iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Watching TV and every other ad is an app showing how you can chat with AI in the app (e.g. Thumbtack, Instacart). All I want is for them to expose an MCP server so my agent can talk to their services instead of using their apps. 😭

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Dominic Hopton @grork.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Is it me or does New Siri leave the response ui toast (eg turned a light on) up indefinitely?

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robb @robb.is · 12/09/2026

Pretty excited for Reeder on the iPhone Duo, hope it's not going to be a terribly long wait.

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Dominic Hopton @grork.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The iPhone Duo has a lip on the interior? Did not expect that. That is disappointing.

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Dominic Hopton @grork.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I cannot get over how much of the iPhone Duo is what was leaked / talked about for Andromeda. "Postures". It's only missing the carpenter pencil. If it hadn't been a decade, and the Surface Duo hadn't happened, it'd have thought this was industrial espionage!

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Dominic Hopton @grork.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Apple Forgot to include the iPhone Air in the performance comparison section of the duo.

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Aniline Applications @anilineapps.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There are a million other changes and improvements throughout the app but those are the big ones. Now that we have a more affordable plan for single-network users, we're hoping to spread the word far and wide. We'd really appreciate if you could give this thread a share. Thanks - Ben & Aaron

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Aniline Applications @anilineapps.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Indigo 1.3 is available now! We've got a bunch of great new features I'll get to in a sec, but first up is a new pricing option. Indigo was great value if you used both Bluesky and Mastodon, but a little pricy if you just used one. Now there's a $19.99 plan for single-network use 😀

A marketing image showing a screenshot of Indigo’s new paywall with a single-network option

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 05/09/2026

Bluesky provides a mobile web view that runs great on my four-year-old phone and never pushes me to download an app. That is special and appreciated and I hope it continues.

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Daniel Jalkut @danielpunkass.punkitup.com · 03/09/2026

Imagine how bad the outage at Claude must be if Claude itself can’t fix it in 5 minutes.

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Dominic Hopton @grork.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

OH At the Apple Store: Watch bands are in very short supply, so we're having to make compromises. [someone wanting to exchange a watch strap they bought with the watch but it didn't fit] Do Apple Watch straps have RAM?!

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Jonas Downey @jonas.do · 10/08/2026

Times when I most fantasize about quitting tech: 1. quiet sunlit mornings spent pondering the destructive effects of careless growth capitalism run amok, and mournfully reflecting on my direct personal contributions to these problems 2. trying to use Google Slides for literally anything

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Dominic Hopton @grork.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I had an electrician come fix my fire alarms (tbd if it worked), and I had a "future echo" moment (obvs, not literally), so I wrote it down! 2036: www.codevoid.net/ruminations/...

codevoid.net

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We are seeing future echos everyday; are we ready to admit it?

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

As we get better at AI tools, a lot of today's usage will look like treating early cars as faster horses before we ended up building cities around them. I suspect building more dashboards with AI tools versus asking agents for data and visualizations on demand is one of those patterns.

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Drew @drew.unremarkable.dev · 07/08/2026

Two raccoons lounging in a tree in my backyard. (I think they sleep here during the day.)

A raccoon hanging out on the branch of a tree in my backyard.

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threddy 🦖 @threddyrex.org · 31/07/2026

yes I practice TDD (token-driven development)

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 29/07/2026

The problem with social media is the same as with betting apps: they privatize a socially conspicuous vice. Going to a sportsbook and being in that crowd naturally restrains a lot of people's gambling. On social media, you ingest opinions from lunatics you would never want to be around.

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jonty @jontyscorner.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Camille

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Jeff Abraham @jeffabraham.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

We were having dinner and one of my kids commented that the remainder of their bagel looked a lot like an ear and I asked if anyone had seen Vincent Van Dough around and none of those assholes laughed.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

There’s a thin line between creating a positive sense of urgency and management making their anxiety everybody’s problem.

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Dominic Hopton @grork.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Tired: Range anxiety on your EV Wired: Token anxiety on your $20/mo plan when the dumbass thinking sand tells you something categorically wrong, and now you've just wasted 3% of your 5hr window.

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Dominic Hopton @grork.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

@anilineapps.bsky.social did y’all break the network overlay on avatars? I don’t seem to be seeing it in 1.2.1

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 27/06/2026

We should actually be trying to use as much electricity as possible and always be increasing the amount of electricity we generate forever. Electricity gets cleaner as it scales. In the long arc of civilization, energy austerity is immoral and energy abundance is moral.

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Dominic Hopton @grork.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

“are you in here? I know you’re in here. I can see you. Come on get out!” normal person: im in danger / going insane Cat owner: a normal Sunday night.

