iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Newt 👁️ @eyeofthenewt.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

another friend birthday portrait! [OC: Sir Orren played by @aghdom.eu - CoS, 5e homebrew]

A digital painting in the style of an old oil portrait depicting a bearded old man in armour. He sits in a darkened space with a sad expression. The armour is tarnished in tones of green and he has his long gray hair in a bun. The frame around the painting is oval and the space around is decorated with drawing of roots creeping to the centre.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 23/04/2026

🧵 We tend to think the internet is permanent, but VANISHING CULTURE—the new 📚 from Internet Archive—starts with a simple reality: our digital record is far more fragile than we think 🕳️ 📖 Read for free: archive.org/details/vani... 🛒 Purchase in print: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/deta... ⬇️

Book cover titled “Vanishing Culture” on a teal background. Pixel-art style graphics show a VHS tape, open book, film reel, chain link, and vinyl record dissolving into digital fragments. At the bottom, a cursor icon points to the word “SAVE,” alongside an archive-style building icon, evoking digital preservation.

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Mossborn @mossborn.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Love being able to make silly stickers of my and my friends’ blorbos

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Sam | Conjette @conjette.art · 29/08/2025

“Just make it exist!” Isn’t that simple, and neither is “making it good.” I know the left hand graphic has been making the rounds and is meant as motivation, but as a frequent victim of Scope Creep, please learn from my mistakes 😂🥲

A cartoon about scope creep and creative process, using shapes as metaphor for projects

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 09/06/2025

Finished Wiktopher by Rek Bell and wrote a short review of it. I really enjoyed it, and will probably continue exploring the Sonoran Desert in my sketches for some time yet! My two-word summary would be - playful and heart-felt!

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I think this is the first time I've lived walking distance from a grocery store and I'm out of my mind about it. I'll walk there several times a day. Oh did I forget to grab something? No big deal I'll simply Walk To The Store

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 04/05/2025

I'm so glad this was my first attempt, so I can just let it go & not become addicted to this game again 😅 --- I just scored 63,888 on a game of at://2048. Think you can do better? Join in on the fun with @2048.blue.

A finished game of at://2048, an implementation of the 2048 tile-moving game using atproto. The final score is 63,888 and the biggest tiles are 4096 and 2048.

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Gila RPGs @gilarpgs.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I need to get back to the NOVA card game. @nightjargames.bsky.social made some really cool mockups and I just need to finish the dang thing.

Card from a game featuring a soldier colored in red on a dark background. White font shows a shield, the word minion, and the number two.

Card from a game featuring a person casting a spell surrounded by green stone pillars. White font reads the words moon altar, shield symbol, and description of the card's effect.

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Sygnin @sygnin.com · 02/05/2025

When I was in Ireland, the museum was free but they had this thing you could tap (credit card or presumably phone/watch) & auto donate 5 Euro. Was thinking - it would be nice if there was a similar thing for artists to use at events?

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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Thinking about "text using propaganda register of x to convey anti-x ideas" generally. I do find that disclaimers of various kinds (which includes "looming context") aesthetically dissatisfying ... Often necessary, and I used them myself all the time. But they puncture the LARP-y conceit. 1/

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 27/04/2025

Have you read the paper that introduced the "Turing test"? You know, by Alan Turing. One of the great minds of computing? No? It's… distressingly bad. Hilariously, mind-numbingly, hair-pullingly bad. One of the most widely circulated ideas of our field is, in fact, a total face-plant.

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Nozomi M waitlist/alert list open! @nozomimats.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I know this has been talked about, but they’re rolling out the ‘edit image with grok’ thing for mobile users on Twitter(the option came up on my iPad). More randos can play with any artwork you upload. I know some artist friends still use the site, so be careful out there!

iPad screenshot of a page on Twitter. The user is pressing and holding an image on rilakkuma’s official account where a menu pops up with the option to edit the photo with grok.

iPad screenshot of a page on Twitter. The user is pressing and holding an image on her own account where a menu pops up with the option to edit the photo with grok.

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Will Sawyer @willsawyer.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Playing Blue Prince:

Quotable moment from the film Knives Out in which Daniel Craig's character, Benoit Blanc, says "It makes no damn sense. Compels me though..."

