iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Caius @caius.name · 01/10/2026

I finally jumped to macOS 27 from Sequoia, after avoiding 26 on main Mac for a year. I think it's okay for daily driving now, doesn't annoy me, doesn't irritate in the way 26 did the brief time I tried it. Bunch of minor bugs/irritations have been fixed, only found a couple new ones.

110

Caius @caius.name · 01/10/2026

When I last replaced my desk I had an idea to put a USB power bank on it with a few different USB cables, so I can charge things at my desk. Due to my messiness, I now have a pile of USB cables there, and only some are connected to power. I now play charging roulette everytime I plug something in.

000

Caius @caius.name · 17/08/2026

Spent a long weekend exploring the Isle of Man by car. Previously sailed into Peel, was fun seeing more of the rest of the island. Drove the Mountain Course circuit of course, nowhere near race pace! Big balls on riders. Interesting place, lovely to visit, suspect I'll be back again at some point.

010

Caius @caius.name · 30/07/2026

Finally managed to have both my black sharpies in the same place at the same time, which means I can take action to reduce the likelihood of them wandering off independently again.

Two black sharpies on a bamboo table, both with the handwritten name "Caius" on the body

030

Caius @caius.name · 28/07/2026

Given the expense of a power meter—and a bike you'd put a power meter on—4iii making theirs be Apple Find My compatible for finding location makes total sense. (Just a special bluetooth advert after all.) Hadn't occurred to me, but now slightly judging competitors that don't include the feature.

010

Caius @caius.name · 08/07/2026

Sometimes I now leave accidental typos in my work, just to show its hand-typed and not clanked out.

010

Caius @caius.name · 24/06/2026

Heading to #BrightonRuby in a heatwave 😅

120

Caius @caius.name · 07/06/2026

How else do you organise something to do together? Book first, invite later. 🤪

000

Caius @caius.name · 03/06/2026

Bank of England are putting native animals on new notes, public vote on what to include www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/h…

120

Caius @caius.name · 30/05/2026

(Only felt slightly old when I realised I’d first seen some of the speakers talk previously nearly two decades ago. Still bringing great thoughts to share though.)

010

Caius @caius.name · 30/05/2026

Lovely day at the inaugural RubyConf AT. Really enjoyed the talks and the musical arts being woven between them. Good venue for hallway track too and so many drinks and snacks.

110

Reposted by Caius

Robby Russell @robbyonrails.com · 29/05/2026

This little nugget of code felt a bit too realistic. If you work with Ruby on Rails, the community survey is open again. Curious to see where things actually stand in 2026.

021

Caius @caius.name · 29/05/2026

I pulled out ssh tunnelling (and then reverse tunnels) to solve a couple of networking access use cases accessing remote macs last week. Felt good, the old things still work as well as they ever did.

000

Reposted by Caius

Kristin Louise Raught Photography 🌀 @kristinlraught.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I still can’t believe this Great Blue Heron let me witness this tonight. Those wild feathers are breeding plumes, and seeing them lit softly in the evening shadows felt almost unreal.

Alt text: A Great Blue Heron stands in shallow water at dusk with its breeding plumes fluffed outward in all directions. Soft blue evening shadows surround the bird while its reflection ripples faintly beneath it in the calm water.

18176511014

Caius @caius.name · 07/05/2026

Whenever I've screwed up and created a folder called ~ inside my local directory, I always jump across to the Finder to delete it from there. Totally bypasses any issue trying to run `rm -r \~` and fucking up the escaping.

