Quiet week. Mostly movies and some internet browsing. Not every week needs to be productive, right?
- 🍿War Machine (2026) – Watched this one on Netflix and… it’s fine. Not bad, not great. It’s basically a 2026 take on Predator where instead of an alien monster hunting soldiers, you get a walking machine doing the same thing. Alan Ritchson plays a Ranger recruit dealing with PTSD while an extraterrestrial war machine starts picking off his squad during a training exercise. The action is solid, Dennis Quaid pops up as the grizzled veteran type, but the story doesn’t really bring anything new to the table. If you’ve seen Predator, you already know the beats. Watchable on a lazy evening, forgettable by morning.
- 🍿 K-Pop: Demon Hunters (2025) – Took me two evenings to get through this one because I literally fell asleep halfway through the first time. Not because it’s boring, I was just dead tired. It’s an animated Netflix movie about a K-pop girl group that secretly hunts demons. Pretty original concept, I’ll give it that. It does a decent job of showing you what the whole K-pop world is about, with the “for the fans!” mentality and all. But the characters handle their emotions like they’re fourteen, which… makes sense, since this is basically a movie for teenage girls. Well made for what it is, and the music is catchy. Would I watch the sequel though? Nah.
- 🧑💻 8 custom zsh functions that replaced dozens of commands in my daily workflow – Published a post about my custom zsh functions. Over time I’ve built up a collection of shell shortcuts that save me a ton of keystrokes every day, so I figured I’d share them.
- 🌎 Claude as a personal trainer – Stumbled upon this thread about someone using Claude as their personal trainer. The idea is that you feed Claude your fitness goals, body measurements, available equipment and it builds you a fully personalized workout plan. You can ask follow-up questions, adjust intensity, track progress, all through conversation. Made me think “wait, why am I not doing this already?” Might try it.
- 🌎 New Google Gemma Models – Google DeepMind dropped new Gemma models this week. Gemma is Google’s open-weight model family, and it keeps getting better. The nice thing is you can run these locally without melting your GPU.
- 🌎 From hierarchy to intelligence – This one’s wild. Jack Dorsey published an article about how he is gutting traditional management and replacing it with AI systems. They’re literally getting rid of middle management layers and building an AI-powered “world model” that maintains operational context. The idea is that people work at the edge with three roles: individual contributors, directly responsible individuals, and player-coaches. I have no idea if this will actually work or if it’s just corporate buzzword soup dressed up as innovation. Guess we’ll find out.
- 🌎 Anthropic: The Leak, The War, The Weapon – Caught this post making the rounds about Anthropic. It digs into some of the internal tensions and strategic positioning happening at the company behind Claude. If you follow the AI industry drama, it’s a good read. Things are getting spicy over there.