Just released an update to Epilogue for iOS with some fixes and a better posts list, which now includes your movie and TV show blog posts.

Yellow flowers and crape myrtle. Yard work today for one of the last visits to my mom’s house.

Working on server upgrades. Hosting costs have ballooned out of control again, good opportunity to rethink the right balance of memory and storage. Some servers have really high uptime and can be replaced.

The New Yorker on the border wall in Texas around Big Bend:

The construction strikes many locals as both unreasonable and unstoppable. “You’ve got desert and high mountains and rugged, rough country and no water and no roads,” Bill Ivey, the president of the Brewster County Tourism Council, told me. “The easiest part of getting to the United States would be scaling the wall. We just don’t see people cross the border out here.”

OpenClaw is run like the bleeding-edge project you’d expect it to be. An excerpt from of a longer post by Peter Steinberger on X:

Part of what excites me so much about working on OpenClaw is that I’m trying to answer the question:

How would we build software in the future if tokens don’t matter?

We constant run ~100 codex in the cloud, reviewing every PR, every issue. If a fix on main lands, clawsweeper will eventually find that 6 month old issue and close it with an exact reference.

Spurs vs. Timberwolves game 6 tonight is going to be big. Nice article at ESPN on the organization’s culture and longevity:

On any given day at the facility, a current Spur can walk into a room filled with championship players from the past. It’s not uncommon to go to lunch and find Ginobili dining with three-time champion Bruce Bowen, whose No. 12 jersey is retired in San Antonio. Duncan, who once had a space in the coaches’ locker room at the old facility, is a fixture at the new spot, too, along with two-time champ and 10-time All-Star David Robinson and Sean Elliott…

I remain skeptical of Tesla robotaxis and this report doesn’t make me feel better:

Tesla Robotaxis have crashed at least twice since July 2025 while a teleoperator was remotely driving the vehicles…

Waymo has the right approach. When stuck, cars can be given hints on what to do by remote staff, but the cars still drive based on their training, they can’t be controlled like a video game.

Andrew Sharp has one of the best blog posts I’ve read recently about not just the OpenAI trial, but stepping back to see the big picture of OpenAI’s founding and where things are now. On the evidence:

Musk is wrong here and he should lose. […] Across a two-week trial where Musk and his lawyers have worked every single day to put Altman’s dishonesty at the forefront of the jury’s mind, Elon is the most dishonest character in that courtroom, at least with respect to the facts at hand.

It’s a medium-long post and goes through the text messages and other surrounding details.

I work every day on a lot of different things. This requires being able to flow between projects without hitting walls. App review is a wall. It’s a momentum killer. It’s like wading through mud when you want to run.

ChatGPT personal finance is going to be popular, eventually, but initially I expect people to be cautious about giving AI access to their bank accounts. It’s read-only, which I assume is enforced by Plaid:

When you connect your accounts, ChatGPT can access your balances, transactions, investments, and liabilities to help visualize your finances or answer your questions. It cannot see full account numbers or make any changes to your accounts.

This year I had planned to download all my bank statements and feed them to Codex to help organize things for taxes. Feels more transparent that way.

Now four days since I appealed the Inkwell rejection. I’ve drafted a full blog post explaining all the problems I’ve run into with app review. Going to hold the post until Monday, just to give Apple a little more time.

Codex has had a section in the ChatGPT mobile app for a while, but only for the cloud version. The update this week is a rewrite (apparently in SwiftUI) and can connect to a Mac running Codex. Seems good. If you have a desktop Mac somewhere, the lines are starting to blur between Codex and OpenClaw.

We have lots of native apps, but I will never use that as an excuse to write generic “bug fixes” release notes. I like including good release notes both for our users and for myself later, as I look back on what we’ve shipped.

Still, it is a lot to keep up with. Lately I’ve been turning to Codex to get me started with a release notes draft. I use a prompt like this:

Please review all the git commits since the tag “release/3.8.4” and write some release notes for the major changes. Read the release notes from the web page here help.micro.blog/t/micro-b… and follow that style of what is important and how to phrase the changes.

