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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 8h

The first Spurs preseason game is tonight! They’ve changed the streaming provider yet again, now on DAZN. 🏀

Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 9h

Recorded a short video to explain a new batch selection interface for uploaded photos, just rolled out today in Micro.blog.

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 13h

Poking around in WordPress because I wanted to see how they handle something in the UI, and I just noticed the “Create AI Podcast” sidebar menu item: > Pick a date range or a few specific posts and we’ll generate a two-host conversation, complete with narration […] [Original post on manton.org]

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 13h

Love this Apple video of embroidery for the logo to announce the October 13th event. 🧵

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 15h

Thought maybe I wouldn’t bother downloading the latest Xcode 27.1 from a coffee shop, but I’m glad I tried. Actually getting 300 Mbps.

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 16h

If programming languages don’t matter much anymore, but reviewing code matters more than ever, can we resurrect RubyCocoa? Ruby is still one of the most elegant, readable languages. Wish I could use it everywhere.

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Andrew Shell actually built a Markdown browser: > I quickly realized that much of this was already present with sites like mine that serve markdown for LLMs. I knew about `/llms.txt`, but didn’t realize there were so many people using HTTP content negotiation with `text/markdown`.

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Nick Heer has a blog post about Meta charging if you want to link outside their silos: > Instagram has never supported links of any kind in individual posts, so that is a new feature with two links per month permitted for free, and more enabled by this pricey […] [Original post on manton.org]

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Margaret Hamilton: > Coming up with solutions and new ideas was an adventure. Dedication and commitment were a given. Mutual respect was across the board. Because software was a mystery, a black box, upper management gave us total freedom and trust. We had to […] [Original post on manton.org]

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Reading Dave Winer’s notes on a hypothetical Markdown web browser. I don’t think we need to reinvent the web or HTML, but it would be neat if web browsers had built-in Markdown preview by default. Why not? Browsers render PDF and all sorts of files.

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

There’s a bit of accidental gamification going on with my releases.md gist. Feels good to work on something and then see it reflected in that file.

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I like to hide tabs in GitHub projects that I don’t need. Finally figured out how to get rid of the Agents tab on the web. Go to your profile → Copilot settings → Visibility.

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Maybe I should’ve clarified in my post today that I stopped posting to Twitter ages ago, won’t be posting there again no matter what happens. Micro.blog supports several platforms that I don’t personally use. LinkedIn, for example.

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Surely the problems with Christa Pike’s failed execution rise to the level of cruel and unusual punishment set in the constitution. Can’t believe in 2026 we are still even debating this.

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

If you squint, there are parallels this week between PhotoCraft, an AI re-implementation of Photoshop, and OpenAI dropping a GitHub repo with hundreds of solutions to open math problems. There are some professions that will need to be continuously rethought.

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Fascinating online magazine from Microsoft. Looks like some thoughtful essays in this: > _The Humanist Review of AI_ is a quarterly publication funded by Microsoft AI. We bring together thinkers from different fields to explore the impact of AI on society

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Great start to FediForum. Really enjoyed Anil Dash’s talk, and now Daniel Holmgren is just wrapping up on AT Proto Spaces. Lots more for me to dig into with Spaces.

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Toni Schneider revealed that Bluesky is trying to make a `.bsky` top-level domain. Interesting strategy. Hopefully they can monetize this while keeping it open for anyone to use, like Automattic did with `.blog`.

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I know I’m late to the party, but I’m getting into listening to Golden from _KPop Demon Hunters_. Catchy. “We’re going up, up, up, it’s our moment…” 🎶

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Rewrote the CSS editor in Micro.blog. Much better now, with nicer colors. Here’s a screenshot.

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I feel like I’m drowning in managing multiple app releases, so I’m trying something new: letting AI (my OpenAI dot for now) update a single releases.md document that has high-level notes about what has shipped recently and what’s being worked on. Making it public because it might be interesting.

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

JA Westenberg: > If you spend 45 minutes a day angry at strangers online, you’ll give them about 270 hours this year. That’s nearly seven full 40-hour work weeks, handed to people you’ll never meet, about events you can’t change. Sobering. 🙁

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Perhaps as the value of individual apps decreases, with many more apps being released, the value of complex systems will go up. It’s still relatively hard to build and run a platform that combines many different services and databases.

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

App development is clearly accelerating. There are so many new apps being developed _and shipped_ that before wouldn’t have existed or would’ve stayed hobby projects. It’s cool! There are fewer barriers. But it’s also noisy and will require new ways of thinking […] [Original post on manton.org]

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Here’s a quick video demo of the new version of Micro.blog for Mac that we released a couple days ago. It shows the book calendar and note dictation. Enjoy!

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

OpenAI will add text watermarking too, but only in the EU, compared to Anthropic’s global rollout: > Over the coming weeks, we will introduce text watermarking to eligible ChatGPT and Codex users across all plans in the EU only. We are not making text […] [Original post on manton.org]

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Codex has an interesting Markdown editor. It shows styling and links inline, but when you move the cursor into the style run, it then expands to show the markup. Here’s a quick recording I made of how it looks.