100

Caius @caius.name · 07/05/2026

Ha, must admit that didn't even cross my mind as a possibility. I did spend a few seconds trying to work out if it was a pun on being Turing Complete somehow

100

Caius @caius.name · 07/05/2026

Huzzah! (Although the returning post title says you're "turing 20" 🙈)

100

Reposted by Caius

Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Rubyists! I am reviving Ruby Inside after 12 years of hiatus. I have too many Ruby things I want to blog about :-) So far I've got the archive up and running at rubyinside.com/archives/ - it's a bit of a Ruby time capsule..

rubyinside.com

Archives · Ruby Inside

43911

Reposted by Caius

Peter Bhat Harkins ✔️ @push.cx · 17/04/2026

I got curious to query the monthly word count of Lobsters comments. Average is 618k, or roughly 10 nonfiction books per month.

screenshot of a sql query for wordcount by month of the last year, they range from 589k to 773k; query took almost 16 minutes to run

131

Caius @caius.name · 22/04/2026

OH: “I wouldn’t put the ice cream in the pizza oven, obviously”

110

Caius @caius.name · 14/04/2026

Apparently I've read one too many, "I think this is AI slop" comments against a useful/thought provoking post recently and can't bite my tongue anymore. What's the point in nitpicking everything you ever read now? Given slop is based on averages, won't the average writing sound like it? Tiresome.

000

Reposted by Caius

Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 25/03/2026

Apparently somebody just built us a new marketing site... 🙏 justfuckingusetailscale.com

JUST FUCKING USE
TAILSCALE
STOP FUCKING AROUND. CONNECT ANYWHERE.

(with AI slop image of big explosions and laptops and phones and routers and such)

26110

Caius @caius.name · 23/03/2026

Modern hell is other people watching short form videos loudly without headphones in public settings.

010

Caius @caius.name · 20/03/2026

PSB vibes, lovely

000

Caius @caius.name · 18/03/2026

View from the laptop

Picture of a beared man wearing an Apple Vision Pro and seatbelt in a car passenger seat, looking up from knees to chin.

001

Caius @caius.name · 18/03/2026

Trying out Apple Vision Pro travel mode in the car for the first time (from the passenger seat). 30 seconds in was rather disconcerting to see a bus appearing from behind Safari. Brain can't handle the disconnect of immersive environment but otherwise seems fine.

100

Reposted by Caius

christian c. @virtualchilly.party · 16/03/2026

This is were it went from a read that is S-Tier to whatever is past S-Tier

784861

Caius @caius.name · 09/03/2026

Thought the street I was staying on looked familiar in daylight, turns out I'm staying one building away from where I stayed in 2017 on my first visit. Uncanny.

000

Caius @caius.name · 08/03/2026

Back in Cracow 🇵🇱 after 8 years away, wandering through the city to get to my apartment very much felt like catching up with an old friend. Looking forward to exploring and then www.rubycommunityconference.com later in the week.

rubycommunityconference.com

Ruby Community Conference - Winter 2026

Get ready for Ruby Community Conference. Join our amazing speakers for awesome portion of Ruby

110

Caius @caius.name · 02/03/2026

Left my coat on the chair in the pub to keep my table whilst I went to the bar, only to realised I’d left my AirPods in the coat pocket. Trackable, but valuable. Then remembered the coat retails for nearly the cost of the headphones. Gotta love an eBay bargain.

000

Caius @caius.name · 11/02/2026

Crossing the Welsh border hardly registers as an event in my head, yet crossing the Scottish border is worth pointing at the sign and shouting SCOTLAND every time. (with a terrible impression of an accent of course.)

010

Caius @caius.name · 07/02/2026

When installing a hardwired dashcam (Garmin in this case), it's worth opening the control box on the cable and moving the jumper from 12v to 12.3v. Stops the dashcam potentially draining the battery too low.

Circuit board inside a Garmin Parking Cable control box showing a line of jumper pins labelled with voltages, and a jumper across the 12.3v pins

000

Caius @caius.name · 07/02/2026

Dropped the BMW Z4 into Birds Auto this week to get a Quaife LSD fitted, replacing the factory open diff. Lovely group of people, well looked after and proper car nuts. Wish I'd replaced the diff earlier if anything, makes such a nice difference to the drivability of the car. Love it.

