For people who like the view from trains as much as I do, here is a minute and a half video of us just rolling through the French countryside.

The new ChatGPT Pro at $100/month seems essentially just as good as the previous $200/month plan. It appears to even include Pulse. I’m gonna try to switch to get a feel for the token limits. I could never come close to hitting limits before.

Garcia Coffee House.

Morning in Malaga.

Interesting points in this blog post by Andrew Murphy (via Nick Heer) about how writing code faster isn’t the problem. But most of it is really about large teams that have bureaucratic delay fish.

AI can be empowering for small teams. I’m probably shipping software twice as fast with half the bugs.

I’m fixing several things in the iOS app for Micro.blog… If anyone wants to get on the beta, you can join TestFlight here. Will ship to everyone and Android in about a week.

While walking around Disneyland Paris yesterday, I was thinking about the parks I’ve visited and the others around the world. So today on the train I decided to make a list on my blog.

It was a good excuse to use Micro.blog photo collections too. See this GitHub Gist for the source.

Kimberly KG reflects on the latest from our president:

And yet, he’s still in office. Still not being held accountable. Who are we?

To keep our sanity, over the last year we’ve gone from outrage to mocking. Watch how late night TV makes fun of the ridiculous and dangerous things that Trump says. But surely with the Iran war this has turned a corner from the absurd and mostly bad just for our country to the potentially catastrophic.

He must be removed from office as soon as possible. See also this video predicting exactly that from James Carville. 🇺🇸

Really enjoyed my short time in Paris. I generally think that Europeans have gotten so many things right that we Americans are still struggling with. But… what is with all the smoking, still, in 2026? Someone should tell them it’s bad for you. 🚬

I like this thought from @patrickrhone:

The biggest danger with AI is that it is a shortcut around things that matter. Things that matter intellectually, things that matter socially, and things that matter emotionally.

I think that’s right. We have to make deliberate choices, which is hard right now because AI is like, “Hi, I can do everything for you.” But what actually makes us uniquely human? What has more value and meaning if we do it ourselves? I want shortcuts that give us more time for those things that matter. (And it’s complicated because that might not be the same for everyone.)

I got to meet @vincent in person for the first time while in Barcelona. He and his wife even brought me some sweet treats and special vodka from Poland! I’m lucky to be able to work remotely. As I type this, I’m in a cafe in Paris. But there’s nothing like meeting face to fa...

The new Frozen ride is really well designed. At Disneyland Paris / Disney Adventure World.

Got a drink at Le Train Bleu. Beautiful old restaurant from 1901, inside Gare de Lyon.

People like to give OpenAI shit for having “open” in the name, but if we look at developer tooling and access to models, the company is actually more open than Anthropic. That contrast was highlighted when Anthropic accidentally leaked the source code to Claude Code. TechCru...

Artemis II is almost there:

The Orion spacecraft is now in the lunar sphere of influence, meaning the moon’s gravity has more pull on the vehicle than the Earth. At 1:46 p.m. ET, the crew will surpass the record for the farthest distance traveled from Earth by humans, which was set by the Apollo 13 mission at 248,655 statute miles from Earth.

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La Petite Ceinture du 12th arrondissement. Old abandoned rail line that circled Paris to connect separate train stations. 🚂

The Beans on Fire in Paris. ☕️

Amazing photo of astronaut Christina Koch in silhouette, hair floating in zero gravity, looking back at Earth. 🚀

In today’s update to Inkwell for Mac, there’s a new window for photos in blog posts. It’s particularly useful for Reading Recap thumbnails too, with a clickable permalink to visit the full post.

Simple, but I’m happy with how this turned out. Toolbar buttons, pinch to zoom, drag to scroll, etc.

Paris street from the Promenade plantée René-Dumont. 🚂

On the train, crossing into France.

Finally I get to watch a Spurs game live even though I’m too many time zones away, because it’s an early afternoon game in Denver. Really good test for the Spurs. Couldn’t quite make it happen in OT. 🏀

Breakfast and coffee at Federal Cafe. Perfecto. ☕️

It’s so cool to hear from the Artemis crew. Happy for them. What an extraordinary achievement. Reminds me of the line from Apollo 13: “There’s nothing routine about flying to the moon.” 🚀

Montserrat Monastery. It’s beautiful up here, but unfortunately this is as close as I’m going to get. Left late, then got off at the wrong stop so had lunch in a small town waiting for the next train, and then forgot it is Good Friday. Very long line with everyone on holiday. 🚡

A little sneak peek of Inkwell for mobile in Vincent’s latest blog post.

Plaça Espanya. 🚂

Matt Mullenweg has a great blog post with both positive things to say about Cloudflare and a critique of EmDash. So I was right yesterday that “spiritual successor” was the wrong way for Cloudflare to pitch this. From Matt, about why WordPress can be run anywhere:

It’s all built on open source and web standards. You can run it anywhere; there’s no lock-in.

That’s why we do what we do. It’s really hard. You can come after our users, but please don’t claim to be our spiritual successor without understanding our spirit.

AT Protocol standardizations is officially underway, with a new working group at the IETF:

For folks building in the Atmosphere ecosystem, and who care about how services interoperate and share data, this working group is a big opportunity to work out any ambiguities and unresolved issues.

Listening to U2’s new EP, Easter Lily. Bono:

We still look to vivid rock n roll as an act of resistance against all this awfulness on our small screens. These are for sure ‘wilderness years’ for so many of us looking at the mayhem out there in the world.

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