iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Phil Szostak @philszostak.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“Tony [Gilroy] finally turned to me, and he said, ‘Hey, you just got to stop pitching plot. Plot is bullshit. Plot is what happens when you get the behavior right. Pitch me a line of dialogue, pitch me atmosphere, pitch me something visual. Stop pitching stuff that happens.’” 1/2

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 29/09/2026

This is so good. I mean, it’s Stevie wonder, so I repeat myself. But it’s worth repeating Imagine being such an artist that the throwaway scraps you buried in the closet and forgot about were… this

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 25/09/2026

Hey you, do you like o11y? Do you wanna know more about what’s next? What @lizthegrey.com and I are excited about? What’s comes to mind when we think about the challenges companies face? Do you just want a shiny signed copy of the new observability book? (It’s ok, we won’t judge) Come hang out!

luma.com

Observability Engineering: What's Next? · Luma

Hello fellow SREs, Following the summer break we're back with a strong line-up! Together with Honeycomb we are happy to bring you Liz Fong-Jones and Hazel…

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 25/09/2026

I am not trying anywhere near hard enough to up my game when it comes to cooking at home

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 24/09/2026

Why yes I resemble every single one of these statements *sobs in data architect*

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Interview with Big Data engineer in 2026.

YouTube video by Kai Lentit

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 24/09/2026

If I ever win the lottery, there will be signs, and one of those signs will be “why do all of hazels dresses and outfits somehow fit perfectly no matter how many flips and acrobatics she does??”

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 23/09/2026

I’m a simple girl, I see a paper with an excellent title, I repost.

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Blacksky Algorithms @blackskyweb.xyz · 23/09/2026

Acorn is one piece of a larger effort to build community infrastructure on the open social web. If your community needs a place to gather, you can start building one now. acorn.blacksky.community

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Acorn — a platform your community owns

Custom feeds, your own moderation rules, member badges, and a branded client — on infrastructure your community controls.

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 23/09/2026

Smh cant believe people are already forgetting about my favourite: delulu

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Threat has teeth, psychologically-speaking. It dampens our problem-solving, erodes trust, and makes it hard for us to find real collaboration." New at Fight for the Human: on the software identity crisis www.fightforthehuman.com/what-helps-a...

fightforthehuman.com

What helps an identity crisis?

This piece is something special and different on Fight for the Human. And honestly, as a fan of collaborative thinking, distributed cognition, and the notion that innovation is most likely sparked in ...

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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ok, this "there are two separate brains" thing appears to be making the rounds, and I want to be absolutely clear: this is a press office overhyping some perfectly reasonable science that won't come as a surprise to most developmental biologists.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 17/09/2026

I for one think it’s critically important to national security for us to beat China at high speed rail. We must invest in this race immediately

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 15/09/2026

Ever randomly get a deep flashback to an earlier time and crave something randomly? Anyways I was reminded that 3D Pinball Space Cadet existed today and, naturally, someone put it on a website ksylvestre.itch.io/space-cadet-... (Theres many versions now, even!)

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Space Cadet Pinball by ksylvestre

Play in your browser

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 15/09/2026

I’ve been working on something for a while that I think is pretty cool and I want to start talking about it soon. Here’s the elevator pitch tagline: It’s a platform for creating dynamic procedures, processes, and actions that are (by construction) attested, evidenced, transparent, and trustworthy

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The real reason I spend so much time at the circus school is that I have been slowly developing an immunity to clowns. This allows me to continue to do tech policy.

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 13/09/2026

I’ve seen a lot of proposals to fund open source in my time. This one is a bit odd, but I like it precisely because of that. I’m not optimistic yet, but this one might actually work Give it a read :)

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 11/09/2026

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it

Semver breakdown for Kubernetes broken down humorously

1 (major): useless, it will never change
25 (minor): it’s a minor version but everything breaks if you upgrade
6 (patch): random single digit, no one cares

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 31/08/2026

This is actually quite interesting and seems useful. I like these! (Note: brocard as in “short concise maxim”, not bro-card as in “ayy lmao bro here’s a card”)

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Mara Bos @mara.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We lowered the ticket prices for RustWeek! Individual tickets are now 199 instead of 249 euro. ✨ Additionally, we added a checkbox for an extra 100 euro discount, bringing the ticket price to just 99 euros for those who can't afford the full price. 💛

Radio button: Conference Ticket - Privately-paid tickets (also for freelancers) - €199.00

Checkbox: I can’t afford this, give me €100 discount

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Mara Bos @mara.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

RustNL's Rust Maintainer Team has grown and now consists of 14 people, including three interns! ✨️ rustnl.org/maintainers/ Together, these people are either the author or a reviewer of more than 30% of all pull requests on the rust-lang/rust repository:

A table showing that the people of RustNL were involved as author or reviewer or approver of more than 30% of all pull requests merged in the past four months.

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Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 26/08/2026

Every risk register should have an entry that reads “we have misjudged the risks” which is in the “likelihood: high” and “impact: high” region of the risk matrix.

