iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Having agents make phone calls to (eg) restaurants a loss. It exposes a lack of an API. Restos will be overwhelmed and buy agents to handle the calls. Two giant software stacks will churn taking OOM more time and energy to imprecisely do what an API call could have nailed. ↵

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Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 13/09/2026

The bureaucraticization will continue until resilience improves

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Benoît Fleury @benfle.com · 28/08/2026

We're hiring at Infinity Loop. We're building a negotiation intelligence platform for procurement teams: customers hand us their vendor contracts, and we turn them into renewal plans, negotiation playbooks, and budget forecasts, with human analysts augmented by AI.

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Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 22/08/2026

"For engineers with grounding, AI is a multiplier; without it, AI creates a productivity illusion in which output outpaces understanding." Read more about the future of software engineering in our latest issue of #ACMSubstack newsletter, "Queue: In Practice." Read & subscribe: buff.ly/P1A6JZc

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Benoît Fleury @benfle.com · 07/08/2026

The black box abstraction is how we protect what we do not control. The reflective abstraction is how we grow what we do.

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Benoît Fleury @benfle.com · 28/07/2026

Jean Piaget for programmers: "Empirical abstractions concern observables and reflective abstractions concern coordinations." Noun-abstraction generalizes what things are; verb-abstraction generalizes what you do. Only the second creates something new.

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Andy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org · 25/07/2026

I think this is a big gap in software design culture. There's lots of commentary on visual design and micro-interaction, but remarkably little explicating conceptual and structural design. This section from Magic Ink is lodged in my mind. buff.ly/Bl9JwTv

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 18/07/2026

straight back again to France.

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rob pike @robpike.io · 09/07/2026

The fundamental solution is to remove the political class altogether by permitting only one or two political terms in any person's life.

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 23/06/2026

“There's no sense being exact about something if you don't even know what you're talking about.” #JohnVonNeumann

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Benoît Fleury @benfle.com · 18/06/2026

Alan Kay on our feeble attempts at navigating the world: "One of the simplest — and worst — manifestations of this is to choose a tiny subset of the world to live in, and then to insist that it is the world." www.quora.com/Can-an-AI-co...

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Benoît Fleury @benfle.com · 12/06/2026

Unsurprising common pitfall w/ Claude. Paying too much attention to what is instead of what ought to be. "Yes — that's exactly the right model, and your restructuring is what makes the 'problem' I raised disappear. It was never inherent; it was an artifact of how the current code is structured."

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Anselm Eickhoff @anselm.io · 01/06/2026

LLMs make it easier to both: - write less rigorous software - write more rigorous software than before. Both are valuable. It’s a fatal mistake to be confused about which mode you want to be in.

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Evan Thompson @evanthompson.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

"It treats the brain as if it is an analytical philosopher, a machine evaluating logical propositions. But this is a faulty anthropomorphic projection, conflating the tools that scientists use to study nature with nature itself."

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 23/05/2026

“No people are more often wrong than those who will not allow themselves to be wrong.” #LaRochefoucauld

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Benoît Fleury @benfle.com · 18/05/2026

If you invite Alan Kay to make a presentation, be ready for him to trash the very concept of an oral presentation at the beginning, especially in an educational setting.

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Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 17/05/2026

Happy birthday, Alan Kay! Kay received the 2003 #ACMTuringAward for pioneering many of the ideas at the root of contemporary object-oriented programming languages, leading the team that developed Smalltalk, and for fundamental contributions to personal computing. amturing.acm.org/award_winner...

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Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 16/05/2026

Happy Birthday to Ivan Sutherland, recipient of the 1988 #ACMTuringAward for his pioneering and visionary contributions to computer graphics, starting with Sketchpad, a groundbreaking interactive computer-aided design system, and continuing thereafter: amturing.acm.org/award_winner...

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Alexander Obenauer @alexanderobenauer.com · 15/05/2026

Today, I'm excited to announce our next title! "Augment" is a forthcoming book featuring a collection of essays on the future of personal computing — specifically, on the kind we’d like to see more of in the future, and the ideas that might help us get there.

Augment is a forthcoming collection of essays on the future of personal computing: specifically, on the kind we as a species need in order to move beyond our stuck present, and on the ideas that will help us get there. This book is meant to serve as guidance and inspiration as we build a next generation of hardware, software, and systems.

