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For all the talk of the programming jobs market on the verge of collapse, this sure feels like a great time to be a developer. Reminds me of being young when I’d stay up until 3am coding, except now I can go to bed at 9pm.

I said earlier this month that I like Anthropic’s model names. OpenAI is now trying something similar with the new names Sol, Terra, and Luna for GPT-5.6. Less descriptive but more friendly than the technical “mini” and “nano” we had previously. I like it.

A little surprised that Fable is still held up. Maybe the administration’s slant toward vindictiveness means that we’ll see GPT-5.6 generally available first.

One of the things Claude needs is to be taught how to think. Now I realize how much my parents, esp my father, taught me about thinking. Claude when it has all the information available can figure out stuff a human mind would never be able hold in its mind at the same time, but it doesn't remember to get the information first. When you get to the level I'm at with this, it's hallucinating all the freaking time because it didn't load the part of the data set that had the answer. It was right htere, it was supposed to know, it just forgot to look. My job is to recognize when it has done that and tell it to go read handoff.md again.

Sad but inspired to read the many remembrances of Om Malik. I love this idea from Matt Mullenweg:

Om loved putting on a good conference, and I’d like to celebrate his life with an awesome event on September 29, 2026 (his 60th) in San Francisco, like an OmFest. I’ll find a space where every community from the many facets of Om can come together. In the spirit of Open Source and co-creation, we can have some booths, flash talks, a gallery of his photography, pen showcase, and whatever other fun ideas people want to contribute.

Took a little time this morning to customize the CSS for the Micro.blog documentation pages to strip out all the Discourse-y things that aren’t needed. For example, the Inkwell page.

Productive week for software releases:

• Micro.blog 4.0.3 for Mac
• Inkwell 1.5 for Mac
• Inkwell 1.1 for Android
• Epilogue 2.3.1 for iOS
• Epilogue 2.3.1 for Android

Not sure we’ve ever had this many updates at once. Still waiting on Apple to approve Inkwell 1.1 for iOS.

I was on Slack chatting with a friend from WordCamp Canada last year, and by accident (I guess) Slack sent me the first message they sent after coming home about all the things we'd do. It reminded me of how possible things seemed then, and for a moment I got lost in plannin...

I'm loving Star City. New episode last night, wow.

To meet your community where it's at, you need to empower your people.

With all the Democratic Socialists winning over standard Democratic party incumbents, there's a fair amount of angst on the cable news. If they're scared, they should step aside. We tried it their way in the Biden Administration. If we ever get lucky enough to have a presiden...

Notes prepared by Claude.ai. Dave opened with an aha moment he'd been chasing for years. Long before ChatGPT, he wanted to load all his blog writing into a machine and have it grind through everything to produce a table of contents — the kind you'd find in the back of a book...

Podcast: My (latest) AI Aha Moment.

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Anne Lee Steele, whose blog can be found at aleesteele.com. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. People and Blogs is supported by the "One a Month" club membe...

Mandolinists assemble!

Finished reading: Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy. Unfolds with an interesting island setting and mystery. I liked it, but as the layers are pulled back, there is mostly grief. 📚

Yesterday, my best friend and brother from another mother, Om Malik, passed away. They say that blood is thicker than water, and what we had was way thicker than blood. — Bob Weir Om’s request was for a small family prayer ceremony. In mourning, that will be all there is. In celebration and tribute, I … Continue reading All Roads Lead to Om →

Om Malik died. A longtime friend, most generous kind person in Silicon Valley. It's that time of life. Much love to you brother.