iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

USPS picked a great year to have their "machines" rip a ton of ballots. everyone from the handlers to the dead-eyed delivery people who didn't bat an eye stuffing these into boxes are up for a whoopin.

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Finally got a report. I'm gonna "leak" it because the gymnastics are intense: - Enable TLS on a port with "bare" TLS (no cert auth) - Add a second port with mTLS - Enable server side ssl session cache - Connect to TLS port - Resume the session on the mTLS port - OMG cert auth bypass!

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My smoke alarms all simultaneously go off and the system sends a message to my phone for which room it actually detected smoke in.

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

False-alert smoke alarms giving me legitimate PTSD. Does disassembling and dusting them even work? am I going to smash these with a hammer? Just do a low battery beep like your ancestors did, jackass. It's supposed to announce which room verbally but it doesn't do that immediately. That is worse.

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

this isn't as good as the nunchuck one but it's up there. keeps me comin' back.

EMS is responding to a 911 report of a person bitten by a spider.

A spider bite can actually trigger serious symptoms such as a Spiderman movie remake

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When my midback finally pops it's gonna feel real good and I'll never walk again.

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Fresh supernova in C30 (2026aavi; discovered 3 days ago) (I'm pretty sure).

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Casually skimming 'Designing Data Intensive App. 2nd ed.` for fun and refresh on stuff I don't use directly. Anyone who worked in social media should recognize the dreaded "timeline query" from an early example in the book. It then talks about an inbox-style TL + merges for famous folks. Rambling:

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

We passed 30! Turns out if you look for and fix bugs, you have fewer bugs!

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Big Walk was the first real social media I've had in a while :P It was such a nice experience. Can't really say much else about it.

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

So I kinda settled into not using AI for much despite what seems like everyone I've ever known going full tilt into it. Every 6mo I "update my skills" since FOMO and "left behind" is the big hype and... it just takes a day to get caught up. Any weird tricks are soon folded into the harness.

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Story time: So I'm watching non-stop, because apparently I'd watch Liam Neeson take a shit, and there's a scene where the passengers are watching their own hijacking on the news. My wife says "that seems really weird". Then I'm thinking... wait, that seems really familiar? That kinda happened to me?

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Since Opus 5, claude code has been occasionally printing random chinese characters in its output. This morning I got a huge dump: half a line from my stuff then screenfull of someone's javascript UI tasklist in chinese. I imagine someone else must be getting random globs of my session output? No?

image with the top line being partial output from claude code in english. the text then suddenly changes to task list output for a frontend javascript UI in chinese.

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

20 days, no security reports. will we make 30?

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

north american nebula, with some autoprocessing for contrast. I turned the gain probably too low and lost detail, but there was less noise to process out? I kinda like it?

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

comet 10p. stayed up way too late to just barely get it as it went between obstructions

small fuzzy comet in the middle of a star field

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

github.com/memcached/me... - Spent all of last week fixing every bug I could find. It's only been a few days since then but all the reports have been dupes or junk. Any new robots overstating a report will get banned without notice.

github.com

ReleaseNotes1645

memcached development tree. Contribute to memcached/memcached development by creating an account on GitHub.

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

four more security bugs. monday monday monday m0ndae maendoea0.

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

wish I could post and/or blog through the development of this engine... but it doesn't feel... safe? anymore? just have to wait until it's done before getting into real detail.

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

damn.. my playdate's up/right dpad buttons went sticky again. Really wish this thing could be opened without damaging little plastic tabs. Seems to be a problem when I don't use it for a little while... but using it doesn't un-stick them. maybe the purple flap case is pushing on them?

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

getting new contracts set up is always nerve wracking. everyone insists they're doing "the standard" but their requirements are basically randomized.

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

need to do all the bit twiddling exercises again because I forgot everything again.

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

got that post out but no real code done all week due to sleeping horribly for various reasons. best plans reality etc? read "plan ahead of time for stuff you can do while overtired". I'll share with the class if I figure out what that looks like

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

next post in basics series: memcached.org/blog/cache-c... - definitely an FAQ, but also an explainer on why we don't use more exotic algorithms.

memcached.org

memcached - a distributed memory object caching system

memcached

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

want to say this next post has been a lot of work but tbh it's just re-reading chunks of a lot of random papers. then waiting a day for my idiot brain to play tetris with them chunks.

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

saw a post about ps in google where it half auto'ed to o and counted to 2 but said they were p's. this is worse.

google claiming there are two k's in "Google". listing K-1, L-2, E. then it continues having a stroke.

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... these folks wrote an actual paper/study on my LRU algo but I'd never heard of it. It's weird most folks don't even give a courtesy heads up? lol.

dl.acm.org

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

apparently cludbot was stuck in a 302 loop against the mc website. Pulled 100mbits for 2 days until I changed the redirect.

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

First post in a basics series: memcached.org/blog/how-lon... As a tech clown all I want to talk about is the leading edge of my capability (dubious). In reality covering the basics solidly is more widely useful.

memcached.org

memcached - a distributed memory object caching system

memcached

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Everyone is Milton. There is one stapler. Go!

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Ya'll out there got one nine of uptime and it ain't the first digit.

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Fun fact'ing myself: The time between when Indiana Jones (ark) takes place and when it was released in theaters, is the same amount as between when it was released and now (about 45 years).

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Slowly working through MacGuyver S1. The east germany bits are throwing me. Feels like it never happened but I lived through (some of) it!

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I forgot how to blog! Also I was never good at it to begin with!

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Writing a little engine code again. Even if it goes in a trash bin I should finish the thing just for portfolio reasons.

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

with the way I use github it could be down for 50% of the day and not materially affect me. By never taking any convenience I have saved myself an hour 15 years later. lol.

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I really like the concept of the Evercade as I dream about being More Offline but mentally making the switch is probably too hard. Similarly I wish the playdate had a GBA SP-like upgrade with a light and better ergo. Lot easier to be less mad at games when you just give up on the new "big" stuff.

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

@calabro.io Just saw the outage writeup from the 10th! That looked rough. Which MC Go client are you folks using? The connection explosion is usually from clients that can't use protocol pipelining.

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

trying to envision a portable game console designed for factory sims.

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Moved my old copy of Deep Work to a visible shelf in the office so I can have a constant reminder of how much I'm fucking up.

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Really don't want longer posts on here. Want people to formulate their weird opinions in blog posts then link them here at people all day. Update it if they want. "Yeah I could explain this to you but it's easier to act like you should know already" FFS, man.

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Keep trying to blog about a (effective) deficiency in a thing but getting distracted by trying to fix it.

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Decided to become an F1 guy this season. I want to follow a sport but I hate most of them? I like engineering and zoomies. Also british commentary; basically no respect for anyone on the track, lol.

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The level of "is this a security bug?" is so high now that I'm pretty sure I'm just gonna let them go to the public issue backlog from now on. Lets roll the dice.

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Coming across a lot of articles in the last few days that examine something (lang feature, a photo of old pcs, etc) where the author doesn't understand it and theorizes that it was purely a misdesign. Missin' out on life dood. You're just acting superior to your own dumb idea.

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Still reeling from a PR I got a month ago which had mismatched code style. me: "hey fix the style before we do code review" them: "go run [linter] on your own codebase so it matches my PR style" Sir, this is a Wendy's. People's personal bubbles are so weird.

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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Envious when I read about a creator being asked about a character/work someone resonated with and their response is "I don't remember" - I'm not that prolific.

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