iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Over the weekend I had Claude set up a daemon on my Mac mini that syncs all of my Mastodon posts to my Obsidian vault. Now I can search them on all of my devices.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 05/10/2026

Come hungry, leave happy!

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 01/10/2026

I just rescued my fourth lost dog, on a walk. Four-out-of-four owners have never seemed relieved or excited or offered thanks.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 29/09/2026

Oh, wow, I hate this the most.

Political donation text message that says:

You know who doesn’t have to send these stupid f@!$ing text messages?

My Republican opponent…

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 29/09/2026

Sir, this is a public trail. (I think signs like this do more to permanently pollute public scenery than the crimes they denounce.)

A sign, posted from someone’s backyard facing a public walking trail, that says:

Want to start yoga? Start by bending over and picking up your DOG SHIT known as the downward dog position then put it in a bin!

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 28/09/2026

Microblogging social media is a joyless void because the main demographic is now in or near middle age. 15 years ago that was not the case. I think that sums it all up.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 28/09/2026

Ma'am, this is a Trader Joe's.

A car with “The good guys don’t bomb schools,” painted on the back.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 27/09/2026

We have a lot of elements against the top edge that work well with UIScrollEdgeElementContainerInteraction on iOS 26, like permanent controls and scrolling sticky header. I worry how those will look below the dividing line. Do you know of any Apple examples of sticky elements?

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 26/09/2026

Does anyone remember iPSP, the iPhoneOS-lookalike portal for the PSP released before the original iPhone? It is the crowning achievement of my friend and me. We will never make anything more popular. The YouTube videos have over 750k views. www.brewology.com/?p=377 youtu.be/rKkMJTB6s3A?si=HhEY4...

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 26/09/2026

It continues to be the case that buying stock when red charts are being posted on Mastodon and selling when they stop being posted is a great way to make a buck. Not advice, of course, just an observation.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 25/09/2026

I didn't have any real problems with my tmux workflow on desktop, so Orca is a minor improvement there. I do appreciate vendor agnostic automations and quick commands. But the UX improvement over MOSH clients on my iPhone is huge. I can reliably start work on mobile now, not just continue it.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 25/09/2026

Oh, huh, Opus 5.5 really can one-shot videos. This prompt was < 100 words and it took 10 minutes to make on my 5-year-old MacBook with no video production software installed. I guess this is the end of everything.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 24/09/2026

It's smaller in your hand than you might think.

Photo of me, taken from the perspective of my web cam, holding iPhone Duo.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 24/09/2026

Every app I want to make these days needs a sheet / drawer like Apple Maps and Shortcuts, but they hide it from us. They taunt us. I say we seize the means of production and cast off these chains!

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 21/09/2026

Conventional wisdom has been to invest in Pokémon futures, but the S&P 500 has resoundingly taken over. Update your priors, folks.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 16/09/2026

I guess eventually we will have AI-generated state flags.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 15/09/2026

Hard to separate from this, though.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 14/09/2026

Is there a German word for…

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 14/09/2026

GitHub isn't universally bad, they're just a bad macOS-as-a-Service. For example, it is very convenient to have the entire operation and distribution of the app available turnkey in a single place, familiar to the entire team, where all load-bearing scripts are run. I can release from my phone.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 09/09/2026

Let's not lose sight of AI enabling things such as:

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 04/09/2026

My iOS project at work has a few Makefiles.

Truncated screenshot of 50+ make targets shown after executing make help.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 30/08/2026

Of course we support iPad, and iPhone in landscape. My users are technicians in the field using their personal iPhones, or folks in warehouses using deployed iPads. I take a lot of pride in making sure that this enterprise software is familiar, best-in-class, and as performant as possible.

