iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Xavier Snelgrove @wxs.ca · 10/04/2026

My project for the last year, Orbital Studies Issue № 0 is available now! Orbital Studies is a literary science magazine. We publish writing and art in service of a more beautiful scientific culture. Includes work from @philipcball.bsky.social, @spencer.place, Michael Levin... orbitalstudies.com

Cover of Orbital Studies magazine Issue 0

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Henry Wilkinson @hank.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

Tailscale is usually a joy to work with, but Tailscale serve has a few rough edges when setting its config using environment vars. After some trial and error (and reaching out to support), I managed to get it working in TrueNAS and now you can too! […]

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Henry Wilkinson @hank.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

Cygwin (a bunch of standard Linux utilities written for Windows) is actually such a nice quality of life improvement for the Windows CLI I'm deeply sad I didn't know about it earlier. If you have to use WIndows, do yourself a favour and add them to your path. www.cygwin.com

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Cygwin

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Henry Wilkinson @hank.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2026

Webrecorder's upcomming dedupe feature in Browsertrix is cool and very much the real deal. You heard it here first!

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Henry Wilkinson @hank.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026

@mauve I am constantly stuck between people telling me how amazing agentic coding is and other people saying that it generates absolute garbage. I've generated a lot of decent simple stuff and completely face planted on more difficult things in a domain that I didn't understand as well. Are the […]

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Henry Wilkinson @hank.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2026

TIL you can opt-out anybody from receiving addressed junk mail in Canada by simply typing their name and address into this form: www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/info…

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Canada Complete Direct: Name and Address Database

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Henry Wilkinson @hank.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 18/01/2026

New A$AP Rocky video was made with some super cool volumetric capture tech: radiancefields.com/a-ap-rocky-relea… In the age of difusion model imagery hype, it's refreshing to see artists experimenting with different techniques.

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A$AP Rocky Releases Helicopter Music Video featuring Gaussian Splatting - Radiance Fields

This is actually not the first time A$AP has used Radiance Fields in a music video.

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Henry Wilkinson @hank.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026

"The Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office)" is this tech hype cycle's "Meta" rebrand.

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Henry Wilkinson @hank.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025

I need to re-pin a lock. I'm just missing a few Schlage pins and one replacement spring. Does anywbody know of shop that will mail you just the 5 pins you need? Everything I'm finding is all bulk. Seems like something @deviantollam might know of??

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Henry Wilkinson @hank.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025

@archivist_Liz NetNewswire is great if you only care about macOS / iOS support!

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Henry Wilkinson @hank.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2025

New blog post! This time, a reflection on the Wikireader: a dedicated gadget from 2010 that lets you read a text-only version of Wikipedia. 15 years later and it still works better than ever! wilkinson.graphics/blog/2025-12-20-…

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I Like The Wikireader

What's 2010 is cool again!

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Henry Wilkinson @hank.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 18/12/2025

Rhizome's Conifer shutdown may be the most responsible way of shutting down a platform that I've ever seen. Also very happy to see that users are being given a good path to move to Webrecorder's services! If you're thinking about moving your archives there, Browsertrix is a great home them […]

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Henry Wilkinson @hank.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

> If you shoot someone and they don't have medical insurance, that doesn't mean you won't go to jail. If you pack a toaster with insufficient padding, that doesn't mean the insurance company will pay. You're responsible when you do something dumb […]

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Henry Wilkinson @hank.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025

Some background on why this was chosen here: webkit.org/blog/16929/contrast-color I still remain disappointed that this was implemented. Maybe I'm just unaware of the "debate" that is happening, but I've been using APCA in my work for years now with good results. Cautiously optimistic […]

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Henry Wilkinson @hank.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025

In the name of "spec adherence" browser implementors have creating something truly useless: A universal text colour contrast function that produces unreadable text. WCAG's garbage colour contrast algorithm is actively harmful.

Excript from the MDN docs:

he contrast-color() function returns a value of white or black, depending on which value has the greatest contrast with the input color. If both white and black have the same contrast with the input color, white is returned.

