iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Derek McBurney @dmcb.dev · 17/09/2026

I wrote this in May and in some ways it already feels out of date. Another "dev in 2026 is hard" example I'd add now: getting over the hump and embracing being fully efficient with AI only to have your org yank your tokens. medium.com/@d.mcburney/...

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Developers Have it Hard in 2026

AI has changed everyone’s expectations for developers — what are these new challenges, and what can be done about them?

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Kristie @knairn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

September baseball baby

Larry David “fuck you and I’ll see you tomorrow”

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Derek McBurney @dmcb.dev · 12/09/2026

I think it might be time to shut the internet off.

A screenshot of a post on r/threejs, "I made a fruit fly that doomscrolls Instagram on iPhone Duo, with its brain regions lighting up in real time", clearly vibe coded

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Derek McBurney @dmcb.dev · 10/09/2026

AI has really ruined www.reddit.com/r/threejs/. It used to be people showing off cool techniques, and now it's vibe-coded game after game that is graphically impressive and SO BORING. #stopbeingboring

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Three.js - 3D JavaScript Library

Three.js is a cross-browser JavaScript library and API used to create and display animated 3D computer graphics in a web browser using WebGL/WebGPU

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Nic Chan @nicmakesstuff.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Can't tell if this is the work of a nephew in the early 2000s or the hippest branding studio in nyc

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

being a billionaire and on the internet all day is crazy to me. if i had even five million dollars, you would not find me online whatsoever.

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Agustin Capeletto @lowpoly.gg · 20/07/2026

Check out GlyphCSS! It's a 3D ASCII fork of PolyCSS that's getting weirder by the minute. glyphcss.com

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ceej @ceej.online · 16/07/2026

gonna start talking like this to my boss

screenshot where claude is saying "Good catch -- I fabricated that figure."

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Derek McBurney @dmcb.dev · 11/07/2026

Added dynamic OG cards to any spellbooks you share from 5e-spellbook.app. Here's my current character's spellbook: 5e-spellbook.app?spellbook=N4... #5e #dnd

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Xyrad's Journal of the Stars | 5e Spellbook Builder

Xyrad's Journal of the Stars — a 5e spellbook with 22 spells. Damage and Support focused spellbook.

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JM =^D @jm539581.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Canada soccer fans for the next week while 30 other countries still have to play their games.

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Agustin Capeletto @lowpoly.gg · 01/06/2026

This is CSS 🌵☀️ Try it! polycss.com/gallery/?mod...

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Derek McBurney @dmcb.dev · 18/05/2026

My whole career has been in web and I've always loved the universal accessibility of it. I've never really stopped to appreciate why native's been unpopular. This articulates it well: tonsky.me/blog/fall-of...

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Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost native

Article argues that Claude is not an Electron app not because LLMs can’t do it, but because there are no advantages left for native

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ʎǝupʎs 🌙 @sydneyjones.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This is Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen’s mission patch for the Artemis II mission, painted by Sagkeeng First Nation artist Henry Guimond. You can read more about it here. In a world full of atrocities I’m moved that Canadians are taking part in science & hope. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Mission patch painting for Jeremy Hansen on the Artemis two mission. The earth, pictured as their island, is at the bottom; a bow and arrow with the Canadian space agency coat of arms launches an arrow to circle the moon. Grandmother Moon is pictured surrounded by Anishinaabe depictions of animals in the stars.

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Derek McBurney @dmcb.dev · 31/03/2026

I thought I'd see what spells users are adding to their spellbooks to find the most popular spells in 5e! Data is rolling in and it looks great, but the high level spells are so rarely used by players that reliable data will take a loooong time to gather.

Screenshot from an in-development feature on https://5e-spellbook.app showing the popularity of the spell Fireball.

Screenshot of terminal output showing how many spells have been selected by users across spell levels.

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Azure @aguyuno.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN, MY FRIENDS.

