iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Hey California! Be careful this election because the big money creeps are trying to trick you (again).

There's a trap on your ballot in California. Here's how to get past it.
1. Prop 40: 250 billionaires pay with they owe so hospitals, schools, and food assistant survive the federal cuts. Vote yes.
2. Props 41 and 42: paid for by billionaires to cancel prop 40. Vote no.
3. Tell one person, because the confusion is the plan.
Yes I'm 40. No on 41 and 42.

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Colin Johnston @colinjohnston.com · 12/10/2026

* brings … oof typing is hard

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Colin Johnston @colinjohnston.com · 12/10/2026

Oh yeah I remember those! Expensive mistakes were made.

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Colin Johnston @colinjohnston.com · 12/10/2026

This bring back memories of crashing the Linotronic 300 at least a few times a day. Encapsulated Pain in the Butt. Amazing you can just throw a PDF at a digital printer now.

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Colin Johnston @colinjohnston.com · 07/10/2026

Thanks for sharing! I'll take a look. I really do like the 11ty community. While Astro has been gaining traction quickly, it feels very rigid in it's framework approach. Alternately, 11ty is so flexible and customizable it can often feel almost unstructured. I'm curious about Build Awesome future.

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Colin Johnston @colinjohnston.com · 07/10/2026

I'm interested to hear from any designers, developers, and publishers who have experience building with Eleventy (11ty): Have you moved to Astro? Do you like working with Astro? I'm about to start a new project, so...

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lyss🦎 @alyssard.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

this is so fucking clever, i love the social media manager of merriam-webster SO MUCH

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Tantek Çelik @tantek.com.web.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

The #indieweb is about making your own words translate to actions, especially actions like writing, editing, and publishing your words (or photos or other media) on your personal site. The IndieWeb community is a place to help and empower good faith folks to do so as well. People making what […]

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Colin Johnston @colinjohnston.com · 12/07/2026

Great idea. I think I’ve worn Vouri shirts inside-out almost half the time. The style with the label inside the sleeve always gets me.

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 09/07/2026

"what will set you apart a year from now? If you don’t have a deep understanding of your output, the best result you can hope for is “average” — the best you can hope to be, as a developer, is “average.” If you’re not honing your craft, you stagnate." @wil.to beautiful read: wil.to/js4e/newslet...

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New Game+

My name is Mat Marquis, and I believe in the web.

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Colin Johnston @colinjohnston.com · 03/07/2026

A fresh copy of a Guardian or SF Weekly in the 80s-90s was exciting. SF Weekly was a pretty shady business it turned out but they had great event pages.

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 01/07/2026

Today the good people of the world commemorate the passing of Google Reader thirteen short years ago on July 1, 2013. To honor their memory (and in lieu of flowers) please add an RSS/Atom/JSON feed to your web site and keep building a web that connects people in meaningful and positive ways.

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Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Miriam is a world’s leading expert in CSS and works on many specs! Highly recommended to check out her new course:

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Colin Johnston @colinjohnston.com · 27/06/2026

It’s a sacred text. And as ever the lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything makes itself apparent: moments after commenting on your post I randomly open the New Yorker to an article about a repo man. No explanation.

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Colin Johnston @colinjohnston.com · 17/06/2026

Looking at recent Dodge Ram commercials during World Cup I would imagine they’d repeat the words not condemn them.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 05/06/2026

"If I hadn’t already committed three hours of my day to standing in line at this bakery, there's no doubt I would be right in the middle of the proletarian revolution. It’s just that this month’s Cronut flavor happens to be burnt maple with peach jam and, well, that is my favorite."

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I Totally Forgot We Were Supposed to Dismantle Capitalism Today and Now I’m Standing in Line for a Cronut

JUne 4 2021 3/1/25 6/5/26

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Colin Johnston @colinjohnston.com · 20/05/2026

I misread this as Netflix and thought “oh now what have they done?”

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Colin Johnston @colinjohnston.com · 21/04/2026

As One. Made one of my favorite tracks in 90s, disappeared, then reappeared in my life a few years ago with albums like Requiem. Mathy but spiritual (for me) music.apple.com/us/album/req...

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Requiem by As One on Apple Music

Album · 2024 · 8 Songs

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Colin Johnston @colinjohnston.com · 11/03/2026

Dear Amazon: Why on Earth would it take you up to a month to export my Goodreads library and reading history? "We've received and are processing your request to access your personal data. We will provide your information to you as soon as we can. Usually, this should take no more than a month."

