It has been six years since the start of Covid, and I still catch myself trying to hold my breath in crowded spaces like an elevator. It doesn’t make any sense! I hope my brain hasn’t been permanently rewired for fear. 😷

Wemby was close to getting a 5x5 last night. 19 points, 15 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals, 7 blocks. Whenever he has a few steals there’s a chance. Can’t believe the playoffs are next month! 🏀

Years ago I made a rule to never use Git submodules, after too many headaches with Subversion externals before switching to Git. More trouble than they’re worth. I broke that rule once and it still trips me up.

Terry Godier has a new blog in addition to his main site of longer essays. It looks great. Hosted by Micro.blog. 🎉

Terry Godier

Terry Godier

This is cool: Bridgy Fed now supports long-form blog posts in AT Protocol via the standard.site lexicon. I guess I need to hurry up with my own implementation of this.

A New Social

Long-Form Comes To Bridgy Fed

Up until now, Bridgy Fed has only supported the bridging of microblogging content. Even when we bridged articles from the web or from Article types...

I like this framing about the Rabbit R1: "Humane’s AI Pin followed that trajectory almost exactly, discontinued in early 2025 after HP acquired the company. The R1 did not follow it, though the reasons why have less to do with any brilliant pivot than with stubbornness, incremental software updates, and a fair amount of luck." Do not underestimate stubbornness and incremental updates. That’s practically my whole strategy.

Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News

Rabbit R1’s OpenClaw Update Could Be Its Most Important Moment Yet - Yanko Design

https://youtu.be/-MjzTj_e6K8 There is a version of the Rabbit R1 story that ends in 2024. The device launches to enormous hype off the back of a vi...

Multiple apps or one superapp

Manton Reece - Multiple apps or one superapp

It’s a small thing but when I’m a regular at a coffee shop and they know my order when I walk in, it gives me so much joy. Great way to start the day. This sometimes even happens when traveling after a few days at the same place. ☕️

Slop and robot follow-up

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Sam Altman blogged last year about Sora: "The majority of users, looking back on the past 6 months, should feel that their life is better for using Sora that it would have been if they hadn’t. If that’s not the case, we will make significant changes (and if we can’t fix it, we would discontinue offering the service)." Guess what? That was written almost exactly six months ago. They tried it, it was a distraction, too expensive to run, and now the experiment is over. Good call not dragging it out. I wouldn’t be surprised if the video model returns later, just without the social app.

Sam Altman

Sora 2

We are launching a new app called Sora. This is a combination of a new model called Sora 2, and a new product that makes it easy to create, share, ...

Zoox is officially coming to Austin later this year. We’ve seen the training cars on the streets already for months. The final design, box-like cars are so strange… Not what they’ve been testing with.

TechCrunch

Zoox brings its robotaxis to Austin and Miami | TechCrunch

After nearly two years of testing in the two cities, the Amazon-owned company says it's getting closer to offering rides.

I hope to be out in San Jose for a few days for WWDC. Wonder if there’s any chance for a live keynote this year. Maybe we need to wait for the next CEO to bring back live events and demos.

Apple Newsroom

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference returns the week of June 8

Apple today announced it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) online from June 8-12.

Things are getting weird

Manton Reece - Things are getting weird

The perfect vacation for me still includes some work. Coffee in the morning, working for a few hours, then having free time in the afternoon and evening for whatever. Maybe it would be healthier to unplug, but I’m always pulled back to all the things left to do.

Recorded a quick 1-minute demo video on YouTube showing the just released today Inkwell 1.1 for Mac. The major change in this version is recognizing podcast feeds, so you can listen to episodes in the app.

Ran into a funny issue while traveling that I had never experienced before. Because my time zone and system clock weren’t in sync, App Store Connect uploads would mysteriously fail, as well as 2-factor auth for some systems.

There’s an SNL UK now! Funny so far. The cold open and a few of the other skits are on YouTube.

Catching up on this news from Bluesky: "Hubble is a new open-source project to build and operate a whole-Atmosphere public data mirror, synchronizing every atproto repository in real-time, keeping public data available even when a PDS goes down." Great project. It’s not like the Internet Archive (no history) but more a current mirror for PDSes that might be increasingly hosted outside of Bluesky, and so without the infrastructure for backups, etc. One of Bluesky’s strengths is data portability and this leans into that.

AT Protocol

Introducing Hubble: A Public Mirror for the Whole Atmosphere - AT Protocol

Bluesky is providing a grant to the creator of Microcosm to build a full mirror of public data on the Atmosphere to help make the network more resi...

Apple’s Mac app notarization is throwing errors for me today, maybe networking problems, so I guess it’s time to take a break from work.

Loops adds starter kits. I’ve been poking around the Loops API to see if I should support this in the way we support Bluesky starter packs. Probably will wait to see what Mastodon does.

Loops Official Blog

Introducing Starter Kits

One of the hardest parts about joining a new social network is the cold start problem. You sign up, you follow nobody, your feed is empty, and you ...

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