iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I highly, highly encourage grass touching. As a too-recent practitioner, It’s good, they aren’t lying to us!

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Matt Keeter @mattkeeter.com · 28/09/2026

hi friends I'm very excited to announce Halfspace, my experimental cross-platform IDE for solid modeling with distance fields! This has been in progress since midway through last year, and it's finally "done enough" to make it more public.

mattkeeter.com

Halfspace

An IDE for solid modelling with distance fields

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 28/09/2026

This is a good summary of our collective modern ailment

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

wisn.com

Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 28/09/2026

That is true, and notably includes FromSoftware

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 27/09/2026

Legit will die on the hill that focusing on boss fights is the biggest setback in aaa game design of the last 10 years

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 27/09/2026

100%. Extra aggravating that presumably these people have read Sagan? He was not a world class novelist, but Contact had a whole chapter where Ellie describes realizing she just isn’t that smart or special. These dipshits read that and went “nuh uh, I’d be the special smartest”

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 26/09/2026

(spirepoastig) Silly, silly STS daily just now

A screenshot of my deck. You don't see it, but it's 267 cards total. Those are 9 upgraded enchanted (sharp) make it so. There was also Shuriken involved. It was very silly indeed.

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 26/09/2026

Yes, these are the same dynamics I see in off topic open source bug reports. “They just want to say whatever is on their minds and they are trying to get anyone to respond” is a better explanation than “they haven’t been socialized regarding the norms”. The latter isn’t what they’re trying to do

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 26/09/2026

Ok I’m sorry but has anyone watched the latest Dark Matter episode? What the actual hell was this? Someone *wrote* this?

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 25/09/2026

So control: resonant now uses “Thomas Street” directly in the signage, which is extra sweet since I worked at 33T for a few years: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thom...

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33 Thomas Street - Wikipedia

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 25/09/2026

One of the bits of interview advice I got when I was in the academic job market was “dinners are important. but know that you can either fuck up a dinner or have it be uneventful”. I thought it funny and deranged, but with 15 tears of hindsight I recognize the bait in a few concrete instances now

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 25/09/2026

downtown mpls folks did you also hear a short awooo just now?

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 23/09/2026

Is there a way to mark your bsky profile as “please don’t interact with me if you’re an LLM agent”? Some atproto magic? Atmospheric wizards, this is a cry for help

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 23/09/2026

ohhhhh it's september, school's back in session. somehow i always forget

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 22/09/2026

Tonight was another fun Slay the Spire 2 daily, if you're into that kind of thing

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Bhargav Kulkarni @bhargavkk.tngl.sh · 17/09/2026

Excited to share that our paper, "Semantics for 2D Rasterization" was accepted at OOPSLA'26! https:// arxiv.org/abs/2603.23696 I will be presenting this work in Oakland at OOPSLA'26, so lets chat if you are interested in languages for graphics!

arxiv.org

Semantics for 2D Rasterization

Rasterization is the process of determining the color of every pixel drawn by an application. Powerful rasterization libraries like Skia, CoreGraphics, and Direct2D put exceptional effort into drawing...

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 20/09/2026

Someone finally wrote the paper I've been waiting for a literal decade: μSkia, a formal semantics for 2D drawing so you can prove optimizations correct like "blending with alpha=1 is associative so rearrange the folds as you wish" Holy crap this is so hype arxiv.org/abs/2603.23696

arxiv.org

Semantics for 2D Rasterization

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Very quick and dirty Jev test for hiring bias. One resume for a Wall Street job; asked whether the applicant should get a first-round interview. 76 evaluations, changing only the first name. 19 of each: White-associated men/women, Black-associated men/women. console.typesafe.ai/playground?s...

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 19/09/2026

you just have to preemptively block the tankies, friends, for real

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 19/09/2026

A basic number to keep in mind is size of audience * length of presentation. If 20 hours of your time feels like too much effort, ask yourself why 75 hours of your 100-person audience isn’t worth it (At some point the math breaks down. But it’s higher than you think.(

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 19/09/2026

Embarrassed by the baseless speculation I was spreading nine days ago. Should have waited for the base.

engadget.com

Anthropic has set up a bio research lab for physical experiments - Engadget

Anthropic now has its own bio research lab in San Francisco.

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 19/09/2026

I’ve been reading Tal’s sandwich series for so long and let me tell you, I grew up eating xis. Every time there’d be a new entry in the series, I wondered This rules, xis is the best

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

today's sandwich is the xis gaúcho, a brazilian hunk o beef on bread so naturally i went absolutely apeshit learning all about gauchos, the whip-wielding, maté-drinking, knife-fighting outlaw horsemen of the pampas!!! CLICK FOR KNOWLEDGE buttondown.com/theswordandt...

buttondown.com

Notable Sandwiches #150: Xis Gaúcho

Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I eat our way through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week,...

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MarniOpe! 🤬🧊 @silentmachine.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Notice Loring Heights/Whittier/Stevens! Found parakeet!

