iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 26/02/2026

Health and safety review: This should be good enough, right?

A cardboard box with a handwritten warning “Mead - bottle bomb risk 💣”

010

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 22/02/2026

Hmm so maybe I’m not going on vacation this week after all.

020

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 18/02/2026

Sometimes the AI is more lazy than I am.

030

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 17/02/2026

Does anyone know anywhere hiring early career folks? I’ve got someone who worked a couple of years before being laid off in 2022 tech reductions, he stopped looking when he couldn’t get any traction back then. He’s hoping to rejoin the industry now and I’m helping him train back up.

110

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 12/02/2026

A couple of months back I turned off all AI autocomplete features in my IDE, and TBH I feel like my brain has completely healed. I still leverage AI heavily, but always as a conscious choice. Goodbye “LLM pause” when my brain was waiting to see what the AI thought before thinking on its own.

120

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 12/02/2026

-7C on the way up feels the same as 10C on the way down.

000

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 09/02/2026

I feel like git push —force should work even during a GitHub outage.

000

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 09/02/2026

I live in the suburbs of the web development galaxy.

Map of Bluesky users, specifically the web development community cluster and where I fit in it.

150

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 05/02/2026

My current AI take (constantly evolving) 1) if you fundamentally understand the problem to be solved and the green path, AI is pure accelerant 2) if you need to stray from the green path then it’s actually not that helpful at all 3) if you don’t know what you’re doing it’s doing more harm than good.

130

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 02/02/2026

I love when I try to write a tricky TS type and I’m having trouble so I ask AI and it tries the same 8 things then says “maybe it’s impossible? IDK 🤷🏻‍♂️”

010

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 30/01/2026

Hooray for winter sports 😂

It’s a selfie of me outside and my beard completely encased in ice

010

Reposted by Cal Irvine

Damien Moule @damienmoule.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Put their names on a plaque.

1285

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 26/01/2026

I’ve already shoveled this twice today. Snow day confirmed for tomorrow.

Picture of the snow piled about a foot up the back door.

010

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 23/01/2026

I find the Taipei 101 climb event to be like 90% uninteresting. Generally free soloing does not excite me that much, but even in that world I’d much rather see people climbing actual cliffs. Like surely soloing El Cap (way taller than this building) was both harder and more interesting.

110

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 21/01/2026

Anyone on here have a good recipe for red dal? Prefer rich and creamy to soupy.

100

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 20/01/2026

Lmao it converted my db from PG to MySQL when I wasn’t looking?

020

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 19/01/2026

K, this Ralph thing is actually really good. Still not a silver bullet, but with a good focused plan it’s really surprisingly effective.

010

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 18/01/2026

Go to bed, or try out this Ralph thing then go to bed?

000

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 18/01/2026

Holy shit I actually finished it. I’ve been working on this for at least three years. It better fit.

070

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 17/01/2026

OAuth in a phone call was not something I ever thought I would have to figure out, but here we are. Been a hell of a year so far.

010

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 07/01/2026

The thing that’s never made sense to me is that the “we must own guns to protect ourselves from tyranny” people and the “it’s ok when law enforcement murders people” people are the same people.

010

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 05/12/2025

Turns out the only thing I had to do to fix my printer that’s been broken more than a year is actually try for more than ten minutes.

000

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 21/04/2025

Finally finished this sweater (for my 3yo daughter). Body and one sleeve took me 3 weeks, sleeve two took my 3 months. Finishing things is always harder than starting 💀

A knit sweater with a colourwork yoke with a plant motif

020

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 11/04/2025

Bread only exists for four hours, then it turns into raw toast.

010

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 07/04/2025

I love how during the election so many Americans told people with opinions to “mind their own business” Unfortunately America, as much as we wish it weren’t the case, your business is our business.

Screenshot of investment portfolio down 9.31% so far this month

120

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 07/04/2025

I know this will probably be controversial, but the Minecraft movie was actually kind of good.

