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Explanation: This sight was worth getting out of bed early. Just over four years ago, Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) rose before dawn to the delight of northern sky enthusiasts awake that early. Up before sunrise on July 8th, the featured photographer was...

Here's a neat thing I had ChatGPT Work with GPT-6 Astra (Max) do this morning:

I live at <my address>. Figure out 5K and 10K running routes from me that loop from my house. Use OSM data.

It worked for 27 minutes and produced exactly what I'd asked for, as both an embedded visualization and downloadable GPX file and GeoJSON files. Here's that 5K route:

Tags: gpt-6-astra, generative-ai, openai, chatgpt, ai, llms

California Brown Pelican, in San Mateo County, CA, US The Pacifica Pier shut down at the start of June after a crack in the concrete walkway made access to the pier unsafe. It has since been entirely taken over by pelicans! Tags: wildlife

A few new thoughts from the days after the Duo unveil.

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The full iPhone Duo Hands-on: https://youtu.be/Od6M0AXpcxQ

Playlist of MKBHD Intro music: https://goo.gl/B3AWV5

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John Brayton:

Unread 5.0 is available now from the App Store. This update adds these improvements and more:

• Improvements around hero images, article list thumbnails, and widget thumbnails
• Syncing with FreshRSS and Miniflux
• The ability to quickly mark old articles read

I’m a NetNewsWire man personally, but I’ve long admired Unread as a different, very good take on a feed reader. Just a gorgeous app. One of the very best things about RSS is that feed readers take such different shapes and approaches.

Link: goldenhillsoftware.com/2026/09/unread-50/

When melancholia hits you hart, you’re done.

Absolutely love the depressing atmosphere in this movie. And what a scenario with another planet hitting earth!

Love the classic soundtrack. The space images are fantastic. The opening slo-mo sequences remind me of Crewdson photographs.

Part one might be a bit too long, but part two is absolutely perfect.

👍 Recommended!

For a while, I must admit, it looked as if software developer roles like mine were done for. How could we fight against tireless robots? But our industry is slowly realizing that making truly cutting-edge software still requires humans to think and work together, to maximize their skill sets and to practice their respective crafts. A.I. can write very good software, but it also makes it easy to do someone else’s job badly, which is part of why all those projects fail. Now that everyone can code, it’s become clearer why many shouldn’t.

— Paul Ford, A.I. Was Supposed to Give Us New Killer Apps. What Happened?

Tags: paul-ford, generative-ai, deep-blue, ai, llms

Tim VanBenschoten:

Post Peek is an independent, open-source project inspired by Litterbox, the Safari extension by Zhenyi Tan (And a Dinosaur).

Link: github.com/tsvb/post-peek

Paul Ford, writing for The New York Times (gift link):

For a while, I must admit, it looked as if software developer roles like mine were done for. How could we fight against tireless robots? But our industry is slowly realizing that making truly cutting-edge software still requires humans to think and work together, to maximize their skill sets and to practice their respective crafts. A.I. can write very good software, but it also makes it easy to do someone else’s job badly, which is part of why all those projects fail. Now that everyone can code, it’s become clearer why many shouldn’t.

Ford, linking to his own column on Bluesky:

I just want one killer app before we get a killer robot.

Link: nytimes.com/2026/09/12/opinion/ai-software-coding-apps.html…

My old friend Jim Ray now runs developer relations at Bluesky, and part of that gig is hosting a podcast, Off Protocol (“a show about building a better Internet”). I was delighted to appear as his latest guest. I generally don’t like talking about my career, but I did enjoy talking about it with Jim. He has that effect on people.

Link: atproto.com/off-protocol/2026-09-11-make-your-own-thing…

T-Mobile, in their iPhone 18 Pro / iPhone Duo press release: Plus, T‑Mobile is one of the first to support Apple’s new iPhone Handoff feature, where customers with two compatible iPhone models can use their T‑Mobile number across both devices and choose which phone is ac...

Tristan Buckmaster, professor of mathematics at NYU, in his own statement, regarding his and Levent Alpöge’s interactions with employees at OpenAI regarding this week’s math-proof controversy: I asked when the first prompt had been sent by them. This question was not ans...

I have been busy with new-iPhone-week stuff, so I haven’t been able to follow either of these stories closely, but Marcus summarizes them both well. First: the drama regarding OpenAI claiming a solution to the Navier–Stokes math problem. In short, OpenAI continues to prove i...

OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems is a new bombshell report from Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx - three of the four authors of the report on the agent attack on disused wikis (previously) last week. This time they're noting that it...

Release: datasette-publish-fly 1.4

• Sets force_https=true in fly.toml. #31
• Fix for Volume could not be found bug. #32
• Compatible with app-scoped deploy tokens. #34

Tags: datasette, fly

Release: github-to-sqlite 2.9.1

• Fix for compatibility with sqlite-utils 4.x. #85

Tags: github, sqlite

Release: datasette 0.65.4

See Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases on the Datasette blog.

Tags: security, datasette

Release: datasette 1.0a39

See Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases on the Datasette blog.

Tags: security, datasette