The Guardian managed to write almost three thousand words about the history of the modern industrialized two-day weekend—published on a Sunday—without using the word “Sabbath” once.
\nRemarkable.
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\nHe spends nineteen chapters talking about this impending disaster “from the north” before finally spitting out who it’s going to be.
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","summary":"","url":"https://jerrytowler.com/2026/08/15/does-this-make-chatgpt-codex.html","date_published":"2026-08-15T23:15:12+00:00","author":{"name":"Jerry Towler","url":"https://jerrytowler.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fjatowler%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jatowler"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-15 23:15","date_timestamp":1786835712,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:auigttnhbmqszyhozuvin6jn/post/3mt5sinolsq2h"]}},{"id":"95839050","content_html":"Saturday Is the Day of Pre-Rest: jerrytowler.com
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\nAllTrails estimated 2.5 hours for this trail, so I was fairly surprised to find myself back at the parking lot in 97 minutes.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/1214/2026/ec238c73bc.png\")
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\nApparently the registers ran on battery, so we were all able to check out, but then we were trapped at the entrance by the rain.
\nOn the plus side, it’s much cooler...
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\nI haven’t started “Ted Lasso” Season 4 yet, but I’m cautiously optimistic.
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\nFortunately, I had already built some Bible-data machinery for this article. So naturally, instead of getting back to my notes, I had Codex investigate.
\nThe result: my intuition was right....
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\n\n\nDetermining the authorship of the book of Jeremiah is complicated by several factors…
\n
I understand and appreciate the challenges; I just love the juxtaposition of the name of the book, which comes from the authorship claim in the very first verse of said book (“The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah…\"), with the claim that authorship is complicated.
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\nIt’s okay for things to end!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/jatowler/95529262","date_published":"2026-08-10T17:10:55+00:00","author":{"name":"Jerry Towler","url":"https://jerrytowler.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fjatowler%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jatowler"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-10 17:10","date_timestamp":1786381855,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95492609","content_html":"We have started our Fall marathon-of-marathons a little… early… this year.
\nFirst up: Gilmore Girls.
\nAn uneven show for sure, but I’ll never turn down something with such excellent dialogue delivered so well.
\nBonus trivia: Star’s Hollow uses the same set as Bluebell in Hart of Dixie.
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\nIsaiah was definitely the hardest book left, but Jeremiah and Ezekiel aren’t easy, and together they make up 100 of the 184 chapters remaining.
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\nFinished reading: The Butcher’s Masquerade by Matt Dinniman
\nWow, this book was very nearly serious fantasy! It has huge stakes, multiple meaningful races, some hope that what they do in this book will have impacts on the next one, and some actual pathos! Easily the best in the series so far.
\n📚
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\nFinished reading: The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman
\nThis book takes place inside cosmic bubble wrap. Dinniman’s brain reminds me of a Gary Larson quote:
\n\n\nYou know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It’s like that.
\n
📚
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\nFinished reading: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook by Matt Dinniman
\nIt’s so nice to just plow through fun books like this. Sometimes I get too serious about my reading and forget that you’re allowed to read fun stuff with no telos.
\nWeirdly, the title object is a bigger deal in future books than in this one.
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\nFinished reading: Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman
\nThis series continues to be excellent empty calories of entertainment. I particularly love that the title refers to an object, not… a scenario.
\n📚
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\nNobody will ever know how perfect the thing you intended to write would have been. The flaws you see in your writing are invisible to everyone else.
\n
No matter how many times I read this advice, it’s always useful to read again. One day I will internalize it.
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\nOnly weird bit left is that in ChatGPT mode, the non-pinned projects start with Codex repos, not ChatGPT projects.
\n![\"A](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/1214/2026/paste-49be391d.png\")
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://jerrytowler.com/2026/07/23/just-finished-my-notes-on.html","date_published":"2026-07-24T03:06:27+00:00","author":{"name":"Jerry Towler","url":"https://jerrytowler.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fjatowler%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jatowler"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-24 03:06","date_timestamp":1784862387,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:auigttnhbmqszyhozuvin6jn/post/3mreeoyifpu2m"]}},{"id":"94547224","content_html":"@manton Do you encounter these phrases meaning something different than their original usage? They all have important meanings and shortcut much longer explanations. But sometimes the business/sales class co-opts and abuses technical terms; perhaps it’s that impedance mismatch (!) that bugs you?
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/jatowler/94547224","date_published":"2026-07-23T22:08:54+00:00","author":{"name":"Jerry Towler","url":"https://jerrytowler.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fjatowler%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jatowler"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-23 22:08","date_timestamp":1784844534,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94416798","content_html":"I 100% agree with Manton’s mockup of how OpenAI’s Codex app ought to work.
\n\n\nThree modes, uncluttered sidebar that works like the old app when needed.
\n
It’s so obvious it’s weird it doesn’t already work like this.
\nFor now, I’m still just running both ChatGPT Classic and Codex.
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\nThis is how it looked last night before it went on the smoker. (Don’t worry, the foil did not go with it.)
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\nThat article just says (to replace Pulse),
\n> Ask ChatGPT “give me daily suggestions based on my past chats and emails that I might find useful or interesting.”
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\nFinished reading: Dungeon Crawler Carl A LitRPG/Gamelit Adventure by Matt Dinniman
\nA quick, fluffy, no-stakes LitRPG read.
\nParts of it are clear parody, but they’re executed so hamfistedly I wondered if the author was lampooning his own genre and not just the obvious butts of the jokes.
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\n(Posted from a plane that was supposed to land four hours ago.)
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\n> —Captain Adama
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\nThanks for the reminder not to be too pessimistic about the future.
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\nThen Settings -> Accessibility -> Accessibility Shortcut -> Zoom
\nNow you can triple-click the power button (top left) to extra-darken your screen.
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