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After watching this YouTube video about the upcoming Apple hardware release, I must say it got me excited for the iPhone Fold or Ultra, or whatever name they decide on. Yet, I’m in for an upgrade to the iPhone 18 Pro Max… I’m a camera guy.

I’ve got access to Astra now and have no idea what to build, as if I suddenly have writer’s block. Anyone have a feature request or bug that we’ve overlooked?

I think my best essays have short titles that really undersell the scope of the blog post. No clickbait, no tl;dr headers to skim through. I hope people read them, but I’m not going to jump through hoops to make that happen.

In a call with reporters announcing GPT-6 Astra, Greg Brockman talked about whether Astra qualifies as AGI:

I do leave it up to the reader to decide for themselves if this qualifies for them. For me personally, I do think we’re there.

As we reach AGI, whether it’s with…

The corn not yet at its full height
on either side of the highway

and the empty high-school stadiums
still decorated after graduation.

This, America in mid-July, so pretty
you go mad with the incongruence,

the couple next door hoarding guns
against Antifa, the antivaxxer priest

withholding communion. But the…

September 4. Stray links, starting with two good news articles. Offshore wind farms are unexpected havens for marine life, and Newly discovered enzyme can break down some plastics in less than three months:

They found that the plastic in some soil samples was pocked with tiny holes that…

I decided I was bored with the previous design, but wanted something that was in keeping with the previous design (brutalist and using a monospace font) yet different.

I abandoned the yellow accent and went back to blue, my favourite colour. I also changed the font to Victor Mono.

I…

Hello again webmates!

Below are some notable things I’ve read, written, and consumed lately. Click links you’re curious about—that’s what the Web is for. ☕️

Reading

• The colors of my heart by Faiz Ahmed Faiz: A collection so good I can neither comprehend nor soak its intensity in a…