iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Michael @donohoe.dev · 29/09/2026

My better-half is recipe testing and I picked a great day to wfh

Michael @donohoe.dev · 20/09/2026

I kept the boarding pass. I guess I knew it mattered, even if I had no idea how much, but never thought I’d be here 25 years later

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 09/09/2026

A glitch in the Matrix

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 09/09/2026

I was getting this frequently in Ireland a few days ago - it thought I was in Texas

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 08/09/2026

And just like that she disappeared into the university – expected to emerge, transformed, in about four years

My daughter entering through the large wooden doors of Trinity college in Dublin, Ireland

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 04/09/2026

Obligatory Guinness in Ireland photo

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 04/09/2026

Happy to report that the purgatory that is IKEA is the same in Dublin as it is in Brooklyn

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 03/09/2026

The chart is sad in its own way, but very helpful for me. I saw it a few years ago and I took the message to heart. It will never be enough time but I am doing my best.

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 03/09/2026

I'm in Ireland, getting my eldest kid setup for college. I'm acutely aware that I've spent 90% of my "in-person" time with them. I may be an emotional mess next week.

Bar chart showing in-person days spent with parents each year by child age, with daily contact staying high through childhood and dropping sharply after about age 18.

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 26/08/2026

The 16 year old travelled alone to Amsterdam and came home today, 2 weeks later, with only a few scratches (from surfing it seems). My moody teenage self is envious.

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 23/08/2026

Between talks am making time to work on my own side project at the atproto.nyc community day #atprotonyc

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 18/08/2026

Hey Americans - expect more political spam support.google.com/mail/answer/...

Screenshot of a Gmail Support page, text is: The Gmail Verified Sender Program is open to any candidate, political party, PAC, or other political committee that is a 527 tax-exempt organization and registered with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) or a State, Local, or Tribal Election Authority.

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 16/08/2026

It seems my midlife crisis isn’t an affair or a red sports car. It's looking at a MacBook Air and thinking "You know what this needs? Hyprland."

Terminal window listing Hyprland installation packages on Fedora Asahi Remix on a Apple MacBook Air.

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 15/08/2026

"Even in a digital age, the Maspeth Central Shop in Queens is still cutting, printing and assembling more than 70,000 municipal signs a year, from the street-cleaning signs found in every neighborhood to the big green signs directing traffic on major highways." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/n...

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 12/08/2026

Been up an hour and our dogs ability to deep sleep at any moment still amazes me

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 06/08/2026

Same. Maybe it only knows three character? Apparently I’m not a beautiful or unique snowflake

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 04/08/2026

Occasionally I wonder if I could join the NYT Games team and add basic offline support the roadmap. No reason why you shouldn’t be able to continue your crossword or sudoku etc with no internet. People get bored on airplanes and subways.

Screenshot of trying to open a in-progress sudoku game in iOS NYT Games app. Blank orange screen with spinner in center. No ‘back’ button.

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 03/08/2026

This is my life now. Just bailing. Me and Boxzilla. Boxes fear me.

The bailer, almost full of chatter cardboard boxes at the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn, NY.

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 01/08/2026

I'm at @sideprojectsaturday.com working on a #atproto based bookmarking service. I'm currently focused on the UX for archived posts - anyone have glowing examples of their favorite design/aesthetic/features that make sense for an mvp?

Screenshot of web page for "302". It shows a sidebar of options on left side, the main content is an archived post with title, byline, featured image and first few lines of content in-view.

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 01/08/2026

This will never get old. Not being sarcastic.

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 26/07/2026

Sorry, couldn't resist. Would applaud if someone figured it out.

Four panels of frames from TV show Arrest Development:
Man: Random people on the socials think they are special and can solve consumer micro payments
Woman: Did it work for those people?
Man: No, it never does... but it might work for us.

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 24/07/2026

I can never donate to a political campaign again because of this. It’s taken me years to reduce the flood of these texts to current still-annoying levels.

iMessage screenshot of message from phone number starting 213 : “Barack Obama just inspired a House majority MIRACLE! (Trump is FREAKING OUT!!)
Look at Obama's MAJOR comeback: LINK DemocracyHQ End2End”

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 24/07/2026

Walking the dog through the depths of NYC

View of the lake at sunset at Prospect Park, Brooklyn

Cute small white dog sitting, but looking up directly into camera.

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 21/07/2026

I had no about this, and the implication, but the headline is just the start "Cyclospora Spreads Through Human Feces. How Did It Get Into Our Food Supply?" www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/w...

Highlighted text: Then, a leak in a septic system or heavy rainfall might have somehow allowed human waste to seep into water that was used to irrigate crops.

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 16/07/2026

Everything I need to know about The Odyssey in one frame

The ship in the 1981 French-Japanese anime series Ulysses 31, called the Odyssey.

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 13/07/2026

I would be so happy to have my laptop right now but I appreciate taking a break and staving off burnout

Photo of lake beach. No people, blue waters, trees in distant shoreline, big blue clear skies.

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 22/06/2026

The eldest child unit graduates from High School today and I have all the feelings

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 13/06/2026

Of all thing things I was hoping they’d explain this plastic packet on the wall…

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 13/06/2026

Of course switching from t-shirt to full suit when it was 82 out feels short-sighted now, the situation required it. Thankfully a tad lower now and Q train AC helps

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 13/06/2026

Friday night in NYC and the lady and I are not staying in

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 11/06/2026

Oops www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 09/06/2026

Cha-Ching! My personal information is my retirement strategy

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 08/06/2026

I think it boils down to: is there a more comprehensive lexicon that already exists that I can leverage for better interoperability - rather than inventing a new flavor?

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 01/06/2026

So @tylergaw.com is up talking about his #atproto alternative to Strava

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 27/05/2026

Voting open for another 1 minute... then results

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 23/05/2026

Years ago I did an in-depth 3-step MSPaint tutorial

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 22/05/2026

Long week. Busy days. Small moments like this count.

View from a tall building near Union Square, Manhattan (NYC). Rooftops through to the skyline, deep oranges of sunset breaking into the clouds above.

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 19/05/2026

Unsure. That looks more like a social network of its own. My focus is an individual archive with a discovery/explore layer if ever there becomes a critical mass of users.

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 12/05/2026

Full circle, but my downvotes are part of the system

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 09/05/2026

Silly dog thinks it’s time for bed. It’s not even 11pm.

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