iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 20/06/2026

I recently learned these use the sensors from their camcorders from around the same time. They’ve bumped to the top of my “need to get one of these” list!

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 18/06/2026

This gas pump is a giant tablet, 0/10 experience.

A gas pump featuring a very large screen, the bottom half is just an ad.

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 17/06/2026

Oh I’m thinking bigger, like make the phone fully functional (but smarter) bigger

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 17/06/2026

If someone wants to sponsor me I have ideas for this pay phone I saw at a Tennessee thrift store

A large, dusty old payphone with a steel surrounding.

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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 12/06/2026

Working on creating a demo visualisation of my Kubernetes cluster that runs in the browser. Just got network visualisation working. Each image is its own actual bit of running code using a fetch-like API to talk to other pods, and the network emits events when this happens.

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 09/06/2026

Nah I agree with you 100%. I don’t dwell on them (or at least try not to) but I have countless moments where I wish I did something differently or could have made a better move.

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 07/06/2026

Don’t suppress your whimsy 🪨

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 07/06/2026

I’ve had my eye on that vinyl for a while

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 07/06/2026

I unironically love websites like this. No https, content straight to the point, loads in milliseconds, tiling background of cool rocks. This is peak.

Render of a website dedicated to "ASCII - Binary Character Table" listing out the letter a-z with their ascii codes and binary bits. It has a tiling background of rocks.

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 06/06/2026

I may have finally found the Python-in-a-sandbox solution I've been looking for... here's my latest experiment, this time running MicroPython in WebAssembly inside my Python applications simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/6/m...

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Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASM

I’ve been experimenting with different approaches to running code in a sandbox for several years now, but my latest attempt feels like it might finally have all of the characteristics …

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 05/06/2026

Yeah! Full bytes with the standard character set for this printer (Epson TM-U220). The button is hooked up to the first pin that latches the data, and then any LF char sent over prints the buffer and moves up the paper!

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 05/06/2026

That’s wild (re: no pairs). I just joined a new company and have paired a few times for a couple tricky issues that Claude couldn’t nail down.

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 04/06/2026

You can just do things Like manually set the bytes being sent to a receipt printer

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 02/06/2026

Wait I think it’s working!

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 02/06/2026

Think I’m close to getting a single letter printed out

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 30/05/2026

Fun fact: there are 11 unused pins in a parallel cord between the host and peripheral, mostly duplicate grounds

A photo of a breadboard with the pins of a parallel cord split out and put in order in the board. A post it note with a crude drawing of the peripheral port and unused pins is next to it.

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 26/05/2026

This stopped being fun like 15 mins ago

Wires from a cut parallel printer cord labelled with numbers, a multimeter and centronics port next to it.

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 25/05/2026

The cheap parallel to usb adapters I've bought aren't reliably working with my dot matrix receipt printer. Oh well, time to dive into the spec and wire a raspberry pi to communicate directly with the port instead!

A screenshot of the IEEE-1284 spec, compatibility mode handshake diagram.

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Ben Holmen @benholmen.com · 04/05/2026

The intrusive thoughts overwhelmed my last two brain cells

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 27/04/2026

Settling towards this design for my new forum, more "embrace tradition". What do you think?

Screenshot of a forum website called Andrew's Lab with different sections for General Chat, Projects and Builds, and more. The design is similar to mid-2000s era forums.

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 21/04/2026

Made a website that converts text to a 2-layer STL that I can make faux screen printing stencils with. There’s a pause between the layers where I sandwich in some tulle fabric.

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 20/04/2026

I built an interactive guide on how Shazam (the music identification app) works! This is the next installment in my newly coined "How The Heck?" series, where we explore everyday tech that can feel like magic (QR Codes, GPS, and now this one). Hope you enjoy it! perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 18/04/2026

I’ve been on a kick of collecting old recipe books, and I don’t think this sounds Italian or particularly delightful

Recipe for Italian Delight: 1 lb package spaghetti, 1 lb ground round steak, 1 can corn, 1 can tomato soup, 1 cup oil, 1.5 cups grated cheese, 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce, 2 good sized onions, 2 green peppers, 2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped, 1 cup olives, cut fine. Salt to taste, bake 1 hour in a slow oven.

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 06/04/2026

My wife baked cookies for Easter and needed a specific half moon cookie cutter. I threw together a site that uses Three.js to design a parametric one and export the STL to be 3D printed. Custom cookie cutter in ~10 mins!

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Niels Leenheer @html5test.com · 05/04/2026

Take a Joy-Con and connect it with WebHID, draw a picture in the air and capture it with the sensors. Create an SVG path and insert in the DOM. Apply CSS styling. Sample the DOM and use WebUSB to convert to ILDA and send it to a laser projector. I created the worlds most complicated laserpointer…

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 10/02/2026

This is a fully functioning Laravel application and playground rendered on a static Cloudflare page. The entire app is sandboxed to your client, all files are editable, and you can even run artisan commands.

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 07/02/2026

Alright now I gotta make this

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 07/02/2026

I turned my old receipt printer into a ticker tape for stocks. Here's 2 hours of AMZN activity condensed down to 30 seconds:

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 27/01/2026

Coming soon to a terminal near you

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 26/01/2026

Despite the overhype, there's a group of people building software right now who have never touched a line of code and don't care what their applications are written in. I kind of envy them, so I talked about it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEFx...

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This software will never scale (and that's the point)

YouTube video by Andrew Schmelyun

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 21/01/2026

Both of these are running the same shared C codebase, isn’t that neat?

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 19/01/2026

Wait, is there an alternative to this?

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 19/01/2026

Little concept I tinkered with yesterday, trying to mimic the feel of a dice getting rolled. It's part of a larger project I'm still toying with, but I'll need a few more buttons!

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 18/01/2026

Shelves with weird knick knacks! We have very similarly colored backdrop walls, so I'm always partial to raw wood as a contrast.

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 16/01/2026

I have random one-off ideas for apps, experiments, packages, etc. that normally I'd have to shove in a backlog for "someday". But the last couple of weeks I've tried just sloppin' out a working MVP and see if I want to continue with it. Most fun I've had in a very long time!

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 14/12/2025

New home has one of these bad boys in it, thinking of repurposing it to use for Home Assistant commands. What do you think, y/n?

A photo of an old alarm system panel on a wall

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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 24/11/2025

I've got big plans for this week 😎

Three panel comic. First panel is me sitting at a computer that says <code>. Second panel is me saying "wow I can't wait to take a break for the whole week of Thanksgiving". Third panel is me sitting at the computer again during thanksgiving week that says <code> but fun.

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 24/11/2025

It's such a masterpiece, start to finish

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 22/11/2025

Oh I'll be documenting the whole process, don't worry!

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 22/11/2025

Is that a dot matrix printer, or thermal? The text makes me think it's the former, in which case I need to scoop one up asap

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 22/11/2025

Weekend project incoming, replace my VPS's with this

A photo of a Dell Optiplex 9020 micro PC

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 22/11/2025

Thanks, I'm glad you like it!

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 21/11/2025

Ooh, you're onto something there

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 18/11/2025

WIP little avatar dude! I’m horrible at drawing so I reached for some ASCII emojis. Displayed via Preact components and animations are handled with CSS

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