iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What’s this? A “QR Code Link” you say? Yes, it’s Sonic Pi code encoded into a url that opens ready for you to read, play and edit in Sonic Pi in your browser. Share your live coded tracks with greater ease!

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John Turner @breaking.computer · 24/09/2026

I’ve been making Claude do a pass before PR to delete any test that exercises behavior that is guaranteed by the language, framework, or third party, and it‘s helped a lot.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hey everyone when someone says something like “I won’t hire you if you bring iced coffee to a job interview!” you can just like, ignore that person.

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John Turner @breaking.computer · 23/09/2026

I’m certainly not averse to using AI to help with domestic logistics, but if I ever told my family I wanted to “start the morning aligned,” I’d hope my kids would tell their teachers that everything wasn’t ok at home and I’d be forced to get help.

A description of Google’s new family AI agent, CC, with the description “start the morning aligned.”

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John Turner @breaking.computer · 18/09/2026

Most of my greenfield stuff starts with some version of doing C4 diagrams to solidify my mental model before ever touching a coding agent.

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John Turner @breaking.computer · 18/09/2026

Increasingly I just don’t let LLMs write prose. I already had a rule that anything where my voice was meaningful—email, docs—would be completely written by me and possibly LLM edited, but increasingly that’s applying in more mechanical places like code comments.

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James @43081j.com · 15/09/2026

i don't mind people using agents to create PRs, but please at least write the description and replies yourself 🙏

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John Turner @breaking.computer · 11/09/2026

It’s true. As I told someone recently: much of the job is going around to different engineers and asking “how can I personally make your job easier and more pleasant?” There’s a lot to enjoy about that.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 03/09/2026

attention Fastmail executive team: please continue to be normal. If you have any thoughts about anything other than emails, please keep them to yourselves. Please do not fund any external projects that have anything to do with anything other than emails. Thank you.

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John Turner @breaking.computer · 29/08/2026

A certain subset of folks on this site are about to discover y’all’d’ve, and I‘m very excited for them.

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John Turner @breaking.computer · 15/08/2026

I developed mild RSI in one of my hands as a jazz guitar major, so jazz RSI is definitely a thing.

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John Turner @breaking.computer · 14/08/2026

I’m not averse to a good language debate, and I’m certainly not neutral, but I feel like a lot of the Go discourse is some form of “omg, I can’t believe Go lets you <thing that no one would ever actually do>”.

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Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Buddhism in the wild (photo by Jerry Feldman, Target Honolulu)

View of an end-cap display at Target, with a sign above it saying “Must have!” The shelves are empty.

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John Turner @breaking.computer · 13/08/2026

I want these too, but I think an AI agent would be content with getting served a markdown file with curl commands to run.

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John Turner @breaking.computer · 12/08/2026

I used to mostly abide this, but the past few weeks PR stacks have muddled the picture a bit. It’s really easy to get Claude to orchestrate a large scale change, break that change up into PRs, and then stack them for easy linkage.

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John Turner @breaking.computer · 12/08/2026

With LLMs becoming increasingly good at using repo information for research, knowing how to keep your commit history easy to read is an underrated skill.

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Samuel @samuel.fm · 10/08/2026

github when I rebase my 28-tall PR stack

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John Turner @breaking.computer · 09/08/2026

Certainly the most dangerous I’ve ever done. I missed a decimal point on an amplitude value on my C For Audio class’ “making a sine wave” assignment, which I was testing with earbuds. One of the more unpleasant experiences of my life.

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John Turner @breaking.computer · 08/08/2026

Somewhat tangential to the point of the thread, but this is why I always push back on the idea of giving new grad and junior engineer candidates systems design interviews. There are other reasons too, but the likelihood that they would have studied or experienced it beyond interview prep is low.

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Sonic Pi v5 is released. Sonic Pi is now more friendly, more accessible, more powerful and more fun. There's something to excite everyone - from the friendlier error messages, to the pro-audio config, to the new dynamic visuals for performance. Enjoy! www.patreon.com/samaaron/pos...

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Sonic Pi v5 Released | Sam Aaron

Hi everyone, today is release day! Sonic Pi is now more friendly, more accessible, more powerful and more fun. Everything has been complete

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Obsidian @obsidian.md · 05/08/2026

Good news, everyone! We made it easy and free to convert your entire Airtable workspace to durable Markdown files that you own and can use offline. Obsidian Bases supports all your views, filters, and formulas. Your data is yours, take ownership of it.

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Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 02/08/2026

Oh, you wanna come over? Cool. Just give me three business days to clean my house until it looks like no one has ever lived here.

