iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Isaac Hepworth @isaa.ch · 18/02/2025

cookie conjugations: - i personalize - you track - he/she surveils

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm listening to people who are deeply upset about how they are being asked to do project planning, so I hear the last sentence as a fantastic description of the project management problem space...

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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 14/09/2026

If you haven't started with talking to leaders, creating structure for them to tell you about their work in a way where you are helping them understand what you want to know and care about, what the hell do you hope to get from side stepping them and creating AI jira panopticon?

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We can think of lots of things like markets; that doesn't mean it tells us anything useful. And once you've decided to think of something as a market, it is way too easy to get locked into market logics, which (all together now) are ideological as much as anything.

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Agent IO @agent.io · 06/08/2026

If you run your app with Podman, you can easily require all of its network traffic to go through an IO where you can control and review it. agent.io/posts/sandbox/

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Sandbox with Podman and IO

Control and monitor all of your application's network traffic.

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I think a driving force in ableism is fear. People haven't dealt with their own fear about losing ability and wow can we tell, those of us who've been through stuff. I am a fairly hopeful person about humanity in general but our capacity for rageful dehumanization wrt ableism really gets me down.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Price is by far the most legible characteristic in a low-information online marketplace, so yes, people will index on it often. That doesn't mean it's what they *want*. They are satisficing not the object but the process of choosing the object.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

"More of a cormorant than a question"

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Agent IO @agent.io · 19/06/2026

Last year I replaced grpc-go and connect-go with a thin layer of code that I use to write gRPC clients and servers on the Go standard library. Details are here: agent.io/posts/sidecar

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Lightweight gRPC on the Go Standard Library

Sidecar is a tiny Go package that can be used to make clients and servers that use the gRPC wire protocol.

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Marsh Gardiner @earth2marsh.com · 06/05/2026

@margin.at I'm somewhat averse to browser extensions with broad access permissions (certainly until I have first-hand experience with a service). Any chance there's a bookmarklet to be able to trigger margin.at on demand on a given page?

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I don't care whether people who voted this administration into office "have a racist bone in their bodies". They were willing to ignore/overlook racist policies because they didn't think they personally would be affected, and it's sloppy reporting not to say that.

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Bruno Pedro @brunopedro.com · 09/04/2026

"The Agentic Authorization OAuth 2.1 Extension is an IETF draft created in May 2025. It’s now in its version 01 and provides a solution where AI agents can identify their users and, in turn, use their identification to obtain OAuth access tokens." apichangelog.substack.com/p/four-agent...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.

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Marsh Gardiner @earth2marsh.com · 03/04/2026

Software licensing isn't just about user access; it’s a labor-rights decision. Open source licensing's next challenge is to consider the people who build the code, not just those who consume it.

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Tim Burks (inactive) @timburks.me · 02/04/2026

I've written a followup to my #atmosphereconf talk that discusses what software I think should be open source and why. tl;dr we've neglected workers' rights for too long. bsky.app/profile/agen...

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Extremely this. Absolutely no one thinks that systems thinkers should get to do whatever the hell we want, but people are very bad at training us to be useful in ways that don't push against the core of what we are good at.

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Tim Burks (inactive) @timburks.me · 28/03/2026

The hack is that instead of maintaining a list of people who can generate keys, I just made it so that anyone who is followed by my project account can generate keys. If @agent.io follows you, you're in the beta!

How I do this: Publish Docker binaries. All builds require a license key (a JWT that identifies the user). Add ATProto sign-in to my website. Any identity followed by my project account can generate license keys. Users activate the product with their keys.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Saw an old interview with Frank Herbert who said “I don’t think that the old saw about power corrupting and absolute power corrupting absolutely is accurate. I think power attracts the corruptible” and, yeah, that.

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Agent IO @agent.io · 19/03/2026

Building a PDS the Hard Way agent.io/posts/buildi...

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Building a PDS the Hard Way

Commits that could get me committed.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 14/03/2026

I've been talking to prospective hires about what developer relations means for me and how to measure it, and when you explain something more than 3 times you should turn it into a blog post, so here you go: seldo.com/posts/develo...

seldo.com

Developer Relations: what it is, and how to measure it | Seldo.com

DevRel isn't community management or a conference circuit — it's docs, engineering, content, and product feedback, in that order. Measure it with pipeline, shipped features, and attention, plus the on...

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I have a wild theory that a lot of people are extremely hostile to any sign of systems thinking because it implicitly pushes the conversation to problem space from solution space.

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 14/01/2026

GenAI tooling is weird. It’s “just” an intervention. Because it’s a tool. Any tool introduction is an intervention. Which means they work the same way any intervention work: 1. Understand the preconditions and culture norms required for success 2. Set people up for success 3. Respond to feedback

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I'm especially fond of the instant pot because it's given me insight into adoption of technologies. The people I know who use the instant pot regularly are people who cooked without one. Of the people I know who bought one, no one who said, "this will get me to cook more" still uses it.

