iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 28/09/2026

Are there good spaces where people discuss how they're organizing their engineering teams and best practices while building faster with AI?

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 25/09/2026

After sitting on colors.io for too long, I finally threw something up on there. Simple color map and palette picker.

colors.io

#FF3636 · colors.io

rgb(255 54 54) · hsl(0 100% 61%). Find it on the map of every color.

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 23/09/2026

It is truly fall in Seattle: The leaf blowers have awoken from their slumber to awaken me from mine, too.

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 18/09/2026

Glad to see UX skills aren't replaceable by agents given the visually appealing but incredibly information dense websites I've been seeing lately. Yeah, I definitely want to read the novel that describes your product on your marketing page.

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 17/09/2026

Namecheap requiring you maintain an IP allow list for API use is definitely a choice that might be what sees my domains transfer elsewhere after 18 years.

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 14/09/2026

Spent a week and a half in Montreal. The metro, croissants, and soft serve are very good.

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 19/08/2026

Last year was my introduction to Mariners baseball and I was lucky to see us enter the post season and win our division in person. What is happening.

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 15/08/2026

Second time paddle boarding and you could say I’m something of a professional now

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 14/08/2026

GitHub should take notes from Graphite and put the stack list at the top of the page predominantly rather than the pill that hides it away.

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 07/08/2026

The dialog on Taste has me thinking about Pirsig's writing about Quality.

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 31/07/2026

I've joked that I will be dead by the time the Ballard Line is built and now I feel justified in that.

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 21/07/2026

Feeling very trolled by Anthropic prompting me to set up a security key every time I sign into Claude but also never prompting me to use it when I sign into Claude.

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 06/07/2026

I would not describe myself as a horror/thriller fan though I tend to enjoy them. So of course the movies I've seen lately would be Backrooms, The Thing, and Leviticus.

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 25/06/2026

It's kind of late to be talking about this but I still think about Clubhouse and how astonished I was when Butterfield commented that it is what made him think about easy voice-only calls as if Discord (among others) hadn't been doing it forever.

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 25/06/2026

Some photos from recent Golden Gardens visits.

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 21/06/2026

Not abandoning my love of Rails any time soon, but after using LiveView in some new Phoenix projects as we adopt it at work, I really do enjoy the process of implementing LiveView events a lot.

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tierney cyren @bnb.im · 09/06/2026

I *really* hope this works

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 06/05/2026

I truly loath email sign in links / codes.

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 25/04/2026

I saw Electric Callboy last night at the Paramount Theatre and while they put on a fun show, it was very odd to me how quiet all of the bands sounded from the floor.

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 04/04/2026

Father John Misty at Paramount Theatre tonight was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 25/03/2026

A few photos of (mostly) cherry blossoms from the quad at UW last week.

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 20/03/2026

I've been exploring Phoenix / Elixir and LiveView. I think if Rails w/ Turbo could go more in the direction that LiveView has taken it could be so much more powerful.

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 15/02/2026

After using full stack typescript for a couple of months, I miss working with a rails backend.

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 09/02/2026

We stan Liquid IV at this superbowl party

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 08/01/2026

Spent some time in Index, WA with my friends for this New Year.

A photo of a log covered in moss with some mushrooms (that appear to be Fomitopsis pinicola) growing on the end.

Picture of a rocky area with a waterfall.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

mariners and blue jays game 7 ends in a rare draw. dodgers are automatically evicted; seattle and toronto advance to the world series.

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 09/10/2025

Next they’ll find the leader of anonymous

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 22/09/2025

After upgrading to macOS Tahoe and iOS 26 I can say that while I'm not terribly impressed by the "liquid glass" look, I don't mind the general UX changes they've made with it on iOS. On macOS, besides increased border-radius of some applications, it feels fine.

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 31/08/2025

Went hiking at Paradise on Mt. Rainier last week. Very gutsy Marmots and Chipmunks up there.

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 27/08/2025

can leaf blowers be illegal just let the leaves be they aren't doing anything wrong

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 27/08/2025

Spent the weekend at Orcas Island.

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 09/08/2025

Spent part of last Sunday at Little Si. Cloudy day but a great hike.

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 31/07/2025

This app is very useful and I've used it a couple of times for timeline estimation planning and adjustments. (Would love to be able to start the week on Monday)

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James Newton @jamesnewton.com · 25/06/2025