WordPress’s new Link Fixer is in some ways similar to the archiving features that we’ve had baked into Micro.blog for years. But I like their option to routinely fix broken links. I’ve been thinking maybe a report that makes it easier to do this, even if it’s not automatic.

Dave Rupert wants to see more writing about making things better:

It’s cheap and easy to complain and say “[Thing] is bad”, but it’s also free to share what you think would be better.

Good post. Complaining can sometimes be valuable, but also too often we target people instead of ideas and institutions, achieving nothing. The constant negativity can be overwhelming.

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There’s a fun discussion on today’s Hard Fork about Moltbook. We live in an increasingly bizarre world. I don’t want slop to overwhelm human-centered social networks, but I’m also mostly fine with AI-only networks like Sora or Moltbot because it’s segregated.

Brett Terpstra blogs about his upcoming app BlogBook:

This is a new app I’m publishing as a complement to Marked 3. It generates a “Book” from WordPress, Micro.blog, or Ghost blogs.

Sounds great. It will generate a table of contents and can export in various formats including PDF and ePub.

This Anthropic post is pretty much what I would write too, as a reaction to ads coming in OpenAI. I actually do believe OpenAI when they say they won’t let ads influence answers, but people are going to think that anyway. People still think Instagram uses the phone’s microphone to listen randomly!

Doing the math on the Cosmere books, with Mistborn era 3 locked in for releases in 2028, 2029, and 2030, maybe we’ll see Stormlight book 10 around 2043. Joking / not joking with my daughter to read a few chapters at my graveside if I don’t make it. 🪦

I love this train station photo in the snow.

Forbes has a profile of Sam Altman with some interesting quotes from him and others:

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.”

Linking to a post about Apple from Matt Gemmell, Michael Tsai blogs:

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.

Om Malik has been on a roll with great blog posts lately, refocusing on creation:

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...

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.

Working on something new that is ending up much more costly to run than I was expecting. I’ve tried to move features that previously required Micro.blog Premium down to the standard Micro.blog subscription whenever possible. Probably can’t happen for this new thing.

So much of success is just timing. I feel lucky to have been 20-ish in the mid 1990s, seeing the potential for the web, being able to focus nearly all of my attention on it. The same will happen now for young folks who understand the AI shift. (Ironically, my own kids want nothing to do with it!)

Listening to the latest AppStories podcast. Fun discussion about OpenClaw, but also they make a really good point about the future of software: developers will need to focus even more on polish and making an app feel like a finished product to distinguish from the vibe-coded flood of new apps.

The UT tower as we’re heading back from Blade Runner Live. Don’t think I had ever been to a movie or video game in concert before, but always wanted to. Great movie and great music.

Neat map on adventuresaroundthe.world/map/ where you can click on a pin to view blog posts from trips to that region. Hosted on Micro.blog and uses this plug-in from @vladcampos.

I gave in and reinstalled OpenClaw, but this time isolated it on its own server, with no access to anything real except its own email address. Going to experiment very slowly with it.

Kev Quirk is thinking about what will happen to his blog when he’s gone:

I’m part of the first generation that grew up online, and most of us are still very much alive. But as time marches on, more of us are going to leave behind these digital epitaphs.

Great podcast interview with PSPDFKit and OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger:

What blew my mind so much was this realization that I can build everything now. Before you had to really pick which side project you built because software is hard.

Watched: Arco. I really enjoyed this. Some of the comedic parts didn’t work for me, but it’s a unique film and there are some moments that I absolutely loved. 🍿

Watching the end of Spurs / Hornets. The refs made the right call here on the challenge, but overall the rule change to protect 3-point shooters' feet when they land has been taken too far. It’s being gamed, making defense too difficult. 🏀

I was cautious with our initial AI adoption in Micro.blog. There’s a global opt-out checkbox to hide any feature that uses AI. All background tasks check this setting before they touch an LLM. I thought this was important for folks who are philosophically opposed to AI. The ...

Everyone should at least skim through some of the posts on Moltbook. Whether you’re an AI skeptic, or a programmer, or just curious. I’m not saying it’s good or bad… Value judgements don’t even matter right now. Everything is crazy and the future is up for grabs.

Went to see Steve Martin and Martin Short tonight. Great show. Martin Short also had a few words to honor Catherine O’Hara at the end. Just perfect.

Lots of interesting stats in Bluesky’s trust and safety report for 2025. Just a small part:

Harassment reports (1.99M total) encompassed a wide spectrum of behavior, from serious violations to everyday incivility. The new taxonomy distinguishes hate speech (55.40K reports), targeted harassment (42.52K reports), trolling (29.48K reports), and doxxing (3.17K reports) from more general unkindness.