iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Also thinking back to bar configuration it *may* have been highland kitchen but pretty sure was RHT and that would make a lot more sense on my end based on time period

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Amazing. Of course drew's realization had me 2nd guessing if I was mixing up CH username to avatar (which is what I really remember), and of course now CH is gone. I think it was some sort of stylized cursive writing shaped like a head?

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Specifically thinking in terms of things like the post-commit hook, which I could see getting obnoxious if I was committing things by hand. And it's unclear to me how e.g. the agent hook would handle that sort of activity

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roborev is new to me (and I think may be a better version of something I'd cobbled together for my own purposes!). One thing I was curious about was how smooth it works for repos that are both human and ai handled. Is the UX tuned for pure-AI repos?

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when i go to the eye doctor she tells me that a) this is part of getting old, deal with it and b) i'm struggling more due to having had much better than avg vision my whole life, so my WTF moments are what normal ppl encounter every day. And yet, my poor vision/elderly parents can read menus 🤷‍♂️

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Every time I think of ho toy noodles (which is a lot more than I should!) I think of the poster by the same name on old chowhound. And then how we realized after the fact that we'd sat next to each other at the russell house tavern (I think?) bar

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Jeff Gentry @geoffjentry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Menus in restaurants are the worst, especially with lighting trends. My distance vision is still phenomenal yet nearly every time I need to bust out the flashlight to see WTF they have to offer. Insult to injury: my poor vision companions can read it just fine 🤷‍♂️

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Sadly the last bread-giving place nearby closed a few years back. End of an era!

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Jeff Gentry @geoffjentry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You know you're an old school, Boston townie when you leave a review for a chinese restaurant bemoaning that they stopped including dinner rolls in their takeout bags

Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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For years I associated the sound of the Dropkick Murphys with a dude who wants to tell me about how his grandparents immigrated "the right way," so I am constantly having to remind myself that the band itself is quite different

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Jeff Gentry @geoffjentry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

watching a bit from the hulu austin limits live stream, and like 92.3% of people in the crowd have their phone up. where did we go wrong as a society?

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Sean The Brewer @seanayling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Reckon I've got a chance at this, lads....

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Jeff Gentry @geoffjentry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can tell you from experience that "rust" doesn't imply "horrific slop free" in a genAI repo

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Jeff Gentry @geoffjentry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just don't look at what it generates 🙈

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Jeff Gentry @geoffjentry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Every time I’m at the Middle East it blows my mind that I’ve been coming here for 30+ years

Jeff Gentry @geoffjentry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Then again there are plenty of delusional people out there so who knows

Jeff Gentry @geoffjentry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I mean, as a Sox fan I can’t imagine any Sox fan actually expected them to do well in this series

Jeff Gentry @geoffjentry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Multiple people at the house of blues tonight were rocking what looked to be new Germs shirts. Not sure what’s driving the surge in merch for the germs but I am here for it!

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Gotcha! And yes, reddit mods have a tendency to be lame. I got banned from a sub for having the audacity to post in a different sub 🤷‍♂️ That said, the intent of the rule itself at least makes sense which is what I was wondering. Especially in the SI era when people can crank stuff out super fast.

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Sure. But I mean, where can one find the exact wording of the policy. e.g. is the intent to prevent self-promotion? Or is it straight up intending that methods are never being discussed. IOW, I am curious about the intent, not how it's getting enforced.

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Is there a link to somewhere that explains the reasoning? This feels like a "Yes, and ..." type of situation from the outside.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity.

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ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long

If you want another blast from the past - I was watching it because we saw the prodigy the other night and I had voodoo people stuck in my head

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I keep going back & forth on how big of a chunk is the right size to tackle at once due to this effect. Where I find it gets really hard is when other humans are consuming it as I want "normal sized" PRs and it's way too easy to get out ahead and lead to the churn.

Some of that tho I think was a real artifact of building out specs for several steps at once instead of doing one at a time - iterating/reviewing/etc after each step caused skew that got noisy In general I find any multi-step unit (e.g. multiple PRs) runs into this issue for me.

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This was a deeper pre-spec dive than I normally do. At first I was happy w/ the results and was finding less to fix afterwards than usual. But it def built up a bunch of junk by the time it was done, even with rounds of code review after each step. Still had to do some de-slopping

I was fiddling with some free tokens on Kiro the other day and had a similar effect. Used Sol to build out some spec stages, followed by Sonnet 5 to implement. used up 85% of my quota on the specs, 15% on the impl.

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Oh huh, never noticed that. That's cool!

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Despite it being right down the street I stopped going a while back for exactly this reason. Being smooshed butts to nuts and waiting in line for 45 mins to pay $32 to buy a morsel of some novelty fluff food isn't my idea of a good time

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This just reminded me that somewhere I have a still shot taken from the phantom of me in line at some truck (Bon mi?) looking like I was straight up going to kill someone

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I believe spots like the greenway & the main drag at seaport have them still. But even when I still worked down that way it was all pretty lame compared to the old days.

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One of the few things that makes me miss working downtown (or anywhere that’s not my living room)

I’ll try to do better, sorry

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What about the “28.8 bps modem” tho, Byron?

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Modern generations can't understand "RISC is good" #hackers

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slice versa! some dishes are normal dishes in pizza form. some are pizzas in dish form. who knows what ya gonna get! Also steal the mama ginas mural obv

"Siri compute the risk scores for our patients"

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Few other contenders I'd throw into the ring: Chaos UK: Enough to make you sick Dead Kennedys: In God We Trust Inc Minor Thread: Complete Discography (I'm cheating here!) And in the category of new stuff: Scumbari (self titled)

Jeff Gentry @geoffjentry.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Claude's take on some other genAI handiwork: "Short version: the slop is real and large." Game recognizes game, Claude.