Dario Amodei will have a private dinner with Trump tonight, according to Axios:
Months ago, when Anthropic first started talking about having a one-on-one with Trump, some advised against it because “Dario’s a little too weird” for Trump, one senior official told Axios.
This is gonna be awkward.
Mark Gurman compares the Apple Vision Pro to the Meta VR Glasses, and adds some notes about new development:
Apple’s Vision team is now working on a completely revamped headset under the code name N224. Company engineers are exploring about four concepts for the device, including designs that offload internal components in the same way as Meta’s new product. But some senior Apple decision-makers view the external puck as a poor user experience and want the company to stick with something closer to an all-in-one design.
Sometimes I forget how much fun I have making software tricks that people don't even notice but contribute to the "it thinks like I do" feeling a of crafted UI. I think of it like walking on the Highline in NYC. You're just walking, right? But you're above it, in a city where a lot of what's going on is above you. And it's comfortable. Why? You don't need to know, it just is. But someone made it that way.
Worked on Epilogue this weekend, adding a new layout for the iPad. This also gets it a step closer to iPhone Duo support.
Weekend Update on SNL: Dario Amodei. “If we can pressure lawmakers to create guardrails, we will be able to stop me.” 🤣
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• Joe Crawford
There’s some surf coming in because of some storms offshore. Felt like making a reel, so I did. I also put it on Instagram and TikTok. It’s fun to look back and see fun rides. Why not slap them together. And click those links below the video! artlung.com/videos/reels/rideawave2026/
Got my print copy of The Fires of December. Love the secondary ink color. I started the ebook already and I’m about halfway through it.
The bigco's really think they own the web: "XSLT v1.0, which all browsers adhere to, was standardized in 1999. In the meantime, XSLT has evolved to v2.0 and v3.0, adding features, and growing apart from the old version frozen into browsers. This lack of advancement, coupled with the rise of JavaScript libraries and frameworks that offer more flexible and powerful DOM manipulation, has led to a significant decline in the use of client-side XSLT. Its role within the web browser has been largely superseded by JavaScript-based technologies such as JSON+React." In other words we don't need these features for our sites so fuck off.
This is what bluesky.buildRss creates. You can subscribe if you want, it will be updated every night at 11PM Eastern, murphy-willing.
Updated my Texas state parks page with this week’s visit. Making slow progress, only 32 parks in. It’s gonna take several more years. I think next up I will hit a few near the gulf coast at once.
Now people are saying that the OpenAI agent is called simply lowercase “o”? Please tell me this is a placeholder code name or a shortcut command-line tool. Aeon is a good name. Hope OpenAI hasn’t completely lost their mind.
