{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1", "title": "Manton Reece", "icon": "https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2025/22/3.jpg", "home_page_url": "https://www.manton.org/", "feed_url": "https://www.manton.org/feed.json", "items": [ { "id": "http://manton.micro.blog/2026/06/20/got-a-whole-bunch-of.html", "content_html": "

Got a whole bunch of little things finished this morning for the next release of Epilogue. Finally showing a checkmark for the current bookshelf, and a new default for the Movies tab to show movies and TV shows people are blogging about. Just submitting to Apple for review.

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Having so many apps, the context switch between code bases is starting to become a problem. Thinking about how we can improve this going forward. Ideally each major app or platform would have someone leading it.

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Matt Mullenweg blogged about the surprising twist with Midjourney Medical:

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David Holz, one of the most underrated pioneers in AI, has taken money from making cat pictures to build a full-body ultrasound scanner that can give you incredible visibility in 60 seconds.

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Watched: The Truman Show. So good. Haven’t seen it in years and it holds up perfectly. 🍿

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Finished reading: The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee. Fantastic. Great world-building, viewpoint switch, and just the right plot surprises. 📚

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Love the detail of using these bricks instead of just white paint. The workers put a lot of extra time into cutting everything just right.

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Manu Moreale blogs that he’s tired of all the crap:

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The problem is that there’s also an infinite amount of depressing and/or enraging shit out there on the web, and even though I’m not on any social media platform of any kind, I’m still exposed to that crap. And I’m tired of that. Which is why I’m wondering if it’s possible to completely decouple from the web.

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It can be exhausting. I’ve been on the web since the 1990s, on Twitter since 2006, and yet I never had to mute anything until recently. Now on the fediverse I mute people and even consider muting entire domain names because I just do not want to be pulled into their drama.

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My blog is public and my email inbox is open. There are a lot of ways to get ahold of me if I miss the occasional @-mention somewhere. The nice thing about email feedback is that it’s more personal, not a public performance for another audience.

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As I get older, I’ve had to settle into this compromise of closing off some channels of communication so that I can focus my attention where it matters most. I think muting will become an even bigger part of that strategy. It still feels weird even though I know it’s right.

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Daveigh Chase has passed away. She was Lilo in Lilo & Stitch, Chihiro in Spirited Away, and also in Donnie Darko. Andreas Deja blogged about working with her:

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Working on the character of Lilo was a profoundly moving experience for me as an animator. Daveigh’s voice performance was utterly unique and inspired, presenting a brand-new challenge and the perfect opportunity to bring an unorthodox Disney girl to life.

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It’s hard to imagine how someone went from that experience — a movie that will be remembered for a hundred years — to such a low point of personal struggles, even homelessness.

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Kevin Roose blogged today about his history with The New York Times and the decision to end the Hard Fork podcast:

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The Times has been a great home for Hard Fork — and a great home for me, for many years before that — but as Casey and I discussed the future of the show, we realized that what we really wanted was to start a company together, and build something we would own.

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Looking forward to what they do next!

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Cloudy and breezy evening on the gulf.

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Thinking about the new Mastodon collections, it reminded me that we have blogrolls on Micro.blog that don’t get enough attention. Today I improved a few things with adding blog recommendations, including a search across other platforms if you don’t have the URL for someone handy.

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A rare selfie for the blog… Enjoying some time with family in Rosemary Beach, Florida. Found this Eadweard Muybridge shirt randomly last month at a Goodwill and had to get it.

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Flowers growing through the fence.

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Apple opens up app distribution for Brazil:

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Beginning with iOS 26.5, developers can distribute apps on alternative app marketplaces, operate alternative app marketplaces, process app payments for digital goods and services outside of Apple In-App Purchase in iOS, and more.

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So we’ve got the EU, Japan, Brazil, and partially South Korea. Slow progress, but still progress.

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I’m curious what model Codex cloud (that can automatically check GitHub PRs) is using. It often catches bugs that regular GPT-5.5 misses. Perhaps just a different, more comprehensive prompt.

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AI researches are in such demand, they shuffle between companies often, and it’s hard to tell which hires are meaningful. Anthropic likes to say that none of their founders have left. Now Noam Shazeer is leaving Google for OpenAI. He was the co-author of the transformer architecture. A big deal.

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Josh Baer has died in a plane crash. Tragic. He founded Capital Factory and was a huge part of the Austin startup scene. Thinking of his family and friends, and so many people whose lives he must’ve impacted. Rest in peace.

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Mastodon 4.6 is out with featured user collections, similar to Bluesky starter packs. I’m exploring the best way to support this in Micro.blog. The API is similar to quote posts in how it’s built around opting in, so there’s more chatter between servers via ActivityPub.

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The new Google Home Speaker looks pretty good, but I don’t think I’m bought in enough to the Google ecosystem for it to be for me. Eventually someone is going to nail the voice assistant speaker. Not sure Alexa+ is it either.

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Thanks to Jim Krenz for the kind words in this blog post. I never prompt for app ratings or reviews, but I do love seeing posts like this. I’m always encouraged to keep going. Micro.blog is the best today that it has ever been.

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Details still coming out about the Fable shutdown… It’s more nuanced than I was expecting. From the Washington Post:

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Senior officials began to consider using export controls to claw back the technology after the company did not identify the new recipients for days.

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When Anthropic finally turned over the names, the administration discovered that one recipient was a South Korean telecommunications company the administration suspected of having ties to China, the officials said.

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Anthropic quickly revoked the firm’s access to Mythos…

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Seems in large part a breakdown in communication.

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The problem with stats is you start obsessing over them and get distracted. This is why I don’t even look at website analytics or referrers anymore. But now that we have a little more data on RAM for Mac customers, it is interesting… 56% at 24 GB or more.

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This is just people who have already updated to Micro.blog 4.0.

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Not sure what to make of Snap’s new Specs. First impression is that they sit in between Meta’s Display glasses and the Vision Pro, both technically and because of the $2200 price. So many young people use Snapchat, wouldn’t a cheaper / less capable / more fun product make sense?

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Stephen Hackett has a rundown of some of the xAI data center news:

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SpaceX and the NAACP are in a legal battle over the use of turbines in Southaven, Mississippi for powering the Colossus II data center in Memphis. This week, the Department of Justice got involved…

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DOJ says Grok, but Anthropic is also now using Colossus II.

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I’m still slowly getting over the Spurs losing in the finals. What an amazing season and playoff run that was. 82 games is hard, no guarantee a team can get back there, but can’t wait to see what this team does next year. 🏀

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