attention where it matters most. I think muting will become an even bigger part of that strategy. It still feels weird even though I know it’s right.

\n", "summary": "A couple thoughts on dealing with unforgiving distractions from the social web.", "date_published": "2026-06-19T10:08:03-05:00", "url": "https://www.manton.org/2026/06/19/muting-is-okay.html", "tags": ["Essays"] }, { "id": "http://manton.micro.blog/2026/06/19/daveigh-chase-has-passed-away.html", "content_html": "

Daveigh Chase has passed away. She was Lilo in Lilo & Stitch, Chihiro in Spirited Away, and also in Donnie Darko. Andreas Deja blogged about working with her:

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Working on the character of Lilo was a profoundly moving experience for me as an animator. Daveighā€™s voice performance was utterly unique and inspired, presenting a brand-new challenge and the perfect opportunity to bring an unorthodox Disney girl to life.

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It’s hard to imagine how someone went from that experience ā€”Ā a movie that will be remembered for a hundred years ā€” to such a low point of personal struggles, even homelessness.

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