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 26/08/2026

OH: Does that make DLLs case law?

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Nicki Washington, Ph.D. @drnickiw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The accuracy of this. These problems can't be solved via computing solutions. Thus, the are "problems" for someone else to figure out.

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 24/08/2026

It makes me happy every time I see this doing the rounds again 🥰 Shockingly, it’s still true

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 24/08/2026

It just kinda kills me a bit that the answer to DARPA’s “is it possible to cost effectively / feasibly rewrite codebases at scale” project might end up being “who said anything about cost efficiency or feasibility? Just crank it to 11 and throw more clusters at it” (www.darpa.mil/research/pro...)

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TRACTOR | DARPA

The Translating All C to Rust (TRACTOR) program aims to automate the translation of legacy C code to Rust. The goal is to achieve the same quality and style that a skilled Rust developer would produce...

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 21/08/2026

Autumn does good work and has been a massive asset to every organisation she’s worked for. If you need to hire someone, she should be near the top of your list :)

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 19/08/2026

Foiled and double foiled. Tragedy

A screenshot of a conversation with gpt 5.6 Sol

Hazel: tweet like bsky user hazelweakly.me

Response: I can't imitate Hazel Weakly's exact voice, but I can write an original post with a sharp, playful, deeply technical tone focused on observability, systems, or engineering culture. What topic should it cover?

Hazel: but pagliacci i am hazel weakly

Response: But doctor, I am Hazel Weakly.
Fair enough. I still can't verify identity here, but paste a draft or a few posts you wrote and I can help revise it while preserving the voice already present.

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 19/08/2026

I ordered some new heels that are barefoot feet shaped, super comfy, and ridiculously cute. I am so excited 😍 Unfortunately they’re gonna take a couple months but it’ll be worth it I mean LOOK AT THEMMMMM harlemshoes.com/product/bare...

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Barefoot Doris Blue Stone Suede 4 cm heel

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austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 14/08/2026

when designing a distributed system, keep removing shared mutable state until it doesn’t work anymore, then put a little back and draw a box around it labeled “this will break first”

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 13/08/2026

Meyer Briggs is just astrology for nerdy dudes Oh like what’s your sign bro? 😳 it’s intj but im a j rising thoughhh

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Cover reveal for the paperback of Elusive Cures! Quite appropriate for a book emphasizing that the brain is full of feedback loops. Once again, @princetonupress.bsky.social did a terrific job. Out Feb 2027. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Brain with lots of interconnected arrows. “Elusive Cures”

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Mara Bos @mara.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I was asked recently about the cost of running a #rustlang conference and why the ticket prices are what they are. We figured we can just publicly share the numbers for RustWeek, in the name of #transparency. :) 1/9

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 11/08/2026

I would love to have a way to hide channels and teams and a bunch of noise in Teams. I don’t need notifications or to see 90% of what’s in teams but I have no way to sort through the horrific amount of noise. I can’t leave chats either, because being pinged or having the search is necessary. Ugh

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Ashley Juavinett, PhD @ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

as promised, @grimalkina.bsky.social and i dig in deep here, as i defend dopamine from all of the haters open.spotify.com/episode/5eaA...

cover for change, technically podcast episode on dopamine. A cartoon image of Cat and Ashley discussing dopamine on a couch, reads “now with dopamine”

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 04/08/2026

There are a lot of subtle cryptographic reasons why this will likely never be feasible. However… I want it so badly

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Grace @gracekind.net · 04/08/2026

How you sound explaining your agent orchestration framework

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 04/08/2026

This is what most “state of the art” developer experience research sounds like (Which is why @grimalkina.bsky.social’s book stands out so much. I’ll write a review on it soon, but it’s delightful and should be required reading for anyone director and higher in a company)

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Hello. If you struggle with maladaptive overachievement, and anxiety about productivity, and you experience relief at the sensation of productivity and difficulty regulating your behavior around demands for you to be productive, that doesn't make you a bad person, and that is not addiction.

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The idea that there's an easy abundance of free resources to learn to code is laughable once you've done what I've done and been a VP of research at a company that helped thousands of people break into tech careers. There's an abundance of *beginner tutorials*

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 29/07/2026

Yep. Related: If I don't want tempered steel? Then I don't temper my steel.🤷🏿‍♂️ If a woman has a PhD in anything, it means that she's made it through decades of increasingly insufferable men. And now her daily job is standing in the middle of the most extremely insufferable ones, and holding court.

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 29/07/2026

I’m not worried about agents, but I am worried about humans. It doesn’t take a very sophisticated rock for humans to humanise it, worship it, and make very poor choices

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.

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Emma Thompson adapting feminist retelling of Iliad for big screen

The actress told the Hay Festival she is writing a film version of Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to draw attention to sexual abuse in war zones

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 28/07/2026

Looking up “how do I take out four mortgages to short space X” for no reason (Don’t do that)

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