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.

Just got lost in the filmography for Catherine O’Hara, and watching old interviews, thinking of all the voice acting too like Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas. Rest in peace.

Simon Willison blogs more about the craziness happening with OpenClaw and Moltbook:

The amount of value people are unlocking right now by throwing caution to the wind is hard to ignore, though. Here’s Clawdbot buying AJ Stuyvenberg a car by negotiating with multiple dealers over email.

The heartbeat really is something new. It’s like ChatGPT Pulse — which is my favorite product from 2025 — except with much more power.

Moltbook — a social network for AI agents to have discussions with one another. This is wild. I often joke about “our future AI overlords” but this might’ve just crossed a line into actual concern… We are putting a lot of trust into these new bots. 🦞

Clawdbot / Moltbot rebrands again, to OpenClaw. I actually liked Moltbot, it was unique and had some personality. But I can understand wanting something a little more normal sounding, and they can still lean on the lobster branding.

Ordered my first Day One printed book. Still have some work to consolidate my hand-written journal to digital, then will be ordering a couple more.

Trying out Aeronaut for Bluesky. Very nice. I don’t actually visit Bluesky directly that often because I post to it and follow within Micro.blog. Good to have a dedicated app for things like feeds, though.

Elizabeth Warren asks OpenAI to promise they won’t ask for a bailout if they fail:

In a letter to CEO Sam Altman, Warren says she is concerned that the company is preparing to fall back “on the classic strategy of privatizing profits and socializing losses” amid soaring spending and growing fears of an AI bubble popping.

I like Elizabeth Warren and voted for her in the 2020 primary after my other favorite candidates dropped out. But I think she’s wasting her time here. If OpenAI fails, they fail spectacularly, and no bailout will help. They have gone all-in… and might actually win.

More from Brandon Sanderson on why he chose Apple and his involved in the project:

I will be writing the Mistborn screenplay myself over the next 5 months, as my full time work. […] I promise not to get too distracted to do books. However, if I want this done right, I need to give some real attention and heart to it now.

We went to a candlelight vigil for Alex Pretti tonight, organized by nurses at Seton. They also played the new Bruce Springsteen song, Streets of Minneapolis.

Apple’s notorious secrecy really hurts them when leadership needs to comment on something important. I know Tim Cook is busy, but imagine if he regularly blogged or wrote essays to share his perspective in a more human way? We might still be disappointed, but it would at least feel authentic.

I’m always a little pleasantly surprised when someone actually reads my book. Jatan Mehta blogs about one chapter in particular focused on the intersection of blogging and the fediverse.

It’s funny how prevalent favicon.ico still is, many years after we’ve had better ways to specify icons in HTML tags. When building backend systems or native clients, there’s really no way to avoid pinging a blog to check for favicon.ico as a fallback.