Screenshot of iPad with a multi-column screen, showing the workspace section list on the left and workflow screen on the right.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 30/08/2026

My favorite area, and the one that is most difficult to make fake data for, is chat. I think Liquid Glass looks its best on screens that aren't just grays and blacks. The message composer was a tough translation, but I loved getting to use the keyboard material for our attachment drawer.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 30/08/2026

The most consistent hurdle with Liquid Glass was the desire–especially translating from Android–to stack things against the navigation bar, toolbar, or keyboard. We made it work.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 30/08/2026

Before iOS 27, I wanted to mention how pleased I am with how Liquid Glass turned out with my job's app. We support iOS 16-26 so it's not easy to thread the needle. I worked with a great Android-focused designer that let me make suggestions for how to best adapt. I think Dark Mode is beautiful.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 30/08/2026

"Sol-class models, which are already obsolete." It is probably more accurate to say that the singularity has started than that we are near the top of an observable S-curve.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 29/08/2026

5 ½ more innings of this.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 29/08/2026

First impression: this is amazing. I'm watching the game from the away batter's box and I can see the whole field. My whole field-of-view is Yankee Stadium. Here, I took a screenshot.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 27/08/2026

$Meme: look at what they need to mimic a fraction of our power.$

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 24/08/2026

This was included in the latest Claude Code newsletter. Does it strike you as directionally correct or too close to Gastown tokenmaxxing?

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 24/08/2026

We call this "AI psychosis."

Screenshot of poll from Mastodon showing 63% of people would prefer to eliminate “generative AI” over “gambling.”

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 24/08/2026

It's really easy to lose sight of the Popular New Releases list on Steam.

Screenshot of top three popular new releases on Steam. #1 is Big Tiddy Goth Baddie, #3 is My Sexy Fairies, #2 seems like a slur.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 19/08/2026

And Dark Mode, of course.

Screenshot of my Home Screen showing the Next, Edge, and Production variant app icons in Dark Mode.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 19/08/2026

I appreciate Icon Composer empowering me to make different colorways. (That's Next, Edge, and Production.)

Screenshot from my Home Screen of the three icons for the three variants of the app I make at work.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 17/08/2026

Gen Z's version of mesothelioma.

Screenshot of Reddit ad for some lawsuit, I guess, about social media addiction perpetrated by Big Tech.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 16/08/2026

My email address is KyleWithTwoYs@BudClaryAuburnChryslerDodgeJeepRam.com

Photo of TV screen showing aforementioned URL.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 15/08/2026

For example, you can wrap idempotent API methods in your service and get call coalescing for free, without compromising Swift concurrency semantics.

Code snippet showing example from README where a single-argument API call is wrapped by Coalesced and returns the same call signature.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 14/08/2026

"You have to look at the code!!!!11111" The code:

A really long line of Swift code for a function parameter that uses many annotations and language features.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 13/08/2026

Pete Rose is trading in his grave right now.

Screenshot of Red Sox vs Blue Jays game where gigantic Polymarket ads are shown behind home plate.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 12/08/2026

This name is a kind of humiliation ritual.

Screenshot of email announcing that Cursor Grok 4.6 is available.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 12/08/2026

Adobe is chopped, cooked, and plated.

Screenshot of Adobe Firefly ad on Reddit showing 2024-level AI image generation features.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 11/08/2026

The one good thing that came out of the pandemic was me purchasing a "You Were In A Meeting And Need To Crack A Window Or You Will Suffocate" meter.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 10/08/2026

lol I had GPT 5.6 Pro research and make a graph of when we can expect Google AI Overview to be powered by a Fable-class model that has the necessary speed and economics Google is looking for: March 2027

Scatter plot titled “The missing corner for Google AI Overviews: Fable-class intelligence at Search latency and Flash economics.” The x-axis is estimated model-only time to produce a 200-token answer, on a logarithmic scale; the y-axis is Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index score. Claude Fable 5 reaches the target score of 62 but takes about 140 seconds and costs $7.70 per million tokens. Qwen3.8 Max is much closer to the desired frontier, scoring 58 at about 5.2 seconds and $1.18 per million tokens; Kimi K3 scores 60 at about 7.2 seconds and $2.31 per million. Gemini 3.5 and 3.6 Flash cost about $1.31 and $1.16 per million but score 52 and take roughly 39 and 25 seconds, respectively. A highlighted forecast point at score 62 and roughly 4.5 seconds represents the missing combination of Fable-class intelligence, Search-compatible latency, and Flash-level pricing, predicted for Q1 2027.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 10/08/2026

New ChatGPT jailbreak just dropped.

Screenshot of ChatGPT conversations where it refuses to make an image of Pokemon, then I tell it “u got it wrong,” and then it does. It also includes Bruce Willis for some reason.

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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 09/08/2026

If you see something, say something.

Photo taken from my perspective, reclined in the Boston airport watching planes take off.

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