iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Grantham Research Institute at LSE @granthamlse.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.

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achals @achals.com · 29/05/2026

They probably want to restrict bots from using reviews as training data?

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 31/03/2026

I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

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Me and a small nugget of love. 🇸🇪♥️🇺🇦 @mnotme.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

This whole concept in LOTR is one of my favourite parts of the whole book. “Evil fucks up because evil people fundamentally cannot imagine that others are not motivated by the same things as them” is another theme that feels relevant right now

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 19/02/2026

I worked on a few fairly prominent efforts in open source (Istio, OpenAPI), but I think of all of them, it’s gRPC that I think has the coolest story. Pull up a chair and set for a spell (any inaccuracies in what follows are 100% my fault for having a bad memory!).

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 14/02/2026

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Within 18 months all white collar workers could be replaced by a 1km sphere of flesh in Central Park

A giant sphere of flesh in Central Park towering over the city like a big gross meatball. This was made by redditor kiwi2703 to show what it would look like if you combined every human on Earth into a ball, and it’s clearly a bad idea

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achals @achals.com · 03/02/2026

Feels like the premium-feel of macbooks are what make them popular as opposed to the suitability of macOS itself. Which is what makes me worried that it's not really guaranteed that macbooks will continue to be as good for dev work as they have been.

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achals @achals.com · 23/01/2026

I love writing kotlin, but end up writing go at my current day job. Some questions: - championing new programming languages is not cheap; what does it take for languages to achieve "success" to have that continued investment? - have LLMs influence Andreys views on language design going forward?

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Rob Bowley @robbowley.net · 07/10/2025

From a CTO WhatsApp group I'm in

Message in CTO WhatsApp group:

I did a code and architecture review for a company yesterday who had vibe coded their MVP - there were no common classes, modules, functions, etc. every "feature" was a separate file with literally a main method full of all the code required for that one function - no reuse anywhere and loads of bits of code that were declared but never used, variable names that didn't make sense, the same variables defined everywhere, etc. Because they were quite far down this path the tidy-up process is going to be a long and difficult road

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achals @achals.com · 14/04/2025

Excited to share that I’m reviewing talks for the Distributed Data Systems track at Rootconf 2025! 🚀 If you’re working on high-throughput, low-latency systems — — we want to hear what you’ve been building. 📅 16–17 May, Bangalore 🎤 CFP: hasgeek.com/rootconf/roo... @hasgeek.com

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/03/2025

Newsletter: The tech media needs to move away from optimism and dreaming about what AI (and AGI) can do, and start focusing on the dangerous financial crises brewing. Failing to hold the powerful accountable is cowardice, and actively harmful to society. www.wheresyoured.at/optimistic-cowardice/

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The Phony Comforts of AI Optimism

A few months ago, Casey Newton of Platformer ran a piece called "The phony comforts of AI skepticism," framing those who would criticize generative AI as "having fun," damning them as "hyper-fixated o...

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achals @achals.com · 15/02/2025

I was booking a flight for my family + parents + siblings when the Alaska Airlines ate and lost all the passenger details for 7 people as well as the flights in my cart. And flight search is now broken. This is fine.

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a sign that says " what is even happening " next to a dumpster

Alt: a sign that says " what is even happening " next to a dumpster fire floating down a river

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achals @achals.com · 19/11/2024

I don't think I've read anything as gut wrenching as this www.readmargins.com/p/technology...

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Technology and Grieving

In Loving Memory of Samaya June Roy-Yang: 12/13/2016 to 11/18/2023

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achals @achals.com · 15/11/2024

I was trying to test a service using ghz.sh and i guess I'm going up have to pass around compiled protosets instead, weeee

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ghz · gRPC benchmarking and load testing tool

gRPC benchmarking and load testing tool

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Rob Bowley @robbowley.net · 20/10/2024

I'm excited there are more and more techie folks landing here 🦋 Tell your friends! Why are they still on X? ICYMI, there are a few good starter packs, which I'll share below 👇

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achals @achals.com · 22/10/2024

Hey folks, catch me at the Rootconf Mini 2024 conference on Nov 22nd, sharing Tecton’s journey of rebuilding our real-time compute stack. This is a deep dive into architectural decisions, and how we shaped Tecton’s ability to deliver a better product experience. hasgeek.com/rootconf/2024/

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Rootconf Mini 2024

Geeking out on systems and security since 2012

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achals @achals.com · 30/09/2024

Staring down a few weeks off work. Anyone have any suggestions for projects? I’ve been meaning to do something in the ML infra or personal productivity space and pick up rust/typescript/zig in the process

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 22/09/2024

These are just a few of my favorite images I captured from this storm of a lifetime. Ridiculous structure, prolific lightning, and a sky full of stars. It doesn't get much better. What a planet we live on.

A towering supercell thunderstorm with three lightning bolts striking the ground and a clear blue sky with stars to its left.

A towering supercell thunderstorm with two lightning strikes bracketing the storm and a clear blue sky with stars to its left.

A towering supercell thunderstorm with multiple ligfhtning bolts and a bowl-shaped funnel cloud at the bottom. A clear blue sky with stars is to its left.

A towering supercell thunderstorm with two lightning bolts striking the ground and a clear blue sky with stars to its left.

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achals @achals.com · 18/09/2024

Finally catching up with Joe Bob's Nightmareathon, and rewatching When Evil Lurks. Such a fantastic and effective movie - just the poster dredged up a bunch of images from the first time I saw it.

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achals @achals.com · 13/09/2024

public.ecr.aws redirects to bunch of different domains including cloudfront and awsglobalaccelerator, which all individually need exceptions for outgoing requests.

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ECR Public Gallery

Amazon ECR Public Gallery is a website that allows anyone to browse and search for public container images, view developer-provided details, and see pull commands

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achals @achals.com · 13/09/2024

Learned much more than I wanted to about Jib+public.ecr.aws+AWS network firewalls tonight. But hey! Builds are green

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Compare and contrast.

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achals @achals.com · 08/09/2024

Something soothing about watching old episodes of The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob

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Samuel @samuel.fm · 05/09/2024

how it feels to do PR reviews

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 27/07/2024

Trump ended his Bitcoin 2024 speech with "Have a good time with your bitcoin and your crypto and everything else you're playing with"

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achals @achals.com · 29/03/2024

Purchasing land in India - the ultimate in wild goose chases

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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 24/02/2024

With BlueSky finally opening up federation, I think it's time to write up something that explains the whole thing, BlueSky, atproto, the works, in one easy to find place. Just the high level bits, hopefully something that any developer can understand: steveklabnik.com/writing/how-...

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