Plutonic Rainbows

OpenAI drop the price of o3 by 80%. That's good news for people using the API. At this point, it really is very competitive with everyone trying to beat everyone else.

OpenAI o3 is the company's most powerful reasoning model that pushes the frontier across coding, math, science, visual perception, and more. It sets a new SOTA on benchmarks including Codeforces, SWE-bench (without building a custom model-specific scaffold), and MMMU. It’s ideal for complex queries requiring multi-faceted analysis and whose answers may not be immediately obvious. It performs especially strongly at visual tasks like analyzing images, charts, and graphics. In evaluations by external experts, o3 makes 20 percent fewer major errors than OpenAI o1 on difficult, real-world tasks — especially excelling in areas like programming, business/consulting, and creative ideation. Early testers highlighted its analytical rigor as a thought partner and emphasized its ability to generate and critically evaluate novel hypotheses — particularly within biology, math, and engineering contexts.

Updated: OpenAI have now added o3 Pro for users that are willing to pay $200 a month.

Reading a variety of books today.

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore is a haunting, character-rich literary thriller set in 1975 at a remote Adirondack summer camp, where the disappearance of 13‑year‑old Barbara Van Laar echoes the unresolved vanishing of her brother 14 years earlier. Moore skillfully weaves multiple timelines and perspectives — campers, counselors, investigators, and the privileged Van Laar family — against a backdrop of dense, foreboding woods that feel almost alive. Critics consistently praise its immersive atmosphere, precise prose, and intricate plotting, likening its slow-burning tension to Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.

I am watching chronological episodes of The Twilight Zone, in its 1985 series. Lots of great actors in this tv show from back in the day.

I bought some new albums:

• Abul Mogard - Quiet Pieces
• Civilistjävel! x Mayssa Jallad - Marjaa: The Battle of the Hotels
• Death in Vegas - Your Love
• Cindytalk - Camouflage

Started reading Stephen King, Fairy Tale. It's not a new novel — just maybe two or three years old. I also bought a collection from Clark Ashton Smith, The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies published by Penguin Classics.

Two new albums are out tomorrow. Lateral, a sublime hour-long ambient drift subtitled Big Empty Country, serves as the analog counterpart to Eno and Wolfe’s Luminal, bathing in the near-still sonic waters Eno first conjured nearly fifty years ago. On their debut collaborative LP, Eno and fellow conceptualist Beatie Wolfe deliver ambient-tinged Americana lullabies that echo Lou Reed and late-era Spiritualized — forming the full-voiced companion to the atmospheric purity of Lateral.

Just picked up the 4K edition of this movie in its uncut form of just over two hours. This film has been on my list for quite some time, so I am glad to finally get to see it.

On his first solo album in five years, Abul Mogard unveils Quiet Pieces a deeply personal ambient suite shaped by memory, emotion, and rediscovered family relics. Sampling his late uncle’s collection of 78rpm records, Mogard breathes new life into old sketches, blending nostalgia with spectral synthwork. The result is a graceful drift through loss, reverie, and renewal — a hushed, haunting meditation for fans of Eno, Cortini, and Jeck.

Starting the new novel from Stephen King, entitled Never Flinch.

Version 1.10.0 introduces comprehensive automatic image format conversion. Supported image types (JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF) are now seamlessly converted to optimised WebP during the build, eliminating the need for manual preprocessing. The system detects and handles transparency in PNGs, applying white backgrounds to maximize compression. These enhancements are fully integrated into the responsive image workflow, offering detailed logging, smart caching to skip unchanged files, and output quality tuning—set at 85 for large images and 80 for smaller ones.

The responsive image generation pipeline has also been significantly upgraded. Each image now automatically produces multiple sizes (400w, 800w, 1200w, 1920w) using srcset and sizes for efficient loading across devices, cutting mobile bandwidth use by up to 95%. Original files are preserved for lightbox viewing, and lazy loading has been added to further optimise performance. Enhancements to image_processor.py and ResponsiveImageGenerator enable smart, conditional processing, while maintaining backward compatibility with existing WebP assets.

Earlier improvements in 1.9.0 and 1.8.0 focused on development workflow and performance. A new watch mode monitors project directories and triggers automatic rebuilds on file changes, streamlining live development. The build system now uses watchdog for reliable file monitoring with detailed logging and configurable behaviour. In 1.8.0, Lightbox2 script loading was fixed to run only when image links are present, reducing load times and eliminating redundant script execution on text-only pages.