iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Cyrus Omar on sabbatical in Cambridge @neurocy.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Really enjoyed this distillation of the vision of malleable software that drives so much great work in our community today. Important point is that we need tools that titrate in programming continuously, so that users of all skill levels can adapt their tools and expert users can *really* build.

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Josh Horowitz @joshuahhh.com · 13/06/2025

BTW: I'm slowly assembling a LIVE Primer to help folk submitting to LIVE (& others) get the lay of the land. Please take a look and let me know what's missing, what sucks, what's rad, etc. live-workshop.github.io/primer/

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The LIVE Primer

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Paul Sonnentag @paulsonnentag.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

What if you didn't need git to collaborate on games? We've been prototyping a new approach to collaboration in Godot: live and async collaborative editing, with branches and diffs, built right into the editor. We're looking for people to test out an early version, see link in next post:

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 23/04/2025

Man, this is such a beautiful video series. Seeing the amount of work it takes to build a good house is awe-inspiring. youtu.be/d7e6IOdKfVw?...

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Building a Craftsman House [Start to Finish Timelapse]

YouTube video by Essential Craftsman

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 22/04/2025

what if you could model a problem in a spreadsheet, and then instantly start applying powerful *filters* to explore your space of options? that's the idea @alexwarth.bsky.social and I have been exploring recently at @inkandswitch.com ... 1/

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 10/04/2025

Personal news: I’m a dad now! My wife and I are feeling very fortunate 😊

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 23/03/2025

The Deep Research Printer: Say any question, get a custom printed report. The calmness of paper. The meditative quality of *actually reading*, not spawning a million tabs. Combined with the vast knowledge of the Web, answering our most niche curiosities.

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 22/03/2025

Simple AI agent challenge: I want a report listing the remaining teams in the NCAA tournament (easy)... *with an embedded image of the mascot for each team* So far I've failed in Perplexity, ChatGPT, and Claude. Anyone know a service that can produce this?

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 20/03/2025

One of my all-time favorite talks: how to write so people will care what you have to say. First watched it many years ago and I still think about it constantly. youtu.be/aFwVf5a3pZM

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LEADERSHIP LAB: Writing Beyond the Academy 1.23.15

YouTube video by UChicago Social Sciences

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 18/03/2025

verbally explaining to someone what to click on a screenshare is such a hilariously terrible experience. "click on the button in the top right that says... oh no not that one, move down, one more, oooone more.... ah you skipped it, go back to - oh nope, not quite..."

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 12/02/2025

1/ here's a visual model for how AI support makes me better at UI prototyping with the surprising conclusion that AI may *improve* code quality in some specific cases! lets walk thru it step by step...

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 11/02/2025

a tiny example of how AI speeds up UI prototyping: just used cursor composer + o3-mini to speed up a huge table with virtualized rendering. took a couple mins, worked on first try. no detour into math puzzles, no searching for a library. keeps me in flow!

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 11/02/2025

pro tip: Claude Projects as executive function assistance i'm dealing with an international bureaucracy thing that's gonna take months... tedious but has to get done so i made a Project with docs explaining the process, now Claude tells me exactly what to do next and helps me do it faster 😎

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 04/02/2025

Something new I’ve been hacking on with @alexwarth.bsky.social , check it out!

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 26/01/2025

It's riveting seeing how fast the "build vs buy" tradeoff is shifting in software. This is a perfect example from @randomwalker.bsky.social : he built a little reading app with ChatGPT, rather than trying to find an existing one. x.com/random_walke...

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Alex Warth @alexwarth.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Sketchpad running on the iPad! (This is my plug for the @inkandswitch.com wrapper, check it out at github.com/inkandswitch...)

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 24/01/2025

The latest Cursor Composer + Sonnet is accelerating me to a ridiculous degree these days—I'm feeling ~2-3x faster at executing major code changes. Makes trying new ideas feel so much lighter and worth doing.

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 22/01/2025

what are your favorite examples of non-programmers building software using AI, that they wouldn't have been able to produce otherwise? @stevekrouse.com @robhaisfield.com @amasad.bsky.social I bet you'd have some good ones :)

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 13/01/2025

Not usually an audiobook guy, but I’ve found one genre where they’re incredible: memoirs / first-person nonfiction, narrated by the author. The story comes alive, and it feels so natural that the person is telling their story.

