iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I love that Steam makes the results of they Hardware & Software survey public.

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Lily58 split keyboard is amazing! No more pinky acrobatics!

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Zed is actually quite fun. Definitely faster to bootstrap than LazyVim, which also needs tweaks after first installation.

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ConfiguringCtrl-hjkl panel navigation to Zed was a life changer! That should just be the default for vim mode to make all the NeoVim/LazyVim users happy.

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

AI speeds up work considerably-ish. Unfortunately, there are currently a lot of wheels being reinvented.

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m delighted by Mistral’s ‘vibe’ and how well it works for fast rubber ducking.

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Open Source and the open discussions that come along with it are still my favourite aspect of the community. Did a single Forgejo command fail for me today? Yes. Do I know exactly why? Also, yes! Just like that, I’ve learned about latest sha256 developments in git. 🚀

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

For all the things that AI gets wrong, there’s also a tremendous amount of stuff it gets right. It’s essentially more efficient rubber ducking.

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

LazyVim with a little bit of customization on top is still the best. I should create a distro based on it and call it LazierVim! 😅

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

RustConf was amazing! The UnConference discussions were a closing highlight for me and I’m glad I stayed for those! #rustconf

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Dioxus (Rust web/app framework) was acquired by Cognition (Devin)! 🚀

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Signed up to the Indigo Innovators program today. Books are important and I hope that they stay around for a while longer. (And read the Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir! It’s so good!)

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Read a Guardian article by Dr Daniel Susskind about “[…] what parents need to know about AI.” Super smart fella. Not so sure about his pitch as AI for personal tutoring/education though. At least not in the next few years. Generated text is too flawed. It works for code, because code is testable.

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Used The Morbid Zoo’s link to subscribe to Nebula. Seems like that’s where the long-form content is nowadays. And I love to support those creators!

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It’s Mystery Friday! I stumbled on an old tmux session with a question from an AI agent. I said yes! Let’s see what it’ll implement for me, because I haven’t the foggiest clue what I asked it to do!

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Today was a disappointing day, because I learned that the vast majority of the tech sector is associating with right-wing extremism nowadays. And here I was naively thinking we all like tech because of Star Trek and other hopeful futures. 🤷

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

AI can be great for coding. It isn’t always on point though. Today I’m fixing an “issue” where another agent decided to undo my previous work. Again.

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Easy choice to use chezmoi for dot-file management across operating systems: it has a “migrate away from chezmoi” section for off-boarding in its docs. No lock in.

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

@joplinapp.bsky.social Joplin Terminal works on Asahi Linux! I got it up and running on my old M1 MacBook Air! I guess the terminal version is mostly for servers? But really, really cool that it can be used for tinkering too!

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I had way too much fun making minor tweaks to my Asahi Linux desktop last night.

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It’s Lake Ontario named after the Huron word for “great lake”. Strikes me as super racist to rename it after a white dude. That’s also why it’s Gulf of Mexico.

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It’s a challenge to set AI aside when it’s time to wrap up. The LLM doesn’t need to rest, but it has to for own mental peace at the end of the day.

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Lindsay Ellis’ video about Dolly Parton is great. I learned a lot.

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I’m amused that Mistral’s latest “vibe” CLI isn’t in their model yet. It denies that features exist while I’m using them! 😅

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Holy moly! No Rest for the Wicked might actually be available on Mac with the 1.0 release! Hope it’s happening! 🤞

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

One of the nicest things about Linux: whatever your use-case, there’s a distro for it!

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Saw Switch & Click’s video about using SteamOS as a desktop OS. I’m most impressed how SteamOS prevents breaking changes. Safer Linux desktop environments for non-technical users is definitely a step in the right direction.

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I’ll be at RustConf in Montréal next month. 🦀 If you’re going too, I’d love to meet. Happy to schedule something in advance, or just say hi between sessions.

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Updated Fedora Asahi Linux on my old MacBook Air. I’m always pleasantly surprised how it keeps this old laptop fresh and usable. 🐧

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Domain secured. And, signed up as CIRA member. Now, is it time to stop procrastinating and actually write some essays? 🤔

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The Expanse is on CBC Gem! It’s even better rewatching it. The really long story arch is amazing!

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Sunday was spent setting up tmux (properly) and hooking up Pi with my local Ollama serving a Mistral AI model. I’m most happy that my tmux looks good now and the it has vim motion key bindings now! 😅

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Watched Her (2013) and it is interesting how different AI was perceived and portrayed back then.

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I always thought that age would be a major issue when training for running races. Well, turns out that climate change is the ultimate problem. There are so many heatwaves and wild fires now, which make training a health risk. I cannot imagine how much this is going to affect the next generations.

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Binge watched the entire Millennium mini-series. The Swedish one. It’s fantastic and I love the attention to detail in every scene. Also, the film grain in certain shots was charming. Not sure if that was intentional or just a poor lighting coincidence. 😅

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Finished Harrow the Ninth. Really long ramp-up, but the story turns into fire towards the end. Absolutely a great read!

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Children of Morta looks amazing and the opening was great, but I had to refund it due to micro stutters. Changing resolution and flipping v-sync didn’t help. Unfortunate, because I got 100+ FPS, but the micro stutters were extremely jarring.

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

After a week in Paris I’m mostly offended that my plants seem to be doing so much better with me gone. 🌱

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Git 3.0 is apparently scheduled for later this year and I just learned that a bunch of tooling doesn’t support SHA-256 yet. Had to switch from gitui to lazygit. Luckily, that also just works with LazyVim out of the box. 😮‍💨

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Just finished Gideon the Ninth and I’m already onto Harrow the Ninth. It’s such a fresh story and dramatically really well paced.

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

No Rest for the Wicked release announced! This is awesome!

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I tried out Raiders of Blackveil since it seemed like a cool Roguelite/ARPG mashup. Looked at my watch and it’s 11pm. So, yeah, it’s actually pretty good already despite being in early access. It’s on sale right now too!

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Casey Muratori’s talk The Big OOPs is really interesting. He reverse engineers how we got here — in object oriented terms.

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I watched a horror movie and the 2025 documentary The Librarians. I watched two horror movies.

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Old MacBook updated to Fedora Linux Asahi Remix 44! Was that easy? Heck no! Was it worth it? Always! 🐧

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

First time an ad popped up on ChatGPT for me today. Next: I’m waiting to see when an ad will be part of the answer.

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Saw a lot of recommendations for Dead Cells. It was an instant buy once I read that Motion Twin is a French indie studio.

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

There’s the idea of the “dead internet” where most traffic is just bots. That aside, it’s also a problem that most websites are just advertisements now with zero or trivial content.

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

It’s pretty fantastic how running an AI locally lets you tailor it to your needs — while also being a privacy vault.

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Kim @kimjbaran.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Scouted for smaller LLM models and came across translation models from the University of Helsinki. It was interesting to find out that they have a disclaimer that they are not accurate enough for real world applications.

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