iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Fools elect fools? All that’s left is to wait for the next cycle of history and the return of reason - another renaissance, another Enlightenment... But it will take a while yet.

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

How is it possible that such huge masses of people so easily fall for manipulation, so easily let a narrative be imposed on them, so easily let themselves be steered… Trump in the US, Nawrocki in Poland - all these are disgusting.

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Morning press review and a moment later I regret I did it - why the hell, on Sunday morning, at my own request, crash into such hopelessness. It is fascinating and terrifying at the same time - people who rule don’t elect themselves…

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We’re (ok, I try very hard not to be part of it) going back to the Middle Ages... worshipping the lowest instincts. On top of that, intellectual regression - "a wonderful" cocktail / recipe for disaster.

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Bart Bonte @bartbonte.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Apple's Game of the Day today in South Korea 🎉👋 apps.apple.com/story/id1890...

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Are you sure that people will use it at all? Because I have doubts.:-)

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Bart Bonte @bartbonte.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you're emailing me about the puzzle game you vibe coded I'm pretty sure my gameblog readers won't be interested in it. If you can't be bothered to take the time to make the thing, why should anyone bother to take the time to play the thing.

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And this presentation by Kent is refreshing, wise, calm and is a kind of counterweight to e.g. the latest hysterical presentation by DHH (question is, which one wasn't hysterical).

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ok, Kent Beck has always been a guarantee of quality for me - I stumbled on this video today by accident... Kent doesn't disappoint... I recommend it to anyone interested in software engineering. youtu.be/F8fBgDCf2Y4?...

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Kent Beck: Software Engineering in the Age of AI | Prodacity 2026

YouTube video by Rise8

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yep, It doesn't make any sense, and yet so many people believe that it does. 🤷

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Great, I have to look at it closer. It is on my list: things to learn and get my hands dirty with, my own hands, without AI. (Sorry SI )😂

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Evening thought: One of the questions I can't find a clear answer to is: are the creator and his work one whole, or can they be judged as separate beings. Just like I like Uncle Bob's books, from his past, I don't know what to do with Him himself ;-) Just a reflection...

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Perfect time (and place) for Ted Lasso. :-)

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As my kids say, “Poland is a cabbage land”. Looks like we’d have to add “cabbage and kebab land”.

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It could be a coincidence that exactly this kind of content was served to me but... Bluesky is, despite everything, still, a haven of calm. ;-)

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After 2 years I had a look at X last week. It reminded me why I disappeared from there. The fight between bizarre factions, over views and more often over the lack of them, and all of it garnished with aggression, in a way that mocks even the most basic rules of decency, is staggering.

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I love your games - a loads of crazy ideas;-) BTW what do you use for all your creations?

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

prosoche.co/2026/the-pau... For anyone interested, I've written a few more (just a few) words about my journey this year: losing weight and trying to be healthier. #health #mindfulness #weight

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The Pause Is the Practice

ProsoPlate’s pre-meal questions look like data collection. They are the intervention - and there is a trial that measured it.

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And how wrong that assumption is - let the US and the people at the very top be the proof.

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh yes, a few in my lifetime ;-) But, not much you can do about that. I would say, the feeling of dissonance (for those who think critically) stays, because we tend to assume (quite wrongly) that the C-suite are people blessed with exceptional knowledge/intellect.

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Good to know, thx and honestly then, McGilchrist's book seems even more interesting. ;-)

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I wouldn’t stake my life on it, but I think this information has already appeared before - e.g. in the brilliant 2009 book “The Master and His Emissary” by Iain McGilchrist.

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

…add to that the human tendency to conserve energy and find a way to do things without any effort -> a recipe for an explosion of ignorance.

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What shocks me is that someone “revealed the disastrous results” - something that is, and always was, obvious from the very beginning. Outsourcing thinking always ends in the atrophy of own skills…

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So, the weekend is over - and it was a special one. I dropped my "little boy", who stopped being one a long time ago, off at Uni. My coming home and his empty room - somehow it feels sad. My son has gone out into the world!

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Even more "shocking" than this information is how many people swallow this "revealed truth" without blinking an eye. Dario's last dramatic speech about slowing down AI was also kind of disgusting - it hurt my intellect, to be honest.

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In general, people are idiots, aren't they?

