iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026

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Trade xkcd.com/3290/

Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs

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Tom VanAntwerp 🧙‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com · 11/08/2026

When's the last time Twitch chat got you a statue? How long since the Patreon members erected you a monument? What have your Substack readers done for you lately?

Statue of Alexander and Bucephalus

"Presented to the city by the subscribers."

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Lindsay Wardell @lindsaykwardell.com · 08/08/2026

For the Love of Language I love studying languages. Learning a new language takes time, and sometimes we assume we should be better at it. But learning to communicate with new groups helps us to understand and connect with the people around us.

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For the Love of Language

I love studying languages. Learning a new language takes time, and sometimes we assume we should be better at it. But learning to communicate with new groups helps us to understand and connect with the people around us.

Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

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Be a Samwise Gamgee. Support your friends, trust your instincts, be humble, lead with your heart, love potatoes, don't let one little spider ruin your day

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Well I can die happy now

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Lindsay Wardell @lindsaykwardell.com · 30/07/2026

I both hate and love that it's so easy to spot.

The StoryGraph @thestorygraph.com · 29/06/2026

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We’re thrilled to announce that StoryGraph and Kobo have partnered to bring you a seamless reading experience! 🥳 After syncing your accounts, your Kobo progress will update automatically to StoryGraph. Head to your Kobo account settings to start syncing your sessions today! ✨

Graphic announcing the Rakuten Kobo and The StoryGraph partnership. Text reads: “The partnership you were waiting for is live!” Below, a Kobo eReader, laptop, and smartphone displaying The StoryGraph reading stats sit on a wooden desk.

Photo of a person holding a smartphone displaying an ebook beside a laptop showing The StoryGraph reading stats. Text reads: “Read on Kobo. Track on StoryGraph. Your reading progress now syncs automatically.”

Instructional graphic with the heading “Ready to sync?” Text reads: “Go to kobo.com > My Account > Integrations.” A screenshot of the Kobo account menu highlights the “Integrations” option with a hand-drawn red outline.

Closing graphic featuring the Rakuten Kobo and The StoryGraph logos. Text reads: “Want to learn more? Discover FAQs at kobo.com/storygraph.” Three hand-drawn red arrows point toward the FAQ link.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

9yo and i are keeping a loose tally of the culturally specific body language for telling the ref that you are an innocent man, falsely accused so far we have ☝️👐🤌🙏 and 🤷

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Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 12/06/2026

Saving this for when I have to teach someone this lesson for the hundredth time.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/06/2026

Artemis III crew has been announced, with details of the 2-week mission. The plan: 1) Blue Origin lander launches to low Earth orbit 2) Space Launch System w/ Orion capsule & crew launches 3) Orion docks w/ Blue Origin 4) SpaceX Starship launches 5) Orion docks w/ Starship Launch target: late 2027

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Lindsay Wardell @lindsaykwardell.com · 26/05/2026

Boromir: give me the ring! Frodo: *logs out*

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Lindsay Wardell @lindsaykwardell.com · 22/05/2026

Probably my favorite project in middle school was just a math assignment that was "pretend you don't have a college degree, go through the classifieds, find a job and housing, and make a budget." I was working minimum wage from a trailer and splurging at dollar tree once a year.

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Firefox for Web Developers @webdevs.firefox.com · 18/05/2026

Chrome shipped an LLM Prompt API to the web platform. At Mozilla, we oppose this API. Here's why:

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gabby @fullmoon.id · 16/05/2026

new blog post incoming

Type out the code

Back in the day I read one of Zed Shaw's "Learn X the hard way" courses (I think it was his C++ course) and he began the course with a disclaimer that said something like "do not copy and paste the examples; type them out" because he believed strongly that doing so improved your comprehension of the material.

These days he recommends something even stronger:

> The best way to do this is when you complete an exercise delete what you did and do it again, but try to use your memory. If you get stuck then look at the exercise for clues, but try your best to recreate what you just did from memory. At first you'll be constantly referring to the exercise and the code, but eventually you'll get to where you can do it on your own. This will also improve your ability to remember more code, your ability to summarize how something works, and generally improve your skills faster than if you did it once and moved on.

This is known as the generation effect in cognitive psychology: the active generation of new content improves comprehension compared to passive consumption of the same material. Or as Richard Feynman put it: "What I cannot create, I do not understand".

I'm not a researcher, but I would still like to add my own spin as a lay programmer on why I believe this phenomenon matters for improving programming ability, even in the age of agentic coding. In fact, I think it's even more important now than ever for people to reacquaint themselves with this "ancient wisdom" because otherwise we'll end up with an entire generation of programmers wondering how anyone ever programmed without the help of a coding agent.

