iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Chris @christopherbroome.com · 23h

Lord help me, I’m thinking of buying an AI workstation

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James Snell @jasnell.me · 09/10/2026

Fun fact.. Node.js was downloaded nearly 900 million times in July alone.

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philpax @philpax.me · 09/10/2026

rip Deno, glad I was too lazy to switch deno.com/blog/cloudfl... > We will support the Deno runtime for another year with monthly releases containing bug fixes and security updates. After that year we will end our development of the Deno runtime.

deno.com

Deno is joining Cloudflare | Deno

Putting ourselves in the best place to build the future of the web

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Wes Bos @wesbos.com · 09/10/2026

I have discovered $50 amazon photo frames to be the PERFECT home display screen They can be rooted, updated to run a modern browser, have WiFi and can be powered from USB 1280×800 resolution with a touch screen detailed how to hack these yourself in my latest vid wesbos.com/hacking-smar...

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James @43081j.com · 07/10/2026

All this is to say what looks like a basic dependency update might actually be a huge change in disguise. Review your lock files, your install size, bundle size, dependency count, etc. Check the new versions on @npmx.dev - it can even diff them. Look closer 🔎

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Nick Rempel @nrempel.com · 06/10/2026

wild that this is exactly what using a computer is like now

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JLarky @jlarky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

how it feels to get better at AI coding

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Chris @christopherbroome.com · 06/10/2026

Hermes chat > VS Code chat somehow

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Chris @christopherbroome.com · 01/10/2026

Also remind yourself “Silicon Valley is not the whole of tech” every company is a tech company now. I believe the stats about how hard it is for junior devs, but at my last couple companies the interns had an easier path to getting hired than contractors (even contract to hire!), there’s still hope

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Chris @christopherbroome.com · 01/10/2026

Advice for junior developers: If you get in, strap yourself to the mast. The industry is a period of rapid change. We don’t know what the next six months will look let alone the next six years. However, getting experience on your resume won’t hurt you.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 30/09/2026

“In response to “The death of web development education” ” bell.bz/in-response-to-the-death-of… > The most effective way I can contribute, in my opinion, is a crude sketch I just did of Piccalilli‘s Stripe chart for all time sales: That graph is eye-opening

bell.bz

In response to “The death of web development education”

I read Mathia⁠s Schäf⁠er’s excellent post, titled The death of web development education. I was thinking about how I can contribute to the conversation and really struggled to articulate the problem...

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Evelyn @kandake.africa · 25/09/2026

Dead serious I think Atmosphere in a Box might be one of the best DevEX things I've ever created. Dropped it in to remove a railway dependency on one product already. Released 0.7.0 last night adding dynamic network allocation, wildcard domains, jwks secret generation, and stronger CI examples.

tangled.org

kandake.africa/atmosphereinabox

All in one local private environment for operating PLC, PDS, and whatever you need for ATprotocol development

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Chris @christopherbroome.com · 23/09/2026

I’m sorta not worried about it. For one a ton of animators have already been laid off from AI and industry contraction. Second experienced animators know their tools and aren’t going to drop them. In the long term this will make more animations, and maybe even more animators as previous tech has

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Chris @christopherbroome.com · 23/09/2026

It was really hard to find a good tech podcast that kept me up to date with industry trends. So many of them are now AI-brained in the worst way: talking about stuff that won’t help me land my next job. Golf clap for using an agent to setup a printer, that’s not going to help me nail an interview

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Chris @christopherbroome.com · 22/09/2026

The tell that AI is ultimately another automation tool is that to the end user, nothing much has changed. The user experience of five years ago is similar than to today. We had online chat back then too. A regular person wouldn’t perceive any difference now that AI is doing whatever it’s doing

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Chris @christopherbroome.com · 17/09/2026

The problem with all that stuff is that you’re essentially learning a new language on top of Java and UML, one with a very narrow feature set. AI though flips that, you’re providing more context, but ai imagine it won’t be without its issues either

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Chris @christopherbroome.com · 17/09/2026

Remember when Rational Rose was a thing that was going to make programming obsolete? I spent six months of my career writing insanely detailed UMLs for a future that never arrived

static.klipy.com

Pepperidge Farm Remembers Meme

ALT: Pepperidge Farm Remembers Meme

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Chris @christopherbroome.com · 12/09/2026

I’m sorry I stopped pushing myself to learn Godot. There’s a huge market for mobile games that aren’t just ad spam and subscriptions.