We hope you’ll share this page with those you think might write great essays for Augment, and even consider writing one yourself. Submissions are due by July 31.

The technology field is today in a precarious state. A tsunamic tide of commercial thinking has managed the wholesale capture of practitioners, institutions, and dialogue. This capture has drained all imagination from our surround, and so actual invention has slid likewise near to zero. Along the way, the systems meant first to extend human reach have instead become dull and clanking manacles.

Yet the same quality that makes technology easy to hijack — that massless, abstract ductility — leaves it as easy to re-form. The opportunity is still with us, undimmed, to build anew the beautiful thing, the powerful thing, the luminous thing, the human thing. This then is the invitation: to trawl a net through waters that, far enough down, remain idea-rich and that, with care, might still teem.

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 14/05/2026

“I now believe that thinking [...] is the best debugging tool of all, because it leads to better software.” #RobPike www.informit.com/articles/article.a…

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Rich Hickey @richhickey.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

The Clojure documentary premieres live later today! Thanks to the folks who participated, Nu for sponsoring, and all those who helped in the development of Clojure and its community. I'll be in the chat, and I hope to see you there! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y24v...

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 11/04/2026

“Software's like Egyptian pyramids: millions of bricks, no structural integrity, done by brute force and 1000s of slaves.” #AlanKay queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Nobel Laureate Jack Szostak “This country has given me endless opportunities…: The America we inhabit today bears almost no resemblance to the country I chose all those years ago” newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-nobel...

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I’m a Nobel Prize-winning immigrant. I can no longer recognize this country.

Attacks on science and immigrants are destroying America.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Stocks soar on 2-week postponement of Armageddon.

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I really feel like once you're aware of "CEO said a thing" as a model of "journalism" you can't unsee it. It is fucking everywhere.

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Jordan Miller @lambduhhh.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Clojure: The Documentary trailer just dropped 👀 April 16 premiere — 1 full hour on how #Clojure and its #community came to life. I'm helping out w editing/show notes and yooo.. IT'S GOOD Y'ALL. dont sleep on this. 🎬 youtube.com/watch?v=JJEyffSdBsk

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Clojure: The Documentary [OFFICIAL TRAILER] | Coming April 16th! 🚨

YouTube video by CultRepo

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matthias mprove @mprove.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Alan Kay Media Center /updates and link fixing at mprove.de/visionrealit... #AlanKay

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Alan Kay Media Center @mprove

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Benoît Fleury @benfle.com · 18/03/2026

“In language, in religion, in art, in science, man can do no more than to build up his own universe—a symbolic universe that enables him to understand and interpret, to articulate and organize, to synthesize and universalize his human experience.” — Ernst Cassirer, An Essay on Man

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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 17/03/2026

Claude Code is more fun than Netflix. Bravo.

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Justin Fagnani @justinfagnani.com · 13/02/2026

Also, this Brian Eno quote has been really stuck in my head for weeks: "The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement. ... the question then is, "Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do?""

The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement.

With Cubase or Photoshop, anybody can actually do anything, and you can make stuff that sounds very much like stuff you’d hear on the radio, or looks very much like anything you see in magazines.

So the question becomes not whether you can do it or not, because any drudge can do it if they’re prepared to sit in front of the computer for a few days, the question then is, "Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do? "

--Brian Eno

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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 04/02/2026

This is very popular, yet WILDLY poor advice: “Be constructive, don’t complain about problems if you don’t have a solution” If you hear someone say this, please consider slapping them with a large trout. Being aware of problems is *incredibly valuable*, whether you have solutions or not! [1/n]

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Benoît Fleury @benfle.com · 28/01/2026

Yes, very good talk by Benjamin!

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Alexander S. Vindman @avindman.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I’m Alex Vindman and I’m running for the U.S. Senate. Chaos, corruption and sky-rocketing costs are crushing ordinary people, while the billionaires and career politicians profit. I stepped up when my country needed a soldier and now I’m stepping up again to fight for Floridians.

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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

Following the killing of AFGE Member Alex Pretti and the subsequent slanderous rhetoric that followed from top Trump administration officials, AFGE National President Everett Kelley issued the following statement:

“Yesterday, AFGE brought together labor and faith leaders from Minneapolis and across the nation to mourn our fallen brother from Local 3669, Alex Pretti. We honored his life and legacy and lifted up his family, his friends, his union, Minneapolis, and our nation in prayer.