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Sad but.... These two are wonderful people ;-) I love their books. What Florian Kugler said really resonates with me: stepping away from the digital world and finding joy in the physical world.

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Oh, why not... - my "little" success... slowly, slowly, I've crossed the magic 100kg line. prosoche.co/prosoplate/ #mindfulleating #intermittentfasting #weightloss #health #prosoche

Two screenshots from Health.app, combined.

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A holiday experiment. The most interesting thing I learned in 7 evenings with AI had nothing to do with the code. It was watching my own mental laziness arrive.. #indiedev #iOS #swift #AIMakesMeStupid smagabakery.com/2026/the-ign...

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My short holiday this year is coming to an end. Cornwall is beautiful, and surprisingly - given it was the end of August - the weather was almost perfect. Poor mobile network coverage is also a blessing - sometimes it’s good to simply be forced into a digital detox. #cornwall #contemplation

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Since I’m on vacation, I only watched Wednesday’s episode of *Ted Lasso* today… oh yeah… it was great! ❤️ #tedlasso #appletv

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Sunday evening so time for something wise and thought-provoking. Worth those less than 20 minutes of your life. youtu.be/yZUuKzDQSsI?...

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You’ll stop using ChatGPT after listening to this | Jonathan Pageau [ARC 2026]

YouTube video by Alliance for Responsible Citizenship

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I'll gather more information and share it with the world during my holiday. 😜

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This time, I had to add an iPad version. The spiritual exercises Hadot writes about, for one, are crying out for the chance to use "pen and paper".

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Because let's be honest, you don't need anything beyond yourself, the right mindset and attitude. But I wanted something a bit different - so slowly I started adding elements of Stoicism to Buddhist practices. Yes, the project is very personal, but it's also one of the apps I use all the time.

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

How time flies. I published the first version of the app in Dec 2024. It was meant to be an experiment - and it was. I was exploring how far an app can blend with real meditation. apps.apple.com/app/id667045... #meditation #stoicism #buddhism #indiedev #mindfulness

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Okay, I’m tired today, so my judgment might be distorted. But… is anything else actually happening on LinkedIn besides AI? It’s just one big bubble and everyone’s talking about the same thing… God, it’s so boring! I’m going to bed!

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Neither on vacation nor at work. ;-)

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Unfortunately (I love good sf), I was totally disappointed. My first impression was: “low quality gags mixed with mawkish moments + overblown music”. Maybe I will watch it again, one day in the future - and I will change my mind.

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

BTW I saw your post on LiN - that was like poking a stick into an anthill. Too many uncritical devotees there whose very existence depends on keeping the AI myth suitably alive.

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I suspect that, by pure accident, we belong to the same tribe - approach to AI. What you're writing was obvious from the very beginning (when hype started - 2 years ago?). Those who denied it then, still deny it now, and probably will go on denying it.

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

...though it may sound like a boomer's remark. Is it just me, or is the amount of swearing and vulgarity in films really hitting some kind of apogee? I felt the same watching 'Shrinking'. I don't know myself, maybe I'm oversensitive, or maybe it's modern sensitivity that's dying out.⁉️

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Last night, a glass of wine, and by complete accident I reached for 'Widow's Bay'. The first episode brought back memories of Carpenter's brilliant 'The Fog'. Episode 2 - Scooby Doo... 😀 Yes, it was good entertainment for an evening 🍿. Only one digression came to mind...🤔 #appletv

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I watched yesterday. The second episode, and It’s still good. I love it♥️ #tedlasso

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

All that's left for me is to resurrect in myself, step by step, what has been forgotten - to be with myself and my own thoughts. Shocking how the world "changes" Us, and sad at the same time.

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

More and more often I catch myself on how hard it is to just stay alone with a book. Letting yourself slowly savour the content, absorbing it sentence by sentence, word by word. That damned learned impatience - learned from everything that surrounds Us, really. #book #reflection #evening

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Writing about tech/programming has become a bit boring and pointless (if the new generation of shiny "programmers" mainly uses AI, they don't read anything, but AI is potentially trained on your posts). :-) Philosophy is timeless and free from these turbulences.

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

But all of it still comes down, at least for me, to one fundamental question - what are we actually doing to ourselves… And that one doesn't depend on the answers to any of the others. Sad, really.

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