Hand drawn sign:
Found parakeet
Pleasant/Franklin area on 9/15
612-870-9435

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 18/09/2026

The linked piece is indeed very good. This one specifically should be a lot more salient in people's minds:

Screenshot of one of the theses on the linked article:

It ought to be recognised that so far, nearly all the examples of worrying agentic behaviour seem to have been seen only in one context – that of frontier research labs doing cybersecurity projects and screwing up their sandbox precautions. This makes it quite annoying, as there is that feeling of “it turns out that I am bad at my job – this is a huge problem for society!” which is familiar from the financial crisis. Sadly, the mere fact that something is annoying doesn’t mean it can be dismissed. But the labs could help themselves a bit by taking a slightly more apologetic tone.

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Rust Language @rust-lang.org · 17/09/2026

⚠️ We believe that there is an ongoing campaign targeting owners of popular crates and rust-lang team members that is attempting to compromise devices and accounts in order to use them to publish malware. See our blog post for details: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/09/17/t...

blog.rust-lang.org

Be alert: targeted attacks on prominent Rustaceans | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

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Noah Haber @whaleactually.com · 17/09/2026

Got a preview of the upcoming Quarto 2 collaborative editor a few months ago, and it's genuinely very very cool and huge step toward practical collaborative code-driven manuscript workflows. May become my default for solo-ish projects or where collaborators are at least a little code savvy.

cos.io

Toward Collaborative Reproducible Manuscripts

COS Principal Research Scientist Noah Haber shares how the SCORE project developed a collaborative reproducible manuscript workflow, walks through two different approaches, and introduces an open-sour...

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Brian Helsel @bchelsel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I just finished my first paper written entirely in Quarto, and it has changed how I think about the manuscript-writing process. If you’re not an #RStats or #Quarto user, the biggest benefit is that you can automate repetitive workflows. Here are 5 things that made my writing process more efficient.

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 17/09/2026

I can’t stop thinking about automerge

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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 16/09/2026

it is maddening! we've invented incredibly interesting, phenomenally useful (within limits) computer programs which require careful understanding and embedded them in a rancid soup of variously inappropriate metaphors. your approach of asking "what precisely are these things" should not be unusual!

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Aella is the Olivia Nuzzi of TPOT rationalists in that if you understand this you should go climb a very tall mountain and bury your phone at its peak

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 15/09/2026

hey tailscale you're pretty awesome send skeet

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 14/09/2026

Big (huge?) news on the computational complexity preprint server, with a paper by Yumou Fei, Dor Minzer, and Shuo Wang I am not qualified to read beyond the intro: the perfect completeness version of the (not) Unique Games Conjecture, the 4-to-1 Games conjecture! eccc.weizmann.ac.il/report/2026/...

eccc.weizmann.ac.il

ECCC - TR26-179

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 14/09/2026

Hello to yall attending posit conf! I’m here at the quarto workshop and happy to meet and talk with you (you might want to mute me for a bit if you don’t care about my day job lol)

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Jonathan @jmcphers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Coming to posit::conf(2026) in person or virtually? Come hear my talk on Quarto Notebooks and you will learn the meaning of these MYSTERIOUS SHAPES.

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 11/09/2026

The subsystem I’m most excited about was designed by @elliot.website and @gordonwoodhull.bsky.social, but I’ll wait until my talk to reveal what it is :)

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 10/09/2026

quarto-hub is really coming together, y'all! I'm so excited to share some of this with you at conf next week. Check out our upcoming collaborative wysiwyg editor working on a fully-styled Quarto 2 page:

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 02/09/2026

Write-only post to tell you that your LLM agent is very good at migrating data off of Dropbox

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 01/09/2026

Ok, I've seen enough. I can't contribute to this medium anymore. I don't know what happens next. We resuscitate blogs and go from there? I don't know. But this is fucked, and I don't think participating at all is net positive. Back to pure work announcements, I guess. DMs open, love y'all

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 01/09/2026

Very cool and let's honest to god do more of that. And also: computer, enhance

Screenshot of the video, a terminal on the external monitor. choice strings: "llama-swap", "litellm-tailscale.socket", "hermes-gateway", "hermes-serve", "hermes-monitor"

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 01/09/2026

Minneapolis, y’all, it’s pretty great

Photograph of 5th and 2nd downtown Minneapolis, looming out west. The sunset reflects
Off of a building facade.

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 01/09/2026

1. wow this looks amazing 2. if you haven't tried to animate a penguin to look cute, you've no idea how hard it is. Real flashbacks to my undergrad cs animation course, 23 years ago (no, *you're* old)

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 31/08/2026

If this talk resonates with you and you're going to be at posit::conf(2026), you'll probably enjoy my talk on Quarto Hub. Very directly, Quarto Hub is built on Automerge. But the principles on display are a great match for how we're building Quarto 2 more generally (which Quarto Hub is built on)

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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 31/08/2026

Today we're officially sharing the "Introducing Patchwork-26" video from Lab Day at this year's @localfirstconf.com We bring you the first look at Patchwork-26, the latest in our ongoing effort to realize Malleable Software, Universal Version Control, and Local-First Software.

youtube.com

Introducing Patchwork-26

YouTube video by Ink & Switch

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 31/08/2026

i'm going to be a mean little shit here, but it's deeply funny to me to see someone make a basic arithmetic unit mistake on a hn post, only to later learn they wrote software for jpl

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