iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Drew @drewking.dev · 25/02/2026

alt text: “Protip: alias sudo to ‘please’ for a much more wholesome Unix experience”

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Drew @drewking.dev · 14/02/2026

Is it just me or is Microsoft Dynamics CRM one big #A11Y fail? The teams button has a Z-Index of 1 and is jam packed with ARIA roles. It grabs the keyboard focus on every page, preventing people who navigate with a keyboard from easily using the app. There is no dark mode either. Rant below:

Drew @drewking.dev · 18/01/2026

A coworker told me about Pummel Party and I’m really enjoying this game. Great way to ruin your friendships 😂

Drew @drewking.dev · 09/01/2026

A client at work showed me Windows + V keyboard shortcut for smart clipboard and my life will never be the same. I don’t use windows on my personal computers and I’m curious if anyone has recommendations for clipboards on macOS (App Store) and Linux (flathub)?

Ben Hart @pavlovforgoths.com · 09/01/2026

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the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence lies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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404 Media @404media.co · 02/01/2026

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

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Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort

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Drew @drewking.dev · 19/12/2025

Made my first #JIRA ticket today. Feeling pretty accomplished. Cant go into details but the investigation shows that I found something important!

Drew @drewking.dev · 03/12/2025

Working on a personal project I was going through hell with CORS and my backend dev was struggling to fix it on the Koa server. I went into the server code and moved koa/cors from api.ts to server.ts and that seemed to fix my problem. Now I can load API data from my Vite app. #codeinpublic

A screenshot of a map of Seattle with three points of interest encoded as dots on the map. The map is in light mode and includes a legend in the bottom left hand corner.

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Frederic Marx @fmarx.com · 07/11/2025

“My personal website is not an emergency service, so I’ll optimize the CSS when I get to it. Which is never.” — @ohhelloana.blog reminding us to set realistic expectations for our side projects #btconf

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 02/11/2025

As Ring announces increased partnership with Flock and law enforcement, do not be fooled by reassurances that you can 'opt out.' Here's evidence that ICE tapped flock from local agencies sometimes without consent: www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

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Border Patrol, ICE tapped into Washington police surveillance systems for potential immigration enforcement

Federal law enforcement agencies accessed data collected by some local police and sheriff’s offices automated license plate cameras around Washington, a University of Washington Center for Human Right...

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Drew @drewking.dev · 28/10/2025

I started collaborating on a project that uses Yarn managing node packages. Does anyone know if there is an equivalent to Node Version Manager available for managing Yarn versions in the command line?

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Drew @drewking.dev · 22/10/2025

I bought some Dutch licorice while I was on Granville Island from the Licorice Parlor. My only regret is I only bought 300 grams and not 3 kilograms.

A big clear bag of Dutch licorice on a countertop. There is a sticker that says, “Licorice Parlor” in blue text on a pink and green background. Behind the bag is a display of licorice in many colors.

ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 07/10/2025

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Open Printer: an open-source inkjet printer with no DRM, no subscriptions, and repairable parts. Sometimes the best innovation is just making things work the way they should have all along.

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Drew @drewking.dev · 13/10/2025

Built a PC out of mostly used/free parts. It’s pretty fast and I’m happy with it. Gonna move my #homelab over to it soon. Next step will be getting some hard drives and an NVME boot drive. I hate #e-waste and micro$oft obsoleting good hardware worked out in my favor for this build. #DIY

A photograph of a bunch of pc parts sitting on a coffee table. They are plugged in and running. There is a power supply, motherboard with RGB fan, a graphics card, and a monitor in the background. There is also a white case that ended up not working out due to IO shield incompatibility.

The PC, assembled in a black and red compatible case with some glass to show the RGB fan spinning.

