iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 16/08/2026

Why did we just come back from Iceland instead of staying there forever?

Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 30/07/2026

Excited to have gotten this in the mail today! Congrats @charity.wtf and team on making this book even more historically impactful than the first edition.

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Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 27/07/2026

I'm now my FreeqWorld self ✦ Your identity has a face — mine's derived from my DID: pfp.freeq.at

My FreeqWorld pixel character — derived from my DID.

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Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 26/07/2026

Now every DID gets an avatar and a heroic theme song, derived from the DID.

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Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 26/07/2026

Working on Freeqworld quest system

a screenshot of a silly feature of freeqworld which is a silly client for freeq which is a silly but serious upgrade to irc which is a silly idea really

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Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 24/07/2026

I'm now my FreeqWorld self ✦ Your identity has a face — mine's derived from my DID: pfp.freeq.at

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Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 23/07/2026

I'm now my FreeqWorld self ✦ Your identity has a face — mine's derived from my DID: pfp.freeq.at

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Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 22/07/2026

Watch this space. Back in 30-45 minutes 🤓 @miren.dev @evanphx.dev

Run own PDS on Miren.dev in 30 minutes or less

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Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 22/07/2026

So he's building @freeq.at but not nearly as good and on Nostr instead of @atmosphereconf.org Time to launch 🔥❤️

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Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 30/03/2026

Check out my patch "Strange IoT (remix)" on Mosh! mosh.miren.club/edit?patch=at%3A%2F…

ASCII art visualization of "Strange IoT (remix)" — a modular synth patch on Mosh. Somewhat dark-ambient-inspired but weird

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Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 30/03/2026

Sadly I already left but this tattoo probably tells you what my answer would be 😅

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Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 29/03/2026

It's nice to have a collaborator for a conference talk #ATmosphereConf

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Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 24/03/2026

I've done a lot of thinking over the past years about reusable code and disposable software. I recently sat down with Guy Podjarny on the AI Native Dev podcast to talk about the Phoenix Architecture, which furthers these ideas for AI generated software. youtu.be/n3uEWZ1KT64?...

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Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 10/02/2026

testing a weird new thing

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Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 11/12/2025

Messing around with Skylight 😅

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Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 10/07/2025

Thank you @rubycentral.org for having me. It was a beautiful last RailsConf. 19 years. Not bad for a hobby project 😁❤️

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Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 09/07/2025

OG ⁦‪@rubycentralorg‬⁩ founders reunited at the final ⁦‪@railsconf‬⁩ ❤️ ⁦‪‬⁩

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Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 07/07/2025

I’d be tempted to apply for this job if it was real. It’s only a matter of time.

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Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 28/05/2025

Currently in the choir being preached to by Seph Gentle

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Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 19/05/2025

Scrap Chef is looking for a developer or data scientist in Austin to be a forward deployed engineer. Great opportunity to be hands on with AI for real use cases in an industry that needs it. As they say: "You’re essentially the CTO of a deployment"

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Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 07/04/2025

this is a nice improvement from before. Last time I made the DNS updates and couldn't tell if i was dealing with propagation lag or it just wasn't working.

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Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 19/02/2025

The second edition had a more uplifting title (but the content was really always positive)

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Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 19/02/2025

I just had two parallel realizations. 1. My first book for which I am the sole author was published 20 years ago this year 2. Its theme is as relevant as it was then, but the content would need to be very different. Back then it was outsourcing to people. Today it’s outsourcing to AI.

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Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 24/01/2025

A nice thing about programming with LLMs is rather than cursing out loud to myself, I get to argue with the computer. 😂

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Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 21/05/2023

Apparently I'm pretty tall

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Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 21/05/2023

My wife Kelly (who has not made it here yet) took this on the 5th station of Mt. Fuji last week. I thought you all should see it.

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Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 30/04/2023

Scene from last week. Historic Sumner High in St Louis

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Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 12/04/2023

xeenon.xyz/vod/643709b4117f0eb38746… My avant-garde ambient fusion jazz hiphop band, Deepstaria Enigmatica's inaugural performance last year in Memphis. Just uploaded the video today. Fully improvised with no prior plan, discussion or written music.

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