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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 💣”

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

Sometimes the AI is more lazy than I am.

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

lol indie hackers are way out there though.

Map of Bluesky user clusters circling a dim dot way off to the side from the web development community

Zoomed in of the previous images circled area showing it is the indie hackers & saas builders community

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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.

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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

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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.

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

Before blocking it did not fit. I was very concerned.

Me wearing the Icelandic sweater but it’s way too fucking tight

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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.

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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

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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

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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.”

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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.

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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

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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

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Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 10/03/2025

Did a solo climb of Esja which felt truly epic. I’d love to go back some day, but the adventure holidays have been less appealing with kids 😅

View from the top of Esja, the Reykjavik home mountain

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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

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

My wife and I met at the dog park, the dogs orchestrated the whole thing, so they’re a very big part of our family. Even when they are annoying.

My two dogs sleeping with their heads together

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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.

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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

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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

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

My son and I just got to the battle of five armies in the book tonight, and why is this a whole ass movie?

Showing how little of the hobbit is covering the battle of five armies

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

Yesterday my 6yo gave a 3 minute talk in front of 150 strangers on fossil hunting in the Alberta Badlands as part of the lil trampoline hall lecture series, and I’m so very proud of him. I’d have exploded from nerves if it was me.

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Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 28/02/2025

We’ve got numbers! Lessgo! (I love watching elections, so exciting 😅)

Tv showing Ontario election results coming in

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Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 24/02/2025

Little dude pulling on plastic

My son rock climbing in the gym (where the rocks aren’t rocks they are plastic)

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Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 15/02/2025

Randomly opened this cookbook to this page earlier today and I’ve been unable to close it or think of anything else all day.

Recipe is called “Gia’s Sunday Ragu and it contains pork belly, braciole, and sausages and it’s beautiful.

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Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 13/02/2025

Holy shit. If you don’t know this history, listen to open.spotify.com/show/0sBh58h... the whole first season is relevant.

Screenshot of figures about Indian partition:

Deaths: 200,000 to 2 million, 12 to 20 million displaced

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Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 10/02/2025

If the Vietnamese recipe doesn’t traditionally add sugar you can just call it Thai and say it’s Prik Nam Som which is the pretty much the exact same thing. Everyone should have this on hand, it smells so good.

Recipe for Prik Nam Som
1/2 cup white vinegar
1/2 cup boiling water
1 table spoon sugar
Garlic cloves
1/2 cup thinly sliced bird eye chiles

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Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 09/02/2025

An arm, you say? I’ve always hated that it’s easier to watch tv than read while knitting.

Distracted boyfriend meme with no text added

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Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 09/02/2025

The answer is “nearly all of it”

A cropped screenshot of the correct way to define a schema in drizzle, which is nothing like the schema in the original screenshot. You can lear about it on the drizzle website. https://orm.drizzle.team/docs/get-started/sqlite-new

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Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 08/02/2025

My dog got a little scrape he just wouldn’t stop licking, so here we are. They’ve made great advancements in cone technology in the past few years.

Fox the dog wearing an inflated collar so he can’t lick himself which looks like a giant watermelon.

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

Things that happen on my wife’s watch that always somehow become my problem. (Disco is one of our dogs)

Text message reads “Disco rolled in shit 🫥”

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Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 29/01/2025

This is how much I like shallots

A shallot seed package indicating it contains 1300 seeds

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Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 24/01/2025

You know you’re having a totally normal day when you’re importing every hook under the sun (but not my favourite 😢)

Importing createContext, useCallback, useContext, useEffect, useId, useMemo, useReducer, useRef

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Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 20/01/2025

Oof, this chess puzzle tricked me. What’s the correct move?

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Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 20/01/2025

This photo series of my dog watching my friend pick up a hamburger 😂

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Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 19/01/2025

Table in place! Our little breakfast corner is now not just for kids. The top finish had a lot more white pigment than I realized, so I’m probably going to end up refinishing this next week 🫠😂

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Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 18/01/2025

Holy shit this is actually coming together

Table base glued without clamps because tenons with draw-bore pins are cool as hell

The same table base with the table top rested on top looking absolutely gorgeous if I do say so myself

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Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 17/01/2025

Got my name wrong twice on an app that shows my name on the top of the conversation.

Some Twitter junk trying to sell me something while calling me “Carl”

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Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 17/01/2025

Dry fit of the legs and aprons. Before this project I’d never cut a mortise or a tenon so I’m pretty happy with how this is coming together.

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