iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

fun fact: Paper Mario 64's Toad Town theme has an unused variant that appears to be intended to play when Mario gets close to the Forever Forest entrance. try it out by opening Toad Town in mamar.bates64.com!

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aly @aly.codes · 27/09/2026

relatedly, tg now has an mcp server! still working on it, but it works quite well, and lets your agent read and write as it wishes across tangled: create repos, submit PRs, review PRs, search repositories, monitor your pipelines, etc. tangled.org/aly.codes/tg

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alex @bates64.com · 22/09/2026

it's surprisingly hard to write good docs. I want them to be task oriented ('how to make a boss') that cross multiple systems without being so specific that they are unhelpful

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alex @bates64.com · 14/09/2026

I've found gpt 6 astra to be almost completely useless; it accuses me of trying to write malware the moment it sees kernel code

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alex @bates64.com · 09/09/2026

seeing r/nintendo get excited about a decomp hitting 100% only because they think it means they're one step closer to a 420 FPS PC port with raytracing is extremely disheartening

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Kara @karashiiro.moe · 11/07/2026

I immediately bought a copy

Paperback copy of

Juju-Chu!
Yuka Ooka
Starting Your
Jujutsu×Al Workflow with `jj new`
Version control finds its next evolution in the Al era.
DOMAIN EXPANSION!

Jujutsu Features:
- Auto-commit
- Universal Undo
- First-class Conflicts

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Arika @ari.express · 12/07/2026

Going to the nix store you want anything?

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

every single person who talks about how data centers are completely unnecessary probably has very strong opinions on youtube videos defaulting to 720p

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Jack Yeo @jackryeo.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Hahaha excellent stuff

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alex @bates64.com · 18/05/2026

yesterday, Soup gave birth to 3 lovely kittens!

a grey basket lined with blankets. a tuxedo cat lays in the basket, with a few kittens slightly visible under her tail.

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alex @bates64.com · 25/04/2026

"'Passed [away],' I'm afraid, just makes me vomit. Died, you mean! 'Passed,' you didn't pass. You passed an exam? You pased your driving test? You passed an interesting shop? 'Passed away,' no, died." youtu.be/Sd8tA_XVMYU?...

youtu.be

I asked Stephen Fry 100 Questions

YouTube video by 100 Questions with Tom Simons

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alex @bates64.com · 23/04/2026

my pds was acting up for the last week or two because i didn't persist the cursor from the old pds. all fixed now :)

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🦌≈ @aviva.gay · 22/04/2026

the first rule of compilers is to have fun

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alex @bates64.com · 01/04/2026

trying to install noctalia-shell and niri on Ubuntu today and it required both manual building and an entire system upgrade. not sure it's possible to change distro once you've been with NixOS 💔

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alex @bates64.com · 26/03/2026

RFC: big changes to starhaven.dev tangled.org/starhaven.de...

tangled.org

Appview #1

RFCs for changes to Star Haven

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alex @bates64.com · 25/03/2026

Paper Mario DX now has Windows support! You can now create mods without setting up WSL. Clone github.com/bates64/pape... and run `build.bat` to try it out :)

github.com

GitHub - bates64/papermario-dx: Improved Paper Mario (N64) engine for your next romhack

Improved Paper Mario (N64) engine for your next romhack - bates64/papermario-dx

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alex @bates64.com · 22/03/2026

i really hate to say it but OpenClaw and NixOS are a really good fit. "ssh into my server and make it serve X at this endpoint" just works, and i can `jj undo` if it does something catastrophic

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Disable @disable.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

My new video is done! It's a look at the obscure and unused dialogue from Paper Mario 64! I'm pretty confident you'll learn something new... youtu.be/nrnyvE18e2U?...

youtu.be

Obscure and Unused Dialogue in Paper Mario 64

YouTube video by Disable

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alex @bates64.com · 06/03/2026

it's framebuffer corruption friday

A screenshot of an N64 game, with buggy graphics

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alex @bates64.com · 17/02/2026

the people hacking windows 11 to behave like win7 would do well to rice a linux

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alex @bates64.com · 05/02/2026

sama: "You can just build things" wtf does this mean? does he even know what he means?

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Jujutsu VCS @jj-vcs.dev · 04/02/2026

$ jj describe -m "Hello, world!"

