iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 02/10/2026

Imagine thinking your cell phone carrier actually gave a shit about spam calling without thinking to charge customers for the privilege of blocking it. Thanks, @verizonofficial.bsky.social

An SMS from Verizon notifying that a Call Filter trial is expiring and the account will be moved to Call Filter Free, with an upsell to Call Filter Plus for $3.99/month at go.vzw.com/callfilter.

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 01/10/2026

I was today years old when I saw the Atlanta Falcons logo is shaped like the letter F 🤯

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 22/09/2026

Pouring one out for the team at Apple that pushed a server side iCloud update now millions of people have a notification on their settings app.

An iOS settings row reading "Activate iCloud Storage" with a red badge showing "1" and a disclosure arrow, indicating a pending iCloud setup action.

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 24/08/2026

No cheating. Share the last picture of the sky from your camera roll. Noah Kahan show at Oracle Park!

Oracle Park at dusk, looking up through the foul pole netting toward a pastel pink and gray sunset sky. The iconic Coca-Cola bottle slide and giant baseball glove sculptures are visible in the left field arcade below, flanked by palm trees and stadium lights.

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 16/08/2026

Saw Goose in Palo Alto last night and what a show!

Dark concert venue with a bare stage lit by rows of vertical blue light fixtures hanging from the rigging, silhouettes of a crowd in the foreground.

Concert stage with band members performing under crisscrossing green laser beams and red stage lighting, haze filling the air, silhouetted crowd in the foreground.

Wide shot of an outdoor amphitheater stage at dusk, band performing under a colorful light rig with red, purple, yellow, and blue lighting and smoke effects, dense crowd filling the foreground under a pale evening sky.

Graphic setlist poster for Goose live at Frost Amphitheater, Stanford, CA, August 15, 2026. Left side shows a green floral illustration; right side lists the setlist in blue, orange, and red text: “Same Old Shenanigans,” “Hot Love & The Lazy Poet ->,” “Savenger >,” “Hot Love & The Lazy Poet,” “Pop,” “Seekers on the Ridge Pt I >,” “Seekers on the Ridge Pt II,” “Strange Overtones,” “Madalena,” “Hot Tea,” then “Madhuvan,” “Into the Myst >,” “Jed Stone >,” “Sinnerman,” followed by “Good Times // End Times.” A yellow “Slow Ready Podcast” badge sits in the top left corner.

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 06/08/2026

Like many, I grew up watching Kruk and Kuip call Giants games. I hope Kruk can enjoy retirement and can see the impact he has had on the Giants community. I for one, will miss his voice and his sayings that have stuck with me over the years.

A Reddit post from the r/SFGiants community featuring a retirement statement from SF Giants broadcaster Mike Krukow, shown alongside a photo of him smiling in a plaid blazer and red-tinted glasses. The full statement reads:

“I just want to let everyone know that I will be retiring at the end of the season. I want to take this time to thank you for your incredible support. Jennifer and I have been so blessed to be able to stay in the game for as long as we have and it’s really made it impossible to feel sorry for myself that my career is coming to an end. We are bracing for the emotional hits we know we are going to feel in the next few weeks. Jennifer and I are wondering if it is even possible to let everyone know how deeply we love and respect our Giants family. Our time together has been a gift. When Green Day asked, ‘I hope you’ve had the time of your lives,’ we certainly have. Thank you. - Mike Krukow”

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 05/08/2026

New meme format just dropped thanks to @danielpunkass.punkitup.com

The “Don’t make me tap the sign” Simpsons meme format, with Otto the bus driver at the wheel captioned “DON’T MAKE ME TAP THE SIGN.” The sign being tapped is a Bluesky post from @danielpunkass.punkitup.com reading: “My take on AI is, essentially, everybody who’s against is too against it and everybody who’s for it is too for it.” Posted 10:53 PM, May 25, 2026.

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 05/08/2026

While I am feeling a little bit of hacker summer camp fomo, touching a lake is nice too.