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John Turner @breaking.computer · 02/08/2026

This makes me curious if, at some point, the debate will be build vs buy vs customize instead of just the first two. That’s always been an option, but the carry cost of a fork has historically been high and tedious in many companies.

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John Turner @breaking.computer · 02/08/2026

Power chords on bass don’t sound THAT bad. This is a bit mellow dramatic.

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John Turner @breaking.computer · 28/07/2026

I was very much on the “nurture“ side of the nature/nurture debate, and believed—quite erroneously, I came to find out—that parents who said things like “they were always like that” were underestimating their role in who their child became personality wise. My eldest disabused me of that one.

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austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 25/07/2026

hanging out with drunk SREs will make you think twice about the internet

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John Turner @breaking.computer · 20/07/2026

I haven’t been professionally artistic in a while, so what do I know, but by the time you can use the word “inundated,” I think it’s time to just take the L and move on.

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

It took 7 years of self-funded work, but Sonic Pi is finally at a place I'm happy with. It's even easier than beginners and even more powerful for pro users - and just way more polished in every way. It's also a (friendly) technical trojan horse for SuperSonic. www.patreon.com/samaaron/pos...

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Sonic Pi v5 Release Candidate 1 | Sam Aaron

Hey there, happy Friday and huge love to you wherever you are in the world. Today, it's time to open the vaults and let loose something that

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John Turner @breaking.computer · 18/07/2026

Genesis of the Daleks, 1975

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/07/2026

If you’re a software engineer, designer, or technologist who wants to help make City government work better and faster, apply to join our PIT crews at nyc.gov/pitcrew.

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

🚨OUT TODAY🚨: my trio, True East's debut full-length "This Place is a Message" - available for purchase here on Bandcamp and streamable on all major platforms: trueeastnyc.bandcamp.com/album/this-p...

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This Place is a Message, by True East

10 track album

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Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

There’s only one person I trust to run for Senate in Maine: the extraordinary AI actress Tilly Norwood.

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ceej @ceej.online · 30/08/2025

my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

BRING 👏 BACK 👏 BOOK-IT 👏 FOR 👏 ADULTS

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John Turner @breaking.computer · 08/07/2026

This is just vibes, but on name alone J-space feels like it has the potential to do one of those leaps from science to popular pseudoscience, like “quantum manifestation“

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Thomas O’Mahony @gotitatguineys.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

A number of the responses here are basically asking, "on what basis can you term the United States a success?" and I'm glad you asked, because I wrote about exactly that four years ago. acoup.blog/2022/07/08/c...

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Collections: Is the United States Exceptional?

It is the week of July 4th and so I hope that everyone will once again forgive me for taking a break from our normal fare to write out an argument that I’ve had brewing for quite some time. I…

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

my trio’s debut full-length is out in just a week and day, you can check out our three singles and preorder the record here! trueeastnyc.bandcamp.com/album/this-p...

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This Place is a Message, by True East

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John Turner @breaking.computer · 03/07/2026

I have no intention of checking the veracity of this result. I have every intention of slipping “I’m Gumby, dammit!” into regular conversation as a reference.

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John Turner @breaking.computer · 02/07/2026

Celebrated Canada day as a tourist in the Yukon, and just wow. Some of the most beautiful scenery I’ve ever seen.

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John Turner @breaking.computer · 30/06/2026

Maybe this is also true for me because of my kids ages. Maybe it gets harder (I’m sure it does, seems like everything does). But also, yes to this.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/06/2026

Eric Adams Among Lineup Of Children Escorting Turkey Players Onto Pitch

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John Turner @breaking.computer · 23/06/2026

Got to experience medical sedation for the first time today—routine procedure, everyone’s fine—and wow that’ll stop panic thoughts real fast.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

ICYDK, I do not actually skeet for a living That is not a thing (yet) I founded and run the biggest comics pub in the Midwest, and it specializes in The Strange and Amazing plz follow it here It's Juneteenth, you have to 🥰 @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social

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JD (by way of Blacksky) @jdot.blacksky.team · 19/06/2026

Happy Juneteenth! If you haven’t migrated to Blacksky yet.. it’s never been easier! Use our tool to migrate today: move.blacksky.community

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Move your data to Blacksky

Move your data to Blacksky – transfer your AT Protocol account in minutes.

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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 18/06/2026

I've made a Kubernetes that runs in the browser, and today we're open sourcing it. The hope here is to make super interactive and visual web content about Kubernetes much easier to write, and we have a whole bunch planned this year. Repo: github.com/ngrok/webern... Demo: webernetes-demo.ngrok.app

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