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Dominic Hopton @grork.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

"The chat box can't be it" - We've given up 'doing' for 'pleading' as we sacrifice it on the altar of the chat box. www.codevoid.net/ruminations/... (a short blog post)

codevoid.net

The chat box can't be it

We've given up 'doing' for 'pleading' as we sacrifice it on the altar of the chat box.

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Dominic Hopton @grork.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The rise of the “chat box” implies that the CLI was the only true interface, with GUIs being a 40 year detour till we found our way back to… describing what we want rather than just doing it. www.codevoid.net/ruminations/...

codevoid.net

The CLI was the only true user interface

Dominic Hopton's personal blog

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Miguel de Icaza @migueldeicaza.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Tired of writing Swift code like an animal? Recent Swift compiler improvements cut your bathroom quality time short? AgenticSwift to the rescue, write what your function is supposed to do, list inputs and outputs, and let your agent do the work for you. github.com/migueldeicaz...

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GitHub - migueldeicaza/AgenticSwift: Tired of having to write Swift code like an animal? Let the AI macro do the work for you.

Tired of having to write Swift code like an animal? Let the AI macro do the work for you. - migueldeicaza/AgenticSwift

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Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

"We want no muffins, no toast, no teacakes, no buns, baps, baguettes or bagels, no croissants, no crumpets, no pancakes, no potato cakes and no hot-cross buns and definitely no smegging flapjacks!"

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Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me · 10/06/2026

I'm sorry but fuck off with this. There's only one way to distribute apps on iOS and if you don't get enough attention then you can't use it? If you think my toy app is a waste of your resources then I'll happily take another way to distribute my app.

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Apple says it may remove some apps from the App Store if they don’t attract users | TechCrunch

Apple may begin removing existing apps that it considers stale, low-value, or unable to attract users.

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Samuel @samuel.fm · 09/06/2026

do I have to play the rest of the Fable games to understand Fable 5

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J. Anderson Coats (she/her) @jandersoncoats.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

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BrokenBanker @brokenbanker.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

show me the lie:

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Dominic Hopton @grork.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?) by Ylvis is still a banger. (It was a palette cleanser after the Timmy Mallet version of Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Polka Dot Bikini popped into my head)

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Dominic Hopton @grork.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

New F1-overhead Apple TV screensavers wen

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Chain Bear F1 @chainbear.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Just laughing my head off at the idea Lewis turned up dressed in a fish costume

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

My gut says this is an intermediate phase until a breakthrough makes AI reliable, not just convincing. I now see why Yann LeCun and Demis Hassabis are focused on world models that help AI understand how the world works. LLMs may eventually look like a distraction on the road to AGI.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 06/06/2026

This is the last WWDC before I get RSI.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 06/06/2026

I am going to start saying dumb shit like "the last WWDC before AGI."

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John Eddy @jaydeflix.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

My wife's (@patriciadeddy.com) books. Seriously, Hollywood, call us.

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Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me · 05/06/2026

We used to edit work before sharing it, but now the internet is flooded with 3 hour podcasts of two guys in tech saying whatever into a mic, 10,000 word stream of thought blog posts, and 30 minute reaction videos about nothing. Exercise a little taste, this is how people are going to remember you.

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Miguel de Icaza @migueldeicaza.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The .sig of a friend back in 2000 or so used to be “in the canvas of life, incompetence is my brush” and I can often relate to it.

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Harlan Haskins @harlanhaskins.com · 02/06/2026

One of the best things I did when working on a Mac app was use a 1x display. You'd be shocked how many apps have simple pixel rounding errors.

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Dominic Hopton @grork.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

If you do, and your revenue tanks it's Ok because your revenue per employee will go up!

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 01/06/2026

another sunday check-in on threads. this is just what the algo sprinkles into my feed. i don't think i can do these any more because i'm starting to feel pretty bad. is this punching down? threading down?

Johnny Depp I heard that you went against me
I'm not sure how I was supposed to feel about that all I know is I love you I want to see you l miss you and I hope you feel the same I have 4% on my phone I just wanted to tell you good night sweetheart and that I love you with all my heart mind body soul and Spirit I know you're feeling like I can't meet you halfway it's because I'm coming up from the bottom of being underneath people's feet I'm

A friend who lives in Monterey, California just shared this on his Facebook page... aren't you glad you live wherever it is that you live except California? $15 a gallon! That's insane!

(The photo shows 15 gallons of gas costing $100.)

At my sons graduation and they are on last names that start with R I'm waiting to see how much longer it's gonna take n i didn't feel like doing alphabet in my head, Ai being put to good use IMO

Unpopular opinion:
Lead paint was banned because it was helping to protect people from 5g and all that toxic nonsense that was coming and they knew about it

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

i'm gonna be so rich once i figure out how to monetize cortisol

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Brad Sams @bdsams.com · 26/05/2026

Now we know why the Apple car was canceled

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