The Talk Show Live was excellent. My WWDC week is winding down… It was great to catch up with folks. Saw several people tonight I hadn’t seen in years. | Continue reading


@manton.org | 1 day ago

I downloaded the .ipsw for macOS Tahoe before realizing I would need a second Mac to install. So just did the Software Update, naively thinking it would prompt for which partition to use. Nope. So I’m accidentally running Tahoe on my main system. Onward! | Continue reading


@manton.org | 1 day ago

Liquid Glass is getting a little bit of hate after the first day of WWDC. Apple can dial it back in some places, but I think it’s mostly going to work. I’ve also tested the Micro.blog iOS app with it. We’ll update our UI as we get closer to the final iOS 26 release. Amusing butto … | Continue reading


@manton.org | 1 day ago

Dave Winer blogging about Bluesky’s choice of using domain names for handles: They were smart at Bluesky to use DNS this way. Why invent your own identity system when the net itself has a great distributed system that scales? | Continue reading


@manton.org | 1 day ago

Catching up on yesterday for the photo challenge. Day 9, wood. From walking around Oakland, near Children’s Fairyland. | Continue reading


@manton.org | 1 day ago

Ben Thompson writes about Apple refocusing on what they’re good at for WWDC. For the new models: What is compelling about the Foundation Models Framework is how it empowers small developers to experiment with on-device AI for free: an app that wouldn’t have AI at all for cost rea … | Continue reading


@manton.org | 1 day ago

Planning to install macOS Tahoe later today. For now, only downloaded SF Symbols 7. Still no robot icon! 🙁 | Continue reading


@manton.org | 2 days ago

There’s more in Apple’s new Foundation Models than I was expecting. The struct interfaces and tool calling especially. Fascinating. | Continue reading


@manton.org | 2 days ago

iPad windowing looks good. Funny we were so worried the Mac would become too much like iOS, but sort of the opposite has happened to the iPad over the years. Files app also becoming a little more like the Finder. | Continue reading


@manton.org | 2 days ago

Looking forward to trying Apple’s on-device models. It’s a great direction for them to take. But I’m still doubtful they are going to be good enough for some things, after you’ve been spoiled on much larger cloud-based models. Would love to see Apple’s private cloud computer open … | Continue reading


@manton.org | 2 days ago

My post yesterday about Sam Altman has been pretty well received. Not everyone agrees, which is totally fine! We’ll see how the post ages in a year. I tried to put significant thought into it, though, not just fire off another hot take into the “love AI / hate AI” debate chaos. | Continue reading


@manton.org | 2 days ago

New blog post about Micro.blog themes from @ericgregorich. I like the way he describes the “layers” of a custom theme. That’s not a word we’ve used, but it fits well. | Continue reading


@manton.org | 2 days ago

Good morning from San Jose. I need to find coffee. My brain is finally switching gears to WWDC. Have barely had a chance to really think about what to expect or to get excited. | Continue reading


@manton.org | 2 days ago

To the Sam Altman skeptics

It’s the day before the WWDC keynote, an event that used to be anchored by Steve Jobs. He’s been gone 14 years and there has yet to be another executive at Apple who could do what he did. Every once in a while we see a glimpse of a leader in tech who stands out, capturing a tiny … | Continue reading


@manton.org | 3 days ago

Day 8 of the Micro.blog photo challenge: travel. Heading down to San Jose. Not actually my train… It arrived on the other track. | Continue reading


@manton.org | 3 days ago

Craig Hockenberry blogging on the eve of WWDC. I expect many developers will agree with his points about App Intents… It’s a lot of work that ultimately puts all the UX control in Apple’s hands: Instead of building our own ideas on top of a LLM, we’re supposed to provide the inte … | Continue reading


@manton.org | 3 days ago

Always a good day to be able to release some app updates, even on the weekend. Happy to get Micro.blog 2.5 for Android and 3.5.4 for Mac out the door. Currently have some downtime while waiting for laundry, fixing a couple more things for an iOS app updates this week. | Continue reading


@manton.org | 3 days ago

Picked up a new hoodie while in Berkeley. Despite knowing exactly what the weather’s like in the Bay Area, I packed only short-sleeved shirts. 🤪 | Continue reading


@manton.org | 3 days ago

I wasn’t planning to give money to this woman holding up a cardboard sign with her kid, on the corner of the grocery store parking lot, until some guy walked by and started yelling at her. Shockingly hateful. And as backdrop we have what’s going on in LA. 😞 | Continue reading


@manton.org | 3 days ago

Sunk cost fallacy strikes again. I spent way too much time on my local LLM experiments, finally went back to the main branch to ship a new version. Micro.blog 3.5.4 for Mac is available with some fixes. | Continue reading


@manton.org | 3 days ago

Top of Jason Becker’s wish list for WWDC is a package manager for users. It often feels like I’m drowning in package managers, especially with React Native development which somehow requires like 3-4 different package managers. If Apple could somehow step in and simplify all of t … | Continue reading


@manton.org | 3 days ago

Quiet, cool morning walking through downtown Berkeley. Last time I was here was when I took this photo. That was an amazing trip. | Continue reading


@manton.org | 3 days ago

This was unexpected. Walking back to my hotel tonight, I noticed that some of the traffic lights were out. Turns out the power is out at the hotel too, and they gave everyone little glow sticks to help navigate the stairs and rooms. | Continue reading


@manton.org | 4 days ago

Finished reading: The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future by Keach Hagey. Listened to the last part as I was wandering around Lake Merritt in Oakland today. Some great details in this book, and perfect leading up to WWDC. 📚 | Continue reading


