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There’s a fun discussion on today’s Hard Fork about Moltbook. We live in an increasingly bizarre world. I don’t want slop to overwhelm human-centered social networks, but I’m also mostly fine with AI-only networks like Sora or Moltbot because it’s segregated.

Moltbook Mania Explained — Hard Fork — Overcast

Brett Terpstra blogs about his upcoming app BlogBook: "This is a new app I’m publishing as a complement to Marked 3. It generates a “Book” from WordPress, Micro.blog, or Ghost blogs." Sounds great. It will generate a table of contents and can export in various formats including PDF and ePub.

BrettTerpstra.com

Project Updates Feb 4, 2026 — Sleepless Edition - BrettTerpstra.com

I’ve been hard at work on a bunch of projects at once, so this is partly just a personal check-in on how things are going. Thanks for being m...

BlogBook — WordPress, Micro.blog, or Ghost -> Markdown Book

Export your WordPress, Micro.blog, or Ghost blog to a single Markdown file. Filter by categories, authors, tags, and dates—then open in Marked fo...

This Anthropic post is pretty much what I would write too, as a reaction to ads coming in OpenAI. I actually do believe OpenAI when they say they won’t let ads influence answers, but people are going to think that anyway. People still think Instagram uses the phone’s microphone to listen randomly!

Claude is a space to think | Anthropic

We’ve made a choice: Claude will remain ad-free. We explain why advertising incentives are incompatible with a genuinely helpful AI assistant, an...

Doing the math on the Cosmere books, with Mistborn era 3 locked in for releases in 2028, 2029, and 2030, maybe we’ll see Stormlight book 10 around 2043. Joking / not joking with my daughter to read a few chapters at my graveside if I don’t make it. 🪦

I love this train station photo in the snow.

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Train Station, I — aows

Forbes has a profile of Sam Altman with some interesting quotes from him and others: "Altman knows his history. His itch to release products quickly is informed by studying Xerox PARC, the legendary Silicon Valley research lab known for inventing the modern graphical user interface, laser printers and computer mouse, yet failing to commercialize any of them. “You have to have an economic engine in the cycle,” Altman says. “I think there’s probably a lot of great innovation that has never gotten out of the lab because someone didn’t do the work to just get it into people’s hands.”" https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2026/02/03/sam-altman-explains-the-future/

Linking to a post about Apple from Matt Gemmell, Michael Tsai blogs: "At times, the company seems like a cargo cult, repeating mantras from a previous era without actually following them and applying the same strategies as before even though they no longer make sense."

Matt Gemmell

The Fallen Apple — Matt Gemmell

I barely recognise the company I used to have such admiration for.

Michael Tsai - Blog - The Fallen Apple

Going through items in my mom’s house, took a picture of this old painting of mine. 8th grade, maybe. Reminds me of the previous icon for our app Sunlit.

Sunlit

Om Malik has been on a roll with great blog posts lately, refocusing on creation: "You might have noticed an increase in the number of words I am publishing these days. I don’t know why. Or how. Somehow a lot of things have clicked in my head. I quietly switched from consumption to creation mode."

Word Boost

You might have noticed an increase in the number of words I am publishing these days. I don’t know why. Or how. Somehow a lot of things have clic...

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 data centers

Manton Reece - SpaceX data centers

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. https://openai.com/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 Future of Apps in an AI-Coded World - MacStories

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.

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A country map of our adventures! Click a pin for a link to all …

GitHub

GitHub - vladcampos/microblog-map: An interactive Leaflet.js map for Micro.blog sites. This setup pulls location data from a local YAML file and automatically generates map markers with links to your category pages.

An interactive Leaflet.js map for Micro.blog sites. This setup pulls location data from a local YAML file and automatically generates map markers w...

Micro.blog - @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.

OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant

OpenClaw — The AI that actually does things. Your personal assistant on any platform.