iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 27/09/2026

it uses so many refs!! I hate refs!!

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 25/09/2026

my wife started reading this irl “That one’s tryptophan!”

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 25/09/2026

I’m finding that I’m still held up by “what should we build” and review that I can take the time to ensure the stuff is built right. And yeah agents do a great job but I’ll be damned if I don’t get to do any coding by hand anymore.

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 25/09/2026

won’t the benchmark just keep changing as they improve

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 24/09/2026

Literally do this every morning “Codex rebase my branches on the latest main and fix any conflicts” And then I go make coffee 😂

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 22/09/2026

jj megamerge is supposed to be our little secret

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 18/09/2026

I like the point that you are making. Yes if we focus on bad there is a lot of bad in the world. But overall we are much better off more than we were four decades ago

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 17/09/2026

I’m really fascinated by it, too. But I want it embedded in an app - not server based. Where’s the OSS variant?

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 17/09/2026

Standardization being organic sounds more fun!

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 13/09/2026

I mean I suspect this is part of the reason by we didn’t get a 4-die 2x Ultra “extreme” chip in the first few generations of Apple silicon

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 13/09/2026

Your original argument was that "single core is higher on mobile chips" but Apple tends to have the same single core performance across mobile & desktop, even on the largest chips

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 06/09/2026

does he know that our entire digital infrastructure is built on duct tape, glue, and prayers?

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 30/08/2026

Finally built out a typeahead UI. I built an Astro component with limited JS and published it with npmx.dev/package/at-a....

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 29/08/2026

Helix is great. For most uses it's replaced neovim for me. Way less to configure, works great out of the box, and I really like the modal system.

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 28/08/2026

Saw a spike on down detector so I don’t think you’re the only one

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 27/08/2026

I’ll use gen AI to fill in the words. ENHANCE

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 25/08/2026

it would have sucked your soul into the phone

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 24/08/2026

But using that authoritarian state as evidence to back the claim that “non English speakers like AI” is valid

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 24/08/2026

Continuing my love affair with @astro.build, I built `at-astro`. It's an integration for Astro that manages the entire OAuth setup for ATProto AppViews and makes it easy to get an authenticated client. I just migrated @pixl.pics over to it!

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 24/08/2026

she doesn't light on fire though

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 23/08/2026

And yet you visited the Dakotas

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 22/08/2026

I did, however, get a run in and am gonna get bagels and a latte So I got that going for me

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 22/08/2026

I don’t remember there being cannibalism in the movie

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 22/08/2026

i didn’t make it to @atproto.nyc community day 2026 [xxxxxxxx] #atprotonyc

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 22/08/2026

Fair enough. I’m kind of picturing that PDS providers will limit and then someone would probably choose to move to a provider that has higher storage limits (potentially paid).

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 22/08/2026

How does that differ than selecting a large blob store for your PDS?

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 22/08/2026

Is ATProto private data usable for secrets?

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 21/08/2026

Paul’s apartment is what we can a private “space”

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 17/08/2026

Ah, you’re all philosophical zombies anyway. This universe was made for me and me alone.

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 16/08/2026

But without success there are no network effects and no network effects means no long term network

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 15/08/2026

it’s the quote of someone who does not get enough fiber

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 13/08/2026

Yep. Definitely not saying ATProto is succeeding yet. But that’s what I’m paying the most attention to.

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 13/08/2026

ATProto is not designed to be a coffee shop, but rather host tons of smaller applications (independent stores) on top of it. The true metric is overall network use - not necessarily just Bluesky.

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 13/08/2026

As much as I like this article, Bluesky the company needs to be able to justify the $115M or whatever that was put into it. If it’s not through raw headcount, it does need to develop value elsewhere on the protocol.

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 09/08/2026

How does it feel to be bones and dust

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 09/08/2026

Stop feeding my addiction. You’re gonna have to explain to my wife why I had to purchase “tally.pub”

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 06/08/2026

You’re right to push back on that, Mariano

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 05/08/2026

I only wrote it to grab pixl.pics lexicons specifically - showing other images I could do but perhaps optionally to make sure that the main lexicon is still from the site (or is a community lexicon shared with others!)

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 04/08/2026

I did not, this was my hello world and therefore it is mine 😁

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 04/08/2026

Are you saying you didn’t stay long enough at those companies? Or was it not being able to speak to management experience?

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Chris van der Loo @chrisvanderloo.com · 04/08/2026

Why would that be a better default?

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