iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 30/03/2026

oh yay @github.com added a "Copy Markdown" option on the menu for issue comments so I don't have to play the edit and Ctrl + C game anymore 😁

0130

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 20/03/2026

Mullet guy at my gym cut his hair The winds of change are blowing and I don’t like where they go

350

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 14/03/2026

Asked an agent to fix a tricky race condition in tests and now I feel like I've definitely made it on the shitlist for the robot apocalypse

080

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 08/03/2026

The former. I use the review skill to audit PRs before submitting them and getting something that approximates what I might’ve gotten from a bunch of human reviewers is helpful.

010

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 08/03/2026

Google needs to explain this icon change. I’m disturbed.

050

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 07/03/2026

Pro-tip: dig up some PRs where you've gotten some great code review and ask your coding agent of choice to generate a code review skill based on the style of feedback left by the reviewers in those PRs.

3100

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 07/03/2026

Sometimes instead of using AI, I Google something and read the docs page just to feel alive again.

3181

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 06/03/2026

I wish I had that problem…my current mechanical keyboard is plain but does the job

110

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 06/03/2026

Fair on some things but it was too bit-picky, IMO. Which makes perfect sense given the prompt 😆

020

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 05/03/2026

Don't ask Gemini to review your code like a senior engineer who hates your PR and wants to block it unless you're in an emotionally healthy space.

2110

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 05/03/2026

Will people come for me if I confess that I bang my mechanical keyboard against my desk to shake the crumbs out? 🫣

350

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 05/03/2026

I needed a landing page for a new project and was completely stuck on the UI. I tried v0 a try and the first feature that caught my eye was a little magic-wand button that refines your prompt before generating anything. Such a simple idea, but it instantly brought me joy.

110

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 04/03/2026

Feel a bit of loss at the decline of GitHub as a *social coding* platform. It seems like people are quick to dismiss that premise in the era of AI-enabled coding but I think there is still value in providing a space for communal ownership over software.

270

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 03/03/2026

I joked about the "QA engineer for my agents" thing earlier but it's honestly so peaceful to just sit and polish software with the help of agents. You can really fight a lot of slop with intentionality and attention to detail.

0151

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 02/03/2026

Another weekend shift completed being QA engineer for my coding agents 😆

2101

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 28/02/2026

Such an unreal experience watching a agent build and run a Rust app and then test a feature in a VM. I'm excited for people to start using this app soon...IYKYK 😉

160

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 28/02/2026

Yep, one limitation of PRs is that they don't value context that is built in non-GitHub side channels.

000

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 27/02/2026

Things agents say all the time that I’ve never heard a person say: "Alternatively, I could use sed for surgical replacement.” 😆

040

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 27/02/2026

Yep, I put this under the bucket of trusting people to do the right thing although that does assume the team is aligned about the what counts as technical debt and how to manage it.

000

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 27/02/2026

I find it too aggressive lol

100

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 26/02/2026

This is how I bucket PR reviews: - Request changes: Never use this lol - Comment only: Not ready to merge; blocking feedback - Comment + approve: Ready to merge; feedback is non-blocking; trust dev to do the right thing - Approve: Ready to merge What’s your bucketing?

790

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 24/02/2026

I actually chuckled out loud at this 😆

010

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 23/02/2026

You can name Git stashes with the `-m` flag. ``` git stash -m "client-db-iteration"` ``` I've been using this to "discard" agent code I don't like so I can retrieve it later. You can also tell the agent to look at previous stashes by name as context in agent sessions.

1100

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 23/02/2026

Designing cute little logs is my favorite part of these side projects 😃

010

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 22/02/2026

I’ve heard of it, skimmed the docs, but I haven’t actually incorporated it into my workflow.

110

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 22/02/2026

Just shipped Grove v2! - Swapped TS + Bun for Rust so binaries are nearly 40x smaller - Support initializing new worktrees with custom commands - Harden Windows support and shell integration Try it out: github.com/captainsafia...

190

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 11/02/2026

I think @mitchdenny.dev is probably already on this but there should be a nice experience for using the @aspire.dev MCP in Warp and also setting up skills in the standard .agents directory.

130

Reposted by Safia Abdalla

Warp @warp.dev · 09/02/2026

Launching something big tomorrow...

Blue sky background with a cloud, a cloud in the shape of a mouse, and a cloud in the shape of an... armadillo? Date says 02.10.26

1131

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 09/02/2026

The Coinbase commercial lulled everyone in my bar into a false sense of security so we started singing…then we all booed when we realized it was a crypto ad and that’s how I know I picked the right watering hole. 😆

1221

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 06/02/2026

That’s just the way I roll 😉 💃🏽

010

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 06/02/2026

My first little change has landed in @warpdotdev! Warp's got a nice footer that integrates with terminal-based agents to give you quick access to a rich diff viewer, voice input, and more. I added the agent footer support to Copilot! 🤖 😇

180

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 05/02/2026

I measure my productivity as a dev with the only metric that truly matters: bugs introduced per hour.

180

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 05/02/2026

We definitely need to French 75 and yap next time you’re in town

020

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 03/02/2026

Ooooh! Are you a fan/user of Warp?

000

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 03/02/2026

I’m excited to share that I’ve joined the team at @warp.dev. I’ve long loved the terminal and I appreciate the power of AI-enabled software development. Warp brings those together in a way I’m excited to learn from and help build with a super product-focused team. 💻️ 🐚 ❤️ 🤖 🚀

5411

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 01/02/2026

I’ve heard of it. I’ve been using MacroFactor Workouts since it came out. I use their macro tracking app and it’s really nice. Workouts app needs work but I believe in the company’s ability to build a good product. macrofactorapp.com/workouts/

macrofactorapp.com

MacroFactor Workouts

MacroFactor Workouts is a smart, dynamic workout tracker and coach. Download on the App Store and Google Play to start your free trial.

110

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 01/02/2026

After about 6 years of mostly having some sort of fitness tracker attached to me, I traded in both of my Apple Watches today. I'm experimenting with different ways of tracking progress and measuring myself this year...we'll see how it goes 😅

130

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 30/01/2026

The more software you write the more intuition you develop for the kinds of things that go around it. Letting AI speedrun through the drudgery lets you develop that big picture intuition sooo much faster.

021

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 30/01/2026

Exactly, my side projects are their own cinematic universe 😆

010

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 30/01/2026

using one of my side projects in another side project

3927

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 29/01/2026

Yes, their onboarding experience is just *chefs kiss*

100

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 29/01/2026

It's a fairly recent update but thank you for your best wishes! 😀

110

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 29/01/2026

Marimo looks neat! RTC was one of our goals for nteract at one point. It looks like Marimo might not actually be using the notebook format as the backing store which might makes things a bit easier as far as being git and RTC-friendly.

010

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 29/01/2026

AFAIK, VS Code has pretty robust Razor tooling support, including the recent addition of Razor cohosting. I don't work at Microsoft anymore but @mammaclauds.bsky.social leads product on C#DK and would be a good person to ask questions about it to.

210

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 29/01/2026

...tool for this kind of problem. Runtimed is doing what nteract did in the JavaScript ecosystem for Rust: providing packages and SDKs for working with Jupyter notebooks and the Jupyter messaging protocol.

100

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 29/01/2026

...lack of maintenance. Since I've got some spare time while I'm between jobs, I decided to look at upgrading nteract to the latest versions of all of its JS dependencies. I've also been learning Rust at the same time ahead of my new gig. Along the way, I realized that Rust is a really good...

110