@manton.org | 4 days ago

Days before WWDC, where Apple us rumored to open up their models to developers, I must be the only one hitting my head against the wall trying to get image analysis to work with an embedded Gemma 3 model inside my Mac app. I started down this path a month ago, keep chipping away … | Continue reading


@manton.org | 4 days ago

I ended up having to completely skip FediForum. With travel and coding, just too much going on. I’ve also retreated from the fediverse for a bit, so I can focus on my blog and the Micro.blog community. Hope there will be some blog post write-ups of the conference sessions I can r … | Continue reading


@manton.org | 4 days ago

Rest in peace, Bill Atkinson. From John Gruber: One of the great heroes in not just Apple history, but computer history. If you want to cheer yourself up, go to Andy Hertzfeld’s Folklore.org site and (re-)read all the entries about Atkinson. Here’s just one, with Steve Jobs inspi … | Continue reading


@manton.org | 4 days ago

Really enjoying everyone’s photos for this month’s Micro.blog photoblogging challenge. Thanks for sharing! I’ll post the next week of prompts later today. Any word suggestions? | Continue reading


@manton.org | 4 days ago

Day 6 of the photo challenge, contrast. Jack London Square / C. L. Dellums Station in Oakland. | Continue reading


@manton.org | 5 days ago

For a minute I got really excited about this headline of a LoveFrom-designed electric bike from Rivian. But… a screen and it’s “bike-like”? I’ve been eyeing a new electric bike and always prefer something that looks like an actual, old-fashioned bike. No need to reinvent everythi … | Continue reading


@manton.org | 5 days ago

More jacaranda trees in bloom. | Continue reading


@manton.org | 5 days ago

Joanne Jang who works at OpenAI has a blog post on human-AI relationships: …many people say “please” and “thank you” to ChatGPT not because they’re confused about how it works, but because being kind matters to them. I read this last night and ever since I’ve been trying to figur … | Continue reading


@manton.org | 5 days ago

Reviewing my short post last night about the NYT vs. OpenAI data retention, maybe “wild” overreach was an unnecessary adjective. I also hadn’t seen OpenAI’s response: As part of their baseless lawsuit, they’ve recently asked the court to force us to retain all user content indefi … | Continue reading


@manton.org | 5 days ago

A couple photos heading up the coast, from each side of the train. 🚂 | Continue reading


@manton.org | 5 days ago

Congrats to Brent Simmons on his retirement! This is an impressive list of apps to have been a part of. I’ve actively used all of them over the years, and a few I still do: Along the way I worked on, among other apps, Userland Frontier, NetNewsWire, MarsEdit, Glassboard, Vesper, … | Continue reading


@manton.org | 5 days ago

While walking to Groundwork Coffee this morning in Los Angeles. A jacaranda tree, I think. | Continue reading


@manton.org | 5 days ago

Maybe I’ve become a little bitter because a decade ago I was screaming about big centralized platforms and a return to indie microblogging, and now that everyone else is excited, my voice is still hoarse, and I have less to say. Onward. | Continue reading


@manton.org | 5 days ago

Dave Winer blogs about what he’d say in a keynote about new web standards. Keep it simple and don’t reinvent the wheel: Mastodon and Bluesky should support inbound and outbound RSS, and do it really well. Right now they do outbound only, and the implementations are incomplete at … | Continue reading


@manton.org | 5 days ago

I submitted the latest Micro.blog for Android to Google this morning. Hopefully goes through review and will be available later today or this weekend. If you’re feeling adventurous, you can also install directly by downloading the latest .apk file. | Continue reading


@manton.org | 5 days ago

Ghost is weeks away from shipping 6.0 with fediverse support. Excellent! We have a real opportunity, now, to create the web we want – but the most tempting mistake is to wait for everyone else to join, before getting involved. No one is waiting. People have been using the fediver … | Continue reading


@manton.org | 5 days ago

Rolled into Los Angeles super early. Found a coffee shop that I could walk to that was open at 6am. Still forming some thoughts about this Amtrak trip… It was disappointing, and I think I’m done with Amtrak for a few years, which is unfortunate because I love trains. Just too man … | Continue reading


@manton.org | 6 days ago

Seth Godin on burning bridges: While it’s tempting to imagine that we’re always racing forward, it’s far more likely we’ll benefit from traveling over this bridge again one day soon. Put another way, some people can be so caught in what’s happening now that they aren’t thinking a … | Continue reading


@manton.org | 6 days ago

Wow, Pacers. I tuned in just at the right time toward the end. Glad to have some cell coverage tonight! 🏀 | Continue reading


@manton.org | 6 days ago

Flaky internet today, so just catching up on the new levels of chaos with Trump and Elon Musk. Trump will eventually turn against anyone who supported him, lashing out selfishly, no matter the cost to people or country. This devolved shockingly quickly. 🇺🇸 | Continue reading


@manton.org | 6 days ago

Vise Coffee in Alpine. I had just finished a cold brew I brought with me, so got a sticker and postcard instead of actual coffee. | Continue reading


@manton.org | 6 days ago

I continue to doubt that Apple can roll back external payment links now that the genie is out of the bottle. The appeals court was not persuaded that they should block the order. So we’ll have months of users using external links and the world not ending. | Continue reading


@manton.org | 6 days ago

Congrats to A New Social on announcing Bounce, a way to move followers between Bluesky and the fediverse. I like how they’re previewing what followers (and follows) will move. Migrating accounts currently feels very blind, as you cross your fingers and hope everything works acros … | Continue reading


@manton.org | 6 days ago

Just a tiny bit of reflection, outside Alpine. | Continue reading


@manton.org | 6 days ago