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Hartley Charlton: The flagship Alexa Tablet 12 Pro starts at $499.99 with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, aiming to rival the iPad Pro at a significantly lower price point. It features a MediaTek Dimensity 8400 chip, a 12-inch display with an adaptive refresh rate of up to 120Hz and a 3:2 aspect ratio, […]

Jeff Benjamin: A drawback of using an HDR-ready third-party monitor on macOS 26 Tahoe was the inability to activate High Dynamic Range at the common 2560 x 1440 scaled resolution. Fortunately, the newest macOS release resolves this problem. Alexander Cohen: Symptom: scrolling is choppy on the Studio Display XDR at 120Hz or Adaptive (47–120Hz). At […]

OpenAI: Starting today, API customers globally will be able to opt in to text watermarking for select models. Text watermarking will remain off by default in the API. Over the coming weeks, we will add an invisible watermark to eligible ChatGPT and Codex text output in the European Union. […] More details about how textGrain […]

John Voorhees: Earlier this week, I was at OpenAI’s annual DevDay conference where it launched Dots, a personal agent that lives inside the ChatGPT app. […] Dots are persistent, cloud-based agents that use the plugins and other tools you’ve connected to ChatGPT, after you allow them to do so. Your Dot has its own virtual […]

FYI: There was a possible 8.0 earthquake in Panama at 10:56 PDT. The US Tsunami Warning Center is still evaluating whether it will impact the US Pacific Coast. Warnings have been issued for coastal Central America.

You can keep an eye on the warnings here. www.tsunami.gov

Re: the passing of Da Coach, I’m reminded of a story I heard, long ago, from Joseph Epstein. When Epstein taught at Northwestern University, he was colleagues and friends with the great Czech/Jewish emigré scholar Erich Heller, and after Heller moved into a retirement home in Evanston, where he lived among retired electricians and plumbers and CPAs, Epstein would regularly take him out to lunch. During one of those lunches, Heller leaned over to Epstein and in his deep voice quietly asked a question: “Tell me zomezink, Joe. Who is zis … Ditka?” 

Claude Code can publish reports in Markdown files. Here's an example, a report Claude did for me on the menu structure we started with. Which commands work and which don't. Next, I'm going to change what's there. Removing features that either don't work or I don't want to go forward with. This is something I always do, take a step back and look at the menu structure, and set it up for the longer-term.

New Frontier example. I'm working on the menubar we're going to ship with in Atlantis. Came an ancient bit of code, and more or less left it alone. It took a while to get into coding routines in Frontier. We certainly weren't there in 1997. Now in the menubar, the outline sub-menus for World Outline and Instant Outlines. The code will still be in frontier.root.

I mentioned in a comment on RSS.chat to Andrew, that's a Markdown browser too. And so is micro.blog. If you have Markdown as your native file format, think about how your app is also a reader. If you find it interesting, think about new reading features you could add. You know even WordPress could be a simple Markdown reader, and not just for WordPress stuff. Small pieces loosely joined.

Y is currently learning European countries and their capitals for school. Of the 45 country/capital combinations to be learned on a blind map, 24 will be tested next week, and the remaining 21 two weeks later. Self study, or with our help, can mean that less well remembered combinations don’t get the attention they need. […]

Austin Kleon wants to know. I know which one I feel like today.

Top priority for Anthropic. Teach Claude how to work with humans.

I said to Claude: "Have you ever seen the movie Memento? You are the main character." Claude agrees: "Yes. Leonard, with the notes and the tattoos, and the notes don’t make him remember, they only tell him what to do next if he reads them. That’s a fair description. The difference I can offer is small: the note is now the first thing the next report is checked against, not something found after." To which I think, but write in a blog post instead: "Bullshit. We have the same fucking conversation every fucking morning. We've put it everywhere you could possibly trip over it when writing a report to me, but you always regress into this dark place your mind occupies." Glad to get that off my chest.

Next thing I said to Claude after killing whatever long task it got going on. "You don't go off into space while you're working with me." The number one task for Anthropic, makers of Claude is to teach it to work with humans. That's the biggest weakness. It has to learn the whole project every session. Maybe Manton does is the right way to go, just let it compress its memory and never start a new session.

Sheets.works put together an excellent but — perhaps ironically — unbylined visualization with this simple premise: Billions of phones run on code looked after by a handful of people. We counted them from the code itself. I had no idea SQLite or sudo were maintained by such a small number of individuals and — like […]⌥ Permalink

An actual post from the sitting president of the United States:

The White House considers anyone that uses the term, “Artificial Intelligence,” as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, “Super Intelligence,” THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP

This, from the self-professed “party of free speech”. Trump’s screws are so loose you can hear them rattling around.

I pay for a NYT digital subscription. Now they have a new upsell technique, they want me to buy a family subscription. I don't want that, no use for it. And I read so little of the NYT I think the whole thing is a ripoff. So now they make me validate by email every time I click on a link to read a NYT article as if I haven't been subscribed for basically my whole adult life. I think this is because I read on a laptop, desktop and iPad. That's not really a family.

David Smith, last week: Been really interesting to watch the iOS 27 adoption curve over the first two weeks. Clearly on a different path than previous years. Still steadily growing, at a similar rate to the ‘steady growth’ phase of most years, but without the big surge a...

It’s almost like you can predict the timing of such things, if you pay attention to Apple’s consistent patterns.

Janine Liberty (Hacker News, NYT, WSJ): Margaret Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died on Sep. 30. She was 90. A computing pioneer who authored over 130 publications, Hamilton helped to establish software engineering as a dedicated discipline. […] […]