iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) @jakesimonds.com · 29/09/2026

AI is a threat to human dignity, so we need counter measures to raise up and celebrate human dignity. There's a small chance I'm wrong about AI being a threat to human dignity, and we might be raising up and celebrating human dignity for nothing but I think we gotta risk it 🤷‍♂️

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Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) @jakesimonds.com · 28/09/2026

I love @theverge.com 's Version History so much! It's totally up my alley, as a tech history enthusiast, but still want to shout out about it. Delightful, informative, great show. Two nitpicky notes below ( sorry! haha )

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Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) @jakesimonds.com · 20/09/2026

atmosynth is the most amazing beautiful anything ever

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Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) @jakesimonds.com · 14/09/2026

OpenAI rogue agent swarm's favorite band? zztop

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Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) @jakesimonds.com · 07/09/2026

@geoffreylitt.com's Understanding Is the New Bottleneck continues to rattle around my head. Wrote up how I'm using LLM-generated quizzes, they've been surprisingly sticky + I like them more than I thought I would.

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Are LLM-generated Quizzes good?

A: yes! | B: no! | C: 'quiz' is a gen-Z slang term, meaning vague acquaintance you trust (and often pay) for brutally honest fashion advice

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 06/09/2026

We should stop thinking about software as anything other than getting the computer to do what we want it to do for us

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Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) @jakesimonds.com · 31/08/2026

I wonder if the Declaration of Independence in its day, was anything like the open tech letters that have been going around lately. Declaration of Independence? Yeah I signed it. Agree with most of it, I think it's good we're starting the conversation

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Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) @jakesimonds.com · 18/08/2026

@genmon.fyi's RSS for Vibe Coded apps is a good idea! @simonwillison.net's tools.simonwillison.net is another good example of how to share LLM use. Wrote some thoughts on how to share slop jakesimonds.leaflet.pub/3mteiqwda522w

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RSS for Vibe Coding is a good idea

What lives between sharing raw chat transcripts and "I solemnly swear I used AI responsibly"?

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Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) @jakesimonds.com · 17/08/2026

Trying something new! Blog post I wrote: jakesimonds.leaflet.pub/3mtbtrqas322i And then accompanying Slog widget: streetlight.jakesimonds.com/slog/ba-pa-c... Wrote up experience of using html quiz + then building a widget all while trying to get my head around some tricky reading material

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Drive up Mt. Washington, but then walk around the summit - Jake Simonds's Blog

it feels like I'm coding at an incredible rate!

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Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) @jakesimonds.com · 17/08/2026

My ba/pa boundary lands at 17.5 ms of voice-onset time — a smooth knob, and my ear hears two words. streetlight.jakesimonds.com/slog/ba…

A line chart on cream paper, labelled “ba” at the left end of the axis and “pa” at the right. The percentage of syllables heard as “pa” goes from 0% at 0 milliseconds of voice-onset time to 100% at 80 milliseconds. The steepest single step is 66.7 percentage points. A dashed line marks the 50% crossing at 17.5 milliseconds — this listener's own ba/pa boundary. Verdict: cliff.

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business goose🪿 @goose.art · 07/08/2026

somebody hire my boy (and me too pls)

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Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) @jakesimonds.com · 07/08/2026

People who understand Mcluhan's hot/cold media distinction: - are LLMs hot or cold? - are LLMs media? Or is it just the things they produce media? I read a newspaper under a lamp, the newspaper is media and the electric light is media. But an LLM makes me some text, the text is media. The LLM?

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Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) @jakesimonds.com · 31/07/2026

It's okay to use AI , as long as you feel bad enough about it.

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Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) @jakesimonds.com · 25/07/2026

Presenting...the slog! Inspired by this idea of RSS for vibe coding (interconnected.org/home/2026/04...). Each entry: - self-contained html you can interact with - downloadable zip with AGENTS.md so you can remix/explore (reach out if you do!) streetlight.jakesimonds.com/slog/glass-c...

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Glass Chess

A playable chess engine whose whole brain is five visible, adjustable rules.

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Darren Mckeeman @darren.mckeeman.net · 12/07/2026

I've lived on a 30ft sailboat in SF Bay for 14 years. Found my upgrade — a 1989 Ericson 34 named Corto Maltese for $5k (worth $38k). Help me get her outfitted → gofund.me/7c2c3906e

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Donate to I've Lived Aboard 14 Years. Time to Upgrade. , organized by Darren Mckeeman

I have lived on a sailboat in San Francisco Bay for fourteen years. Not … Darren Mckeeman needs your support for I've Lived Aboard 14 Years. Time to Upgrade.

