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

engineers are terrible at validating the correctness which is why we needed QA in the first place.

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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

people listen to what they want to hear i guess 🙃

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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

oh good info. once i get bored of my current hobbies / games this will be next up i think.

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 31/01/2026

i've been thinking about getting into that or satisfactory but I think it would consume my life.

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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

can always do it in vanilla like const BUTTON_TYPE = { PRIMARY: "primary", SECONDARY: "secondary" } so you get the same benefits but not relying on the LSP to catch the issues. though, you are relying on engineers to use the constants. also why tf are you writing vanilla JS in 2025 👀👀

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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

god, you're here too... nvm

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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 · 29/01/2025

I guess they can’t really get jobs after cs but besides that pretty good 😝

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 29/01/2025

I swear I always miss one. This should be a linter rule or something 🤔

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 27/01/2025

This is what it looks like when ran through a code formatter...

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 27/01/2025

Would prob go with something more like this personally

type ColorStringForLanguageParams = {
color: ColorItem
language: SupportedLanguage
}

function colorStringForLanguage(params :ColorStringForLanguageParams){
let color = params.color.color
}

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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

Prettier and ESLint monorepo support has been a mixed bag. It’s been a while since I last tried it (maybe it’s fixed now), but despite a lot of tinkering, I couldn’t get auto-format on save to work reliably in a monorepo, the way you get it out of the box in VSCode.

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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

My algo on YT is honestly way more addicting. Lots of history facts, race cars, and, building architecture. My TikTok algo was mostly brain melt humor.

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Kyle McDonald @kpm.sh · 21/01/2025