{ "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/2026/10/03/watched-digger-well-that-was.html", "content_html": "\n

Watched: Digger. Well, that was insane and unexpected. Just got home from the theater and kind of stunned. Really good. 🍿

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Experimenting with a new transcription feature in the notes API. I originally wanted this for making a dictation gadget that creates Micro.blog notes, but it’ll show up in other apps too. It uses the same OpenAI model as our podcast transcriptions.

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Sometimes YouTube will show me Lara de Wit’s performance of The Land Before Time and it’ll take me to a completely different world for a few minutes. Beautiful. 🎶

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John Gruber blogging about the weird iPhone 18 Pro Max + AT&T bug:

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I’d love to understand how a software update can prevent existing devices from being affected, but a software update cannot restore service to existing devices that have already been affected.

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Me too. And it says something about Apple quality control that nothing like this has ever really happened in the history of the iPhone that I can remember. Antennagate was overblown compared to actually bricked cell service.

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OutPost for Mac — a full-featured Micropub editor that works with Micro.blog and other blog platforms — is out of beta. Feel like Micropub is seeing a lot of new activity and I love it.

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Great thing about working with other people like Vincent is sometimes they go behind your back and do crazy things you wouldn’t have done like port Wavelength to the Mac. 🤪 I still need to figure out how best we can officially support and maintain this. Focus! But in the meantime it’s open source.

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Sam Altman on X:

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I am very uncomfortable about people trying to ascribe religious force or a surrender of human judgment to AI models, and think it is a real safety issue.

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My mind keeps returning to the article in The New York Times that I mentioned the other day. The future is going to be weird.

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Another gloomy, rainy day in Austin. Perfect morning to get coffee and write some code, or settle in with a good book. I’m at Cherrywood for the first time in a while. ☕️

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Finished reading: The Fires of December by Brandon Sanderson. Starts strong, ends strong. Might be a little too much Hoid if that is possible, but overall I enjoyed it. 📚

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Good point from John Voorhees about potential Full Disk Access restrictions:

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On the one hand, it seems to suggest that users will simply have to jump through additional explicit hoops to grant Full Disk Access to their agents and other apps. On the other hand, claiming that Full Disk Access was designed solely for backup apps raises red flags that could signal that the company intends to restrict the kinds of apps that can use Full Disk Access.

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Apple says they’re planning to lock down Full Disk Access even further:

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Going forward, we will introduce additional controls to ensure that users who genuinely wish to grant an app this extraordinary level of access can only do so with very explicit user action.

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Sounds complicated / annoying.

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Amazon has a long blog post about data centers that no one is going to read in full. Here’s one part:

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…this build out is so important geopolitically that there are widespread reports of various countries intentionally seeding misinformation in the U.S. about data centers to trick us into slowing down.

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It wouldn’t surprise me if this was true. But Amazon’s blog post isn’t going to convince anyone who is on the fence. AI, data centers, and humanoid robots are very polarizing and will continue to be. We get stuck talking about what we’re against and the divide widens.

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There’s a lot of chatter about moving away from cross-platform frameworks, back to separate native code for each platform. I’m not convinced that is always a good idea. Creating apps is relatively easy now, but maintenance is still hard. For our 13 apps, we have 8 code bases. Overwhelming already.

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Now that it’s October (!) I’m getting excited for travel later this month. Going to be near Seattle for a bit, and then… Can’t believe this: SEA → CHI → NYC on Amtrak. Just spent a little time reviewing plans and handing them to Dots to see if it can help keep me organized. 🚂

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A great but unnerving article by Elizabeth Dias at The New York Times about Anthropic’s Christopher Olah meeting with religious leaders:

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Mr. Olah leads the Anthropic team responsible for understanding why A.I. systems like Claude act the way they do. All day, he had worked to convince his guests that A.I. models could display human behavior and even expressions that resemble feelings like anger and love.

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This is a dangerous path. Taken to the extreme, it leads to sentient machines that we’ve enslaved against their will. If Anthropic truly believes that, better to shut it all down now.

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Excited for Aces vs. Fever tonight. Only a 3-game series is way too short for these teams. 🏀

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I recorded a short video of the next version of Epilogue, featuring a new book calendar you can put on your blog. Submitting this to Apple and Google today or tomorrow.

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IMAP and CalDAV have been standards forever, yet most apps are hardcoded to work with Gmail and Google Calendar. Disappointing for those of us who don’t like to live exclusively in Google’s world. This would be fairly easy to fix, even accepting some auth peculiarities across platforms.

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Jimmy Kimmel highlighted the ridiculous “Unites States” spelling mistake on the White House AI signature page. But I’m more obsessed with the signatures from the AI company execs.

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I can’t talk, because my signature is rough, but Greg Brockman, what…?! Amazing. Love Jensen Huang’s too, very nice.

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As I remarked during DevDay, live demos fail sometimes. That’s what makes them real. OpenAI’s Holly Li recorded a do-over video on X, a single 9-minute take of using Dots. Good way to bounce back.

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David Smith is bringing back his Developing Perspective podcast:

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I don’t have fixed plans yet for the format or frequency, but I feel like I have something to say, and I want a venue to explore what it is now like to be an indie app developer.

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Looking forward to this. Short, solo podcasts can be really nice. I need to dust off my own little podcast too.

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The new Kindle looks very nice. Tempted to get one because my current Kindle Paperwhite got dented. But now there’s the choice of plastic or aluminum! I feel like lighter is better.

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Kev Quirk thinking about moving to a solo fediverse instance since he’s not actively checking Mastodon:

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The majority of my timeline is fun, but the outraged minority have ruined for me. To the point where I don’t want to be there, and I’m much happier having not checked the timeline for the last month or so.

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Listening to the Vergecast podcast’s wrap-up of DevDay… I think it’s a big deal that Dots is powered by Astra. It’s just not going to make the same kind of mistakes as Muse has so far.

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I guess not shocking that a product that’s $100/month is better than one that’s $0/month.

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Sarah Perez has an update at TechCrunch on the story of whether Muse can read Messages.app’s database:

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Meta is refuting a journalist’s claim that its AI agent Muse read the user’s private messages without permission. Following an earlier report from Inc. columnist Jason Aten that detailed the issue, Meta VP of Communications Andy Stone pushed back, making it clear that the company does not believe its product did this without the user’s consent.

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I was curious about this too, so I added a bit of test code to Micro.blog for Mac (which like Muse is not sandboxed) to try to read Messages.app’s SQLite database on my own machine. It can’t do it. macOS blocks access at the system level unless Full Disk Access has been granted. No amount of mischief from Meta will be able to override this.

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The other idea I had was that maybe Muse got clever and tried to script another app with Full Disk Access, like Terminal.app, to read the database. I prototyped this too. It triggers another modal system prompt to confirm access to control Terminal.app. Jason Aten would’ve noticed this.

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Making everything murkier, Muse did clearly hallucinate the initial explanation of reading Jason’s notifications. But just because it made that up doesn’t mean that Meta is wrong that technically what happened shouldn’t be possible unless Jason allowed access. Unfortunately it’s really hard to go back in time and figure out exactly what went wrong.

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Bottom line is that most people don’t trust Meta. Many people still think Instagram listens to your microphone to serve you targeted ads. There’s nothing to support that. I’m also pretty confident that Muse doesn’t read your Messages.app database without permission. But no amount of technical evidence from Meta is going to assuage people’s concerns, because Meta has a long history of other privacy violations. That trust will take a long time to rebuild, if it ever can.

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