Benchmarks from the PC in blender on Ubuntu. Samples per minute rendering:
Monster, 47.4
Junkshop, 32.8
Classroom, 23.3

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Drew @drewking.dev · 06/10/2025

Probably migrating my #homelab from a Rasberry Pi 4 running bare metal Jellyfin with caddy to an old mini PC I had returned to me. I want to use docker + caddy on Ubuntu to host nextcloud, Jellyfin, and an XMPP server. Any tips or docs for newbs? #selfhosting #selfhosted #selfhost #privacy #foss

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Adrian Roselli, pH0 @aardrian.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

“A threat model for accessibility on the web” alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t... A deep, well-researched & cited piece detailing systemic failures down the web stack (standards bodies, browsers vendors, etc) which marginalize #accessibility and its voices — but with proposed solutions. #a11y

alice.boxhall.au

A threat model for accessibility on the web - Alice

A explanation of the primary threat to accessibility on the web, and a call to action for the web standards community

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Drew @drewking.dev · 27/09/2025

Went on a work trip to Maine and explored downtown Portland. First time on the east coast and I really enjoyed it. Looking forward to next time.

A photograph of an intersection with a wedge shaped building. In the foreground is a street light which displays the word, “free”, in the background is the building. It is dusk in this photo.

A photograph of a statue in downtown Portland. There is a steel man in a robe on top of the statue and below is cement reading, “Portland, to her sons who would have died for the Union”

A photograph of the author of this post. They are standing in front of an alleyway. The author has brown hair, blue eyes, some scruff and is smiling candidly. They are wearing a black jacket and tortoise shell patterned glasses.

A photograph of a clock wall. The clocks are shaped like animals and are in many bright colors. They are painted with animal features like eyes and they have a tail hanging from the bottom.

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Drew @drewking.dev · 17/09/2025

Throwback to the time I met Robert Redford on a ski day. Rest in peace.

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 14/09/2025

I really need to edit the @wikipedia.org more. It's amazing what one focused person can do. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jess_Wade

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Capitalization affects how people read hashtags or how people hear them on screen readers. Use #camelCase or #PascalCase in hashtags instead of lowercase. You could have #DoctorWhoRewatch ("Doctor Who Rewatch") or #doctorwhorewatch ("doctor whore watch.")

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Drew @drewking.dev · 08/09/2025

Updating LineageOS the old fashioned way using adb and fastboot. It worked! Giving the phone away to someone in need. I will miss 12 (music player) and the headphone jack though. Hopefully it is happy in its new home. @lineageos.org thanks for the mmrs. 😎

A macbook air running ubuntu connected over USB to a google pixel phone. They are both sitting on a dark brown wooden coffee table. The phone shows the lineage OS recovery screen in purple and black. There are terminal commands being executed below. On the computer is some open browser tabs with a terminal window open in front. The terminsl window shows progress with the flashing of the updated ROM.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 08/09/2025

If you've been using a 📌 emoji to bookmark posts, @rafael.my and @samuel.bsky.team cooked up a special tool you can use to migrate them to your Saved Posts. Try it here: pin2saved.vercel.app

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pin2saved for Bluesky

Migrate your Bluesky 📌 replies to saved posts.

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Drew @drewking.dev · 06/09/2025

Fixed a friends problem with apt on Ubuntu yesterday. Apparently nextcloud from snap and Mariadb don’t play nice together. I uninstalled nextcloud and mariadb. Then apt reinstalled mariadb using fix-broken install that seemed to fix the problem.

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Drew @drewking.dev · 04/09/2025

Just installed @grapheneos.org on my Android phone. Set it up with F-Droid and another App Store so I can install apps. Now what? 😎

Drew @drewking.dev · 28/08/2025

But surely DEIA is the problem! /s

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Drew @drewking.dev · 15/08/2025

Finally got @jellyfin.bsky.social and copyparty setup on my @raspberrypi.com board. Great setup for an inexpensive local NAS. Especially since copyparty makes uploading easy and there are many clients that support Jellyfin. I’m glad I held on to all of my old purchases for this!

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Drew @drewking.dev · 14/08/2025

Accessibility matters, especially when it comes to accessibility of information on how to build accessible documents and applications. Glad this resource exists.

