Looking over EmDash. I don’t like that they call it “the spiritual successor to WordPress”. Isn’t the spirit of WordPress from Matt Mullenweg’s vision of the project? Matt is very much still involved. Feels wrong for Cloudflare to frame it that way.

The Cloudflare Blog

Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

Today we are launching the beta of EmDash, a full-stack serverless JavaScript CMS built on Astro 6.0. It combines the features of a traditional CMS...

Coffee and breakfast earlier this morning at Sip Coffee. ☕️

I keep missing the W3C social web calls. I feel bad about it, but there’s a lot to juggle with travel and work. As soon as I’m settled in one place for more than a few days, looking forward to getting involved.

It’s too bad that ChatGPT Pulse is so expensive. It’s a wonderful product. Here’s an example of one of the stories it brought me this morning. It knows I’m traveling and that I had looked around Gràcia, so it researches places I might want to know about. No one else is doing anything like this.

ChatGPT

ChatGPT - Evening bookstores around Eixample and Gràcia

Shared via ChatGPT

Drafting another blog post with a contrarian take on OpenAI… Not sure why I do this to myself when I should be focusing on my own code. I guess because I think everyone else is mostly wrong. 🤪

I lot of bloggers I respect have posted reflections on Apple’s 50th anniversary. I’m finding that I don’t have much to say. I blogged a couple years ago about my first intro to the Mac. Haven’t felt that magic in a while.

Manton Reece

Excited that the Artemis II launch seems to have gone off well. I tried to stay up but I feel like a world away now. Too much time zone shuffling lately. 🚀

Project Hail Mary came out right after I left on my trip, so I just finally got to see it today. It was great. English with Spanish subtitles. 🍿

Why didn’t anyone tell me you need to get tickets to Sagrada Familia weeks in advance? Just kidding, literally everyone I’ve talked to in the last month has told me that. I don’t listen and just do what I want. 🤪

I updated the Mac version of Inkwell again this morning. Here’s a very quick demo video on YouTube describing the recent changes.

Om Malik blogs about OpenAI’s latest funding round, presumably the last one before an IPO: "OpenAI is quietly pivoting, shutting down Sora, its much-hyped video app, and concentrating resources on a “superapp” for developers and business users, with coding assistants at the center. Why? Because enterprise is exactly where Anthropic is eating their lunch." I don’t agree with this. Yes, Anthropic has the momentum and is making a ton of money. But is it a pivot? OpenAI is still going to release a hardware device within the next year, which is clearly a consumer product.

OpenAI: The Fix Is In – On my Om

Nick Heer blogging on the 50th anniversary of Apple: "But the main reason I am fascinated by Apple is that it has built such a distinct identity for itself. It has not always stuck to it but, if anything, I think that helps reinforce the existence of an Apple-y identity."

Upgrade Presents: The Origin of Apple – Pixel Envy

The newest episode of “Upgrade” is a wonderful retelling of a very particular history (also available as a video): Jason and Myke tell ...

Funny how we adapt. I looked at the Barcelona metro map yesterday and thought this is a crazy, jumbled mess of random lines. A couple hours after arriving, it seems totally normal.

Moonlight on the water.

For the next minor update to Inkwell for Mac, I’m trying to address confusion around the highlight button. Two changes: adding a “new post” button, so it’s more obvious the “highlight” button is a different thing, and giving it a subtle yellow. It’ll ship tomorrow.

Airbnb news via TechCrunch: "Airbnb announced Tuesday it is expanding its services feature with a new category for car pick-ups across 125 cities around the world." Dunno if this is better for visitors, but from a business standpoint it does make sense for Airbnb to capture other related markets.

TechCrunch

Airbnb is introducing a private car pickup service | TechCrunch

Airbnb is partnering with transportation company Welcome Pickups to let users book a private car service during their trip.

Alicante from the castle, with city and cruise ship.

This is a clever plugin from OpenAI to run Codex inside Claude Code. It’s convenient for people who use both tools, but it’ll also help sell Codex when it finds some improvement in whatever implementation Claude proposed. Models reviewing other models’ work.

GitHub

GitHub - openai/codex-plugin-cc: Use Codex from Claude Code to review code or delegate tasks.

Use Codex from Claude Code to review code or delegate tasks. - openai/codex-plugin-cc

Went on a wonderful guided tour of Cartagena today. But then I overheard someone griping about it. There is always someone who is just a bit too grumpy to appreciate that actually everything is amazing. So much history here. Beautiful city.

This is a fun ranking system for Apple products. I voted on a bunch. But in the results, how can the original Macintosh not be permanently in the top few spots?

The Verge

Rank the 50 best Apple products

Pick your favorite Apple product...if you can.