iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 17/08/2026

I agree. Would be cool to see some sort of fundraising to send out of work folks to conferences. Confs are expensive to run and expensive to attend. Flights, ticket, hotels. A lot of money for the opportunity even when employed

110

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 17/08/2026

My deepest sympathy for the people responsible for responding to the GitHub incidents and outages lately, but at some point Microsoft needs to show some accountability for turning a platform millions of developers trust with their work into a risky dependency.

0226

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 06/07/2026

Super interesting. Thanks for sharing. llama.cpp looks complicated to set up but there’s supposed to be a feature where you can distribute the processing across machines. I have yet to play with that myself. But yea. 3 to 10 minutes would be super frustrating.

010

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 06/07/2026

Ooof what are your specs? And if you ran ollama ps, how much of the model was fitting in GPU? FWIW the machine I tested on was an M1 Max with 64gb.

100

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 06/07/2026

What model did you end up using?

100

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 22/06/2026

I would love to be able to use my computer or video game system for more than one day without some app nagging me for an upgrade. Sometimes it's the same app with multiple updates per week. It feels sloppy.

120

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 16/05/2026

Nest was down today but Google’s status page said all was fine. It’s so depressing when companies can’t (or won’t) be transparent about outages.

011

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 02/05/2026

Did you know I made a link page generator? It’s like linktree but it just gives you an HTML page you can post anywhere. And it’s free. bphogan.com/linkmaker

050

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 02/05/2026

Love getting feedback like this.

120

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 01/05/2026

Ok, @temporalio comes through again. I posted a message through my custom posting system yesterday, and the posting to X failed. They deprecated the API I used. Today I corrected the issue and the Workflow completed. No code changes or restarts.

010

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 30/04/2026

I love @tailscale. Whether I'm at a coffee shop or a doctor's office, I'm safely routing traffic back home, with access to my servers, my local LLMs, and even my cloud servers. The fact that I get to work there with a great team is even better.

051

Reposted by Brian P Hogan

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

8957091046

Reposted by Brian P Hogan

Mitchell Volk @mvolk.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I swear to god if anything AI related tries to pull an April fools joke tomorrow I’m going to kick off digital Ragnarök

011

Reposted by Brian P Hogan

Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 01/04/2026

Kids don’t try this at home

031

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 04/01/2026

This is the key though. Use AI tools on domains you understand well so you can guide them. They accelerate your work. They don’t replace expertise.

030

Reposted by Brian P Hogan

Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 01/01/2026

Another good one. Nicely done

041

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 31/12/2025

Issue 48 of my newsletter ships later today. It includes a markdownlint tutorial. Subscribe at newsletter.bphogan.com to get the latest issue in your inbox.

130

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 22/12/2025

Just pushed publish on my 4-song Christmas EP. Traditional songs in my style. If you celebrate, give a listen. soundcloud.com/bphogan/sets/december

140

Reposted by Brian P Hogan

Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 30/11/2025

I'm a subscriber, and I can vouch for the fact that it's good. And free, as he said :⁠-⁠)

011

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 02/11/2025

You know I just wrote a book on Vale, right?

110

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 24/10/2025

The Minnesota Wild plays at the Grand Casino Arena and airs games on FanDuel Sports Network, and we are supposed to be surprised there’s a current sports betting scandal in another sport?

030

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 21/10/2025

‪The Wild need all the goals they can get. ‬

000

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 21/10/2025

HOW DARE YOU, MR. HOCKEY PLAYER! HOW DARE YOU USE YOUR HOCKEY STICK TO PUT A PUCK IN THE NET! NO GOAL FOR YOU!

210

Reposted by Brian P Hogan

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I can only be friends with people who are old enough to remember the annoyance of suddenly having to use area codes even for local domestic calls we used to only have to remember seven digits!

025716

Reposted by Brian P Hogan

Rebecca Le @sevensea.cat · 02/10/2025

Yessss I love AsciiDoc, everyone should use it! It renders natively on GitHub too, by using the .adoc file suffix, so you can even use it for your readmes and the like

011

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 01/10/2025

It bites you when you decide to move to a different platform or try to syndicate content. Ask me how I know.

010

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 01/10/2025

Seriously. Asciidoc is probably a good fit. I’ve done docbook and it’s…a lot. But it’s very cool too. The thing that sparked all this is I keep running into everyone making these incompatible markdown preprocessors and MDX. The need is there. But it’s all nonstandard when other options exist.

100

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 01/10/2025

Yesterday I published Issue 45 of my monthly newsletter, and it's about why Markdown might not be the best way to implement content. Read it and subscribe to be the first to read next month's issue. newsletter.bphogan.com/archive/issu…

152

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 26/09/2025

Everyone wants corporate sponsorship of OSS until they find out that sponsorship means control. Do what we want or the money you depend on goes poof. No free lunch. Disappointing. joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover

050

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 24/09/2025

"Let's all band together to get consumer protections rolled back, and we'll say it will increase competition" is a hell of a sales pitch. tinyurl.com/2s44zc9j

000

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 22/09/2025

Do you remember… The 21st night of September…

020

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 10/09/2025

Vale is my go-to tool to catch style errors and enforce consistency in content, and after implementing it in multiple jobs and projects, it was time to create a guide anyone can follow. Now in beta. pragprog.com/titles/bhvale/write-be…

110

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 09/07/2025

Hyphen: - Underscore: _ Em-dash: — En-dash: – So many dashes…..

010

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 03/07/2025

You “log in” with your login. Your users “sign up” for your service and you track “signups.” Go check your buttons.

152

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 30/06/2025

Today, I used ChatGPT o3 to research two articles for my newsletter. Every article it found was current and relevant. Every fact it cited was made-up. The statistics did not appear in the article cited. Content without curation will be painful.

072

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 19/06/2025

Some things I learned while using Claude Code on some personal projects over the last two weeks. bphogan.com/2025/06/19/2025-06-19-c…

140

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 14/06/2025

I’ve had access to high traffic docs sites and analytics for ages. People prefer to read when it comes time to LEARN. Don’t look at views. Look at time on page/watch times. survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/develop...

survey.stackoverflow.co

Developer Profile | 2024 Stack Overflow Developer SurveyAll RespondentsProfessional DevelopersLearning to CodeOther CodersAll RespondentsLearning to CodeUnder 18 years old18-24 years old25-34 years ol...

000

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 12/06/2025

With major providers down, this feels like a snow day, where the school's closed and all the work that was due today is now due tomorrow.

010

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 12/06/2025

Centralizing everything behind a couple of cloud providers really does help us build things faster. But when there's an outage, you really feel it.

040

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 12/06/2025

Now his hat is on backwards He can show you his tattoos He is in the music business He is calling you….

292

Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 29/05/2025

The only correct answer.

110

Reposted by Brian P Hogan

Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

*sigh*

3273

Reposted by Brian P Hogan

Alan @alanwordguy.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

"...People are beginning to confuse the outputs of generative AI with facts, with knowledge, or with insight.... And here’s the real danger. It’s not just that GenAI gets things wrong. The deeper threat is that we stop noticing when it does."

043

Reposted by Brian P Hogan

Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

"pivot to AI" is the new "pivot to video"

410718