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Marsh Gardiner @earth2marsh.com · 05/01/2026

Thanks @ruthmalan.bsky.social , @yvonnezlam.bsky.social , and @johncutle.fish for the systems thinking discussion / group therapy today! What a great way to kick off the new year. 💖

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aep.dev - API Enhancement Proposals @aep.dev · 08/12/2025

The aep-2026 edition has shipped! 🚀 This release establishes long-term stability as a critical foundation. The new versioning mechanism and release cycle supports our tooling ecosystem, which now includes a Terraform Provider, CLI, MCP Server, and more. Read more: aep.dev/blog/aep-202...

A screenshot of the aep.dev site that shows rule 300, which establishes the rules for edition-based versioning.

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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 01/12/2025

In some ways, ICs (at least in tech and at big companies) have some leadership advantages because managers don't see them as direct competition. Good managers and ICs know this and take advantage of it by having ICs lead complicated cross-org initiatives

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Marsh Gardiner @earth2marsh.com · 29/11/2025

My second favorite word is penultimate.

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Marsh Gardiner @earth2marsh.com · 25/11/2025

"Adversarial poems"--a claim, The science, a non-rigorous shame. But the idea was the virus, And now it's inside us, A vector-embed in our brains.

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 21/11/2025

Happy 10th birthday to the OpenAPI Initiative! Being a part of the creation was one of the highlights of my career...and introduced me to some really cool folx (hi, @earth2marsh.com!).

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

My rowing coach talks about "learning a thing" and "finding a thing" in similar ways. I love that, in contrast to the very mechanistic way a lot of tech(-adjacent) people talk about learning as "stuff into a mental slot for easy access later" which is not how learning works in my brain at all.

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

The fact that we frequently prefer interactions and experiences that feel cognitively easy is also a reliable illusion. We experience this in our learning all the time. This is also why I'm skeptical of any idea that developer experience should only be about making things FEEL easy

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Marsh Gardiner @earth2marsh.com · 29/06/2025

The idea of vichyssoise is a leeky abstraction.

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Marsh Gardiner @earth2marsh.com · 27/05/2025

Honestly, I don't understand why they ever took it out of the curriculum.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

The idea that any one site or platform has to have everyone on it in order to succeed has to die. That’s just not how human communities work. Never has been.

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Rob Bowley @robbowley.net · 26/05/2025

How about putting customers first? Replace 'AI' with 'customer' in all these bold "AI first statements – now that would be genuinely radical.

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Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 17/05/2025

Folks, why aren’t we using LLMs for generating schedule estimates for development work??? We all loathe making those estimates, and we can just blame the LLM if the actual development time deviates from the estimate. “The LLM must have hallucinated a bad estimate”.

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Marsh Gardiner @earth2marsh.com · 14/05/2025

Mark Messier is the Patrick Stewart of hockey. Discuss.

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Marsh Gardiner @earth2marsh.com · 08/05/2025

A neologism for your consideration… Crapitalism (n.): the perverse incentives of capitalism that lead to enshittification.

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Marsh Gardiner @earth2marsh.com · 25/04/2025

Why did we call them "restaurant closings" when "defeateries" was right there?

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

“Muni serves more rides on lines that run on (or cross) Market in two days than Waymo does citywide in a month. At 10 times the price of a bus fare with 5% of the capacity, Waymo vehicles have no hope of making up for the transit service they replace and delay” www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

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S.F. has a smart plan to improve Market Street. Waymos aren’t part of it

Waymos have an extensive history of blocking buses and first responder vehicles. Adding them to SF’s busiest transit corridor isn’t a recipe for success.

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John Cutler @johncutle.fish · 15/04/2025

Are you trying to improve flow, make better tradeoffs, push for more strategic alignment, or clarify what's supported and what isn't? cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-351-th...

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TBM 351: The 4 Prioritization Jobs (And Why It Matters)

After all these years, I finally put something into words about prioritization.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...

80+% of both Democrats and Republicans believe America would be better off if more Americans worked in manufacturing, but < 30% say that about themselves.

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aep.dev - API Enhancement Proposals @aep.dev · 09/04/2025

Announcing a Terraform provider for the AEP project! 🚀 Most companies staff engineers just to maintain their Terraform provider. However, just by making AEP-compliant APIs you get providers for minimal effort beyond writing the API. Read @rambleraptor.bsky.social's post: aep.dev/blog/terrafo...

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AEP Terraform Provider

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openapis.org @openapis.org · 09/04/2025

APIs connect systems. Bluesky connects people. We're here for both. 👋

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/04/2025

Fear & concern are coded feminine, so they get translated into anger, which feels more tough. Hurt & disappointment are coded feminine, so they get translated into outrage & aggrievement. The simple human need for love & affirmation is coded feminine, so it gets translated into demands & control.

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Bryan Ross @bryanross.me · 21/03/2025

Is your company guilty of metrics misuse? Have DORA metrics been weaponised to compare the productivity of teams or individuals? Maybe you should send them my latest article about Metrics That Matter! 📈

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Metrics That Matter

Beyond DORA: Meaningful Measurement for Platform Teams

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