iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Basil Berntsen @basil404.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

“There are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors”😂 -Phil Karlton

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Basil Berntsen @basil404.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

In a strong enough headwind, any plane can be a VTOL!

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Basil Berntsen @basil404.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

@greggmoore.bsky.social This is the immediate challenge after the “ah hah!” moment of building something with AI that seems unbelievably good. That’s where systems and software thinking starts to be needed. Luckily you can learn these from AI!

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Leah (Prime) 🦊 @leahprime.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

don’t take criticism from someone you wouldn’t go to for advice

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Basil Berntsen @basil404.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I’m looking for testers for my sudoku game - it is thoughtfully designed to be the game I always wanted to play. if you’re interested, let me know and I’ll add you to the closed alpha test.

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Basil Berntsen @basil404.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

So I decided from the get-go that I wanted to make this game work out of the box on Android and iPhone. I ended up settling on building it in HTML5 and then wrapping it with Capacitor to produce native boundaries. it’s nice to have a single codebase!

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Basil Berntsen @basil404.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Cool! I’m working on a big refactor of my code base, and I just discovered that GitHub copilot doesn’t “charge” me extra for long running queries. It’s 0.3% to use claude sonnet 4.6 even if it has to run for a long time. So now I use Claude code for small tasks and copilot for big ones.

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Basil Berntsen @basil404.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I’m building pipelines to deploy to the app stores. This would be an absolute nightmare if it weren’t for AI. I’ve done work like this by hand and we’ve reached a significant tipping point... every time the runner finds some new way to fail, I just paste a run ID to Claude code and it applies a fix.

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Basil Berntsen @basil404.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

A super powerful technique using AI development, Claude code in my case, is after you have it write a bug report, systematically ask “is this an example of tech debt or code smell?”

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probably just paul @enpaul.net · 26/02/2026

I used to hate kubernetes out of ignorance. But now I'm happy to say that after learning kubernetes I now hate kubernetes out of knowledge

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 23/02/2026

programming bootcamp in 2026: “welcome to week 1. today we’ll learn how to open claude code” week 2: “prompt engineering fundamentals. please remember to say ‘please’ so the model doesn’t unionize.” week 3: “debugging. when the app crashes, we’ll paste the stack trace back to the ai and wait.”

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Basil Berntsen @basil404.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I have not paid enough attention to #Postgres- m.youtube.com/watch?v=1qs9... was eye-opening

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Postgres can replace your entire stack...

YouTube video by Awesome

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Basil Berntsen @basil404.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I’m starting to learn which models are good at which tasks. Grok code fast (unlimited with GitHub copilot premium) is surprisingly good and fast with coding tasks, but it’s interestingly bad at documentation, putting far too much detail into architectural decision records for example…

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Basil Berntsen @basil404.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I’m experimenting with doing two agentic agile stories at the same time on the same codebase. Sometimes they provide very naturally segregated commits where they can just be merged into main. Sometimes I spend more time untangling them than I spent doing the work.

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Basil Berntsen @basil404.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

So I want my sudoku game to be available on Android and Apple phones. Rather than trying to have two code bases, I decided to make it in HTML5 and simply wrap the game for each platform. Anyone have advice on that topic or experience to share?

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Basil Berntsen @basil404.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Today I learned how useful it is to ask your language model to check whether its code smells.

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Basil Berntsen @basil404.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

The more I use AI tools for development the more impressed I am. I’ve learned so much with my side project I’m building in GitHub Copilot. I’m building a sudoku app with HTML, CSS, and native JavaScript- no framework.

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403 FORBIDDEN @joshgrant.online · 21/11/2025

Once again: any delivery can be continuous delivery if you lower the standards enough

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Basil Berntsen @basil404.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

TIL: when they say the flu vaccine is a bad match to the strains that are circulating this year, it’s still effective against severe infection and hospitalization. I just assumed it was a complete miss.

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Basil Berntsen @basil404.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Want to watch someone deliver four minutes of extremely funny cloud zingers? I literally laughed out loud at the ones about Kubernetes - m.youtube.com/watch?v=xIk0...

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Interview with Cloud Architect in 2025

YouTube video by Kai Lentit

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Basil Berntsen @basil404.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I’m looking for people who play #sudoku on their phones. I got frustrated with the apps available so I’m making my own, but I want to hear how other people play. Message me here if you’d be willing to have an informal chat about Sudoku :)

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Steve Fenton @stevefenton.co.uk · 23/05/2025

I just found this hidden docker command!

The top panel is a standard docker ps command.

In the second panel, it is written docker ps ps ps

A cat pops up to see what's going on

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Clay @clay.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

dying on the inside and out due to terraform

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Basil Berntsen @basil404.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

There’s a problem with the way #bluesky does #feeds. To me, the algorithm that generates topical content is part of the base service, not an extra. I agree that it should be open/customizable, but I think feeds should be redesigned such that running one doesn’t require a user to manage a server.

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SQLGrrl of the Woods @sqlgrrl.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

New DevOps word of the day: Frankenvironment

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Brian Grant @bgrant0607.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The purpose of IaC depends on the use case, but I claim that the primary capability of IaC is the generation of multiple distinct configurations, variants, from the same IaC source code. medium.com/@bgrant0607/... Do you agree? #infrastructureascode #gitops

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Variant generation is the primary capability of Infrastructure as Code

Variant generation, i.e. the generation of multiple distinct configurations from the same IaC code, is the primary capability of IaC.

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Sandip Bhattacharya @sandipb.net · 13/01/2025

Wow. I used Terraform for so many years, but was not aware of "terraform console". Could have saved me so much grief. 🤦🏻‍♂️ #TIL #terraform spacelift.io/blog/terrafo...

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How to Use Terraform Console Command - Examples

Explore the terraform console command and see examples of how to use it (including expressions, config files, and variables).

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Daniel Michaels @dansult.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

My thoughts on AWS captured in a single picture

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Basil Berntsen @basil404.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

AWS and Azure, with CloudFormation and Bicep, are clearly trying to compete with Terraform. Why didn’t they make them bidirectional? That would provide them the vendor lockin they clearly seek. The paradigm of IaC being unidirectional and drift being bad but unavoidable is so entrenched!

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 30/12/2024

Finally some proper reporting on Ai; This is the true, immediate risk to humanity and our agency, not some extinction level event that will never happen. Pay attention to this, its important 👇🏻 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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AI tools may soon manipulate people’s online decision-making, say researchers

Study predicts an ‘intention economy’ where companies bid for accurate predictions of human behaviour

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Basil Berntsen @basil404.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

@techwatching.bsky.social any chance you could add a filter to differentiate terraform the infrastructure as code product from the one that’s all over the news and the feed?

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Basil Berntsen @basil404.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

The CNCF describes the pronunciation of kubernetes “Koo-burr-NET-eez” however Greek people tell me that κυβερνήτης is an actual word they actually use for things other than containers, and it’s actually pronounced “kyvernítis”. I don’t know what to do with this

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Rehan van der Merwe @rehanvdm.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

TIL `curl` has built-in support to generate AWS SigV4 headers so you can do AWS API calls with a single command 😮

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Basil Berntsen @basil404.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

@bsky.app I signed up a couple of days ago on the browser on my phone, but can’t log into the iOS app. I’m absolutely positive I’m using the same credentials, and I can still log into my account through a browser on my phone.

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