Weeknotes #88 (July 11, 2026)
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Things I found, read, did, and produced this past week.
Things I worked on
- I used Raycast Script Commands to quickly throw the temperature from my various rooms in my apartment from Home Assistant into the One Thing menu bar widget.
- GPT 5.6 was released this week and as part of it is 3 classes of models, Luna, Terra, and Sol. As such I was testing some prompts I previously ran on 5.5 and I definitely noticed 5.6 Luna is a cheaper model and shouldn't be used for everything, but Terra and Sol definitely were either at 5.5 levels or slightly better.
Things I consumed
- "Litslop" video by Man Carrying Thing was a good watch going over how some people on social media considering some books classic literature being considered "slop" with The Count of Monte Cristo as an example and Man Carrying Thing trying to argue against such.
- Knockoff is a browser extension that tries to deprioritize Chinese drop shipping brands on Amazon which I personally happy to see people try pushing back against such as if you have 1 actual product from a factory being branded by dozens or hundreds of different names of all caps letters, it just pollutes the marketplace from brands that are actually trying to stick out rather than selling you stuff for cheap.