iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn.dev · 05/10/2026

I am looking for my next career opportunity! I’m an engineering leader, consultant, author, and open-source maintainer. I've been VP of Eng, written books, get 20M weekly downloads on NPM, and more. Know of a role you think I'd be a good fit for? Book time on my cal or DM me: corbincrutchley.com

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Corbin Crutchley

I’m an engineering leader, consultant, author, and open-source maintainer in Sacramento, California.

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TANSTACK @tanstack.com · 05/10/2026

TanStack Charts 1.0 is here 🎉 Small bundles, fast updates, and charts you don’t have to outgrow. Start with a line and see where it takes you, or just simply tell your agent to "use Tanstack Charts"! tanstack.com/charts

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 05/10/2026

My god this tech is flawless

AI prompt saying "Watching silently — I’ll only message you when QA responds or something needs you." and then later "(No change — staying silent per your instruction.)"

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Last week @theverge.com published my essay exploring the limitations of large-language models. This week, that same essay is cited by a federal judge in Michigan to distinguish the process of human reasoning from what these models do. Very, very gratifying.

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 01/12/2025

Friendly Reminder that the Black Friday sale on the Practical Accessibilty course is still running, but the 30% discount expires in less than 3 days ⏳ If you've been thinking about getting the course, now's a good time to grab access before the offer ends: practical-accessibility.today

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The Practical Accessibility Course

A get-right-down-to-it online course for Web designers and developers who want to start creating more accessible Web user interfaces and digital products today

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/11/2025

Large language mistake Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... great read from @benjaminjriley.bsky.social

Our cognition improves because of language — but it’s not created or defined by it.
Take away our ability to speak, and we can still think, reason, form beliefs, fall in love, and move about the world; our range of what we can experience and think about remains vast.
But take away language from a large language model, and you are left with literally nothing at all.

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 01/07/2025

What I would pay to play this game on console/mac 😭

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 10/03/2025

I don’t think Apple News understands what blocking means

Apple News “top stories” page with a story by an outlet I blocked. Instead of not showing the story, It just is grayed out with a “you blocked this channel” message over the thumbnail

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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

🐦 #linguistics senior thesis project alert! If you are ✅ 18+ ✅ Native speaker of American English Pls consider taking a ~5 min survey on "how words (may have) changed in offensiveness across generations" msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

A flyer advertising this research project. The top says "Offensiveness of Insults". The text says:

If you are: 18 years old or older AND a native speaker of American English, please consider taking my short survey (3-5 minutes)! Your responses will inform my senior thesis research on whether certain words have changed in their "offensiveness" over time.

You will be asked to rate a series of words on how offensive they are in a given context. No identifying information will be collected.

Scan the QR code or visit: https://msu.col.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bNuepJFVM3ocUXc

Thank you for your help!

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 24/02/2025

This is mysterious and important (SPOILERS if you're not caught up to the show and watch the video) www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRnD...

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Severance — Music To Refine To feat. ODESZA | Apple TV+

YouTube video by Apple TV

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I've noted some of the procedural things Democrats could be doing in Congress, but this point from @edgeofsports.bsky.social's great piece in the Nation deserves emphasis. This is basic politics, and it's baffling that every Democrat isn't doing it every day. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Why aren’t they taking the fired federal workers who are sharing their heartbreaking stories—the ones that Musk says were being paid to do nothing—and making them famous? The cancer researcher on the verge of a breakthrough? The park ranger in Yosemite who won’t be there to conduct rescues and save lives? The air traffic controller who can speak to the connection between understaffing and recent plane crashes? Is it even safe to fly in Trump’s America?

The Democrats should be amplifying these folks—writing op-eds about them, refusing to go on camera without sharing their spotlight, pressuring their IG influencers to raise them up—but instead, we learn their stories from Reddit. As Moira Donegan wrote in The Guardian, “Why are the Democrats so spineless?”

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

What would a TV ad promoting alternatives to driving look like? What if people who love cycling and progressive transportation reclaimed ideas like freedom, independence and even patriotism? We decided to give it a shot. Check out our new video, "America, It's Just Like Riding a Bike."

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America, It's Just Like Riding a Bike

YouTube video by The War on Cars

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 07/02/2025

Accessibility fuckin’ rocks

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 02/02/2025

“Healthcare havers” may be my new favorite way to describe pretty much everywhere except the US

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Arthur Goldstein @teacherarthurg.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

This is a dangerous man, with a head harder than a rock. Children have died elsewhere because of his intransigence, and that's what he wants to bring here. No paywall for you today.

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Opinion | RFK Jr. Is a Vaccine Cynic, Not Skeptic. (Gift Article)

My job is to ask tough questions of vaccine makers. That’s not what he is doing.

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 05/01/2025

Highly requested feature available now 🥳

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 29/12/2024

I’ve been on the road for six months, exploring some of the most stunning places on earth. I created an app, Trek, that I wish I had sooner to keep track of all the amazing places I’ve been and the ones I still want to visit. letstrek.app 1/3

A title, “Make lists of your favorite places”, above a preview of the trek app with a list titled “Nice”, a thumbnail photo of a beach, and a description of a trip in the past. It’s a description of the kinds of places the list contains

A title “remember your experience with notes” above a preview of the trek app. Includes a photo of a teapot and a cocktail, a place named “Roseleaf bar cafe” and two comments by different trek users.

A title “Group by tags to make places easier to find” above a preview of the trek app’s “Add a place” form. The form includes an address field, a place name field, and a picker to choose up to 3 tags for a place. The tags chosen are “Food”, “Drinks”, and “Dessert”.

