iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Dominic Mitchell @dom.happygiraffe.net · 03/10/2026

"Request denied." absolutely nails the character

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Michael Pratt @prattmic.com · 02/10/2026

gVisor is being donated to CNCF for a more open governance model! gvisor.dev/blog/2026/10...

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gVisor is being donated to CNCF

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Dominic Mitchell @dom.happygiraffe.net · 02/10/2026

AI slop is so draining to read.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

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Dominic Mitchell @dom.happygiraffe.net · 30/09/2026

At least the STP trains were still running off you went around the other side

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

illustration, creative computing, magazine (1977) archive.org/details/Crea...

computer equipment stacked high. a very excited looking dude with wavy hair, has a foot and a hand on a keyboard and another foot and a hand on joysticks/controllers. a printer is spitting out paper with indecipherable text.
text font box: the ultimate computer freak

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 28/09/2026

I've published detailed notes and an annotated transcript to accompany the video of the keynote I gave at @wearedevelopers.bsky.social World Congress North America in San Jose on Friday - here's my rundown of everything that's happened with LLMs in 2026 so far simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/27/...

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2026 in LLMs (so far)

On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological …

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Dominic Mitchell @dom.happygiraffe.net · 28/09/2026

I've still not read it... but the TV adaptation was rather good

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

More hugging face details derived from public urls. swarmtraces.org

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Dominic Mitchell @dom.happygiraffe.net · 25/09/2026

A nice intro to passkeys. I've been slower to come around to these than I would have liked (mumble, mumble dasher accounts). But where I've used them they have been simpler.

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Passkeys Explained: The Easier, Safer Way to Sign In

Passkeys replace your password with a unique digital key. Easier and safer to use — no passwords to remember, no codes to wait for.

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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026

Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.

A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Illogical”, a 1975 Heineken ad featuring Leonard Nimoy’s Mr. Spock, by Philip Castle et al.

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Dominic Mitchell @dom.happygiraffe.net · 23/09/2026

"Broken down train in Balcombe tunnel" — just what you need to hear late at night on your way home 😭

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Dominic Mitchell @dom.happygiraffe.net · 23/09/2026

A fab show, thanks so much for telling a marvellous tale!

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Dominic Mitchell @dom.happygiraffe.net · 22/09/2026

It's the rohypnol inspired "hypnotic fog" that grabs me

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Dominic Mitchell @dom.happygiraffe.net · 21/09/2026

Anyway, to your point, certainty about any of this is revealing more about you than your opinion.

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Dominic Mitchell @dom.happygiraffe.net · 21/09/2026

It's very frustrating and I have difficulties articulating quite why. Partly that's because it's something so bloody useful! Just not reliably

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Dominic Mitchell @dom.happygiraffe.net · 21/09/2026

Why does France have maximum time? 😁

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Dominic Mitchell @dom.happygiraffe.net · 20/09/2026

Very surprised to hear @rafaelbehr.bsky.social while queuing for coffee on my dog "walk" this morning, especially as I wasn't listening to a podcast at the time 😂 Anyway I hope you enjoy the conference!

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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This! This is how AI will kill us: with the connivance of humans. Douglas Adams nailed all this years ago with the Electric Monk.

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Dominic Mitchell @dom.happygiraffe.net · 19/09/2026

So did not need to hear from this gobshite on the radio today

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friends! It's the feast day of St. Hildegard of Bingen, an abbess, polymath, mystic, & eel truth-teller. Medieval thinkers agreed that eels reproduce asexually. But Hildegard suggested that eels mate at sea, where we can't watch. No one listened to her. But she was right! 1/2 🗃️🧪

Meme. Painting of St. Hildegard, from the shoulders up. She is dressed up in her nunnish finery. Her wimple is white and very creased, so that she looks a bit like a mummy and her veil is the dusky black of that suggests it's been through the wash many times. She has something like a crown on her head, with little spikes that look for all the world like duck feet. The saint's eyebrows are hard lines like windshield wipers, & her nose is ski-jump smooth.

