iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Ashley Willis-McNamara

Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 08/09/2026

The best introduction to Nathan Fielder is Nathan For You s03e05, "Smokers Allowed" You then need to work your way through the rest of NFY before touching anything else from him

3241

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 08/09/2026

If this Elizabeth Holmes doc is the first time you’re hearing about Nathan Fielder, you are NOT ready to just jump right in. You need to prep. You need to train. You need to build up your secondhand embarrassment tolerance first. Nathan Fielder is advanced-level discomfort.

1317223

Reposted by Ashley Willis-McNamara

Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 20/08/2026

please don't judge the upside-down apostrophe in our caption @kelseyhightower.com @ashley.dev

1121

Reposted by Ashley Willis-McNamara

Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

fyi

3433

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 11/08/2026

Hello from Render ATL 👋 I’m around all week. If you see me, please come say hi. I am very bad at recognizing people out of context, so you may have to actually tell me who you are. 😂

1131

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 02/08/2026

I was in Japan for a conference, and on one of my free days I took a workshop to refurbish an original Game Boy. It was so much fun I went back the next day and built a Game Boy Advance too. Then I hit a vintage game store and picked up a bunch of games. Best decision. 🥹🎮

A hand holding two custom refurbished handheld consoles: a classic Game Boy with a translucent glitter shell, bright pink screen bezel, green buttons, and pink accents displaying a Kirby game, and a translucent Game Boy Advance with colorful illuminated buttons displaying a Mario game. The person has blue-and-white nail art and a colorful forearm tattoo, with a hotel room in the background.

101833

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 02/08/2026

Oh, you wanna come over? Cool. Just give me three business days to clean my house until it looks like no one has ever lived here.

9738

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 31/07/2026

It’s a shame that most of you will never experience my wit and whimsy in person

3240

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 25/07/2026

I’ve been to Japan like 7 times but never during the summer. This is a different kind of hot. I was wildly unprepared 😅

4320

Reposted by Ashley Willis-McNamara

Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

vs code pets 1.36.0 is out. feat two raccoons. regular and jimothy.

1256

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 24/07/2026

Maybe I’m just behind but have you typed Jimothy into the Google search bar yet?

4271

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 23/07/2026

Every project starts as “this should take an hour.” I have never once been correct.

5520

Reposted by Ashley Willis-McNamara

JT Perry @circlejtp.me · 17/07/2026

One of the best all around humans in our industry or our. An incredible leader who has had to fight way more battles than anyone should. And always sends the ladder back down for others. Celebrate her!

static.klipy.com

Minions: It's Time To Party!

Alt: Minions: It's Time To Party!

171

Reposted by Ashley Willis-McNamara

Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 17/07/2026

can we take a minute to talk about Ashley & how great she is? there are folks who chase the spotlight & there are those who work to make sure others get opportunities. Ashley is incredible at spotting talent & giving folks the chance to shine. a truly exceptional person I’m proud to call a friend 💜

1161

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 17/07/2026

A family member recently went to a medium hoping to talk to my mom. Missed opportunity to finally get some answers about these fuck-ass haircuts.

9430

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 17/07/2026

My birthday was a couple days ago please make a fuss

27651

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 17/07/2026

Logged in to see my blog post making the rounds again. This time I’ve apparently been declared “not actually neurodivergent,” and the replies are genuinely heinous. Being called an AI tech bro was not on my 2026 bingo card. Anyway, I’m just blocking people and moving on.

3240

Reposted by Ashley Willis-McNamara

Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 14/07/2026

featuring incredible guest judges with some truly impressive credentials. and also I am there @darko.rup12.net @ashley.dev @josephruscio.bsky.social @aaronfrancis.com

2131

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 15/07/2026

This was such a fun project to be a part of. Thank you for including me, Jason.

0141

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 07/07/2026

I have nearly 28 years of parenting experience and that may sound impressive but that’s because you haven’t witnessed me negotiate bedtime with a five year old

2400

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 30/06/2026

What’s a word or phrase you grew up saying that you didn’t realize was wrong until you were too old? Mine was “Chester drawers.” My Southern mom called it that my entire childhood, so I just accepted that Chester invented drawers. I was in my mid 20s before someone slowly said “chest of drawers.”

8301

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 28/06/2026

Hey, I’m so sorry I posted about work on here. 🥲

5180

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 27/06/2026

It’s fair to disagree. But “has never used these models” is an odd takeaway. I use them every day. The post wasn’t about replacing management with AI. It was about building systems around my own blind spots, which, as a neurodivergent person was something I was doing long before AI.

6370

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 27/06/2026

My job would be significantly easier if I could remember things. Since that doesn’t appear to be happening, I started automating them instead.

6381

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 27/06/2026

Spotify Wrapped is gonna be like “you listened to Timothée Chalamet’s Pure Imagination 2,384 times.” There needs to be an appeals process for parents.