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 26/12/2024

Something fun coming soon 🦜

Screenshot of an app called “trek” with a list view and a preview of a list called “Nice” with a description of “from my trip in October 2024…”

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 24/12/2024

“You’ll be visited by three spirits.” The three spirits:

Louise, Gene, and Tina from the show “Bob’s Burgers”, outside the restaurant playing music. Gene is playing a keyboard and the others are playing music with their straws as they pull them in and out of their drink cups

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 17/12/2024

Okay I take back the bad things I’ve said about the final season of #WWDITS, they made it work

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 16/12/2024

Not quite done with setting free tier limits, but it sure feels good to have my first ever production payment and membership go through (even if it’s mine) 🙈 Having never set up payments before from scratch, it’s been a journey. #buildinpublic

A membership settings page for my app, “Trek” showing a “Membership” heading with a “premium” badge next to it, indicating someone is a premium member.

A payments dashboard. Showing a set of charts, with payments on the y axis, showing payments over time. At the far right side of the chart is a single uptick from 0 to $2.99, showing a first purchase.

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Karen McGrane @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

They're also only vaguely aware of all the social programs funded by tax credits that they benefit from. > taxpayers fund our retirement saving, health insurance, primary, secondary, and advanced education, daycare, commuter costs, and even our mortgages at a staggering public cost.

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Socialism for white people

Election 2016 has prompted a wave of head-scratching on the left. Why would economically struggling blue collar voters reject a party that offers to expand public safety net programs? The answer is…

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

People with homes are so rarely cold at night that I just don’t think homes are necessary anymore.

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 12/12/2024

2024 Google search is a disaster

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Chaz Hutton @chazhutton.com · 11/12/2024

Googling Stuff: Then v Now.

This title if the comic is ‘Googling Stuff…’
The comic shows two columns: on the left is “Then” showing search results with one thing listed as “the thing you want”

On the right column is ‘Now’ - also showing search results but in this case it’s a whole bunch of stuff you don’t need:

AI TAKING A WILD STAB AT IT WITH SOME
BLATANT MISINFORMATION

SPONSORED RESULT

SPONSORED RESULT

SPONSORED RESULT

SPONSORED RESULT

PEOPLE ALSO ASK

VIEW PRODUCTS

And then right at the bottom just off screen is ‘the thing you want’

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 11/12/2024

If we wanted to, he would.

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Semantic Fish @semanticfish.com · 10/12/2024

How compliant your web site/app is with accessibility standards? @ashleemboyer.com is available to help! 😌 These are probably more affordable than you think: - Reviews & Remediation - Cross-team Training - Integrating a11y earlier Reach out here: clientportal.semanticfish.com/public/hire-...

Legal compliance is the baseline, not the finish line.

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 10/12/2024

Little rebuild of playtrample.com in React Native/Expo of slowly but surely coming together! Spent some time on the "getting started" guide experience today! Really just working towards a functionally complete V1 before I circle back and work on polish (like the modal experience) #buildinpublic

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

People: What productivity software do you use? Me:

A screenshot of Google Tasks showing one task “Take out the trash” in a category called “NOW” that was to be completed 135 weeks ago.

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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 03/12/2024

Naming things is hard. If you don’t know what to call a component in your design system, you can start by looking at what other teams are doing. Component Gallery is a great resource for this: component.gallery/components/ …But don’t assume that something is correct, just because it’s popular.

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Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · 29/11/2024

😂 I love this. “The UX of LEGO Interface Panels”, a look at the fictional interfaces printed on 2×2 sloped bricks. interactionmagic.com/UX-LEGO-Inte...

A big collection of lego bricks with printed control panels, taken from many different sets.

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Blind Bob k 👨‍🦯 @blindbobk.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

To all the awesome people using #AltText on their images, I love you. You make me feel included. Thanks. One other quick tip. capitalize the first letter of each word in your hashtags. #Blind #VisuallyImpaired #ScreenReader #FuckTrump

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Cole Bemis @colebemis.com · 27/11/2024

My girlfriend and I made a little two-player word game. It’s called Word Rumble ✨ Have fun: wordrumble.fun

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 22/11/2024

Inching closer to a beta release to some friends on my side project 🕺🦜

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 22/11/2024

this is how i consume bsky now firehose3d.theo.io

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Bluesky Firehose (live)

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 20/11/2024

Spent the last 2 days reading DOM stacking context articles and tutorials and my response: z-index++

Meme of car salesman pitching a car to a prospective customer with caption "*slaps roof of DOM* this baby can fit so many z-index temporary fixes in it"

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 20/11/2024

Yesterday, in my spare time, I started rebuilding my beloved (and neglected) playtrample.com for native using @expo.dev, and it's been going well! Nothing in the game _works_ yet, but the pieces are coming together! #buildinpublic

A screenshot of my game, with the all the major pieces in place. It's a daily word game with a word up top (the "active word"), a letter bank at the bottom, and a set of actions you can take on the active word like replacing a letter, inserting a letter, or deleting a letter

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 19/11/2024

For context, I’ve been traveling for the past 6 months and have found it increasingly difficult to keep track of my favorite places and places I wanted to visit. So I did what I do best, and spent hundreds of hours of my free time over the past few months to solve the problem #buildinpublic

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 19/11/2024

I’ve been working on a side project for the last few months and I’m equal parts excited and nervous to show the world 🙈 #buildinginprivatebecausebuildinginpiblicisspooky

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Jake Dawkins @jakedawkins.com · 18/11/2024

Made the mistake of opening Threads for a minute (instead of bsky) and was curious why my feed was so shit right now. It’s remarkable how obvious the difference is between what I get here vs there

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