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 10/01/2025

A Montessori office: a calm space where adults of all ages can complete their daily tasks without interruption

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 03/01/2025

Stuck at a hotel gym with unfamiliar equipment? Obviously ask Claude for a custom workout plan… Oh and one more thing: ask for an entire custom workout app that guides you thru the plan 😎

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 22/12/2024

New blog post! About how using AI to build custom debug views can make it more fun to do the programming ourselves. www.geoffreylitt.com/2024/12/22/m...

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AI-generated tools can make programming more fun

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 20/12/2024

step 1 of writing a prolog interpreter: have Claude code me a custom debug utility that can visualize what my interpreter is doing :D already helped me fix so many bugs!

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 20/12/2024

Q: at what age do you think humans become capable of solving this ARC puzzle? (given the first 3 pairs of grids, figure out the pattern and make the output for the 4th)

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Paul Sonnentag @paulsonnentag.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

At @inkandswitch.com we are starting a new project to research better version control tools for making games. One hypothesis: collaborating on a game should initially be as simple as working on a Google Doc, with concepts like branching introduced gradually as needed.

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 16/12/2024

one of the coolest live programming projects i've seen recently: super fun + some deep insights. you gotta check it out!

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 16/12/2024

It’s funny how, given the right skills and mindset, cooking is easier *without* a recipe. Says a lot about how the world works: on the other side of the learning curve lies great simplicity

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 11/12/2024

Early UI prototyping is a perfect domain for AI assistance because “messy code that mostly works in a demo” is actually the goal!

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 10/12/2024

split keyboard? i think you mean keyboard with Breakfast Nook (tm)

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 08/12/2024

a beautiful list of goals! (from Chris Hancock's PhD thesis: boxer-project.github.io/boxer-litera...

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 05/12/2024

A folder of all the files for a project is perfect context to feed to an AI. When the “project” is spread across cloud silos (Figma, Notion, Dropbox…) it’s harder to gather all relevant info. Interesting to consider what this implies!

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 03/12/2024

Doing a little chat about dynamic documents with @toph.me later today!

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Austin Henley @azhenley.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

What if we could only code by using examples? How can we integrate AI into actual programming languages? I made a little proof of concept: austinhenley.com/blog/mirrorl...

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Mirror: An LLM-powered programming-by-example programming language

What if we could only code by using examples? Can we integrate AI into traditional programming languages?

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 22/11/2024

hm, apparently with Apple Intelligence writing tools, you get back a big chunk of rewritten text without any diff view.....? almost find that hard to believe, maybe i'm missing something? diffs are so essential for collab with AI

a screenshot of Apple Pages with an AI rewrite of some paragraphs

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 22/11/2024

I find myself using LLMs in two distinct ways: - Daily use mode: stay conservatively within the capability boundary; I can intuit 90%+ success rates - Exploration mode: make wild stabs, sometimes amazing results, often garbage The key thing: daily use mode is already very useful!

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 31/10/2024

Have you ever felt like spending six hours watching 17 amazing talks about live programming? If so... check out the video from LIVE 2024 last week! Everything from intuitive visual representations of program behavior to text editor integrations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GOe...

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[SPLASH'24] Pacific A - LIVE (Oct 21th)

YouTube video by ACM SIGPLAN

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 30/10/2024

whoa, haven't been here in a long while and... seems like a bunch of lovely people have moved over from the bird site?? maybe time to make the jump.

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 04/05/2023

reading books as a training arena for concentrated thought

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 28/04/2023

The best conferences are groups of people with shared values and vibes, not just technical interests

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 25/04/2023

interesting how the iPhone autocorrecting keyboard is second nature for me, but the swipe-recognizing keyboard isn’t at all, I’m like “wow cool that worked” every single time

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 24/04/2023

In Toronto this week speaking at the Causal Islands conf, excited to hang out with people there

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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 11/04/2023

Impressions so far: strong UX, nice decentralized foundations, fun vibes on the TL. Feeling optimistic maybe this can really work. Kudos to the Bluesky team!

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