# Manton Reece

> I created Micro.blog. I used to podcast a lot.

## Recent Posts
- [Looking over stats for the Mac app. 90% of users on macOS 26 …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/17/looking-over-stats-for-the.html): 2026-10-17 — 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 …
- [I took this shot of the stars from Puget Sound a few days …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/17/i-took-this-shot-of.html): 2026-10-17 — 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 …
- [In John Gruber’s initial thoughts on the HomeView, he …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/17/in-john-grubers-initial-thoughts.html): 2026-10-17 — 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 …
- [No wi-fi and intermittent cell coverage for this trip, as …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/17/no-wifi-and-intermittent-cell.html): 2026-10-17 — 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 …
- [Morning in Montana. 🚂
](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/17/morning-in-montana.html): 2026-10-17 — Morning in Montana. 🚂

- [On the Empire Builder. Starting to turn east, with the moon …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/16/on-the-empire-builder-starting.html): 2026-10-16 — On the Empire Builder. Starting to turn east, with the moon in the sky. 🚂

- [Seattle light rail.
](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/16/seattle-light-rail.html): 2026-10-16 — Seattle light rail.

- [John Gruber blogging about the Duo pre-orders:
…pre-orders …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/16/john-gruber-blogging-about-the.html): 2026-10-16 — John Gruber blogging about the Duo pre-orders:
…pre-orders always start before reviews appear. People are left to guess whether they’re …
- [At the hotel lobby, a bunch of LEGOs to play with.
](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/16/at-the-hotel-lobby-a.html): 2026-10-16 — At the hotel lobby, a bunch of LEGOs to play with.

- [Happy iPhone Duo pre-order day. I’m skipping it, and looks …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/16/happy-iphone-duo-preorder-day.html): 2026-10-16 — Happy iPhone Duo pre-order day. I’m skipping it, and looks like serious delays anyway. Current expected delivery is well into January. I’ll …
- [Hood Canal.
](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/15/hood-canal.html): 2026-10-15 — Hood Canal.

- [Automattic has a clever and touching memorial to Eric …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/15/automattic-has-a-clever-and.html): 2026-10-15 — Automattic has a clever and touching memorial to Eric Binnion, hidden in the HTTP response from WordPress.com.

- [Interesting to see Meta working directly with Apple to run …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/15/interesting-to-see-meta-working.html): 2026-10-15 — Interesting to see Meta working directly with Apple to run Muse Spark Open on Macs efficiently. John Voorhees has a good summary at …
- [Reading more details in the story of an OpenAI engineer …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/14/reading-more-details-in-the.html): 2026-10-14 — Reading more details in the story of an OpenAI engineer getting arrested after bugging a conference room:
Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi …
- [Sometimes a business has to make difficult decisions to stay …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/14/sometimes-a-business-has-to.html): 2026-10-14 — Sometimes a business has to make difficult decisions to stay profitable. But I can’t accept that major layoffs are needed at companies that …
- [Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/14/tacoma-narrows-bridge.html): 2026-10-14 — Tacoma Narrows Bridge.

- [Lots of travel this week. Hoping to fix some bugs and read a …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/14/lots-of-travel-this-week.html): 2026-10-14 — Lots of travel this week. Hoping to fix some bugs and read a bunch. Packed a print book and my Kindle.

- [ Watched: A Few Good Men. This movie is still so good. 🍿
](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/13/watched-a-few-good-men.html): 2026-10-13 —  Watched: A Few Good Men. This movie is still so good. 🍿

