From reviews, sounds like the MacBook Neo is a great little laptop. It has been a while since I’ve thought an Apple product actually followed that “a thousand no’s for every yes” video from WWDC a decade ago… This laptop makes the right trade-offs.

Thomas Ricouard is joining OpenAI. Thomas worked on the Medium iOS app, Ice Cubes for Mastodon (written in SwiftUI), and Codex Monitor. From a thread on Twitter / X:

I also can’t wait to bring my iOS and macOS expertise to help shape the Codex experience around those platforms.

He appears to have stopped posting to the fediverse. It’s too bad the AI community is so entrenched on Twitter / X.

Miloš Miljković has written an Emacs client for Inkwell. Amazing. It supports bookmarking too.

I’ve been doing a lot of work in Codex for the upcoming Inkwell for Mac release. I’m weeks ahead of where I thought I’d be. One small tweak I’ve made to my workflow is to wire up ⌘-R to run the project while I’m in Codex.

Codex has its own run action button, which in theory could run xcodebuild or osascript command-line tools, but that didn’t work for me. So I reached for FastScripts instead. I wrote this tiny AppleScript:

tell application "Xcode"
	activate
	run workspace document 1
end tell

Here’s a screenshot of the config in FastScripts:

Now when I’m in Codex and it has finished a change, I review the transcript, then hit ⌘-R to run my Mac app and test the new thing. If I don’t like it, I’ll ask Codex for changes and run again. Then I can review the code diff and tweak or commit as needed. The keyboard shortcut makes this cycle just a little smoother.

Dave Winer writes in his blog post linking to Inkwell:

I love that creative people are using RSS in new ways.

This feels like a great time to experiment, maybe more so even than the early 2000s blogosphere. Ask people I worked with back then, I was putting RSS in everything. And now I am again. 🤪

Meta acquires Moltbook. From TechCrunch:

OpenClaw blew up among the tech community, but Moltbook broke containment, reaching people who had no idea what OpenClaw was, but who reacted viscerally to the idea that there was a social network where AI agents were talking about them.

Moltbook is still crazy and interesting, but not sure it fits at Meta in the way that OpenClaw might’ve. I’m just glad Peter Steinberger ended up at OpenAI.

Working on Inkwell is in some ways a little awkward because I’m competing in the same space as some of my friends for the first time. But I root for their success and find ways to collaborate. It’s similar to how MarsEdit and Micro.blog work together and also “compete” as blogging client apps.

Sneak peek of Inkwell for Mac. It’s coming along well. I was going to do a beta but might jump straight to 1.0 this week. Need to fix a few things and wire up version checking.

Android folks, @gregmorris is looking for beta testers for Micro Social.

If anyone else would like to test Micro Social on Android please let me know.

Apparently I cant open test or release until I have at least 12 closed testers for 14 days!

Micro Social https://microsocial.micro.blog/2026/03/10/if-anyone-else-would-like.html

I sort of collect “micro” domain names now, so using micro.ink for Inkwell felt right. All the HTML and JS is actually bundled in a Micro.blog plug-in and served just like any blog. I think it demonstrates how flexible Micro.blog hosting can be.

Jay Graber is stepping aside as CEO, staying at Bluesky to work on other things:

I’ve grown a lot as a leader and had the privilege of assembling the best team I’ve ever worked with. As we’ve grown, I’ve found that people thrive when they’re in a role where their passions overlap with their strengths. This is as true for me as it is for our team.

Toni Schneider will be CEO. I expect 2026 will be an important year for Bluesky, presumably with new ideas for increasing revenue beyond domain name registration.

John Brayton blogs about Unread 4.8, with syncing to Inkwell, faster link articles, and more.

Thanks @numericcitizen for creating a video of Inkwell with a closer look at everything! Lots of good details in here.

This is hard to believe, but I introduced a bug minutes before blogging about Inkwell. Sync was partially broken. Apologies to folks who tried it right away, it should be returning to normal now.

Today we’re releasing a new RSS feed reader called Inkwell. It’s a companion product to Micro.blog, so you’ll sign in with your existing Micro.blog account. Inkwell is a special take on RSS. It has many features you’d expect in an RSS reader, but it also adds integration wit...

Ran into some last-minute problems with my bridge to Feedbin. Going to have to disable that feature for launch. I’m a fan of Feedbin, so not happy to do this, but it’ll be something else we can roll out in the future.

Looks like ChatGPT is back at #1 in the App Store. Claude had bumped it out of that spot for about a week. App Store rankings are just recent trends, so maybe we’ll see some flip-flopping going forward based on the news cycle.

As I like to note every year, today is the anniversary of starting my blog. Good day to release some new web software!

I can’t believe I’m only just now learning that Luke Kornet has a blog. Guess I need to officially offer everyone in the Spurs organization free Micro.blog subscriptions. 🏀

I designed this RSS app for the web first, and then added Mac afterwards (in beta soon). I think that worked out well. Helps push the web to be as feature-rich as possible, and lets me rethink what should be different for the Mac.

Started watching House of Guinness. Really like the look of the show. Good so far. 🍺

OpenAI delays adult mode:

We still believe in the principle of treating adults like adults, but getting the experience right will take more time.

A good and fairly obvious call, this was a distraction for a company that is pulled in too many different directions. GPT-5.4 released last week is a great model, but it’s lost in the noise.

OpenAI has an infrastructure advantage and so should be focusing almost everything on model thinking quality, background agents like Pulse that require enormous compute, and the upcoming device from Jony Ive. A new device with a good brand would help too.

Ratcheteer DX looks fun. I saw it was produced by Panic but didn’t realize until now that Shaun Inman worked on it. Very cool… Going to get it for Switch but feel like it should be played on a Game Boy Advance. 🕹️

Yet another great Spurs win, coming back in the 4th quarter down a bunch. This team is unique. They just get it done. 🏀

Watched: Hamnet. Really great. Won’t ever see Hamlet the same way again. 🍿

Eventually we’re going to have OpenClaw-like assistants that can filter or prioritize emails and calls, but for now I wish there was some kind of voicemail scripting. If a voicemail transcript contains “$”, delete it.

Micro.blog users who actively use our book-related features will have noticed over the last couple of weeks that books search has been unreliable. Long story short, we were using a combination of Google Books and Open Library, and rate-limiting with Google in particular star...

I have a few blog post drafts about recent AI controversy and advertising that I may post eventually, but for now I do want to note Dario Amodei’s blog post on the ongoing negotiations with the military. I thought his leaked internal post was in poor taste, overly personal, so I like his apology here to correct the record:

It was a difficult day for the company, and I apologize for the tone of the post. It does not reflect my careful or considered views. It was also written six days ago, and is an out-of-date assessment of the current situation.

Simon Carstensen has rebuilt Jottit, the web publishing tool he built with Aaron Swartz in 2007:

Aaron believed the web should be easy enough that anyone could participate. Not just people who know how to code or who can afford a platform’s cut.

Watched: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Enjoyed this more than I was expecting. Good show. 📺