A little surprised that Fable is still held up. Maybe the administration’s slant toward vindictiveness means that we’ll see GPT-5.6 generally available first.

Sad but inspired to read the many remembrances of Om Malik. I love this idea from Matt Mullenweg:

Om loved putting on a good conference, and I’d like to celebrate his life with an awesome event on September 29, 2026 (his 60th) in San Francisco, like an OmFest. I’ll find a space where every community from the many facets of Om can come together. In the spirit of Open Source and co-creation, we can have some booths, flash talks, a gallery of his photography, pen showcase, and whatever other fun ideas people want to contribute.

Took a little time this morning to customize the CSS for the Micro.blog documentation pages to strip out all the Discourse-y things that aren’t needed. For example, the Inkwell page.

Productive week for software releases:

• Micro.blog 4.0.3 for Mac
• Inkwell 1.5 for Mac
• Inkwell 1.1 for Android
• Epilogue 2.3.1 for iOS
• Epilogue 2.3.1 for Android

Not sure we’ve ever had this many updates at once. Still waiting on Apple to approve Inkwell 1.1 for iOS.

Finished reading: Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy. Unfolds with an interesting island setting and mystery. I liked it, but as the layers are pulled back, there is mostly grief. 📚

Heartbreaking to hear that Om Malik has passed away. I can hardly believe it. Even just this year, it felt like he was doing some of his best writing. Very thankful for the time he gave us at Micro Camp 2023… I was so excited to talk to him. Rest in peace.

The Spurs picked up 4 new players in the draft. Lots of potential. Some folks are annoyed with De’Aaron Fox, but he was a big part of the Spurs getting 62 wins and making it so far, even if it’s weird that he’s gonna make so much more money than any other Spurs player. 🏀

Due to the rising costs of memory and storage, a standard Micro.blog subscription will remain $5 for the foreseeable future. 🙂

Settled into a perfect routine while away on vacation over the last week: walk or bike for coffee, work a couple hours, picnic at the beach with family, lots of book reading, nice dinner out. 🏖️ Working a little each day actually makes me more relaxed. Got updates to Epilogue and Inkwell ready.

Apple price increases are significant. Now that I see them, it does make sense to change the prices for all the Macs and iPads at the same time. It would feel out of balance to have e.g. the Air stay low and the Neo increase.

I have a nice M3 MacBook Pro and plan to keep it for a couple more years.