Altman knows his history. His itch to release products quickly is informed by studying Xerox PARC, the legendary Silicon Valley research lab known for inventing the modern graphical user interface, laser printers and computer mouse, yet failing to commercialize any of them. “You have to have an economic engine in the cycle,” Altman says. “I think there’s probably a lot of great innovation that has never gotten out of the lab because someone didn’t do the work to just get it into people’s hands.”
At times, the company seems like a cargo cult, repeating mantras from a previous era without actually following them and applying the same strategies as before even though they no longer make sense.
Going through items in my mom’s house, took a picture of this old painting of mine. 8th grade, maybe. Reminds me of the previous icon for our app Sunlit.
You might have noticed an increase in the number of words I am publishing these days. I don’t know why. Or how. Somehow a lot of things have clicked in my head. I quietly switched from consumption to creation mode.
Codex for Mac does more than I realized on first glance. It’s one of the most complete version 1.0 releases I’ve seen in a long time. And by 1.0, of course I mean version 260202.0859. 🤪
SpaceX acquires xAI. Elon Musk explains putting data centers in space in a fantastical, far-reaching update:
By directly harnessing near-constant solar power with little operating or maintenance costs, these satellites will transform our ability to scale compute. It’s alway...
Interesting post on Twitter by an OpenAI co-founder, Andrej Karpathy, about the value of RSS. I've it said elsewhere, that RSS and ChatGPT are particularly well-suited for each other. I don't understand the connection, other than RSS is always useful, as a way of formalizing...
Jemima runs through just some of the exciting new additions to CSS:
Replacing 150+ lines of JavaScript with just a few CSS features is genuinely wild. We’re able to achieve the same amount of complexity that we’ve always had, but now it’s a lot less work to do so.
And Jemima will be opening the show at Web Day Out in Brighton on the 12th of March if you want to hear more of this!
I recently sat down with Jeremy Keith for a spontaneous conversation that quickly turned into a deep dive into something we both care a lot about: events, community, and why we keep putting ourselves through the joy and pain of running conferences.
2026-01-31 Acquired at thrift for a very reasonable $70. I was really hoping to get a Modern Elite No. 66 or an Elite No. 8 as my first SG1, but finding this with a Congress Elite No. 84 typeface was a reasonably acceptable alternative, particularly in usable condition. Initial condition assessment This 70 year old … Continue reading
Doing way too many things simultaneously today. Took a few minutes to unplug and read a book in the afternoon before diving back into code. Only finished one book in January, hoping to make progress on a few more in February.
OpenAI has a new Mac app for Codex. It appears to unify both Codex CLI and the web-based Codex into a single interface. This is where they always wanted to go by naming everything Codex.