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alex @bates64.com · 21/01/2026

serial experiments lain is good

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XHunter @hunterxuman.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

What if Paper Mario 64 was remade? Here's what I think it could be! Captaine Chocon created this model for their own project, and I asked to try to import it into TTYDS and this was the result! (No collision cause this is was just for fun!) #PaperMario

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alex @bates64.com · 31/12/2025

happy new year to all those who celebrate

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alex @bates64.com · 28/12/2025

which genius at adobe decided to name the version after react-spectrum v3 "react-spectrum 2"

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emily s. @emily.news · 18/12/2025

the quotes and replies are full of people saying "this is the *good* AI, not the bad AI". but this distinction doesn't work for the same reason you can't claim there are only two genders. because most stuff doesn't fit cleanly into any one category, and it misses other categories' entire existence.

"Figure I. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table I) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, batched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where tbese intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because tbey are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, eg. OpenAl's ChatGPT and Apple's Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizheusky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); Linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA)."

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alex @bates64.com · 17/12/2025

mcdonalds thailand has some fascinating breakfast options

Porridge
Chicken McPorridge (best seller)
Chicken McPorridge Set

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Scott Jenson @jenson.org · 12/12/2025

My Ubuntu Summit talk is up! Where I talk about: 1. How Desktop UX is effectively dead 2. Why I hate the term UX/UI with the heat of 1000 suns 3. How OSS can actually innovate in #ux www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZT...

youtube.com

Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10

YouTube video by Canonical Ubuntu

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alex @bates64.com · 12/12/2025

i reckon if i did Thanksgiving I would cry too much. how do the americans manage it

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alex @bates64.com · 29/11/2025

thanks Codex. most expensive rustfmt replacement ever

$Terminal screenshot. Codex has modified 2 lines into 8 by adjusting whitespace. • Edited src/wsi/mod.rs (+8 -2) 856 let PhysicalSize { width, height } = window.inner_size(); 857 - let width = width.clamp(capabilities.min_image_extent.width, capabilities.max_image_extent.width); 858 - let height = height.clamp(capabilities.min_image_extent.height, capabilities.max_image_extent.height); 857 + let width = width.clamp( 858 + capabilities.min_image_extent.width, 859 + capabilities.max_image_extent.width, 860 + ); 861 + let height = height.clamp( 862 + capabilities.min_image_extent.height, 863 + capabilities.max_image_extent.height, 864 + ); 865 vk::Extent2D { width, height }$

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alex @bates64.com · 28/11/2025

i love rebuilding the nvidia driver and aseprite on every daily nix flake update!!!

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alex @bates64.com · 28/11/2025

good news i bought another domain name

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alex @bates64.com · 24/11/2025

the puns in this game are rubbish

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alex @bates64.com · 19/11/2025

finally someone said it. the real crisis is the global electron shortage

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Bramus @bram.us · 15/10/2025

With all the excitement of (Same-Document) View Transitions (and more VT features) becoming Baseline Newly available (yay! 🎉), one might overlook the inclusion of the moveBefore() method. This method is a pretty big deal as it allows you to move elements around the DOM while preserving their state.

brm.us

Move elements around the DOM while preserving their state with moveBefore

Unlike the classic way of moving a node by removing+reinserting it, the moveBefore method preserves the element’s state!

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 25/01/2025

you can tell that OpenGL is a better religion than Christianity, because OpenGL has a SuperBible, while Christianity only has a normal bible

the cover of the book “The OpenGL SuperBible”, by Graham Sellers, Richard S. Wright, Jr., and Nicholas Haemel

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alex @bates64.com · 10/10/2025

the #BBCQT producers last night must have thought they were very clever putting @zackpolanski.bsky.social on a panel of right wingers and a Telegraph writer in the nonpartisan seat

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alex @bates64.com · 30/09/2025

to be clear, i think the policy direction is OK but the way the government are selling it (to stop illegal working, somehow) is completely wrong

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alex @bates64.com · 30/09/2025

@zackpolanski.bsky.social you should consider adopting a shorter version of this breakdown when going against reform youtu.be/UfC4-FDp7co

youtu.be

The "Islamification" of Britain?

YouTube video by JimmyTheGiant

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alex @bates64.com · 30/09/2025

bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/no... I really think we can still do digital id for convenience as long as it's done well. There is economic benefit in speeding up people IDing for 18+ spaces and shopping, for example. Plus it's more convenient than carrying around your drivers license everywhere!

bigbrotherwatch.org.uk

No2DigitalID — Big Brother Watch

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