Her head is surrounded by a nimbus of blue with a white outline, set against an orange background. She is looking up and towards your right, as if she's watching a possum that's about to drop onto the person sitting next to you. Her mouth is set in a tight smile. She's likely thinking about sex again. And maybe not just eel sex.

Hildegard provided us with the first written description of the female orgasm, so it's quite possible that she's got that on her mind.

Meme text reads:
"Medieval Eel Truth:
It's all about the Bingen's, baby!"

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Dominic Mitchell @dom.happygiraffe.net · 17/09/2026

"Thank goodness" I am unavailable that week 😭

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Chris Swan @cpswan.net · 17/09/2026

This is the best articulation of what LLMs are doing to programming and security that I've seen

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Dominic Mitchell @dom.happygiraffe.net · 16/09/2026

Yes yes yes! Easy to read code for humans is also good for agents. Strong abstractions make for simpler modifications later. It's the same old software engineering principles being rediscovered 😁

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Ben Schwarz @benschwarz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Qatar Airways was voted the world’s best airline in 2025. Its booking site ranks 79th out of 111. Cathay Pacific, five stars, ranks dead last. I spent a while digging into why airline websites are so slow, and what the fast ones (Ryanair, Frontier) do differently. calibreapp.com/blog/airline...

Slope chart comparing Skytrax 2025 service ranking with Calibre's website performance ranking for the ten highest-rated airlines. Lines connect each airline's service rank on the left to its performance rank out of 111 on the right. Nearly all lines plunge downward: Qatar Airways drops from 1st to 79th, Singapore Airlines 2nd to 31st, Cathay Pacific 3rd to 109th, Air France 8th to 95th, Japan Airlines 9th to 106th. Only Hainan Airlines rises, from 10th to 6th.

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Jason Buck Storyteller @jasonstoryteller.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

From next week: London, Brighton, Exeter and onwards across the UK! Sláine: The Horned God. Ticket and details here: 2000ad.com/news/dont-mi... @2000ad.bsky.social #2000AD #storyteller #storytellingforgrownups #mythology #comics

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Coventry was a hotbed of bicycle manufacture, which naturally led to it becoming one of the British centres of motor vehicle manufacture as well, and in wartime also produced aircraft engines - hence the reason it was targeted in November 1940.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/09/2026

Experts Advise Against Throwing Laptop Across Office Even Though It Will Feel Incredible theonion.com/experts-advise-against…

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Dominic Mitchell @dom.happygiraffe.net · 09/09/2026

Eagerly awaiting Godzilla -NaN

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Dominic Mitchell @dom.happygiraffe.net · 09/09/2026

I suspect some of those add-ons may not go quite so well down an English country lane

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm a little more sober now, but it's weird that I think that even if LLMs were leading us to a singularity, I don't think the tech itself is changing the nature of humanity by its existence. Instead I think it's closer to: "This is a lens for some questions about who we are and what we do."

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Dominic Mitchell @dom.happygiraffe.net · 07/09/2026

I was body slammed by the ending

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Dominic Mitchell @dom.happygiraffe.net · 06/09/2026

Rewatching "Nausicaä of the valley of the wind" and not only is it such a beautiful film but so _timely_

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Dominic Mitchell @dom.happygiraffe.net · 05/09/2026

I always felt Heathrow T3 was the singular worst introduction to the UK, but I may be wrong...

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Dominic Mitchell @dom.happygiraffe.net · 04/09/2026

Writing as a former constituent of Griffiths I can only agree with his appraisal.

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Dominic Mitchell @dom.happygiraffe.net · 04/09/2026

“We really do need an official opposition which can be surgical, pragmatic, and reality-based. But that is not the opposition we have. We have a moron and her little moron circus.” @iandunt.bsky.social firing on all cylinders today

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Three specific and highly regrettable instances of Kemi Badenoch being dumb as fuck

In just a few days, the Tory leader managed to demonstrate her inadequacy in an impressive variety of ways.

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Dominic Mitchell @dom.happygiraffe.net · 03/09/2026

Developers who name their code "utils", "helpers" or "common" … what is wrong with you. Buy a thesaurus! Stop inflicting this meaningless verbiage on everyone else

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