iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 30/09/2026

The most satisfying part of making a cheesecake, made doubly-so when there’s a hungover teenager that needs waking up

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 29/09/2026

Any food is a recovery food if you eat it after exercise. Just needed a vehicle for the farmhouse marmalade

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The specialist topic I can vomit words about with the mildest provocation? It's this little beeper

When you accidentally find my specialist topic

Basically exercise is like that famous 'Flow' diagram except I'm trying to find the very narrow sliver of "that felt amazing—I am a god" sandwiched between "you're useless (couldn't do it)" and "you're useless (should have done more)".

My favourite thing is bringing nice knives to people that would never buy one themselves. This is a japanese gardening knife for a friend of my mother’s. Incredibly useful!

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 24/09/2026

@appsignal.com need to get on the Stroopwaffle Swiss Army knife train

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I was a lot less opinionated. Just needed something that wasn't a 1200-line TASKS.md file!

jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 24/09/2026

No one in their right mind would, in the middle of a complex project, decide "ah, fuck it, this is getting complex. Let's build our own project management app just for this project". Except that's _exactly_ what you can do now and it'll take about 10mins. Don't need Linear or GitHub Issues.

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 23/09/2026

I'm gathering this was the vibe from DHH to a room full of Rails developers?

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 12/09/2026

We were thinking about getting an ADHD diagnosis for my daughter but she was up til 4am making a Studio Ghibli-themed productivity planner for her new college course. Surely this is enough evidence?

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 07/09/2026

~~Sabbatical~~ more like Sab-cat-ical

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 07/09/2026

Lady and The Tramp (Pluto and Steve the Stray) have taken their affair to the next level (6ft up the catio/tree)

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 05/09/2026

spinel is fast-as-fuck though—plenty fast enough to start with. Serving a calendar app using SQLite:

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 30/08/2026

The sycophancy in Claude can be annoying when I'm using it to review code and architecture ideas but when I ask it "what audacious goal can I set for my 4 week sabbatical given how I'm currently performing?" this is exactly the sort of self-affirming nonsense I'm looking for:

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 22/08/2026

Nothing beats the feeling of freshly sanded wood! Stripping back the kitchen table and re-oiling it on the basis this could be the last fine weekend before winter

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 15/08/2026

(A)I built another little app for myself today, to annotate images on my phone. I'm using it to keep measurements on the areas that need tiling and the dimensions for the window blinds. And I've wanted this for years for other little jobs.

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 12/08/2026

Solar eclipse review: mildly dull

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 12/08/2026

So you’re saying there’s a solar eclipse? Honestly I don’t think I even believe in the sun

jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 09/08/2026

I just love the skill, the showmanship, the fun, the teamwork, and it doesn’t take itself too seriously. It’s also absolute bedlam

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 09/08/2026

At the Dublin Horse Show for the day and, whilst I can appreciate the best of the show jumpers, absolutely nothing compares to the joy and teamwork of the pony games

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 08/08/2026

The final version of my AI-designed, 3D-printed extractor fan outlet pipe fitted in place

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 03/08/2026

My favourite bird! Big enough to be exciting when I see one on the telegraph poles or soaring over the hill; common enough that I see them every few days—or sometimes twice on the same short drive. Was lucky enough to have one in the garden for an afternoon

jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 01/08/2026

I’m not pretty enough to do this meme on Instagram so… “I’m going out for 10k” “Ok, honey. Enjoy your run” “Run?!” #swimming

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 26/07/2026

Just a test jig for the moment but it seems to fit pretty well. I’ll print the full parts this week once I get some PETG

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 26/07/2026

I asked Claude to design a custom part to connect the cooker hood to the wall output—two different diameter pipes, offset vertically and horizontally. Then I sent the parts to my 3D printer. 👆 that's some living-in-the-future Star Trek shit!

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 21/07/2026

Turns out the psychology of this software team is mostly forgetting you had pre-ordered the book so you pre-ordered it a second time 🤦‍♂️ I guess I was excited @grimalkina.bsky.social

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 20/07/2026

…but if you're concerned, you can now purchase the optional rapid cabin depressurisation insurance

jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 16/07/2026

The shear unadulterated _fun_ you can create with AI these days, like this page for agents/devs to quickly log in as any local account

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 13/07/2026

So it turns out, you can just query ATProto for what apps your network uses! Maybe this will help with discovery—because I sure didn't know about most of these

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 08/07/2026

This cat does not have to wrangle electricians and kitchen fitters. That bunny has the look of someone that does 😡

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 07/07/2026

Send stupid cold out-reach emails? You better get good at answering the hard questions

What’s the hardest problem you’ve had to solve that should dissuade me from just throwing Fable at building this?

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 02/07/2026

I love that one of the Irish Air Corps’ maritime patrol aircraft has the call sign “Kraken”

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 02/07/2026

To be clear I expect: - an AI has locally reviewed this code - the developer has reviewed this code - Claude has then reviewed the PR This label is more about "do I need to ask _another_ developer to review this PR?"