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Derek McBurney @dmcb.dev · 02/03/2026

This is a good article and a solid take-away: be deliberate about where you're willing to take on cognitive debt.

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Derek McBurney @dmcb.dev · 23/02/2026

Did a fun thing with my 5e Spellbook Builder — categorized all 410 spells in the game with what kind of spell they actually are (5e-spellbook.app/blog/categor...) and you can see your spellbooks' composition.

A radar graph of a spellbook showing its composition of Damage, Control, Support and Utility spells.

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Canadians you are not prepared for the temperature he tells you he is experiencing here.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

One of the best ways I know to sort Gen Xers/old Millennials into levels of trustworthiness is to take note of which beloved 80s/90s comic strip they never shut up about. Calvin & Hobbes? That's a good-hearted normie. Far Side? Probably annoying, plays hours of RPGs. Bloom County? Fully radicalized.

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Derek McBurney @dmcb.dev · 08/12/2025

The updates came to the iPhone and it's even worse there. What a headache of visual noise. Modelling your OS after the UI of your least popular product (by many orders of magnitude) is a choice.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

At Yonge & Dundas Jays fans are obeying the pedestrian scramble, as is the custom & returning to sidewalk each light cycle.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

[after every single pitch] that’s baseball for ya

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Ian Hunter @bluejayhunter.com · 09/10/2025

"Start spreading the news, bitches!"

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Minor Leaguer @minorleaguer.ca · 08/10/2025

This is what's fun about the Postseason, folks. The tension, the nerves, the sweating, the vomiting

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Derek McBurney @dmcb.dev · 19/09/2025

As a metaphor, I'm fortunate enough to have dexterity to use the door knob shown, but I still prefer using that more accessible handle that I can use with slippery hands, hands full or even an elbow. MacOS 26 / #liquidglass is a door knob.

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Derek McBurney @dmcb.dev · 19/09/2025

I downloaded Wikipedia to my local machine to kick off my new Information Furnace.

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Derek McBurney @dmcb.dev · 19/09/2025

Really disappointed with the "Liquid Glass" in the new MacOS. More accessible design is better design for everyone. I'm fortunate enough to not have vision challenges (for now!), but these new interfaces are now much harder to see for no reason. A terrible step back.

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Derek McBurney @dmcb.dev · 12/09/2025

That’s the G-rated version of a typical day.

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Wes Bos @wesbos.com · 12/09/2025

Typical day in life of a web dev

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Derek McBurney @dmcb.dev · 12/09/2025

Great read and a good reminder of how vulnerable and ephemeral the web can be www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

theverge.com

Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive

The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.

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Minor Leaguer @minorleaguer.ca · 06/09/2025

Love this for us

Screenshot from Reddit comments:

Lonely-Ad8184: i really don't understand how the fuck this team gets to two strikes and every fucking hitter becomes barry bonds what in the fuck!

Purplebuzz: Kirk hitting over 300 with 2 strikes WTF.

Lonely-Ad8184: yeah i rely don't get it they swing and miss on the first two strikes but magically become tony gwynn with 2 strikes

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Derek McBurney @dmcb.dev · 02/09/2025

I added PDF generation for printing D&D spellbooks you build in 5e-spellbook.app, entirely in the browser with ekoopmans.github.io/html2pdf.js/ and was surprised at how little I had to fight it and how good the result appears to be. #5e #webapps

A screenshot of a PDF generated by 5e-spellbook.app that shows 9 spell cards per page for printing.

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Steve McPherson @steventurous.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

fantastic what now

Tweet reading, “Fantastic Four skins are coming to Fortnite
It is one of the most wanted collabs ever”

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

TIL: The launch of USB-A is closer to the moon landing than to today (via @christianselig)

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Derek McBurney @dmcb.dev · 04/07/2025

This analogy doesn’t quite work, but there is some merit to it. I am enjoying the replies.

A post from Colm Atkins: :youth pastor voice: I know one carpenter who did leave the field, but he had a higher purpose.

A reply from dame: sabrina carpenter

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