- [Jason Snell blogs about Siri AI from the HomeView, which is …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/13/jason-snell-blogs-about-siri.html): 2026-10-13 — Jason Snell blogs about Siri AI from the HomeView, which is better than what I assumed earlier. Is this going to be fast enough, though? …
- [I added a new plug-in to Micro.blog’s plug-in directory that …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/13/i-added-a-new-plugin.html): 2026-10-13 — I added a new plug-in to Micro.blog’s plug-in directory that implements the about.md and contact.vcf parts of SocialSpec. It’s an …
- [Caleb Hailey has announced socialspec.org, a suite of …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/13/caleb-hailey-has-announced-socialspecorg.html): 2026-10-13 — Caleb Hailey has announced socialspec.org, a suite of recommendations for making websites more social. Following lists, about pages, and …
- [Love the great feedback about Micro.blog’s new Blog Audit …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/13/love-the-great-feedback-about.html): 2026-10-13 — Love the great feedback about Micro.blog’s new Blog Audit feature. Today I updated it with a couple more improvements: an option to download …
- [Looking forward to this documentary about Don Bluth. From …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/13/looking-forward-to-this-documentary.html): 2026-10-13 — Looking forward to this documentary about Don Bluth. From Cartoon Brew:
Directed by Dave LaMattina and Chad Walker of Copper Pot Pictures, …
- [The idea that AI might be conscious falls apart pretty …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/13/the-idea-that-ai-might.html): 2026-10-13 — The idea that AI might be conscious falls apart pretty quickly when you consider ChatGPT Images. It’s also built on the same underlying AI …
- [I have a test blog on WordPress.com, so I temporarily …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/13/i-have-a-test-blog.html): 2026-10-13 — I have a test blog on WordPress.com, so I temporarily upgraded it to test Jetpack in ChatGPT. Here’s a transcript. Do people want this? I’ve …
- [Dan Moren blogging at Six Colors on the new Apple TV …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/13/dan-moren-blogging-at-six.html): 2026-10-13 — Dan Moren blogging at Six Colors on the new Apple TV announcements:
In an announcement sure to shock the very foundations of the world, …
- [HomeView is not available in the EU because Siri AI isn’t …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/13/homeview-is-not-available-in.html): 2026-10-13 — HomeView is not available in the EU because Siri AI isn’t available there. I think Europe should hold the line on this, or find a compromise …
- [The video introducing HomeView isn’t making me feel the way …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/13/the-video-introducing-homeview-isnt.html): 2026-10-13 — The video introducing HomeView isn’t making me feel the way Apple probably intended. Now I’m just sad for when my kids were all living at …
- [Jon Hays makes the case that not only will AI not wipe out …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/12/jon-hays-makes-the-case.html): 2026-10-12 — Jon Hays makes the case that not only will AI not wipe out software developers, in several years we might have more available jobs than …
- [Dave Winer:
Gruber is right. The only way for the others to …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/12/dave-winer-gruber-is-right.html): 2026-10-12 — Dave Winer:
Gruber is right. The only way for the others to compete with Twitter is to start innovating.
To make the web better, we need to …
- [Related to Blog Audit, I also wanted to give a quick …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/12/related-to-blog-audit-i.html): 2026-10-12 — Related to Blog Audit, I also wanted to give a quick shout-out to the plug-in Wayback Link Preserver by @g, which takes a different approach …
- [New feature: Blog Audit](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/12/new-feature-blog-audit.html): 2026-10-12 — Today I’m rolling out a new feature in Micro.blog called Blog Audit. You can find it under Posts → “…” → Blog Audit. It will go through all …
- [Catching up on the news of Corpus Christi’s failed …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/12/catching-up-on-the-news.html): 2026-10-12 — Catching up on the news of Corpus Christi’s failed desalination plant project in this lengthy story on KUT. Each time I visit, I have more …
- [Dave Winer blogs a lot about Chrome deprecating regular HTTP …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/12/dave-winer-blogs-a-lot.html): 2026-10-12 — Dave Winer blogs a lot about Chrome deprecating regular HTTP without the HTTPS. Equally annoying is how fragile HTTPS is on older computers. …
- [A year ago Meta scrapped Llama and their AI work and started …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/12/a-year-ago-meta-scrapped.html): 2026-10-12 — A year ago Meta scrapped Llama and their AI work and started rebuilding, now they’ve announced Muse Wonder, competitive with frontier …
- [There’s a new trailer out for Disney’s Hexed, showing the …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/12/theres-a-new-trailer-out.html): 2026-10-12 — There’s a new trailer out for Disney’s Hexed, showing the mom and other characters, and I think it’s better than the first trailer. Looks …
- [Build for the open web, not X](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/12/build-for-the-open-web.html): 2026-10-12 — I’ve been writing off and on about X this year because I think many folks who read my blog haven’t noticed what is going on over there. If …
- [Another preview of Blog Audit, this time with my own blog. …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/12/another-preview-of-blog-audit.html): 2026-10-12 — Another preview of Blog Audit, this time with my own blog. It’s a sad commentary on link rot. 🙁