“Today, we demand accountability.

“In the immediate aftermath of Alex’s killing, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem betrayed the public trust by slandering the good name of our union brother and calling him a “domestic terrorist.” Alex Pretti was a patriotic ICU nurse at a VA hospital who devoted his life to serving America’s veterans. That claim was reckless, defamatory, and unsupported by the facts. Noem was preceded in this false statement by Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, who is also the architect of the chaotic and failed immigration policy in Minnesota.

“Our demand is clear: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was responsible for carrying out the policy that led to Alex’s needless killing, and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them.

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Adam Solove @asolove.myatproto.social · 27/01/2026

Miller should be the target of Dem pressure. Yes, defund ICE, impeach Noem, sure. But if you want maximum change on the admin's behavior, focus on getting Miller out of day-to-day decisions. Drive a wedge by making him embarassing. Trump loves to blame someone else: make Miller the scapegoat.

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Ken Kocienda @kocienda.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

If your goal is to produce some particular end product—a website, an app, an open-source project on GitHub—the sooner you can make it look like that end product, the better. With AI, it's never been easier. Get an idea. Sketch with AI. Make a demo! 🧐💡🛠 tugtool.dev/journal/get-...

tugtool.dev

Get an idea. Sketch with AI. Make a demo.

Turning an abstract idea into a concrete demo has never been easier

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Benoît Fleury @benfle.com · 15/01/2026

Claude code is amazing for rapid prototyping!

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Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 01/01/2026

Happy New Year! As of January 1, 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library are now open access, making computing research more accessible, discoverable, and reusable worldwide. Explore ACM’s open access journey: 👉 www.acm.org/publications... #OpenAccess #ACM

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Scott Jenson @jenson.org · 27/12/2025

People mistakenly think prototypes are for discovering the right answer. They are most effective when used to find the right question.

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Benoît Fleury @benfle.com · 21/12/2025

A silver lining to coding with AI agents may be that we will finally accept the idea of programs as derivable artifacts.

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Benoît Fleury @benfle.com · 20/12/2025

TIL "netflix and chill" used to be "come up and see my etchings"

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Benoît Fleury @benfle.com · 18/12/2025

"Invention is translation of one kind of space into another." — McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy

The image is a wide horizontal illustration made up of five circular scenes, evenly spaced on a white background. Together they suggest motion, repetition, and the evolution of technology.

First circle:
A caveman runs toward the right. He is muscular, barefoot, and wears a simple animal-skin outfit.

Second circle:
A wheel constructed from human legs and feet arranged like spokes.

Third circle:
An abstract circle with its center.

Fourth circle:
A detailed steam engine from the Industrial Revolution era. Metal cylinders, pipes, and a large wheel fill the circle.

Fifth circle:
An antique movie projector, shown from the side. Its mechanical wheel is visible, and a cone of light projects outward. Inside that light appears a small image of the running caveman, clearly a projection and smaller than the original figure, linking the end of the sequence back to the beginning.

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Benoît Fleury @benfle.com · 15/12/2025

Title of my imaginary PhD thesis: "Software as temporary stabilization of constraints within a transformation space."

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Benoît Fleury @benfle.com · 14/12/2025

"Despite the marvellous plastic qualities they occasionally exhibit, emotionally they have always been (and always will be) true first cousins to the square of the hypotenuse." — William M. Ivins, Art & Geometry Ouch.

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Benoît Fleury @benfle.com · 12/12/2025

Beware of the domain model where everything seems easy but nothing of interest is possible.

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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 02/12/2025

this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. github.com/git/git/blob...

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git/Documentation/gitdatamodel.adoc at master · git/git

Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documen...

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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 29/11/2025

Please Donate to the Internet Archive. $25 helps.... a lot. Useful to Journalists, Useful to Students, Useful to more than 2 million people a day. Collections growing at 150TBytes/day @internetarchive archive.org/donate www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/b...

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

"The very best creative people will only go to work in a few places." / "What I try to do is create the environment where these incredible people can make films." Man, this is what real leadership looks like. They don't make 'em like this anymore. youtu.be/R0XmBKsRJF8?...

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Pixar's Early Days - A Never-Before-Seen Interview With Steve Jobs, 1996

YouTube video by Steve Jobs Archive

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Benoît Fleury @benfle.com · 21/11/2025

"There is no royal road to geometry."

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