A curved train platform in an underground metro station features people on both sides and tracks in the middle.

Plaça Espanya. 🚂

Matt Mullenweg has a great blog post with both positive things to say about Cloudflare and a critique of EmDash. So I was right yesterday that “spiritual successor” was the wrong way for Cloudflare to pitch this. From Matt, about w... www.manton.org/2026/04/03/matt-mullenwe...

AT Protocol standardizations is officially underway, with a new working group at the IETF:

"For folks building in the Atmosphere ecosystem, and who care about how services interoperate and share data, this working group is a big opportunity to work out any ambiguities and unresolved issues."

Listening to U2’s new EP, Easter Lily. Bono:

"We still look to vivid rock n roll as an act of resistance against all this awfulness on our small screens. These are for sure ‘wilderness years’ for so many of us looking at the mayhem out there in the world."

🎶

Congrats to the Flipboard folks on launching the web version of Surf. It’s an interesting mashup of different social networks, which is what the open web is great at.

Looking over EmDash. I don’t like that they call it “the spiritual successor to WordPress”. Isn’t the spirit of WordPress from Matt Mullenweg’s vision of the project? Matt is very much still involved. Feels wrong for Cloudflare to frame it that way.

A plate with avocado toast topped with cherry tomatoes, accompanied by an iced coffee, is placed on a wooden table with a laptop and stools in the background.

Coffee and breakfast earlier this morning at Sip Coffee. ☕️

I keep missing the W3C social web calls. I feel bad about it, but there’s a lot to juggle with travel and work. As soon as I’m settled in one place for more than a few days, looking forward to getting involved.

It’s too bad that ChatGPT Pulse is so expensive. It’s a wonderful product. Here’s an example of one of the stories it brought me this morning. It knows I’m traveling and that I had looked around Gràcia, so it researches places I might want to know about. No one else is doing anything like this.

Drafting another blog post with a contrarian take on OpenAI… Not sure why I do this to myself when I should be focusing on my own code. I guess because I think everyone else is mostly wrong. 🤪

I lot of bloggers I respect have posted reflections on Apple’s 50th anniversary. I’m finding that I don’t have much to say. I blogged a couple years ago about my first intro to the Mac. Haven’t felt that magic in a while.

That's the ship! Harmony was pretty amazing. Loved the shows and open space like Central Park that is possible on a larger ship.

Excited that the Artemis II launch seems to have gone off well. I tried to stay up but I feel like a world away now. Too much time zone shuffling lately. 🚀

Yep, Barcelona!

Cardboard display of Ryan Gosling at a cinema promoting Proyecto Salvación with popcorn visible in the foreground.

Project Hail Mary came out right after I left on my trip, so I just finally got to see it today. It was great. English with Spanish subtitles. 🍿

Why didn’t anyone tell me you need to get tickets to Sagrada Familia weeks in advance? Just kidding, literally everyone I’ve talked to in the last month has told me that. I don’t listen and just do what I want. 🤪

I updated the Mac version of Inkwell again this morning. Here’s a very quick demo video on YouTube describing the recent changes.

Om Malik blogs about OpenAI’s latest funding round, presumably the last one before an IPO:

"OpenAI is quietly pivoting, shutting down Sora, its much-hyped video app, and concentrating resources on a “superapp” for developers and... www.manton.org/2026/04/01/om-malik-blog...

Nick Heer blogging on the 50th anniversary of Apple:

"But the main reason I am fascinated by Apple is that it has built such a distinct identity for itself. It has not always stuck to it but, if anything, I think that helps reinforce the existence of an Apple-y identity."

Funny how we adapt. I looked at the Barcelona metro map yesterday and thought this is a crazy, jumbled mess of random lines. A couple hours after arriving, it seems totally normal.

A moonlit night sky casts a serene glow over a tranquil ocean.

Moonlight on the water.

Reading a blog post about the MacBook Air intro at Macworld in January 2008, with highlighted text and buttons in the toolbar.

For the next minor update to Inkwell for Mac, I’m trying to address confusion around the highlight button. Two changes: adding a “new post” button, so it’s more obvious the “highlight” button is a different thing, and giving it a subtle yellow. It’ll ship tomorrow.

Airbnb news via TechCrunch:

"Airbnb announced Tuesday it is expanding its services feature with a new category for car pick-ups across 125 cities around the world."

Dunno if this is better for visitors, but from a business standpoint it does make sense for Airbnb to capture other related markets.

A scenic view shows a coastal city with a bustling marina, numerous boats, and a large cruise ship in the distance under a clear blue sky.

Alicante from the castle, with city and cruise ship.

This is a clever plugin from OpenAI to run Codex inside Claude Code. It’s convenient for people who use both tools, but it’ll also help sell Codex when it finds some improvement in whatever implementation Claude proposed. Models reviewing other models’ work.

A historic building with a domed roof is adorned with flags and banners under a clear blue sky.

Went on a guided tour of Cartagena today which I thought was wonderful. But then I overheard someone griping about it. There is always someone who is just a bit too grumpy to appreciate that actually everything is amazing. So much history here. Beautiful city.

Hope ATmosphereConf has gone well. I’m excited to see what comes out of it.

This is a fun ranking system for Apple products. I voted on a bunch. But in the results, how can the original Macintosh not be permanently in the top few spots?

A person stands on a vibrant carpet featuring an ornate pattern with red, yellow, and purple swirls and floral designs.

Carpet patterns.

Over the weekend I released another update to Inkwell for Mac. It improves a few things with Reading Recap, fixing bugs too.