Warning: WCAG AA (4.5:1) contrast is not capable of producing clearly readable text in all cases. Mid-tone background colors generally don't provide enough contrast with either black or white foreground. For example, contrast-color() on a royal bluish (#2277d3) background produces black text, which is not readable for small text. It is recommended, therefore, to use light or dark colors with the contrast-color() function.

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Henry Wilkinson @hank.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2025

@mayintoronto Were these good requests or was the guy a dummy? I can't hate a process that works 🤷

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Henry Wilkinson @hank.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2025

For the few digipres people that follow me over here, this look into Disney's sound archives is pretty cool! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUIao8E-ipM

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Henry Wilkinson @hank.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2025

@mayintoronto IDK how these are even legal, their entire existance is just a framework for duping investors lol "Hey, we're a public company that does nothing except get acquired and then we all go away and the stock becomes the other company's stock except they didn't have to submit any of the […]

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Henry Wilkinson @hank.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2025

@mayintoronto SPACs: For companies that really don't want you to do due-dilligance

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Henry Wilkinson @hank.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2025

Affinity is free, I have thoughts! If you want to know what they are you can click this link: wilkinson.graphics/blog/2025-11-01-… If you don't want to know what they are, you can do other things! Ride a bike! Watch the sunset! The world is your oyster!

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Affinity is Free! ...But at What Cost?

My thoughts on the state of graphics software in 2025

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Henry Wilkinson @hank.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025

@designtokens now has a stable version! www.w3.org/community/design-tokens/… Congrats to all involved! Looking forward to seeing this implemented across all the tools I use.

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Henry Wilkinson @hank.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2025

@tordans @wilkinson.graphics Yeah! I've read that 2022 post by Jake, it's part of what inspired me to do this!

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Henry Wilkinson @hank.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

@mayintoronto What if it's just a liiiiittle torment nexus. Just a small one, as an experiment?

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Henry Wilkinson @hank.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2025

> I was hopeful he’d be eligible for subsidized housing through the state’s re-entry programs, only to find that many of the opportunities had been siphoned off to the Venezuelan immigrants, and nothing was available. A crisis of conservative design, this desperate scramble for scarce resources […]

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2025

question: "is the title field in a work registered in the DOI system a cost-effective means of storage" answer: curl api.datacite.org/dois/10.57874/531s… | jq -r '.data.attributes.titles[0].title' | base64 --decode | play -t mp3 - […]

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Henry Wilkinson @hank.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2025

@mauve Ain't no Planet X comin' cuz there ain't no space cuz ain't not globe earth.

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Henry Wilkinson @hank.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2025

@mayintoronto I'm becomming increasingly convinced that the "best" path here is to end intellectual property. The average person doesn't have the resources to sue giant companies and win, this still lets them steal everyone's work (which they're doing right now) but also levels the playing field […]

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Henry Wilkinson @hank.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2025

@mayintoronto Actually you know what, that's a slight lie. I once messaged a guy my dad has worked with on there to see if I could score tickets to a motion graphics meetup that was full on Eventbrite and it worked. Thanks Ron <3 ...But that's literally it. That's the only thing.

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Henry Wilkinson @hank.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2025

@mayintoronto I haven't exactly tried very hard to maintain a presence on LinkedIn, I explicitly tell people who found me there to contact me elsehwere... But I can't help but feel like the entire world has massively over-indexed on how useful it is because — for some reason that is beyond me — […]

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Henry Wilkinson @hank.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2025

I have never wanted to do anything less

Website banner that says "Zoom is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for UCaaS! Read the report"

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Henry Wilkinson @hank.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2025

Through the power of special interest info-dumping, I may have secured a consulting gig lol

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Henry Wilkinson @hank.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2025

@akhileshthite I've had the subscription feed URL bookmarked ever since YouTube introduced the algorithmic homepage. I pretty much forget it has this until somebody mentions it. www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions

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