iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Ben Walker @ihatemornings.com · 23/09/2026

Trying to remember how this works.

Ben Walker @ihatemornings.com · 12/08/2026

Sat down with some cheese and crackers in a dark room at 6pm to escape the heat, ended up watching Clockwatchers (1997) and forgot about the eclipse. Great film though.

Lisa Kudrow, Toni Collette and Parker Posey looking shocked in a scene from Clockwatchers (1997).

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Ben Walker @ihatemornings.com · 11/09/2025

I revived my teenage interest in electronics so I could build my dream drum machine, offered it to the world and 100 people preordered it. I’ve built 30 so far, and I’m still having a blast playing with each one when it’s tuned and tested.

Black drum machine with colourful knobs, sliders and buttons sitting on a workbench full of electronics gear.

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Ben Walker @ihatemornings.com · 29/08/2025

Enjoyed this one. malwaretech.com/2025/08/ever...

The fact of the matter is, “prompt engineering” or whatever they’re calling it these days, has a skill cap that’s in the floor. Prompting LLMs simply just isn’t a skill, no matter what influencers who definitely weren’t previously claiming Bored Apes are the new Mona Lisa say. If you look at the prompts even the LLM developers themselves are using its things like “please don’t make stuff up” or “think extra hard before you answer”.

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Ben Walker @ihatemornings.com · 20/05/2025

Took a week to recover from #superbooth in Berlin, but I miss it already. This is me at the end of day one trying to cobble together some sort of midi clocked jam setup for the Beat Friend while eating a biscuit. 🍪

Me kneeling in front of a table of synths and drum machines at Superbooth fiddling with knobs and holding a biscuit.

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Ben Walker @ihatemornings.com · 15/03/2025

I was looking forward to this so much I accidentally preordered it twice. Two chapters in and loving it. Nice work, @lizpelly.bsky.social!

Liz Pelly’s new book, “Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist”

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Ben Walker @ihatemornings.com · 21/01/2025

Sure hope I got the numbers right.

Technical drawing of the back of the Beat Friend drum machine, with lots of measurements.

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Ben Walker @ihatemornings.com · 15/01/2025

Getting down to the finest details on this drum machine design. Important stuff though, like where do the screws go; is there a hole for the power switch.

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Ben Walker @ihatemornings.com · 05/01/2025

The Beat Friend drum machine! We haven’t quite finished building it yet, but 2025 is the year…

Beat Friend prototype at Machina Bristronica 2024

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Ben Walker @ihatemornings.com · 28/12/2024

Cool new way to organise the alphabet.

Sainsbury’s self-checkout till screen, worth the alphabet grouped into six buttons: “A-B”, “S-Z”, “P-R”, “L-O”, “D-K” and “C”.

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Ben Walker @ihatemornings.com · 15/12/2024

Sunday night Christmas movie.

Geena Davis as Charly the amnesiac assassin defending her daughter from a helicopter-bound bad guy as the timer ticks down on a massive chemical bomb on a bridge over Niagara Falls (in The Long Kiss Goodnight).

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Ben Walker @ihatemornings.com · 03/12/2024

Today I cannot see anything because the galactic collection of synths, drum machines and other beautiful instruments at @soundgas.bsky.social HQ is still seared into my eyeballs from yesterday. This is 0.00027% of it.

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Ben Walker @ihatemornings.com · 29/11/2024

Oh Amazon, you know me so well.

Black Friday deals recommended to me, a middle-aged dad: two power tools, two Batman costumes.

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Ben Walker @ihatemornings.com · 18/11/2024

Hmm who do we talk to about getting Bandcamp links to play inline around here…?

Screenshot of the External Media Preferences screen in the Bluesky app, which lists lots of media sources (Flickr!) but not Bandcamp.

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Ben Walker @ihatemornings.com · 18/11/2024

Wait how long has MacOS had a built-in app called Grapher that nobody told me about? I’ve been copypasting endless formulas in Numbers like a twat this whole time.

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Ben Walker @ihatemornings.com · 15/11/2024

I love the idea that Chris Bryant MP, an ordained Anglican priest, actually used the phrase “the raw power of live music” in a meeting.

Official portrait of Chris Bryant MP, former Anglican priest.

Quote from the press release, including the phrase “the raw power of live music”.

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Ben Walker @ihatemornings.com · 13/11/2024

tbh it’s a pretty persuasive deck

Google Slides on an iMac, title slide says “Why I should get a hamster / By your lovely daughter”

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