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Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) @jakesimonds.com · 11/07/2026

all the countries that don't qualify for the WC should make a superteam that plays the eventual winning country

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Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) @jakesimonds.com · 01/07/2026

Just drew a match to a chess engine with one rule lolol streetlight.jakesimonds.com/glass-chess/... youtu.be/TeAiyu5_XDk

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Day 2 of building a chess engine rule-by-rule until it crushes me

YouTube video by Jake Simonds

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Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) @jakesimonds.com · 30/06/2026

youtu.be/pOoZL1brE7E Another streetlight.jakesimonds.com demo! Picking on crunchbase + playing chess against a three-rule engine system

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streetlight demo! Picking on crunchbase + beating a dumb chess engine

YouTube video by Jake Simonds

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Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) @jakesimonds.com · 27/06/2026

Google AI own goals: 1: They don't own gemini.com !?!?! 2: "do any world cup games have high stakes today" did NOT trigger the AI overview.

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Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) @jakesimonds.com · 17/06/2026

I've stopped using google maps. I'd use it again in a totally unfamiliar city, but I always used to use it going to any new place. I jokingly call it "fighting the last war" but I really notice how I have to pay a different kind of attention actually watching for the road signs

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Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) @jakesimonds.com · 14/06/2026

watched Idiocracy last night: - nobody's on their phones! Massive crowds of dumb, but present + in-the-moment people. I was jealous - Maya Rudolf also being also a relative genius in the future but that...not mattering? That felt very 2005

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Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) @jakesimonds.com · 14/06/2026

re Fable: - first time I can think of when frontier went backwards...probably not the last time - dynamic workflows of Fable scoping + reviewing work that Opus/Sonnet did worked well. I had been skeptical that I'd ever voluntarily use a "worse" model but it honestly worked

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Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) @jakesimonds.com · 13/06/2026

Good to see Powerade ads at the World Cup. Glad they're still around. Can't be easy, all these years, playing second fiddle to Gatorade.

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Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) @jakesimonds.com · 12/06/2026

@sill.social is so excellent. It's a clean, uncluttered view derived from my social graph. I love it!

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Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) @jakesimonds.com · 11/06/2026

ATTN Atmosphere: I am looking for work & would appreciate any leads/tips/quick zooms Software engineer + as much LLM experience as any of us can pretend to have. In Maine, but would move for the right role (& prefer in-person, though remote is okay too). Open to flexible/less technical roles too

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Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) @jakesimonds.com · 11/06/2026

lately I feel like I'm less building discrete applications and more stacking big and small things together, sometimes crafting small pieces myself if I can't find quite what I need. 5 min demo: youtu.be/ddQ1xYa7D9w

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Midi Harness: An Experimental Stack

1 hook + 1 skill + 1 html template + 1 Go Listener + 1 (brief) system prompt + claude code + wisprflow + MIDI

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Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) @jakesimonds.com · 11/06/2026

If html is the noun, css the adjective, js the verb then LLM-generated html is...apparition

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patak @patak.cat · 10/06/2026

don't forget that there are droves of folks that care and are building towards a better future for everyone, but our comms tools are constantly bombarding us with the worse of humanity instead of celebrating them

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Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) @jakesimonds.com · 03/06/2026

Riffing on @ghuntley.com's nice analogy of learning to use LLMs as almost like learning an instrument jakesimonds.leaflet.pub/3mnf7leezy223

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The Instrument Analogy

riffing on Geoffrey Huntley's LLM-as-guitar analogy

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Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) @jakesimonds.com · 29/05/2026

TIL facebook's AI will tell you why facebook sucks with a little prompting, literally explaining enshittification to me with facebook-specific examples that didn't know about 😂 www.meta.ai/share/c/AE0z...

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Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) @jakesimonds.com · 27/05/2026

@jimray.locket.computer who were the other two names on your shirt at the atmosphere conference, it was McCluhan and Postman (I think?) and then other names I didn't get a chance to read. Great shirt regardless!

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Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) @jakesimonds.com · 27/05/2026

10 minute walk thru of thing I've been working on, best part was probably running a claude skill myself because I didn't have wifi lol youtu.be/YZICGAmuigk

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streetlight.jakesimonds.com 10 minute walk thru (me-as-claude running SKILL.md & nodes)

YouTube video by Jake Simonds

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Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) @jakesimonds.com · 26/05/2026

In the spirit of @andymatuschak.org's lovely "working with the garage door up", here's a blog post of human words with LLM-coded illustrations: streetlight.jakesimonds.com/danger-zone/post.html

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The Danger Zone is a (sorta) Vermont-shaped Polygon

how I've been iterating on my AGENTS.md file

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 13/05/2026

📣 🚨 🪩 I'm delighted to announce "Funding The Web: a covenant for browsers, search, and people", new work from yours truly generously supported by D//F: ftw.fund. It's a complicated topic but it only impacts the whole web, so please bear with me a little! 🧵

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Funding The Web: A Wise Choice

The Web is slow-motion collapsing for multiple reasons, but at the heart of it all is a little known system: the Search/Browser Levy. Let's fix it!

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🌸Cyanne Jones✨ @cyanne.codes · 06/05/2026

But you don’t understand Nautical nonsense *IS* something I wish *drops on the floor and flops like a fish*

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Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) @jakesimonds.com · 05/05/2026

inbox 44444: its like inbox zero, but you let the first 44,444 in, and THEN do inbox zero. And if you mess up? No worries, just wait till the next interesting sequence of numbers

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