A mountain lake with calm green-tinted water surrounded by granite rock faces and conifer-covered slopes under a blue sky. Several paddleboarders and swimmers are visible on the water, and the bow of a red kayak is visible in the foreground.

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 30/07/2026

If you like bourbon and you like red wine. You'll love your red wine bourbon barrel aged.

A hand holding a 750ml bottle of Cooper & Thief Cellarmasters 2022 Red Wine Blend, aged 3 months in bourbon whiskey barrels, 15.5% ABV, from California. The label features a vintage barrel illustration and tasting notes describing it as dark and jammy with toasty vanilla notes.

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 22/07/2026

iOS beta folks, does Siri need to index with each beta update?

An iOS settings screen titled “Optimizing Search and Siri” showing a blue sync icon and an informational card explaining that Spotlight indexing is in progress, the phone can still be used normally, and longer charging sessions speed up the process. A “Learn More” link appears at the bottom.

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 21/07/2026

Just replaced my kitchen sink faucet. Nbd.

A bearded man in a red plaid flannel shirt and tool belt poses confidently in a workshop, leaning against a workbench with tools and equipment visible in the background. The warm lighting and styling give it a late 1990s/early 2000s home improvement show vibe.

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 20/07/2026

You don't have to say 'lol' or 'haha' to water down your message to people. Lol.

A WikiHow-style illustration of a young man in a yellow t-shirt pointing at his reflection in a mirror, both figures smiling slightly at each other. The reflection is rendered in blue-gray tones as is typical of the WikiHow art style.

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 15/07/2026

You know what day it is. Happy hacking!

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 29/06/2026

22 GB?! Did Apple solve security in this patch or something?

Screenshot of iOS update screen welding a massive 21.9 GB update for iOS 25.5.2

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 25/06/2026

Me to my M1 MacBook Pro after these Apple price increases.

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 17/06/2026

@soapboxsoftware.bsky.social started getting reauth failures in Indigo and now getting rate limited it seems when trying to login.

Rate limit screen on Auth page for bluesky within indigo

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 17/06/2026

Sad to drop Cursor, but no way in hell am I giving that dude any money. I definitely let them know my feelings on the purchaser of their company and I hope you do too.

A cancellation flow modal for Cursor Pro ($20.00/month) with a "Could you tell us why you're leaving?" dropdown expanded, showing six options: "It's too expensive," "I need more features," "I found an alternative," "I no longer need it," "Quality was lacking," and "Other reason."

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 15/06/2026

Love beer, love people, love whoever you want.

Hand holding an almanac beer that’s a hazy IPA pride edition. Background has garden beds and houses.

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 10/06/2026

It's that time of year! #wwdc

The marquee of a classic theater with vintage marquee bulb lighting, displaying “DARING FIREBALL: THE TALK SHOW LIVE.” The vertical blade sign above reads “IA THEATRE” in illuminated letters against a green background. Shot from below at dusk with a tree partially framing the sign.

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 09/06/2026

www.anthropic.com/news/claude...

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 08/06/2026

Happy hazy Sunday. Nothing like some BBQ and brews.

A hand holding a can of Speakeasy Mystic Haze IPA with a purple and gold label, with a Weber kettle grill and patio furniture visible in the sunny backyard behind it.

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 06/06/2026

Nice day to go back in time.

The exterior of the Center for the Performing Arts in San Jose, California, shot on a clear sunny day. The curved tan concrete building features a distinctive facade of large gold arched window frames with overlapping circular motifs. Globe light fixtures line the roofline and a decorative multi-globe street lamp stands in the foreground. A “Broadway San Jose 25/26 Join Us” season banner is visible on the left side

A program for the Back to the Future the musical featuring the clock tower and the backing the delorean.

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 04/06/2026

I'll probably never get invited to #WWDC, but I will always go to The Talk Show live.

Screenshot of Apple wallet ticket for the talk show live.

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 22/05/2026

Is there a better beer than the airport beer?