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

FediForum starts tomorrow and runs for two days. Keynote from Anil Dash, talk on AT Proto from Daniel Holmgren, and other unconference-style sessions.

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Google app reviews are so fast now, and Apple so consistently a full day, that my new routine is I submit to Apple at night before going to bed. Then the next day, if Apple approves it, I submit to Google. Feels like the best use of time, including while I’m asleep.

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Today we finally put up my animation drawings of Scrooge from Mickey’s Christmas Carol! Here’s a short video showing them in sequence on the wall. I was also comparing these to the final frames and uploaded that scene to a separate page on my blog.

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

OpenAI still has UI cleanup to do, but one thing they got right is not having a model picker for Dots. It just uses their best model and you don’t need to think about token usage or level of thinking. Eventually more AI will be like that, with maybe only programming as an exception.

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Interesting tidbit of news in Mark Gurman’s Sunday post, about upcoming MacBook Pros: > The new MacBook Pros are lighter — _significantly_ lighter. Apple has reengineered the machine’s interior, miniaturizing parts and rearranging components to make the computer much easier to carry.

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Added the bookshelves calendar preview to the new Mac app. I like how this turned out. Easy to publish as a page on your blog. The web has some more options too.

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Watched: Digger. Well, that was insane and unexpected. Just got home from the theater and kind of stunned. Really good. 🍿

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Experimenting with a new transcription feature in the notes API. I originally wanted this for making a dictation gadget that creates Micro.blog notes, but it’ll show up in other apps too. It uses the same OpenAI model as our podcast transcriptions.

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Sometimes YouTube will show me Lara de Wit’s performance of _The Land Before Time_ and it’ll take me to a completely different world for a few minutes. Beautiful. 🎶

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

John Gruber blogging about the weird iPhone 18 Pro Max + AT&T bug: > I’d love to understand how a software update can prevent existing devices from being affected, but a software update cannot restore service to existing devices that have already been affected […] [Original post on manton.org]

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

OutPost for Mac — a full-featured Micropub editor that works with Micro.blog and other blog platforms — is out of beta. Feel like Micropub is seeing a lot of new activity and I love it.

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Great thing about working with other people like Vincent is sometimes they go behind your back and do crazy things you wouldn’t have done like port Wavelength to the Mac. 🤪 I still need to figure out how best we can officially support and maintain this. Focus! But in the meantime it’s open source.

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Sam Altman on X: > I am very uncomfortable about people trying to ascribe religious force or a surrender of human judgment to AI models, and think it is a real safety issue. My mind keeps returning to the article in The New York Times that I mentioned the other […] [Original post on manton.org]

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Another gloomy, rainy day in Austin. Perfect morning to get coffee and write some code, or settle in with a good book. I’m at Cherrywood for the first time in a while. ☕️

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Finished reading: The Fires of December by Brandon Sanderson. Starts strong, ends strong. Might be a little too much Hoid if that is possible, but overall I enjoyed it. 📚

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Good point from John Voorhees about potential Full Disk Access restrictions: > On the one hand, it seems to suggest that users will simply have to jump through additional explicit hoops to grant Full Disk Access to their agents and other apps. On the other hand […] [Original post on manton.org]

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Apple says they’re planning to lock down Full Disk Access even further: > Going forward, we will introduce additional controls to ensure that users who genuinely wish to grant an app this extraordinary level of access can only do so with very explicit user action. Sounds complicated / annoying.

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Amazon has a long blog post about data centers that no one is going to read in full. Here’s one part: > …this build out is so important geopolitically that there are widespread reports of various countries intentionally seeding misinformation in the U.S. about […] [Original post on manton.org]

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

There’s a lot of chatter about moving away from cross-platform frameworks, back to separate native code for each platform. I’m not convinced that is always a good idea. Creating apps is relatively easy now, but maintenance is still hard. For our 13 apps, we have 8 code bases. Overwhelming already.

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Now that it’s October (!) I’m getting excited for travel later this month. Going to be near Seattle for a bit, and then… Can’t believe this: SEA → CHI → NYC on Amtrak. Just spent a little time reviewing plans and handing them to Dots to see if it can help keep me organized. 🚂

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

A great but unnerving article by Elizabeth Dias at The New York Times about Anthropic’s Christopher Olah meeting with religious leaders: > Mr. Olah leads the Anthropic team responsible for understanding why A.I. systems like Claude act the way they do. All day […] [Original post on manton.org]

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Excited for Aces vs. Fever tonight. Only a 3-game series is way too short for these teams. 🏀

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Manton Reece [Unofficial] @manton.org.web.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

I recorded a short video of the next version of Epilogue, featuring a new book calendar you can put on your blog. Submitting this to Apple and Google today or tomorrow.

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