It’s usually not quite right, a little too verbose, so I can then edit it to fit what I would’ve written by hand anyway. Saves a lot of time.

Still kind of unbelievable that The Late Show only has one week left. When the cancellation was announced, the end date seemed far away, and I thought maybe they’d change their mind anyway.

Good recap of the OpenAI trial from TechCrunch. This part is really the whole case:

OpenAI’s attorneys have asked every witness to describe specific restrictions put on Musk’s donations, and none have, including his financial adviser Jared Birchall, his chief of staff Sam Teller, or his special adviser Shivon Zilis. They say everyone involved agreed that private fundraising would be required to achieve its goals, and note that Musk himself attempted to launch an OpenAI-affiliated for-profit he would personally control, and later to merge OpenAI into his company Tesla.

Listening to the closing arguments in Elon Musk vs. OpenAI. Elon left the country to be with Trump and Tim Cook in China. Pretty sure Elon knows the case is all but lost. Maybe the goal was never to win, just to make the defendants look bad and waste everyone’s time.

Slowly making improvements to our book database in Micro.blog. There’s a new layout for the book pages too, with the page count and better descriptions when we can get them.

Along the Walnut Creek Trail.

The new trailer for Laika’s Wildwood looks so good. Visuals alone, I think Laika might have something truly special here. Audiences are going to increasingly want handcrafted work. See also the quote from Travis Knight earlier this year.

Last year, we launched a new plan for Micro.blog called Micro.one. It was only $1/month and included nearly everything from a standard Micro.blog subscription. It was a bit of an experiment. Micro.one actually had a cap of 3000 registrations. I was worried that we would lose...

A little crazy that we have 12 separate downloadable apps for Micro.blog across Mac, iOS, and Android. I’ve finally made a special download page for all of them: micro.blog/download

Great post from @danielpunkass reflecting on his time at Apple 30 years ago:

I quit in 2002, shortly after Apple released the first iPod MP3 player. I was antsy. Only 26 years old by that time, I wanted to go back to school for another college degree, this time in music. It’s funny to think back now at how “done” I thought our work at the company was. I was looking at the future through Mac-colored lenses, and it seemed as though everything important had been done.

Before the Spurs game, moment of silence for Brandon Clarke and Jason Collins… but then it fades to a Draft Kings commercial. Really in poor taste. I don’t think I had strong opinions about all the gambling promotion until now. 🏀

Google approved two of our apps in less than an hour today, one app in what felt like minutes. Maybe they are automating more of the review? Whatever they’re doing, I like it.

I should’ve had tacos for lunch. Obama stops in Austin for a visit:

Former President Barack Obama stopped by an Austin taco restaurant Tuesday afternoon alongside Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico and gubernatorial hopeful state Rep. Gina Hinojosa, according to videos shared online.

I’ve avoided essentially live-blogging the OpenAI trial, because I know everyone is sick of AI, but maybe I should have blogged a little more. I’ve listened to significant portions of the testimony, probably 10-15 hours over the last week. Feels like it’s winding down now that Sam Altman is done.

I love a nice compound word (real or made up) for product names. Some of my current and previous products: Sunlit, Wavelength, Inkwell, Watermark, Clipstart. They often invoke just the right feeling. So hat tip to OpenAI on their latest name, more or less perfect for cyber defense: Daybreak.

Some mornings I see my Apple Watch sleep score and think, “Ah, makes sense.” Other mornings it feels like a random number generator.

Recycled Books in Denton. I’ve been there a dozen times and only realized this weekend that they have a downstairs. Surprisingly large section of train books. 📚

I’ve made progress with Apple on getting Inkwell approved, but there’s still a lingering issue that I’m appealing. Drafted a letter for the appeal. I’m trying to resist ending it with “Thank you for your attention to this matter!” 🤪