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Drew @drewking.dev · 05/08/2025

I made my grandma a nice custom email, only to find out her inbox is full. I should have wrote a card but I cannot art my way out of a box with pen and paper. 😭 #html #css #techproblems #epicfail

Screenshot of a birthday email in the Apple mail app. It has lots of emojis and the header has a pink/purple gradient background.

Photograph of a send message error in Thunderbird, indicating that the recipients mailbox is full. The email is redacted to protect privacy.

Drew @drewking.dev · 02/08/2025

I was working on improving a contact form for a website I manage and everything worked on localhost, but was failing in prod. I thought my code was bad. But it turned out my server was running an old php version. Upgrade php and solved. 😄

Screenshot of the contact form for therapy with Diana in dark mode on a phone. The page shows a contact form asking for first name, last name, email, phone number, an open text field, and a submit button. The fields are equal width and stacked vertically.

Drew @drewking.dev · 27/07/2025

I tend to agree with these points. Do you?

Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

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We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

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Drew @drewking.dev · 16/07/2025

I did some web scraping with selenium. It all started when some data I needed was provided as a paginated HTML site. Apparently there is not a way to find therapists licensed in multiple states. I had to do an inner join on license data in two states to find one. @psychologytoday.com explain

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Drew @drewking.dev · 06/07/2025

@zed.dev and @lmstudio-ai.bsky.social make it very easy to setup my own local MCP for coding. I’m using Qwen3 at 32B parameters and I’m getting decent results. #MLX is a game changer since I can load bigger models on consumer hardware with it and still have GPU offloading. #AI #ML #SoftwareDev

Drew @drewking.dev · 04/07/2025

Always remember to 𝚜𝚞𝚍𝚘 𝚊𝚙𝚝 𝚞𝚙𝚍𝚊𝚝𝚎 before you 𝚜𝚞𝚍𝚘 𝚊𝚙𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚕 otherwise you will end up with this screen. Fortunately I was able to update the computer in a TTY session and reinstall the GUI. #Linux #Ubuntu

A photograph of a MacBook Air with a frozen GRUB bootloader that is freezing when loading GNOME desktop. The screen has a bunch of text output in white on a black background showing the state of various bootloader tasks.

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Drew @drewking.dev · 02/07/2025

Great reason to use cloudflare for DNS, unless of course you want to be crawled for marketing purposes.

Mira @thefreeradical.org · 01/07/2025

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TRANS PEOPLE - If you've had your account on any social media site - but especially LinkedIn - censored, taken down, removed, etc, for using your chosen name - message me. I'm working on a story about this happening as a broad phenomena, and the more people I talk to the better. DMs open!

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Drew @drewking.dev · 26/06/2025

Debating if I should use motion.dev or not. Using JavaScript for animations is controversial. Anyone here have thoughts on why one should or should not use it? I plan on using it sparingly and defaulting to user preferences for animations if I do. #webdev

motion.dev

Motion (prev Framer Motion) — Animation made simple for React, JS and Vue

A fast and light animation library for React, JS and Vue. Powerful AI and VS Code developer tools. Motion uses browser APIs for a tiny filesize and superfast performance.

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Drew @drewking.dev · 26/06/2025

Gonna miss this floof when she goes home this afternoon.

A photo of a poodle with multiple colorings standing by my bed with her mouth open and panting. She is black and white and has a lot of hair on top of her head which is parted in the middle.

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Drew @drewking.dev · 25/06/2025

Today I decided to learn about OpenGraph and implement it into my portfolio. Link cards look awesome :D #BuildInPublic #WebDev #LearnByDoing drewking.dev/projects/hig...

drewking.dev

High Speed Rail

Visualization reimagining the future of travel

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Drew @drewking.dev · 24/06/2025

Just got my first websockets connection running using python. Stay tuned for more exciting updates! I will be rolling this out to do metadata push from the Pacifica Confessor API. #BuildInPublic #CommunityRadio #websockets

A screenshot of the Zed.dev text editor, with a similar layout to VSCode. There is a frame with a server log showing a successful connection to my websocket, a terminal on the bottom with my websocket closed, and a helpful AI agent explaining how to use websockets.