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The Week #331

 
  • 💙 The US had its mid-term elections and for the first time in my life the person I voted for represents my state. Given the past 10 years I was afraid to get my hopes up too far, but never did I imagine every state-level race in Texas would flip.
  • ⚽️ A couple weeks back I said Leo had come out of retirement. It's now official. After attending his second soccer practice he decided to join. This means every Saturday is full of classes, but in a way, I think having the routine will be beneficial.
  • 🥶 After 25 degree summer-esque day on Friday, winter has arrived with lows in the single digits and highs barely double digits. I got rid of a lot of winter clothing last year as I had been wearing it for longer than I should, and I have yet to replace it. I reckon a trip to Uniqlo is in order. ( I often sometimes think about shopping elsewhere, but I never can decide what/where. The options make me feel like Mr. Burns going grocery shopping for the first time in his life and unable to decide between ketchup and catsup.)
  • 😋 The algorithm has been giving me a lot of content about easy high-protein meals... and I've been low-key loving it. I tried one that was a chicken shwarma bake and it was great. A lot of them are various bakes, I reckon because they're easy and film well. Either way, I will be making more of these, no matter how much they make me feel like it's the 1970's and I'm making a casserole.

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James Van Dyne

09 Nov 2026 at 21:14
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If you read too many posts on X and maybe even Threads, you'll start to think that the Anthropic vs. OpenAI race that is relevant to software developers also matters for the rest of the world. A billion people just use ChatGPT and have never heard of Astra, Fable, or Opus.

Manton Reece

09 Nov 2026 at 21:05
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App versioning is fascinating to me, which is partly why I'm bummed at the popularity of date-like strings as versions. Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 released today, even though Opus 5.5 is already out. What does it mean? No one knows.

Manton Reece

09 Nov 2026 at 20:58
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Load balancers are driving me crazy today. Sorry for the server downtime blips. 🙁

Manton Reece

09 Nov 2026 at 20:30
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Brian Schrader blogged about reading blogs instead of social media:

I don't see the kinds of bizarro-world content that proliferates on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc. because I just don't spend time on algorithmic social media.

Mastodon isn't immune to this either because it's not just the algorithms. Using a social reader instead of an RSS reader means that the posts with the most engagement — and things that make people angry have more engagement — are more likely to bubble up in your timeline with subsequent replies and links.

Manton Reece

09 Nov 2026 at 17:34
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