
technologyJun 30, 20261:11:15pending
Eurosummer, Life after Fable, Sonnet 5, Self Hosting GLM 5.2, Hyper-Personal Software
About this episode
- Matt's trail marathon in record-heat France
- Matt's hardware wishlist
- AI Engineer World's Fair
- Claude Sonnet 5 ships live on air, and the case for keeping a personal benchmark
- GLM 5.2 at Opus 4.5 leve
- Fable's relentlessly proactive
- Quinn Slack's Freedom of Intelligence rally
- Chad gets personal
- Poke Human, RentAHuman, and Mercor
Links:
- Omius cooling headband: https://omius.com/
- What the science says about the $200 Omius headband (Outside): https://www.outsideonline.com/health/training-performance/omius-cooling-headband/
- Colmi R02 open-source Python client (tahnok): https://github.com/tahnok/colmi_r02_client
- Noop, the open-source no-subscription Whoop app: https://www.techradar.com/health-fitness/fitness-trackers/this-looks-awesome-theres-now-an-unofficial-open-source-app-for-reading-whoop-data-that-doesnt-need-a-subscription
- Google's data centre from 2,000 retired Pixels: https://research.google/blog/a-low-carbon-computing-platform-from-your-retired-phones/
- AI Engineer World's Fair 2026: https://www.ai.engineer/worldsfair/2026
- NVIDIA DGX Spark: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/workstations/dgx-spark/
- Timeshifter jet lag app: https://www.timeshifter.com/
- Fitbod: https://fitbod.me/
- Poke Human (Interaction Company of California): https://poke.com/faq
- RentAHuman (Y Combinator): https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rentahuman
- Mercor: https://www.mercor.com/
- Quinn Slack (Amp): https://x.com/sqs
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