In this post I will lay out the case for why you should do the drudgery of occasionally typing out the code, character-by-character, as best as possible from memory. That doesn't mean that you should never use developer tools of any sort to accelerate the coding process, but you also need to occasionally do the boring parts by hand and by memory

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Lindsay Wardell @lindsaykwardell.com · 11/05/2026

Does anyone have any ideas on how to identify artist signatures? I have this piece of Magic the Gathering art, but I want to know the artists that contributed.

A custom piece of fantasy art by numerous artists, signed as part of Caravan Tour '95.

Lindsay Wardell @lindsaykwardell.com · 10/05/2026

New blog post, a brief reflection on my fifteen years of using the same Kindle, and Amazon's decision to no longer support it. www.lindsaykwardell.com/blog/kindle-... #blog

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Kindle: In Memorial

If there's one thing that the Kindle got right, it was made to endure. And endure it did.

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Lindsay Wardell @lindsaykwardell.com · 03/05/2026

Honestly same, PRs are suddenly dungeons and you get points for careful review? Love it. Server updates and restarts would honestly be an improvement over the regular outages we've been seeing.

Dan @d4m1n.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

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there is only one correct way to redesign GitHub and this is it

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Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 28/04/2026

The post by mitchellh gave me the final push to finish my GitHub "obituary". I originally started writing it after the Zig to Codeberg move. It's just a retelling of how I remember OpenSource pre GitHub and what it gave us. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/be...

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Before GitHub

Open Source before GitHub was reputation-driven and full of friction

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 27/04/2026

What word is your spelling nemesis? This is a safe space.

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Lindsay Wardell @lindsaykwardell.com · 27/04/2026

Necesarry (this is how my brain insists it's spelled every time)

Lindsay Wardell @lindsaykwardell.com · 22/04/2026

Sometimes, accepting that someone is incorrect is overridden with a desire to make things better in the world. At least, that's usually how it feels when I'm trying to explain something to my 10yo, but they dig in their heels and don't want to hear it.

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J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Just sharing a few random thoughts in the middle of the night.... jmichaelstraczynski.substack.com/p/everyone-y...

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Cassidy @cassidoo.co · 10/04/2026

Have you seen the new /pulls view on GitHub, yet? If you opt in to the new experience, your pull requests get WAY more organized, with everything from custom views to collapsible sections to filtering by org and repo.

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Lindsay Wardell @lindsaykwardell.com · 10/04/2026

I mean, they won't grow until you plug them back into the ground, so I think it counts?

Lindsay Wardell @lindsaykwardell.com · 10/04/2026

That sounds potentially very fun. We did something similar at work for an onsite, and it worked pretty well for that.

Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 06/04/2026

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oh, nothing, just me feeling the crushing weight of adulthood

Jason looking sad or overwhelmed, with the text overlay, "Things will calm down after this week."

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Talia al Ghoul 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Oh my gd, the Artemis II crew doing a parody of a bad 1980s sitcom intro from in space. Source: www.instagram.com/p/DWwuHPfCZ8Z/

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Lindsay Wardell @lindsaykwardell.com · 05/04/2026

Especially since I remember teachers discouraging kids from using Wikipedia because it _could_ be wrong.

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Lindsay Wardell @lindsaykwardell.com · 05/04/2026

We've been discussing this at work too. We all have AI tools we can talk to, if I want to talk to a human it's because I want a human conversation.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/04/2026

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 03/04/2026

Pulling out and connecting weird lil details until they provide an interesting picture is more interesting than a top-level summary that's the average of what everyone has ever said

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Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 19/03/2026

If you haven’t done what you should have done years ago, get tf off of Vercel

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 20/03/2026

When I role played as the computer at my starship bridge simulator job (we did Star Trek simulations for 5th and 6th graders), I would never use pronouns. “That is not a function of this computer.” “This vessel is under attack.” Etc. It helps keep the players as the main characters.

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Lindsay Wardell @lindsaykwardell.com · 14/03/2026

Thanks for sharing, that was a great article!

Lindsay Wardell @lindsaykwardell.com · 14/03/2026

I enjoy pulling out my Nexus 5 and playing around with Ubuntu on it, I really like the interface. It's too bad it didn't take off more.

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Lindsay Wardell @lindsaykwardell.com · 12/03/2026

Clearly the bug is that they meant to iterate over seasons, not days

Lindsay Wardell @lindsaykwardell.com · 12/03/2026

for (const day of days) { climate.getNext() }

Lindsay Wardell @lindsaykwardell.com · 07/03/2026

Great post, and I'm honored to be quoted in it ❤️