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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Unfortunately they’re dooming the rest of us who did learn too.

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 03/02/2025

(Yes, I'm still not dead) Can I just say, that I truly appreciate when people/companies send you an e-mail about re-evaluating your subscription to their mailing list? Thank you, yes I haven't been reading your e-mails, I probably can just unsubscribe and save storage and compute on both ends!

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 29/12/2024

Finished reading High Conflict by Amanda Ripley. It was a very eye-opening read, one that I believe everyone should go read in our polarized day and age. Seriously, find a copy and go read it!

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

You can measure an economy's actual, real life, concrete health by: are people able to do their own weird shit? Do they have money to survive doing their weird shit? Do they have the free time to do that weird shit? Fuck the metrics, just look for the dirtbags and artists and musicians and writers

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 17/12/2024

To prove that I'm alive, here's a short one about an intent I aim to fulfill by working on my site.

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Molly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Ted Chiang: "The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 17/12/2024

I'm still here, end of the year rush is getting the best of me though. I still have plans for my site and some things that I've started writing that need to be finished. I'll try to get some writing done soon. In the meantime, I've managed to catch the library up to speed

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patak @patak.cat · 15/12/2024

"The forest and the desert" is such a beautiful metaphor for how organizations craft software. I love the emphasis on community. The idea that conversations are everywhere when a team works in a forest, and that the path out of the desert also begins by having conversations with your peers.

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Kent Beck & Beth Andres-Beck - We're Good At Writing Software [Keynote]

YouTube video by Øredev Conference

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kepano @stephango.com · 03/12/2024

Companies break promises all the time. A self-guaranteeing promise does not require you to trust anyone. Full essay: stephango.com/self-guarantee

Companies break promises all the time. A self-guaranteeing promise does not require you to trust anyone. You can verify a self-guaranteeing promise yourself.

File over app is a self-guaranteeing promise. If files are in your control, in an open format, you can use those files in another app at any time. Not an export. The exact same files. It’s good practice to test this with any self-proclaimed file-over-app app you use.

Terms and policies are not self-guaranteeing. A company may promise the privacy of your data, but those policies can change at any time. Changes can retroactively affect data you have spent years putting into the tool. Examples: Google, Zoom, Dropbox, Tumblr, Slack, Adobe, Figma.

A self-guaranteeing promise about privacy gives you proof that the tool cannot access your data in the first place.

Encoding values into a governance structure is not self-guaranteeing. Given enough motivation, the corporate structure can be reversed. The structure is not in your hands. Example: OpenAI.

Open source alone is not self-guaranteeing. Even open source apps can rely on data that is stuck in databases or in proprietary formats that are difficult to switch away from. Open source is not a reliable safeguard against the biases of venture capital. Examples: Omnivore, Skiff.

When you choose to use a tool, the future of that tool is always ambiguous. On a long enough timeline the substrate changes. Your needs change, the underlying operating system changes, the company goes out of business or gets acquired, better options come along.

It is possible to accept the ambiguousness of a tool’s future if you choose tools that make self-guaranteeing promises.

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Boris @bmann.ca · 28/11/2024

The @inkandswitch.com team is looking to hire a C++ engineer who has worked on the Godot game engine IDE, researching new approaches to collaborative game development. Read the full job posting here www.notion.so/inkandswitch...

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Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 27/11/2024

Added a library section to my site, so that I have a place to collect my thoughts on books I've read. It's half-empty right now, but I'm slowly fixing that.

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 26/11/2024

Very nicely put! This reflects my own philosophy when working on my recent projects. It's also one of the reasons why I migrated from other note-taking apps to Obsidian.

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 26/11/2024

Wrote a short one today, about messy gardens and why that's fine. Why that's something that you want, actually.

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 22/11/2024

Did you know that if you only follow cool and interesting people - and you never touch a "recommended" feed - that every post in your feed is very interesting and worth reading? Funny how that works...

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 22/11/2024

Had a little think about local-first computing & data worth keeping. It... might have spiraled out a little.

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Lu wilson @todepond.com · 22/11/2024

I LEARNED A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE BY ACCIDENT Part one: ARROOST www.todepond.com/wikiblogarde...