000

Caius @caius.name · 06/02/2026

If you're looking to put Solid Queue into your Rails app, you **really** want to put it in a separate database from the start. Even if that database is on the same database server to start with so it doesn't cost you more. Moving it to another database later without downtime/dataloss is _tedious_

000

Caius @caius.name · 27/01/2026

Bristol (west coast) is further east than Edinburgh (east coast)

000

Reposted by Caius

Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 24/01/2026

Just sticking Lord of the Rings on and notice it’s a “Wingnut Production” The chances that Beatles obsessive Peter Jackson named his film company that because he’s a Wings nut isn’t zero

5162

Caius @caius.name · 13/01/2026

I do love it when I have an idea or annoyance about a piece of software, go to open a ticket about it and discover someone had the same idea *and* fixed it last week. Perfecto.

010

Reposted by Caius

Mike McQuaid @mikemcquaid.com · 07/01/2026

I like this take on how to get promoted. My experience has been that promotions come from finding and doing important work. Being spoon-fed is fine for juniors but a negative signal for those seeking e.g. staff+ promotions.

andrew.grahamyooll.com

Try to Take My Position: The Best Promotion Advice I Ever Got

My CTO leaned back in our 1:1 and said "You want to get promoted? Try to take my position."

023

Caius @caius.name · 11/01/2026

Between bus replacement services, the state of the UK roads and the infuriating price of trains, somehow it was only £40 more to fly and ignoring the layover, quicker. Plus I’ve never flown into London City before, and I’ll take any excuse to visit Belfast.

000

Caius @caius.name · 11/01/2026

Today’s trip from the West Midlands to Essex bizarrely involves flying to Belfast then on to London City to catch a lift. Obviously driving would be simplest, but I can’t take a car.

100

Caius @caius.name · 08/01/2026

Currently running Comic Shanns Mono, patched with Nerd Fonts for diacritics. It's both weirdly legible and immediately irritates anyone you screenshare with. Tried it out as a joke and never bothered to change it back. github.com/ryanoasis/ne...

100

Caius @caius.name · 06/01/2026

Realised I've been wearing headphones for some time, listening to music playing. Playing from the HomePod on my desk it turns out. Transparency mode on the headphones is good enough I didn't immediately notice, which is both impressive and irritating.

010

Reposted by Caius

Xavier Noria @fxn.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Given a class object `klass`, it is not uncommon to see klass.to_s to get its name. However, that is unnecessarily indirect. If you want the class name, just ask for it! klass.name That is more concise/intentional.

0112

Caius @caius.name · 23/12/2025

If you've ever run `jj jj …` by accident, do I have the alias for you. caiustheory.com/jj-jj-jj-jj-jj #jj #jujutsu

000

Reposted by Caius

Xavier Noria @fxn.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I have released Zeitwerk 2.7.4. It improves the performance of some validation logic. This may be measurable in large apps with ignored directories and lots of autoload paths. In Gusto's main application (+20 autoloaders, ~2000 autoload paths), the patch saves 800 ms of boot time.

0326

Caius @caius.name · 15/12/2025

One day I will remember trying to use iPhone Mirroring whilst using the phone's hotspot will both kill the hotspot and fail to mirror. Today is not that day.

000

Reposted by Caius

Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I estimate the average British driver wastes 5% of their memory on where numerous potholes are and the best way to approach and avoid them.

031

Caius @caius.name · 12/12/2025

iPhone Pocket would also solve an issue for Vision Pro users, how to carry the battery hands-free when you don't have a handy pocket available.

apple.com

Introducing iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone

ISSEY MIYAKE and Apple today unveiled iPhone Pocket, designed to fit any iPhone as well as all pocketable items.

000

Caius @caius.name · 11/12/2025

Currently editing a commit in the middle of a series of commits using jj, wanted to inject a new commit between the current one and the next (newer) one. @ references the current commit, and @- references the parent. Pondered for two seconds, then tried @+ to reference the next commit. Worked. 🎉

000