{ "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/2026/06/23/updated-the-inkwell-app-for.html", "content_html": "

Updated the Inkwell app for Mac this morning. If you haven’t tried it yet, I think it’s a very nice version of our Inkwell feed reader. Includes subscribing to blogs, of course, but also making text highlights, viewing conversations, and replying to Micro.blog posts.

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I still have “wow” moments with AI. Codex Security was one of those… It reviews the Micro.blog backend source regularly and not only flags potential bugs but also drafts patches. Today another one: I asked for a draft of release notes and it guessed to put them directly in the edited appcast XML.

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As we get closer (next year) to the 10th anniversary of Micro.blog, I’m thinking about whether our strategy with indie blogging is still relevant for the next decade. What is true now that will continue to be true years from now? Some thoughts…

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I’m feeling good about everything we’re working on and how our priorities align with where the web is headed. Inkwell in particular will have a big role, eventually becoming easier to use as a standalone product without Micro.blog.

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Thanks as always for everyone’s support on this journey to make the web a little better.

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Vacation is winding down.

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There’s a new iOS app for Micro.blog! MicroSphere from @marc0janssen. Looks great, I’m playing around with it today.

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Black Bear Bread Co. ☕️

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Ben Thompson closing out today’s post:

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The only possible way to curb Apple’s dominance is through competition, and if Apple wants to open up a vector for competitive hardware to arise, that’s fine! And, if in response to competition, they open up their platform, that’s great too.

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AI is the best opportunity to compete with Apple and Google since the launch of the iPhone. And yet hardly anyone is going for it. It’s easy to complain that Apple fumbled around with AI for a couple years, but no potential new competitors capitalized on it.

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Submitted the new Epilogue to Google for review this morning. Apple approved it really quickly yesterday. A few more quick reviews will almost make up for Apple holding up the Inkwell release for a month. 🤪

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Seaside, Florida. Burgers outside at Pickles. 🍔

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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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