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 💣”

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

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

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Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 19/02/2026

I always found the answer to be the least interesting part anyway, and this hasn’t changed with AI. Doing it asynchronously is silly as heck though, you won’t get any signal from that.

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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 · 17/02/2026

He’s open to full time or contract work, _maybe_ an internship if it’s a great opportunity. Canadian.

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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.

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

This reminds me I had meant to play around with cap’n web and totally forgot.

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Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 16/02/2026

I usually check out a few

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

The worst is that I set up good types, intellisense will give me what I want, but you (the ai) are overriding that.

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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.

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

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

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

Yea, software development is still largely (and secretly) a people job, and that part remains the same.

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Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 11/02/2026

“We have three good ideas, let’s try them all and see what’s actually best” <— LLM sweet spot “We’re in unknown territory, need to get our thoughts straight and figure out what we need to be doing” <— LLM not very useful

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Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 11/02/2026

This is the article that made me start following you, it’s a good one

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Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 10/02/2026

RESTful for external, RPCish for internal

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

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

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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 · 05/02/2026

A recent example was an oauth flow not working as I expected. I was able to go in our identity repo and explain what my client properties were and what flow I was trying, and I got an answer to my problem quickly. If I didn’t already understand oauth flows I’d be a bit fucked.

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

Oh ya, it’s good at research and explaining existing code for sure. I think the TLDR of my take is I’m still not worried about my job, because you still need to understand the fundamentals of what’s going on in order to steer properly.

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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.

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Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 04/02/2026

Since moving to primarily CLI ai tools, I’ve disabled autocomplete in my IDE. My brain feels like it’s healing.

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Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 04/02/2026

It took us over a year to get through the Hobbit because the trolls near the beginning were too scary to get past. Then suddenly they became funny (it is actually very funny)

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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 🤷🏻‍♂️”

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

My interest fluctuates with what work is looking like. If things have been a bit boring at work I get the itch and write a lot of code in the evenings. Key thing is not forcing it and leaning in when I get the bug.

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

No mention of the cailleach, completely unserious people.

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

I’m guessing it’s a kind of inertia, the machine is already up and running it’s hard to start another machine in a new direction. But all the super conglomerates of old are diverse AF, so it’s probably the move to become a super giant with staying power for generations.

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Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 01/02/2026

Luckily they’re generally pretty fun. My kids got into them about 2 years ago, was pretty hilarious having a 2yo running around singing sea shanties (as close as she could manage)

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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

We got 22 inches. It’s really something to behold 🫠

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

Put their names on a plaque.

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

I’d love to find ways to get involved

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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 · 25/01/2026

Yea but you’re forgetting that the democrats… I stopped listening after that.

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

I’m not a prominent Callum Irvine, just a normal one. But I guess the AI is still right anyway.

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

Every time I have to log in I fully forget how.

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

I’ll probably still watch it, and I hope he succeeds.

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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.

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Cal Irvine @calirvine.com · 22/01/2026