iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Chris Arter @arter.dev · 29/09/2026

a banger I saw on.. this can't be right.. linkedin?

monkey next to vodka with quote "choose a major you love and you'll never work a day in your life because that field isn't hiring"

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 26/09/2026

15 years ago this absolute banger debuted and forever changed every Millennials dopamine triggers.

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 23/09/2026

spent the day at Google

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 22/09/2026

Here’s the weird trick for waking up early that Big Morning doesn't want you to know: fly to the west coast.

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 20/09/2026

I noticed that Bifrost uses one of my absolute favorite patterns, micokernal, aka plugin-architecture. If you're building a product or ecosystem that is meant to be extended, this is where you use the same plugin api to provide first party core features as you expose for other plugin authors.

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 16/09/2026

I saw this and was about to send to you, then realized it was you on bsky who posted it 🤦😅 anyway, check out this meme

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 16/09/2026

IT'S ALIVE! This is basically just a maker account now btw. Just not gonna post tech stuff until it sparks joy.

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 15/09/2026

From my crappy 3D scan to a full 3D-printable vintage BMW part. Astra is mind blowing.

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 10/09/2026

Finally got a scan that doesn't look like weather radar 😅 progress!

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 10/09/2026

Nothing in tech has ever hit as hard as using your hands to make something old new again.

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 06/09/2026

You have not truly experienced luxury until you’ve had a wall mounted Dremmel above your workbench. Living in the year 3000 right now 🤌🥹

Rotary tool mounted to a 3-D printed multi board

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 06/09/2026

3D scanning interior BMW Z3 trim pieces. I have no idea what I’m doing! 🏄‍♂️

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 28/08/2026

I know there have been a lot of layoffs and a lot of folks are struggling to even buy groceries, but this is at least one bright spot:

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 26/08/2026

I made it 40 years without glasses. We had a good run ya'll.

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 18/08/2026

I have no idea why my car restorations take so long. Anyway here's my full restoration of a random AC hose nobody will see.

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 13/08/2026

11 years ago I drew this hot section APU turbine manually in Illustrator.

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 12/08/2026

A car guy hill I will die on

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 10/08/2026

Miata rear hub rebuild. I will never not own a shop press. Next up: whiteline polymer bushings, 949 comp hubs.

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 06/08/2026

A drop in spread sheet-style json db for React built with deepseek v4 flash for a whopping $ 0.10 cents. man this stuff is getting wild.

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 03/08/2026

Note: this was transpiring while I was off building this work bench.

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 01/08/2026

Built a work bench 🫡

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 25/07/2026

Crude but fair 😮‍💨

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 25/07/2026

My youngest picked this for movie night and I’m pretty sure this was made as some money laundering or tax write off

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 18/07/2026

SaaS is dead. Now it’s all about insider trading as a service 💰

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 11/07/2026

Hot summer day in the Raleigh suburbs. Something physical in the world getting done, like mowing my grass, just hits different these days.

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 10/07/2026

A comment about my tool Iron Lint. This has made my entire week 🥹

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 09/07/2026

Big new feature of IronLint: built in architecture enforcement.

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 07/07/2026

As if it needs to be said, Iron Lint is in fact built using Iron Lint.

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 05/07/2026

I'm working on releasing my own agent-native linting tool. This rule so far is easily my favorite:

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 01/07/2026

My determinism-in-the-loop tool in full action. This is how I plan to get the very best output from cheap models (and hopefully fully local models too).

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 01/07/2026

Absolutely brutal launch of Sonnet. Wow.

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 30/06/2026

ThatsANoForMeDawg.jpg

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 30/06/2026

Florida has followed me to Raleigh 🥵

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 29/06/2026

You build the checks like you would a CI. No edit lands unless it passes everything. It's like lefthook for every single agent write.

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 29/06/2026

I've been building this tool for the last 3 months and using it myself the entire time. I gave it to 2 non-devs using claude code and left them alone for a month. I came back to find a project with 90+% test cov, perfect domain structure and it worked beautifully. I have no idea what to call it.

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 29/06/2026

Together for 14 years, married for 5 years today ❤️ no clue how I got lucky enough to marry my best friend @thehauntedmary.bsky.social

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 23/06/2026

This system is great and I don't think anything should change at all.

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 22/06/2026

Spent Father’s Day with my wife and kids back in my home state of Florida ❤️🐊 No AI for 9 whole days. It was bliss.

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 22/06/2026

Our dogs haven’t seen each other in 9 days and they’re just vibing together on the couch.

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 12/06/2026

New profile pic. No AI. (Fresh Brenden Fraser cut tho 💅)

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 08/06/2026

Fitted up sheet metal, now time to tack weld.

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 07/06/2026

Today is A/C conversion day for my Miata restoration project! I know, why even bother with A/C in a Miata?? This one is headed down to Florida as a wedding gift for my Mom!

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 01/06/2026

When I die, my family is going to see a phone full of just photos like this.

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 30/05/2026

Saw this absolute stunner at the coffee shop this morning. Sheesh 🥵

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 29/05/2026

3D printing remains undefeated for garage organization 😤

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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 25/05/2026

3D printing will never not be magic to me. I needed some new BMW chassis floor plugs, so I modeled them real quick (no AI) in Fusion and printed a set. From "oh hey I need this plug" to "oh cool now I have this plug" in ~an hour. 🤯

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