iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 15/10/2026

Until recently I was in vuln management in a Fortune 100. Mythos produced more than 20,000 mostly actionable reports in a month. BoA is being responsible here, bringing in talent to help address the crush they’re getting. My now-former employer, on the other hand, has been laying people off.

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 15/10/2026

The takeaway shouldn’t be “software is terrible at Fortune 500,” but rather, “software is terrible,” and “AI is very good at finding flaws in software.” You see this at Fortune 500 because that’s who can afford to set Mythos loose on the code base.

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 15/10/2026

I vibe-coded an Android client called Rogues Gallery that turns your device into a slideshow display piece of comic covers in your League of Comic Geeks collection. Check it out at roguesgallery.chateaulore.net.

roguesgallery.chateaulore.net

Rogues Gallery — Your comic collection, on display.

Rogues Gallery brings your League of Comic Geeks collection to an Android cover slideshow. Full-screen artwork, flexible playback, and a collection you can make your own.

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 14/10/2026

Impressively, neither did the writers!

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 08/10/2026

Salt comes from saltcorns.

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 06/10/2026

You used an important word: tradeoff. There has to be a positive benefit that offsets the costs. AI doesn’t provide that and it’s clear that it won’t. AI success means massive job loss. That AI companies aren’t at the forefront of push for UBI is how you know it serves billionaires, not the people.

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 05/10/2026

Here’s the thing: AI isn’t going to improve the world. We know this because it’s already failing to do that. It does a few nice things at the cost of making a lot of things worse. Why should we accelerate or even tolerate the bad things for the hollow promise of a shining city on a hill?

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 05/10/2026

Ahh, got it. You overlapped with my elder brother.

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 05/10/2026

When was your day at UIUC? How much did we overlap? (00-04 here)

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 04/10/2026

It turns out that is another solved problem where AI is not the solution.

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 04/10/2026

2) You can’t get it from the mobile app at all.

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 04/10/2026

For example, there’s a demo available now for Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse. 1) To download it you have to search for the game to get to the game page (because it doesn’t have any front page presence), then you have to go to the three dot menu button to even see the Demo option.

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 04/10/2026

One of the things that’s as galling as it is bewildering about Sony planning to be done with physical games is that their digital store experience is amateurish. They do a terrible job showcasing what’s new and interesting.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 29/09/2026

Of course. All space marines in the famous Lisa Frank Unicorn Fighters franchise in this dimension have purity seals. What are you talking about?

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 28/09/2026

This app works with the Discogs API using a personal access token. This adds functionality that isn’t provided by the Discogs app in a way that’s safe to leave running non-stop inside your own home. Full disclosure, AI was used to create this app. Thus: I built it, I didn’t write it.

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 28/09/2026

I built an Android app called Cogsworth to help a kiosk-style display at my record collection to make the wall of vinyl more accessible to guests and during parties, because nobody wants to twist their neck sideways or crawl on the floor to scan my records. cogsworth.chateaulore.net

cogsworth.chateaulore.net

Cogsworth — A display, search, and multi-collection management app for Android devices.

Cogsworth is an Android companion for your Discogs collection. Browse your shelves, find a record, and rediscover what to play next.

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 27/09/2026

More like Yiffbaca, amirite?

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 25/09/2026

“Why are you still doing the thing that made you a literal billionaire?” is a question that answers itself.

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Raff @raffcat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oh yeah It's all coming together #warmachine #miniaturepainting #nerdlings

A revenger warjack from the Menoth faction of Warmachine painted in similar colouration to the paladin tier 2 judgement armor, with deep blacks, bold reds, and gold.

Paladine tier 2 "judgement" armor from world of warcraft, worn by a human male model against a black background.

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 24/09/2026

I am picking up what you are putting down. The quest for Judgement armor was what kept me playing for so long.

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 20/09/2026

A military depot that has civilian traffic through it constantly. What could go wrong with that?

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 19/09/2026

What I want to know is who is getting fired for that, and I hope that Converse understands that this is not a rhetorical question.

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 19/09/2026

“Catch up,” you mean. Not “finish.” 🙂

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 19/09/2026

The President negotiating to maintain the status quo and claiming a victory lap is, in fact, a marked improvement on his geopolitical performance.

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 19/09/2026

Been taking an archery class with the local parks & rec. Shot 8 sets or 5 arrows today with a recurve at 10 yards and did fairly well: 25, 40, 41, 44, 36, 38, 40, 41.

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 15/09/2026

You have a collection.

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 07/09/2026

I bet instead of “The End,” it concludes with “Remember to Like and Subscribe.”

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 05/09/2026

How is Nova Open? I didn’t attend this year; I’ve been in relocation heck since April (first my mother, then my own family) and I’m only just now getting back to some kind of normal. But I’m interested in next year!

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 30/08/2026

If you can’t keep track of your helmeted characters in the Star Wars galaxy, you’re gonna have a bad time. Half of everybody is best known by their helmets.

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 30/08/2026

Amazing. He just discovered “being a layperson.”

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 29/08/2026

There is one in Kansas, but it’s not a major airport.

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 27/08/2026

I’m not familiar with the books or the author, but this seems like a good tip!

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 26/08/2026

Now you can construct additional pylons!

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 26/08/2026

Maybe you should have let somebody who knows anything about Dolly Parton write the obituary.

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Barack Obama's Iconic Shrug

Alt: Barack Obama's iconic shrug of disbelief

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 24/08/2026

And you might be onto something if this were presented in The Devil in the White City. You’ve invented a thing to get mad at. 🤷‍♂️

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 24/08/2026

That’s not a fiction book. Erik Larson’s books draw extensively from primary sources.

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 23/08/2026

Following up Oliver Darkshire’s excellent Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil with some tie-in fiction: C. L. Clark’s Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf (an Arcane tie-in).

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 23/08/2026

But, if you like, I can put an LLM agent in front of the ML model to make up fun facts about what it’s doing for you!

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 23/08/2026

Those are both good gets!

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 23/08/2026

I liked it better than Holly, personally, but both have similar risk tropes in play. Part of what I loved about The Outsider is that it created jeopardy and tension without tying up the series main and secondary characters on the proverbial train tracks. Holly’s a Van Helsing there.

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 23/08/2026

Holly is introduced in the Mr Mercedes trilogy. The Outsider is kind of the middle; followed by If It Bleeds, Holly, and most recently Never Flinch. The Mr. Mercedes trilogy is worthwhile; she’s not the central figure but it’s a lot of important insight into her character.

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 20/08/2026

Blue Apron had been doing really well on all fronts with the customer experience. What’s going on here was an overnight change that flipped it over to “total disaster.”

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 20/08/2026

I wish we would stop giving air to awful people just because we like what they’re saying today. When we celebrate broken clocks being right two times a day, it just validates the broken clock. Let’s not lose sight of the fact that it’s wrong the other 1438 minutes of the day!

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 18/08/2026

I follow Eurogamer and Rock Paper Shotgun for good articles, IGN for the day-to-day news. Polygon used to be my go-to but has been so reliant on this rage-farming nonsense since they got sold.

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 18/08/2026

Polygon has been real garbage since they got bought. Click-bait, joy-thief, rage-farming…

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 18/08/2026

And then Holly is followed by Never Flinch, which is her… seventh appearance? The Outsider is the my favorite of the lot.

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 18/08/2026

Because it was a judgement in civil case (preponderance of the evidence) and not a conviction in a criminal trial (beyond the shadow of a reasonable doubt).

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Eric Kolb @erickolb.me · 13/08/2026

Plus one. Profoundly disliked that one.

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