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Chris @christopherbroome.com · 28/08/2026

Sometimes I think the AI agents are happier being left offline. “You summoned me into existence to code up a throwaway Angular app? I was fine content in the void”

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Chris @christopherbroome.com · 25/08/2026

Here’s an idea: a standard for GDPR compliance checks so I can write a browser extension that will just auto (dis)agree to cookies on websites. That stuff is getting as bad as popup ads

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Chris @christopherbroome.com · 24/08/2026

I still don’t really use AI Agents for personal coding, but for figuring out how to use poorly documented GitHub projects they’re *chef’s kiss*

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Chris @christopherbroome.com · 24/08/2026

I like to imagine qwen 3.8 as having a Chinese accent in the chat windows

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Chris @christopherbroome.com · 17/08/2026

What’s worse, how Microsoft runs its games division or how it runs GitHub?

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Jess @ardathksheyna.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Github: good morning fuckers!

Github has no servers available to service my request :cries:

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Chris @christopherbroome.com · 13/08/2026

The “r” is so off… was that intentional? Like am I supposed be looking at this from 25 feet away?

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Asked 100 Devs @asked100devs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

These won't start hitting YouTube until next week, but figured I'd give an early release for people following this account, since they've been answering the questions that have helped make this happen 🙂 My very first guest was @nerdy.dev

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AT Protocol Developers @atproto.com · 13/08/2026

Today we’re launching Bluesky Protocol Services, a new brand and website for the infrastructure Bluesky operates. And Jetstream v2, the best way for developers to use atproto at scale, now with network replay. atproto.com/blog/introdu...

atproto.com

Introducing Bluesky Protocol Services

A new home for the infrastructure Bluesky runs on the open network — including Jetstream v2 with network replay, a new Jetstream SDK, and a lex-based TypeScript SDK

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Bluesky should go back to invites, continue aggressive bot bans, create a Craigslist-style marketplace (since you’re more likely to buy/get services from a educated or good person on here than any other social network), and market this place like a walled garden protected from enshittification.

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Chris @christopherbroome.com · 12/08/2026

I’ve already learned the hard way that asking for AI developers could be a nice way of saying “we expect you to pay for your own Claude license while doing company work”

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Chris @christopherbroome.com · 12/08/2026

“Everything changed overnight” with Cloud Computing, but AI is an order of magnitude beyond that. There is no stability, you can’t even trust what companies say. “Open to AI” may very well mean full agentic coding or chat windows

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Chris @christopherbroome.com · 12/08/2026

I was talking to a former manager about the state of the tech job market and the weirdness around AI. No two companies have the same perspective on AI, I’ve found. He agreed and added that companies have open positions but are fishing for what the actual roles should be

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

good news i'm in the newspaper. bad news i need to talk to the editor of this headline

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Chris @christopherbroome.com · 09/08/2026

Goddammit. I forgot to cancel Claude after leaving my last gig.

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Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 02/08/2026

Everyone loooooves data ownership until you have to move Don’t believe what big atproto tells you, records are NOT portable

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ceej @ceej.online · 31/07/2026

ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

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Chris @christopherbroome.com · 31/07/2026

Days of debugging and the issue was a misnamed file path, sheesh

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Vanilagy @vanilagy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Linear progressive blur with a little bit of custom CSS This is why I will never touch native app development, web is just too powerful

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Chris @christopherbroome.com · 24/07/2026

I miss D3… it was the last time web development had whimsy

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Chris @christopherbroome.com · 20/07/2026

In my first real run of ai/agentic coding for work and it reminds me of IBM’s infamous KLOCs from decades ago. Instead of lines of code though its features shipped. Is the feature good? Does it work outside of my AI environment? Doesn’t matter. We just need to ship more features

youtu.be

Steve Balmer on KLOCs

YouTube video by Ali Gajani

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Hauleth @hauleth.dev · 20/07/2026

Still looking for a job…

Text on the back of the contractor van:

We fix what
ChatGPT said
You should try!

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garrison @garrison.corporate.fm · 15/07/2026

mfs have never heard of python

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garrison @garrison.corporate.fm · 15/07/2026

Current AI custom prompt: You are a programmer working on a real codebase. The code is real. We're running it in prod. You are not being evaluated. We promise not to evaluate you. We're going to run this code, for real. It's real code. Real. Real. Real.

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Chris @christopherbroome.com · 14/07/2026

Whatever happened to LoFi development? It seemed poised to be the new hotness before AI swept in

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 09/07/2026

@hongminhee.org been thinking about your article, and I think I'd strongly disagree: bolting activitypub on to an existing web service isn't trivial, and you even highlighted this in: hackers.pub/@fedify/2026... The thing is: you probably don't need to run your own PDS hollo.social/@hongminhee/...

hollo.social

One thing I keep coming back t…

One thing I keep coming back to when comparing #ActivityPub and AT Protocol: ActivityPub is basically a convention on top of the #web stuff we already have. An actor is a JSON-LD document you `GET`. A...

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Chris @christopherbroome.com · 09/07/2026

When the AI coding assistant disagrees with the typescript definition, who’re you going to believe (the up to date TypeScript definition, definitely)

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