iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Mark Phelps @markphelps.github.io · 05/10/2026

Got tired of this email from GitHub, and of slow, expensive macOS CI runners. Then I remembered I have a capable Mac Mini at home. So I made a skill that sets up self-hosted runners on Linux or Mac. Give it to your agent and save some money: github.com/markphelps/skills

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

👏 put the fascists on the train home 👏 we 👏 dont 👏 want 👏 them 👏 here 👏 #brighton

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Let me know if you want any recommendations!

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

🤣 Night clubs + sea side + weekend heat wave in the UK is asking for trouble. I hope you got to enjoy some good bits 😆

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Gianluca @gianarb.it · 26/05/2026

I have a few months open for new work. If you're scaling a #startup and need hands-on help with automation, #kubernetes, or #o11y let's talk. If you're trying to figure out where AI actually fits in your product without the hype also me. Pragmatic hitch-hiking available. 🚐 shippingbytes.com

Myself (gianluca) driving a California T2 volkswagen in Trentino

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Brighton was filthy this morning. What did you do?

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𝖑𝖚𝖐𝖊 𝖇𝖔𝖓𝖉 @lukeb0nd.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

We (restate.dev) are hiring for infra roles (my team) and some engineers on the GTM side. For infra, if you have experience operating stateful applications on kubernetes, building k8s operators and general cloud provider IaC then please apply! 👇 jobs.ashbyhq.com/restate

restate.dev

Restate - Build innately resilient distributed apps

Restate is a lightweight runtime that lets developers build innately resilient distributed apps without the complexity tax.

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

😆 😆 doesn’t procrastinate when given frontend tasks

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Looooool. I bet it’s way more productive.

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Ahh yeah exactly this 😅 so annoying. Hey Tim 👋

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Anyone else getting their inbox absolutely hammered by a second wave of #zendesk support abuse emails? I got this the other day. Loads of activation requests from different companies. I ignored them. Today they seem to have filed tickets someone with maybe 60 different companies.

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Used this technique a lot over the years. It’s a neat approach 👌 the entire Hashimoto talk was great too. Lots of great nuggets, which still hold true.

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

That’s appalling. Sorry to hear that mate 😡

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I literally had this thought when I did it last night. Ahh come on, I was excited to see what you guessed 😆

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Morty doesn’t know when you took this photo of him. But he approves all the same. That’s a good pack 🐾

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I didn't realise sheep dogs were so good at carpentry 🐶 🪚. I wonder trade skills my reindeer herding dog has been keeping from me.

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

This is one my friend recommended to me years ago and he raved about this series. I too wasn’t sure based on the blurb. I should’ve tried it by now, he bought me name of the wind and made me read that and I loved that too 🤣 Back on the list!

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

So far so good 😄 a little dated, but I’m quite gripped. Only ~80 odd pages in though.

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Your audience awaits. I’ve taken a brief detour into sci-fi so as not to consume all of malazan in one go 🤣 reading Hyperion at the mo.

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Had this on repeat a lot lately. So good 👌

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Liz Rice 💛💙🐝 @lizrice.com · 26/04/2025

At the least, our society should make sure people have a safe place to sleep. campaigns.crisis.org.uk/page/166635/... #CrisisUK

campaigns.crisis.org.uk

Sign this letter to Keir Starmer: You can end homelessness | Crisis UK

Dear PM: A future free from homelessness starts now.

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Perfectly sandwiching the week I’m away with rain 👌 nice one UK

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Trump administration is giving the Lettuce a run for its money.

Always sunny in Philadelphia gif of Mac, Charlie and frank saying art of the deal.

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

🤣 oh yes that sounds familiar. The only thing Morty doesn’t eat is fruit. Otherwise, everything else is fair game. Poop included.

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Does Villi also eat most of the stick? Morty loves a good stick. Also doesn’t play “fetch”, just plays “mine” 🤣

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

This is giving me nostalgia as I was there. It was a great conference. Single track in a lovely theatre in Paris. Every talk was gold. Also included functional options (from Dave Cheney), Go is not an OO language (John Cinnamond) as some favorites that stuck in my memory.

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

You just need to remove your cupboard doors and leave room to land the backflip.

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Mark did a load of cool shit to get this together 🤙 it’s a fun read.

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I’m super curious to go have a listen to the voices now 😄 I just finished book two last night! I’m well hooked now. Man, book two was brutal. Some very visceral carnage in there. And every character having their own hellish and perilous journey. Brilliant though.

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Those powder mage books we recommended, I’ve listened to 4.5 of them so far, read by Christian Rodska. I really enjoy listening to him. Does a great range of characters. Only criticism is like between book one and two, a couple characters changed voice and it confused me 😄

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Currently enjoying a little bit of mountain peace before starting the next role. My legs are zapped and it’s only day three. #grandmassif

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

This is excellent. Feels very Go. Making complex things simple. I’ve done some pretty horrible things to my code in Go over the years to make concurrent code deterministically testable. Leaking all sorts of things in the process.

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Damien Neil @misago.org · 19/02/2025

I’m tremendously excited about the synctest package. There’s usually a tension between making async code idiomatic or testable. Synctest makes the idiomatic code testable. #golang go.dev/blog/synctest

go.dev

Testing concurrent code with testing/synctest - The Go Programming Language

Go 1.24 contains an experimental package to aid in testing concurrent code.

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

You’re gonna be ebpf’ing all the things by the end of it.

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

💯 that is a clearer distinction.

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

My only guess is that they mean they don’t do switching/routing at the TCP level. Meaning they always interpret the http headers and frame, which has its own overhead (you can load balance tcp without parsing the http payload). But you’re right, it’s still likely TCP under the hood (http3 excluded).

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Looks pretty dope to me. Wouldn't know where to start myself 😆

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George MacRorie @georgemac.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I always forget this. Get a craving for a new game. Buy it and then… oh yeah. Tomorrow it is. I hope you enjoy BG3! It’s good fun.

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