3260

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 25/06/2026

Nothing activates my fight or flight response faster than opening a document and immediately seeing two people join to watch me type.

3251

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 24/06/2026

3D printing has fundamentally changed my relationship with impulse control.

5240

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 24/06/2026

The specific exhaustion of being perceived all day

1211

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 22/06/2026

If “it really whips the llama’s ass” means something to you, please schedule your colonoscopy.

159813

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 19/06/2026

Got the Oura Ring 5. The 4 was lasting a full week and the MOMENT they announced the 5 it started dying every 23 hours. Twenty-three. Not even a full day. My ring saw the press release and chose death. It's thinner and lighter though so congrats Oura, the psyop worked.

2110

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 19/06/2026

I must be going through something because I’ve been on an absolute comfort food tear lately. Also, I’ve reached the age where pizza is no longer a spontaneous decision. It’s an event. There is prep. There is planning. There is recovery. Anyway, I’m having pizza.

3510

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 19/06/2026

I have a recurring calendar reminder called “eat lunch.” This should tell you everything you need to know about how things are going.

3350

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 18/06/2026

Just crushed three bowls of Reese’s Puffs. I don’t remember eating the second one, so there may have been a brief dissociative episode. Elite cereal, though.

171543

Reposted by Ashley Willis-McNamara

Cassidy @cassidoo.co · 02/06/2026

Having the best time hanging out with these dweebs at Microsoft Build this week! @ashley.dev @acolombiadev.bsky.social @martin.social #MSBuild

2322

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 07/05/2026

I was talking to a friend today about how younger generations seem way less interested in technology than previous ones. She has teenagers, so I asked if she’d noticed the same thing. She stared at me for a second and said, “My kid microwaved glue last week.”

7340

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 01/05/2026

It's the beginning of spider season here in Seattle. I just saw a piece of fuzz on my shirt and almost burned my house down. Stay safe out there, my arachnophobic friends.

2271

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 27/03/2026

@monkchips.com I love this place so much! Great rec 👏

A toasted breakfast sandwich with eggs and melted cheese sits on a metal tray beside a small cup of coffee with foam, placed on a round table in a modern café with soft lighting and blurred people in the background. It

2160

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 25/03/2026

My sneaker game was fire today, but you'll never know cause I walked outside and it was raining, so I walked right back inside and changed my sneakers. 😭

2280

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 24/03/2026

I only printed 30 pairs of Kubernetes earrings so if you want some, come find me!

1111

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 24/03/2026

My cab driver: “What conference is it?” Me: “It’s a tech conference called KubeCon.” Him: [bursts out laughing] Me: 😅 Him: 🤣🤣🤣 Me: 🫠

4441

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 18/03/2026

My daughter wore a basketball jersey to gymnastics last Friday, came home absolutely jacked with confidence, and we have now had two separate arguments about the shirt she has to wear underneath it because we live in Seattle and it is cold. She does not accept this. The guns must be visible.

181683

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 15/03/2026

My husband sent me these on TikTok, and I was like, welp, I better go put on some pants because I'm gonna need one of each of those.

A bouquet of soft pastel flowers—pale pink roses, carnations, eucalyptus, and cream-colored blooms—rests beside an elegant white pastry box on someone’s lap in a car. Inside the box are colorful pastries shaped like miniature fruits, including a banana, lemon, mango, strawberry, orange, and plum. The pastries are vividly colored and textured to look like real fruit, creating a playful trompe-l’œil effect. The arrangement feels like a thoughtful gift: delicate flowers paired with beautifully crafted fruit-shaped desserts.

3211

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 08/03/2026

Dead quiet in the theater before previews. My 5-year-old whispers to herself: “We make movies better.” I ask what she means. She says: “That’s what they do here.” Took me a minute to realize she’d memorized the Nicole Kidman AMC monologue.

2541

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 05/02/2026

My oldest is watching my 5yo for the first time while I’m in Japan for 2 weeks Anxiety brain said: Write 15 pages of instructions, build an AI chatbot, add push notifications for trash day This is normal behavior

2260

Reposted by Ashley Willis-McNamara

MN Mike @fiveman.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

10/10 ICE protest sign

Protest sign from MN that says, “DEARLY BELOVED.
WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY
TODISMANTLE THIS THING CALLED ICE.” with a picture of Prince in the left hand lower corner.

5795182587

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 30/01/2026

did Big String Cheese change their formula? Because I swear it used to have more of a snap and now it’s just… sad and bendy?

10101

Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 26/01/2026

New laser does 3D crystal engraving and I’m unreasonably excited about it. My husband’s already making fun of me like “you’re gonna have the coolest mall kiosk” but LOOK AT THIS TINY MONA tell me that’s not sick. I really need this distraction right now. 🥺

9690