A cold pint of beer sitting on a paper napkin at a window-side table in an airport bar, with a tarmac view, a blue United Airlines plane visible at the gate, and a clear sunny sky in the background.

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 12/05/2026

Using @deletem.app to search for specific posts is a way better experience VS using the app IMO. Esp in the new UI I’m working on, you can open the app directly and go to the post you’re looking for!

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 07/05/2026

Forgot to show with some posts, I really like the timeline scrubber on the right, I def need to improve the UI for it though.

Desktop screenshot of the Deletem dashboard showing brian's (@bripie.me) loaded posts filtered to older than 3 months, sorted newest first. Three posts are visible: a 2-month-old post about a Defcon shopping cart lock hack, a 3-month-old post calling out an emo song as "still a banger," and a 3-month-old take about flower shops offering bundle delivery subscriptions. Each post has an "Open" link and a "Test remove" button. A time scrubber is visible on the right edge for navigating the post timeline.

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 07/05/2026

@deletem.app redesign progress, lmk your thoughts?

Desktop screenshot of the Deletem dashboard after signing in as brian (@bripie.me), showing 933 posts, 6.3K likes, 751 followers, and 303 following. The left panel shows filter controls set to posts older than 3 months, posts only, with a "Has media" toggle and protection rules including "Protect posts I liked." Safe mode is active with a toggle to switch to Delete mode. The main content area shows a four-step workflow: Set filters, Load your posts, Select & preview, and Go live when ready, with 0 posts loaded and options to Export or Select posts to preview.

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 05/05/2026

I don’t envy GitHub needing to scale so much so fast. Imagine the acceleration once the mobile apps get a lot of traction. Cursor for iOS/Android anyone? github.blog/news-insight...

A dark-themed slide titled “Record Acceleration” showing three GitHub growth charts from 2023 to 2026, each with a dramatic spike in early 2026. Pull requests merged hit 90M, commits reached 1.4B, and new repos per month climbed to 20M — all three lines showing sharp near-vertical growth at the right edge, suggesting a massive AI-assisted coding surge.

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 02/05/2026

If you’re in the Bay Area, you can still see Jeeves at the Computer History Museum in Mtn View!

Mascot of Jeeves of Ask Jeeves. A butler in a suit.

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 28/04/2026

Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?

A still from The IT Crowd showing Moss standing next to a fire extinguisher that is itself on fire, with the subtitle: “I’ll just put this over here with the rest of the fire.“

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 17/04/2026

Fun thing I just added, the form will rotate through handles (catch the theme(s)?) I’m hoping this will show the end user examples to eliminate any confusion on what they should type in.

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 12/04/2026

By trying to make the iOS camera intuitive they’ve actually made it so complicated with photographic styles. I can’t seem to find the right tone and the UI is so complicated. I guess I should just shoot in Apple Pro Raw and edit via Lightroom?!

A rounded square app icon with a gradient background going from pink/cream to deep purple, covered in a grid of nearly identical dots because apparently the best way to communicate “change your photo style” is a field of ambiguous circles where two of them are slightly different from the rest. Good luck figuring out which one does what.

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 12/03/2026

Got this new keyboard, lmk what ya’ll think.

A humorous concept product render of an Apple-branded physical keyboard with only three keys: “Allow once,” “Allow always” (the largest, center key), and “Reject” satirizing the frequent tool permission prompts that Claude requests from users during agentic tasks.

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 09/03/2026

mfw looking at a newly launched product realizing we have the same designer (Cursor).

The “three Spider-Men pointing at each other” meme, featuring three versions of Spider-Man in different suit styles all pointing at one another simultaneously. The left figure is from the classic 1967 animated series, the center figure wears a more modern animated suit, and the right figure wears a suit resembling the MCU Spider-Man design.

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 04/03/2026

Touching grass isn’t so bad.

A sunny California valley landscape with a wide green meadow in the foreground, scattered bare shrubs and trees in the middle distance, and densely wooded rolling hills in the background. The bright blue sky is filled with scattered cumulus clouds, with the sun visible in the upper left.

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