120

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 04/04/2025

So someone asked me to make a change on a PR. It’s a good shout, and I’m going to do it. HOWEVER I copied the code in question from him. Should I also fix his usage in the same PR, or is that too passive aggressive? 💀

000

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 02/04/2025

Y’all are in a state of national emergency over less than 1 pound of fentanyl.

Text from a news article about fentanyl entering the United States via Canada. Data comes from a USA freedom of information act request, highlighted text reads “Fentanyl identified as coming from Canada amounted to 0.74 pounds – or 0.13 per cent.”

110

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 29/03/2025

Kind of feels like AI tools are speeding up the burnout cycle for me. I’ve always used straightforward easy to crank out tasks as a sort of break from the hard and slow problems, let my brain get the dopamine hit of rapid shipping.

130

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 27/03/2025

I thought it would be funny to try to score a smiley face into this loaf. In fact, it was a horrible and terrifying.

It’s bread! It looks sort of like a smiley face, but also something is off about the way it states into your soul.

1130

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 25/03/2025

Using AI to help me think of a library name for an idea I’m playing with, and look who pops up in one of its ideas. @omgsean.com 25.8% CoffeeScript 🙈

Screenshot of GitHub last commit to a repo by Sean Roberts 9 years ago

121

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 22/03/2025

“When you reach the end of your life, you will die. And you won’t be able to wear your glasses. And it will be in 99 hours” - my 3yo Wednesday’s going to be a big day for me.

010

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 22/03/2025

TFW you spend half the day trying to get the design system to let you do something you could have done in ten minutes with two divs 🫠

130

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 20/03/2025

Tricked my colleagues into going for momos in Parkdale for a team dinner 😅 one review was “this is actually the best thing I’ve ever had in Toronto”

120

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 16/03/2025

For two libraries based on native fetch, it was surprisingly tricky to get GraphQL yoga to play nice with hono. Works now though, and that’ll improve my life tremendously.

010

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 16/03/2025

A previous guest at this AirBnB didn’t sign out of their Apple TV. Do I watch the latest severance as them, risking causing a marital dispute over allegations of tv streaming cheating?

240

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 15/03/2025

I love cooking in this country. Breakfast tacos - cochinita pibil the family down the street is selling from their front door - really good eggs - fresh tortillas - fresh avocados - a simple salsa

A taco on a red plate with all of the toppings listed in the main skeet body

260

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 12/03/2025

Spent a good chunk of my flight yesterday trying to implement DataLoader having never looked at the code and no internet access. Pretty fun challenge, might keep going.

100

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 09/03/2025

Family vacation starts tomorrow morning and Travel Dad is emerging

Slightly dorky (actually quite cool) Fanny pack (sorry UK, I mean bum bag) with passports

120

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 09/03/2025

Happy half of the year where my car’s clock is correct to all those who celebrate

010

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 09/03/2025

I’ve started blocking the “block of text, copied from someone else, whole thing could have fit in the main skeet body, no alt text” people, and it’s felt good each time so far. Strong recommend.

020

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 09/03/2025

It’s my dog’s birthday. She’s a bit of a nut, but we love her all the same.

120

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 08/03/2025

I was thinking of making another table, and the universe provided with these old hardwood legs at the side of the road

Broken table apron with pretty decent looking hardwood legs

010

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 08/03/2025

Hah, was able to name the exact town this week’s Severance was shot in within 5 minutes

020

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 06/03/2025

I’ve been so hung up on the “make the developer experience perfect” phase of this (solo) project for so long, finally switched to “just build, fix things that annoy as they come up” and the productivity boost is astounding 😅

230

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 05/03/2025

The hardest thing about evolving GraphQL APIs always seems to be types that should have been interfaces from the beginning.

010

Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 05/03/2025

Tiny crusher of rocks, refuses to wear the shoes half the time though.

My daughter (3yo) rock climbing in just her socks

030