iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 12/04/2026

i got tired of my homelab always breaking when i tried to use it. ended up building an AI loop to proactively fix these issues before I ran into them. now i’m not doing on call for my own house. kylemcd.com/posts/buildi...

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Building a self healing homelab

Kyle McDonald's personal site where you can find his writings, projects, and other fun stuff.

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 19/02/2026

i've been a lazy lazy boy and subjecting myself to keurig coffee lately. broke out the aeropress this morning instead and i forgot how good this is. definitely worth the extra little bit of effort.

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 13/02/2026

so surely AI code + engineer's inability to properly review the drastic increase in code written is the cause for these outages plaguing the tech industry yeah?

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 12/02/2026

still not over how cool it is to see the vinyl i currently have spinning in real time on my personal site. going to write a blog post about how i accomplished this soon.

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 09/02/2026

this pencil is a work of art

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 04/02/2026

a single 16:9 monitor is peak productivity

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 31/01/2026

wow this looks like an awesome "dumb phone". love that you don't have to have a second line or need to sim swap. wish there were more phones in this category that did this. www.meadow.so

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Meadow

Off your phone.Into the moment.

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 31/01/2026

a completely normal way to spend a saturday relaxing

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 29/01/2026

first race back on iracing after a little break and I decided to do porsche cup at monza (clearly i'm sadistic). guy behind forced us 3 wide into ascari on the last lap and it ended up with me in the wall. glad to see nothing has changed 🙂

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 28/01/2026

when building react components I basically never utilize boolean props anymore. this is substituted by patterns like component parts, <Tag copyable={true}/> vs <Tag.Copy/> or "enum" string types, isEditing vs mode="editing | idle". makes things WAY more extensible in the future.

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 28/01/2026

just one more mac mini and you'll find product market fit. just one more mac mini bro.

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 27/01/2026

this, exactly this. there is nothing more fun to me than the period of time from starting something new to actually getting competent at it. right now, society tell us we need to ingest every bit of information from X influencer in your latest hobby. but like, don't, it's more fun that way.

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Why You Should Start Doing That Thing You Want to Do

It’s fun and really nice to do things that you love and that you’re good at—BUT it’s perhaps even better and more fun to do things that you’re bad at. And not just because you learn how to do them.…

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 26/01/2026

how is sonos touted as this "premium" whole home audio system when everytime I use it the app crashes, the music starts skipping, or better yet, stops playing entirely. honestly, what a giant flaming pile of shit.

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 26/01/2026

the engineer brain in me keeps over optimizing the things in my life that I enjoy. lately, to a point where the activity I did enjoy I no longer do because I’ve hit some sort of impassable barrier of optimization. reminder to ENJOY and be SATISFIED by the things you love.

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 23/01/2026

this was a banger. tons of new thoughts and perspective on the subject of privacy that has never crossed my mind before. will be thinking about this book for years to come.

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 23/01/2026

we're fine... everything is fine.

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 23/01/2026

never wanted to take my camera anywhere since then lenses I had were big and bulky, so got this 27mm fixed lens. loving reaching for this instead of my phone to snap a shot and also the creative confines of a fixed lens. (also enjoy a preview of some of my reading list for the year)

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 22/01/2026

arm's length was by far my favorite music discovery of 2025. also they're incredible live. pumped for their headline tour later this year.

pictured is a record player and 2 boxes of records, each containing an arm's length album.

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 22/01/2026

hi i want to start posting over here again 👋

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 07/03/2025

Finally found an OG image setup that 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴. Instead of generating them dynamically, I switched to using satori + resvg locally. No more random breakage or edge/node complexities. Simple, reliable, done. Check out the code if you’re curious 👇 github.com/kylemcd/pers...

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personal-site/generate-og.tsx at main · kylemcd/personal-site

Re-doing my personal site with a new design in Next 13 + Typescript - kylemcd/personal-site

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 07/03/2025

I spent the past year exploring sim racing, starting with a borrowed wheel—and spinning out in half the corners. Over time I found a vibrant community, experienced wheel-to-wheel battles, and realized how close virtual racing can come to the real thing. www.kylemcd.com/posts/my-fir...

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My first year sim racing: a journey of learning and community — Kyle McDonald

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 05/03/2025

Just wrote a new article about composability in React component libraries—why breaking things into smaller, reusable pieces makes everything more maintainable. Oh, and I finally finished rebuilding my personal site! www.kylemcd.com/posts/react-...

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Kyle McDonald

Kyle McDonald's personal site where you can find his writings, projects, and other fun stuff.

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 27/01/2025

What if your entire static site was 2 pages?

const PostPage = (props: BlogPostProps) => (
<Page
components={{ Button }}
render={({ content, frontmatter }) => (
<>
<h1>{frontmatter.title}</h1>
<div>{content}</div>
</>
)}
{...props}
/>
);

const AdminPage = (props: AdminPageProps) => {
return <Admin {...props} />;
}

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 26/01/2025

Registering a .is domain was perhaps the weirdest domain purchasing experience I’ve ever had. (Deets on what its for soon)

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 25/01/2025

I think 2025 is the year I finally write a form library that’s actually a joy to use.

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 21/01/2025

If anyone else here is into sim racing 1) Would love to hang 2) I took a great picture of my setup for you to appreciate

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 21/01/2025

Welp, 3 social media platforms now deleted.

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 21/11/2024

The first snow of the year! 🌨️

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 20/11/2024

My fiancé gives the best gifts 🏎️

An image of a neon sign on a wall of an office that says “it’s lights out and away we go”

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 18/11/2024

Turned 30 and the love of my life said yes! What a weekend 🥹

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 15/11/2024

Really proud of this pic I took

Man biking down a street in Chicago with lots of traffic coming up behind him

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 11/11/2024

My new toy arrived 🤘

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 10/11/2024

My obsessions over the past few years: • Espresso machines and coffee • Road bikes • Mechanical keyboards • Magic the Gathering • Watching vloggers • Hell Let Loose • Audio Currently into: • Sim racing and F1 • Photography • Punk rock No idea what’s next, but I’m sure it’ll be fun!

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 09/11/2024

Well that’s spot on

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 09/11/2024

Working on some little animations on my personal site. All done while ONLY using CSS.

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 09/11/2024

I’ve been tinkering with a new version of my personal site, using only plain ole CSS for styling, and I have to say—I missed how nice it feels to write CSS all day. Tailwind is still my go-to for production-level work, but dang, writing CSS just feels good.

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 08/11/2024

It’s been so much nicer coming to this app at the end of the day instead of the other one

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 06/11/2024

If you need me I’ll be blaring hot mulligan and sitting in the dark

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 03/11/2024

Incredible day from an incredible driver. Truly a world class performance under unprecedented conditions. If you haven’t watched the race from Brazil today… you should.

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 02/11/2024

Enjoy this pic of Wallie until I find something interesting to say on here

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 09/06/2023

just setting up my bsky

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