iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

It's weird to me that all these tech execs are like, "Coding? Yeah, that is a solved problem". Have you seen the code being produced?

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 30/09/2026

I got this funk patterns book awhile back and it is breaking my brain. Kicks on 4, no backbeats at all. Super fun.

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 26/09/2026

I’m losing interest in extracurricular programming. Less computer, more family and music.

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 23/09/2026

I find using a metronome to meditate works well for me. I was counting previously, but this also helps my drumming.

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 22/09/2026

I have lots of drum plans for the next week. Lots of triplet shuffle stuff and three consecutive 1/16th kicks. Much fun will be had!

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 20/09/2026

The amount of “holding it wrong” I do on the drums is absurd. In today’s episode, my throne was not tightened well enough.

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 16/09/2026

I want #gleamlang at work again. I love boring Haskell (and prairie, I like folding over products).

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 16/09/2026

The drums make me feel so dumb. I love it so much.

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 15/09/2026

I’m doing a lot of slow practice in the kit right now. 40 bpm 1/8 note click, 1(+)a2… kick/hat or 1(ea)2… kick/ghost. Each for like 10 minutes. It’s such good practice. One day I’ll get to 1/4 click.

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 11/09/2026

Yesterday, during my kids 2 am feed I tried meditating. I counted to 100, 13 times. We go again.

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 11/09/2026

Today, same exercises but only right foot! Much more figuring out when to wind up and use rebound to maintain momentum.

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 10/09/2026

Moved into double bass pedal beats with three consecutive hits. It’s a blast having four limb coordination while counting!

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 09/09/2026

Also practicing 1+(2a)3(e)+a(4) with 1/8 note pulse. I need to make the +a more efficient to get over 100 bpm.

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 09/09/2026

Just spent 10 minutes playing 1(+)a repeated, only feet, at 40 bpm. Metronome was set to 80 because I need the fence posts but we’ll get there! I’ve been wanting to do more time work.

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Michael Gattozzi @mgattozzi.dev · 04/09/2026

Unfortunately a job offer I had fell through due to head count elimination so I am currently on the market for a new job! If you need someone with 11+ years of Rust, backend, and distributed systems experience I am your guy. Contact Email: michael@ductile.systems. Boosting appreciated!

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 30/08/2026

Looking for some help, spaghetti and meatballs is a great dish because there is a lot of well timed space in between for cleaning up and doing chores. I need more dishes like this. Hit me with some suggestions please

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 26/08/2026

My concern is mainly that I'm not actually funny. But, I enjoy the idea that the kid is the one who is confused not the time traveler.

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 26/08/2026

I can’t really draw but doing this in my remarkable could be relaxing.

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 26/08/2026

I kind of want to start a comic that is just a young kid talking to a time traveler. Idea, Kid: excuse me, I have to charge my watch Time traveler: you don’t just wind it? Kid: what the fuck are you talking about? Is this something?

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 23/08/2026

Hell yeah. I’ve always loved A Momentary Lapse of Reason. Meddle is great too. I knew you were a King Gizzard fan.

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 23/08/2026

What’s your favorite band/album right now?

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 23/08/2026

I personally love this journey for you. I went on a Yes bender a few years back.

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 18/08/2026

If anyone doesn't know who this author or these characters check out en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tai...

en.wikipedia.org

The Tainted Cup - Wikipedia

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 18/08/2026

@robertjbennett.bsky.social I wanted to say that Ana and Din are just phenomenal characters.

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 18/08/2026

Curious, I’d love to “hand-craft” more code but I’m very time limited outside of work. I split work into “things I want to exist” and “things I want to do”. I bet you can guess which ones I use LLMs for. How do you manage your outside of work coding time?

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 18/08/2026

It does say this on the website.

The section of the docs which mentions Elm and Haskell. Also “More languages to come”

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Evan Czaplicki @acadia.engineering · 18/08/2026

Acadia is out today! Bringing the benefits of Elm to SQLite and PostgreSQL: - Friendly error messages - Custom types for precise column data - Simple module system for easy reuse Check it out! acadia.engineering/blog/rethink...

acadia.engineering

Rethinking Database Programming

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 17/08/2026

Gahh, code on GitLab!

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 17/08/2026

Okay, my blog is now off GitHub. Code on GitHub, CI/CD on nix-ci.com, hosted on DigitalOcean, powered by #erlang (obviously). chiroptical.dev

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 17/08/2026

bsky.app/profile/chir...

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 17/08/2026

I'm just using GitLab for now. I'm using nix-ci.com and that is one of the supported forges. Codeberg has a pretty strong anti-AI clause (which I think is fine, but I also only have so much time).

nix-ci.com

NixCI

Locally-reproducible zero-config hosted continuous integration for Nix

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 17/08/2026

They've just been down a lot. I'm trying to go through merging code into my personal projects and I just... can't.

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 17/08/2026

I guess today is the day I start migrating from GitHub

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 14/08/2026

At first I thought these were those locks which you put keys into. Then, I imagined all of them having the same combo but there’s only one key.

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 14/08/2026

Oh no, I’m getting ideas to re-write pgo.

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 13/08/2026

Put this together for all those #erlang bloggers out there github.com/chiroptical/...

github.com

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 12/08/2026

The icon stack isn’t rectangular, we need two sponsors stat!

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 12/08/2026

As a non-tenure stream faculty I made less than a junior engineer. The only possibility of getting a raise was going into administration.

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 10/08/2026

Just spent my evening visit doing “normal baby stuff”. It was absolutely awesome. Cautious optimism.

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 10/08/2026

I’ve vaguely posted about this recently but my second kiddo came into this world complicated. They had a pretty massive stroke localized to the left hemisphere of their brain. They are making a ton of progress and Boston is one of the best places in the world for this injury.

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 09/08/2026

Dry is fine. I’m literally building the OSI stack from the Ethernet protocol 😂

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 09/08/2026

Two recs is good enough for me. I’m basically doing a bunch of bitwise stuff in my new project and I’d like to be more fluent.

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 09/08/2026

Anyone have a book recommendation for learning binary? I translated the IPv4 checksum algorithm from Wikipedia but I don’t really understand it.

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 09/08/2026

The image because it didn’t embed, probably my fault.

The image associated with my “palm reading”. It’s almost a perfect hourglass shape. Calls me “The Weathervane” for some reason

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Barry @chiroptical.dev · 07/08/2026

Pretty sure in #elixirlang, the canonical "null" is typically the atom `nil`. Does #erlang have a canonical choice?

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Jujutsu VCS @jj-vcs.dev · 07/08/2026

jj 0.44.0 is out! github.com/jj-vcs/jj/re... jj is a Git-compatible version control system that is both simple and powerful. Below are some highlights of today's release ⬇️

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Release v0.44.0 · jj-vcs/jj

About jj is a Git-compatible version control system that is both simple and powerful. See the installation instructions to get started. Release highlights Support for fetching and pushing tags has...

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