- [Got my little OpenClaw server set up at home after a few …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/11/got-my-little-openclaw-server.html): 2026-10-11 — Got my little OpenClaw server set up at home after a few false starts. Debian wouldn’t recognize the main disk. Went with Ubuntu instead and …
- [ Watched: The Big Bang Theory S12E24. We binge-watched all …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/11/watched-the-big-bang-theory.html): 2026-10-11 —  Watched: The Big Bang Theory S12E24. We binge-watched all 12 seasons in a few months. Great show. I’m not even usually much of a sitcom …
- [I think I missed this essay by Mustafa Suleyman when it was …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/11/i-think-i-missed-this.html): 2026-10-11 — I think I missed this essay by Mustafa Suleyman when it was published last month, about Anthropic developing Claude with its own conscious: …
- [Mark Gurman has more details on Apple’s new home devices, …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/11/mark-gurman-has-more-details.html): 2026-10-11 — Mark Gurman has more details on Apple’s new home devices, including the name HomeView:
Unlike the iPhone, the HomeView isn’t designed for a …
- [Settling into how OpenAI’s dots are best used. My dot is a …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/10/settling-into-how-openais-dots.html): 2026-10-10 — Settling into how OpenAI’s dots are best used. My dot is a replacement for regular ChatGPT. It’s a single thread that knows everything and …
- [Continuing to think about how to stay competitive when …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/10/continuing-to-think-about-how.html): 2026-10-10 — Continuing to think about how to stay competitive when software is abundant. Support and trust are a big part of it. But also there are …
- [I’ve been working on something new that I’m calling Blog …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/10/ive-been-working-on-something.html): 2026-10-10 — I’ve been working on something new that I’m calling Blog Audit. It’ll ship on Monday, here’s a sneak peek screenshot from a test blog. It …
- [Thinking about the last time I seriously ran Linux at home, …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/10/thinking-about-the-last-time.html): 2026-10-10 — Thinking about the last time I seriously ran Linux at home, I found this old blog posts from 2003. I can barely remember some of this. Good …
- [This Astra launch video spoof is so well done — “ChatGPT for …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/09/this-astra-launch-video-spoof.html): 2026-10-09 — This Astra launch video spoof is so well done — “ChatGPT for Dishwashing”. 🙂

- [This video on X from OpenAI’s Max Stoiber about ChatGPT …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/09/this-video-on-x-from.html): 2026-10-09 — This video on X from OpenAI’s Max Stoiber about ChatGPT plugin review is a reminder of just how much better and more transparent Apple could …
- [Attacks on James Talarico are ramping up. I’m getting more …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/09/attacks-on-james-talarico-are.html): 2026-10-09 — Attacks on James Talarico are ramping up. I’m getting more texts from campaigns and PACs. More complaining from the GOP in the news. But …
- [On the home AI front, I decided to get the Beelink EQi. …](https://www.manton.org/2026/10/09/on-the-home-ai-front.html): 2026-10-09 — On the home AI front, I decided to get the Beelink EQi. Transferring the brain of my OpenClaw to it today. I wish this could be a Mac mini, …