Sounds like GPT-5.6 will be this week. If I were OpenAI, I wouldn’t overhype this. Let it speak for itself. With Mythos and Fable, the hype is exhausting.

Putting the final touches on an Android update for Micro.blog. We had some changes ready a month ago that somehow I forgot to actually release. ☹️ This will be 3.0, getting us closer to syncing up both mobile platform versions too.

Google Play approvals are so fast now, must be largely automated.

Unexpectedly, my favorite part of Micro.blog’s email newsletters is that I get an email with all my posts from the last week. It would be useful even if I was the only subscriber. Monday morning is a great time to quickly reflect on what was happening last week before moving on.

Finished reading: Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas. Dipped back into romantasy. Some of this series I’ve read and some I’ve listened to the audiobooks. Personally works better as a book for me, not narrated. 📚

Tim Sweeney, fighting for openness in the App Store and protecting forests in North Carolina:

Sweeney strives to protect large swaths of land with high conservation value before developers get possession. In 2016, he donated 7,000 acres of forest east of Asheville to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In 2021, he gifted 7,500 acres near the Avery-Mitchell county border to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. That year, he also teamed with conservation groups to preserve a two-mile coastal barrier south of Topsail Island.

Reviewing the new SF Symbols for iOS / macOS 27. Still no robot icon. 🤖

Perfect day to buy a new grill. We haven’t had one since we moved. Also some frustration and hilarity as it wouldn’t fit in the car and we had to go back home to get my Honda Element. 🙂

Good story on NPR about Born in the USA:

The 1984 hit by Bruce Springsteen describes a Vietnam War veteran who returns home to desperate circumstances and few options. Listen only to its surging refrain, though, and you could mistake it for an uncomplicated celebration of patriotism.

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This country has a lot of problems. But think how people in 1776 would view today’s society. Now imagine 2276. What will it take to build the kind of future that everyone can be proud of? 🇺🇸

Also: screenshot of me searching for previous July 4th blog posts in Micro.blog.

Simon Willison blogged about letting Fable decide when to use cheaper models:

Jesse Vincent just gave me a related tip to help avoid burning too many of those valuable Fable tokens in the few days we have left before the prices go up. Tell Fable to use other models for smaller tasks, applying its own judgement about which model to use.

Fable pricing is nutty. I’m happy to just run GPT-5.5 with fast and xhigh for everything and not worry about it.