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Todepond dot com

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Lu wilson @todepond.com · 21/11/2024

"can you currently (ie: today) use bluesky on 100% third party infrastructure?" it's a very simple yes/no question ---- if the answer is yes: prove it if the answer is not yet: how long? days? months? years? debates? if the answer is no: I am not interested in building community here

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maybeanerd @maybeanerd.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Iteresting read by @melkat.blue melkat.blog/p/hosting-bskyI might still deploy a PDS somewhere just to play around, but the social web (as in the fediverse, lol) looks like it's the only true federated system we really have rn. I'd like the AP standard to improve and thrive, not bsky or AT

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melkat.blog - hi there! please enjoy my blog of things i think are interesting

hi there! please enjoy my blog of things i think are interesting

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Lu wilson @todepond.com · 21/11/2024

How to learn www.todepond.com/wikiblogarde...

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Todepond dot com

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Hector @hctr.dev · 16/11/2024

I made a thing! I was playing around with the AT protocol and as a little experiment I made a website that visualises activity around Bluesky: nightsky.hctr.dev It listens to all new posts and shows them as little stars across a night sky 🌃 Every star is someone, somewhere, posting something

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Nightsky | hctr.dev

See live conversations from all over Bluesky as a dynamic night sky

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Lu wilson @todepond.com · 20/11/2024

how good i am at strudel over time

oscillating wave increases in amplitude over time

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 20/11/2024

Now this is a delightful initiative! If only I had something to submit...

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 20/11/2024

Collected my thoughts on better computing. I say nothing new there, just point at other people's ideas that spoke to me and I try to follow. Might be worth to take a look, see if I missed something!

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Lu wilson @todepond.com · 19/11/2024

here's a collaborative playlist of PASTAGANG recordings all sounds and visuals made together by strangers across the internet, experts and beginners watch us get better and worse as time goes on www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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pastagang - YouTube

Live coded things by the secret pasta squad at todepond.cool/flok

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 18/11/2024

New post about embracing the mess! Extending on my initial post from yesterday, here I talk about why I choose to keep things messy! Some might call this a *slippy mindset*, whatever floats your lily pad! 🐸

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 17/11/2024

Wrote my first post on the new site about why I actually decided to rewrite it. I hope to expand on the mentioned topics, like "better web" and "embracing the mess" in the coming days, so keep your eyes peeled!

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Gavin Anderegg @gavin.anderegg.ca · 15/11/2024

I wanted to try and collect my thoughts about Bluesky in one place. I think Bluesky is fascinating, but I also worry about many parts of it. If it becomes the new "Twitter", I think I'm OK with that, but I'll be very quick to cut the cord if it ever starts sucking. anderegg.ca/2024/11/15/m...

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Maybe Bluesky has “won”

November has sucked so far. One upside of the terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X. Many are choosing Bluesky. I’ve seen a bunch of takes about this recently, but I keep seeing things I...

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Lu wilson @todepond.com · 15/11/2024

CHAOS TO THE CANON PART ONE NO ESCAPE www.todepond.com/wikiblogarde...

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Todepond dot com

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 14/11/2024

As I was reading about the two beat style by @todepond.com, I got reminded about the book *Writing in Style* by Lane Greene and how it talked about old and short words being best. Should re-read that one...

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 13/11/2024

Enthusiasm still high, messing around and making things, having a good time! The slippy mindset is a hit over here, despite it becoming an idea and dying because of it...

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 13/11/2024

So, a new version of both my web and microblog are out now! Made the web much simpler & leaner, so that I can start messing with it faster!

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 12/11/2024

Okay, so with motivation high, and some free time available, let's start messing around with my personal web stuff to make it simpler, neater and slippy!

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 11/11/2024

Are you a SFWA member or do you know one? I wrote a case for nominating Caves of Qud for the 2025 Nebula Award for Best Game Writing. (please repost) kitfoxgames.medium.com/the-2025-neb...

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The 2025 Nebula Award for Best Game Writing: a Case for Caves of Qud

By Jason Grinblat

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

📢 Indiedevs, you can now add Bluesky social links to your Steam page!

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