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Colin Johnston @colinjohnston.com · 24/02/2026

I’m looking at you [all the companies]

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 18/02/2026

I think "morg" should enter the lexicon like "slop" has. I suspect we'll see a lot more of it over time. Working definition: morg (verb): to produce a poor facsimile of original work that loses intent, meaning, or correctness

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Colin Johnston @colinjohnston.com · 17/02/2026

I’m celebrating the New Moon/Solar Eclipse/Fire Horse moment by going to a talk that may help with pushing onward into a new future. “This talk won’t deny the present-day metacrisis, but will situate our current moment within the long upward arc of human advancement.” longnow.org/talks/02026-...

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Stefan Sagmeister: Finally, something good.

Launched by Stewart Brand in 02003, Long Now Talks has invited more than 400 leading thinkers to share their civilization-scale ideas.

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 17/02/2026

it’s important to keep caring about how things work and how they’re built

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Colin Johnston @colinjohnston.com · 17/02/2026

Internet has been more fun today. Good to have a few laughs when everything’s {waves around broadly}

A screenshot of two Bluesky posts referring to the Microsoft Git training documentation blunder where AI completely mangled the text of a diagram and now we have a new meme. “Continvouclous Morging”

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Colin Johnston @colinjohnston.com · 17/02/2026

I hate that I knew immediately what this is about

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Colin Johnston @colinjohnston.com · 12/02/2026

Yes, real-world solutions are more nuanced and practical that “ban all the things!” but it sure felt good to post!

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Colin Johnston @colinjohnston.com · 12/02/2026

AI-generated video should be against the law. The harms to objective reality far outweigh any benefits.

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Colin Johnston @colinjohnston.com · 29/12/2025

One of them almost crashed! But most of the passengers—and the pilot if I recall the story correctly—were engineers so they solved an issue that could have brought the plane down in flames.

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CSS Weekly @cssweekly.com · 30/10/2025

Thrilled to see that my project, Baseline Status for Video, is among the winners of the Baseline Tooling Hackathon. 🤩

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Colin Johnston @colinjohnston.com · 01/09/2025

I must admit I think that’s what happened in my occasionally scrambled brain. A sign to slow down! 🙂

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Colin Johnston @colinjohnston.com · 01/09/2025

Zoran! I’m sorry for the random typo! Not sure how that happened with the J and Z so far apart.

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Colin Johnston @colinjohnston.com · 31/08/2025

Congratulations, @cssweekly.com / Joran, on the launch of aideveloperweekly.com! 👏 Very excited to see the first of many issues in my inbox.

aideveloperweekly.com

AI Developer Weekly

Helping developers stay on top of AI tools & trends.

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Colin Johnston @colinjohnston.com · 31/05/2025

Casually listening to Buzzcocks ‘A Different Kind of Tension’ for first time in eons. “I Believe” just came on and I’m wildly and ecstatically transported back to my misspent youth in NYC. What a crucial track.

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Colin Johnston @colinjohnston.com · 27/04/2025

I’m rewatching first season of Andor before I watch second season. S1:E3 has to be some of the best Star Wars there is. The episode opens a door that leads eventually—through so much mythology—to the destruction of the Death Star; the story’s urgency propels you with such force it’s just incredible.

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Colin Johnston @colinjohnston.com · 22/04/2025

I wish all people in control of corporations and governments felt it was imperative to take better care of the Earth. There is no alternative planet for human life. And basic survival aside, why continue to prioritize profits over a natural world that is so magical and unique?

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Colin Johnston @colinjohnston.com · 15/04/2025

But first can they make autocorrect work?

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Kirby CMS @getkirby.com · 22/03/2025

Over the past year, our Kirby Community Map has been filled with many pins from around the world: 🗺️ community.getkirby.com But we think there are still many missing. We'd love for you to add yourself. It's a wonderful way to connect and start new meetups and collaborations.

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Colin Johnston @colinjohnston.com · 10/03/2025

What’s the plan to push back on this?

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Colin Johnston @colinjohnston.com · 01/03/2025

DOGE team retaliating against being told to use <button> instead of <div style = “button”>

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Colin Johnston @colinjohnston.com · 17/02/2025

This post makes me feel the same way I did when I got a New Year’s card from Nancy Pelosi on February 5th.

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