Lex Friedman asks what an app is worth now that we have AI:

The answer, to me, is you pay for an app if the care and attention the developer gives the app is more than you can afford to give. If the few bucks you’ll spend is worth more than the time you’d spend building your own version of the app.

Most people just don’t have time to maintain an app. The value of one-off utility apps will go down, but there will still be a market for many kinds of apps, especially those with an ecosystem or significant infrastructure behind them.

Thinking about this short post I wrote a few months ago about Nvidia. We might get a test of this soon! WSJ says the board is preparing to oust Jensen… I’ll believe it when I see it happen.

Watched: The Rings of Power S3E1. They dropped the first four episodes at once tonight. 📺

This new Atmosphere co-op sounds like a great idea:

As we look toward the third AtmosphereConf in 2027, we’re happy to announce that we’re transforming into a cooperative dedicated to supporting the health, growth, and stability of the Atmosphere.

I haven’t owned any individual stocks since I had a single Twitter share a dozen years ago, as a token investment when I was deep in Twitter app development. Maybe I should buy a few shares of Anthropic as a counterweight to my usual negativity about them… Also in case they do cure cancer. 🤪

For a long time I resisted having cute names and mascots for Micro.blog. It’s just blogs, nothing special! But I’ve been playing with a new idea that I think will be perfect: a ladybug. (It’s small…) I just have to overlook the ladybug emoji. The legs make it a little too insect-y.

Very good advice from Patrick Rhone about wills. Makes a difference for the folks we leave behind. Another thing I learned last year, that my mom had the foresight to set up: if you own a house, in most states you can set a “transfer-on-death deed” so it passes to your loved one with minimal fuss.

Ben Thompson has made this point a couple times, but he seems unwilling (for obvious reasons!) to just come out and say he’s not sure Alice Huang was actually a spy:

As I noted on Monday, the allegation that Alice Huang was a spy is coming from the exact corners of the national security apparatus who stridently disagree with Jensen Huang’s position on selling to China; given that, it’s notable that the Chinese spy agency may have not known who she was either.

Words have power. When rumors take hold there’s no undoing them, usually.

I haven’t looked at the Apple Pencil in a while, so I naively thought there were just two models: the original and the pro version. Nope, there are actually four different versions, each slightly different. Super confusing.

Back using Duolingo after a month break. The gamification is so annoyingly lopsided on the side of clicking chests and unlocking prizes. Also looking at Babbel.