For more than 20 years, I’ve had a habit of dragging URLs to my desktop. I’m not going to pretend it’s a great habit, but I found it a handy way to save a link I wanted to check out later. For whatever reason, Apple has recently made this a lot more annoying.
Yesterday, a group of MIT researchers released an article titled “Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights”. The piece describes a set of experiments which convincingly show OpenAI’s latest Astra model is able to understand and successfully alter raw weight data. Wowzers!
The internet is becoming a more dangerous place, and fast. LLMs are only getting better at identifying security issues, and more people are taking advantage of this. Some people argue that LLMs will eventually make large-scale vulnerabilities a thing of the past. I’m not so sure. Either way, I think it’s a good idea to have less stuff that can be hacked online. One way to do that is with statically generated sites.
Tasting History with Max Miller is must-watch YouTube for me. Miller is a wonderful storyteller, and his show melds interesting history lessons with period-appropriate recipes. As it turns out, he’s also a fan of board games. His new game is now live on Kickstarter.
Recently, while troubleshooting a PATH issue, I noticed an entry for /pkg/env/global/bin. At first, I worried that something had gone horribly wrong. Turns out, this is part of macOS 27.0… though no one is sure what it’s for yet.
Over the weekend, John Gruber posted a piece titled “X Once Again Marks the Spot”. He announced this on Mastodon by saying “I’m sure this one won’t make anyone angry.” I’m not angry, John, I’m just so very tired.
After using the same few image formats for 20+ years, I’m now on the WebP bandwagon. That isn’t something I thought I’d ever say. Now I’m wondering how soon it’ll be before I can use a couple more.
It’s been a couple of weeks since I got my Apple Watch Ultra 4. I’ve written about some upcoming features that I’m not psyched about, but I’ve otherwise been very happy with the upgrade. There’s just one issue: the new walking distance estimation is completely busted for me.