iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 18/08/2026

An abridged explanation from a pod I enjoy here (4:03 in) youtu.be/c1L12iSM5p8?...

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State of Agentic Coding #9 with Armin and Ben

YouTube video by Armin Ronacher

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 18/08/2026

Basically, yes. Here’s the best detailed version of what happened, straight from the team at OpenAI youtu.be/87DyyMV0kCY?...

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Black Hat USA 2026 | The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident

YouTube video by Black Hat

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 25/11/2025

enjoyed this! Keep at it. Does Jarrett in the background help get the words flowing? 🤔

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 18/11/2025

Oooh that’s perfect. Thanks!

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 17/11/2025

A quick follow-up to my first post. Picked a color palette too. lucashomer.leaflet.pub/3m5u5kbucx22b

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What's in a name? - codeshedding

why codeshedding

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 17/11/2025

Ah, ok, I love the ability to one-click and generate my own BlueSky feed that's all my @leaflet.pub subscriptions. The compounding niceties of AT Proto are 🤌

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 17/11/2025

Trying out @leaflet.pub - Will post there (and thus, here) as I read things and work on projects. lucashomer.leaflet.pub/3m5tmju25k22p

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Read with me - codeshedding

Have any good reads?

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 26/03/2025

This is so great. I’ve been working through your book, and now I’m on a little side quest reading your blog. Thanks for all your work and sharing a refreshingly clear and lighthearted approach to learning. Your stuff clicks with me and it’s a joy to read. Fitter. Happier. More productive 🤣

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Adit Bhargava @egonschiele.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I'm starting a Substack! I'll be writing illustrated posts on different software topics. The first series is going to be all about AWS networking. Here's the first post on VPCs www.ducktyped.org/p/why-is-it-...

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An illustrated guide to Amazon VPCs

In this section, I talk about why VPCs were invented and how they work.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run

The pro-Palestine student was arrested without due process for exercising his right to free speech. He will not be the last.

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 26/01/2025

You could *literally* bring home some bacon and whip up the fam some carbonara aka bacon eggs and cheese in noodle form

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 22/01/2025

Finished getting our Maestro E2E tests going on @expo.dev EAS docs.expo.dev/build-refere... We use GH Actions and EAS so all I had to do was create a small custom build config and a new build profile, so in GH before the `eas build --auto-submit` step, we have an `eas build --profile maestro` step

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Run E2E tests on EAS Build

Learn how to set up and run E2E tests on EAS Build with Maestro.

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 18/01/2025

Never thought we could leverage our Zillow addiction into helping Angeleno tenants but I'm so here for it.

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 17/01/2025

Alt: dachshund sun-bathes in the window, belly up, stretching out.

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 17/01/2025

It’s important to get your rest and vitamin D

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 17/01/2025

Would love to hear if you've done anything similar, what tools you chose, etc. Side projects are extra fun when they have real stakes and it feels great to give back. They're going to be pretty active these next four years, and they're going to be ready for growth in outreach and audience.

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 17/01/2025

If I did it over again, I *might* have just gone with the in-house managed Ghost experience, but the difference is ultimately fairly negligible. Overall, I chose these tools because they're easy and fast to set up, and once I hand it off, they won't need me very much.

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 17/01/2025

Considering the current site's registration and hosting and everything costs them about $35-40 per month, and does essentially nothing, it's pretty great to get SO much more with the modern set of tools and infra for around twice that.

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 17/01/2025

We've set up a Stripe account, transferred domain registration from Namebright to Cloudflare, and created a self-hosted instance of Ghost + MySQL via Render. Email delivery with Mailgun. Forms with Formspree. Bought a Ghost theme that suits their needs and vibe. All in, it's about $70-80 per month.

A basic spreadsheet outlining the monthly expenses for all the digital infrastructure needed

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 17/01/2025

If you look at the current site, it's a bit sparse, to say the least. It's time to change that. Some requirements: Email newsletter, online newsletter archive, some educational resources pages, online donations, contact and volunteer forms, and a way to sign up for the print newsletter too.

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Lodging - Home Page

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 17/01/2025

Outside of dev work, I spend a lot of my time running in the mountains surrounding Ojai where I live. We're blessed to have land trusts, conservation groups, etc. Keep Sespe Wild, was instrumental in getting protected status for the Sespe Wilderness. My mate runs it now, and I offered to help

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 17/01/2025

Thread on a side project I'm doing to give back to my community. I'm bringing a local non-profit's digital presence from 1997 to 2024. It's not live yet, but soon! For now, check out a blast from the past, hosted on earthlink! sespewild.org

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Lodging - Home Page

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 17/01/2025

Okay it’s time for me to write a thread about bringing a local nonprofit from EarthLink-hosted one page site into 2024. With receipts!

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 13/01/2025

It’s stressful stuff. Sorry you and your family is suffering. Goggles or any kind of eye protection 🥽 are good too

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 13/01/2025

Solved our non-US SMS login issue! Twilio quietly switched off all non-US/Canada geo-enabling so we had to dig around the dashboard and find that page, then manually opt-in for each territory, and then opt out of those that weren’t labeled “high risk” but they emailed us saying they actually were 🥲

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

This is what you are looking for, my beautiful babies.

85.5% price increase in rent asking due to wildfires making ten thousand + families in LA homeless

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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/01/2025

this is our actual climate future staring us in the face - no consensus reality or shared source of authority, rampant conspiracies everywhere, more pressure to address made up nonsense than the underlying problem conspiracy theories are fully mainstream now

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 09/01/2025

The amount of conspiracy nonsense and general ignorance and misinformation around the fires and why the happen, what we/“they”/points-at-someone should do/should’ve done… I cannot handle it. Go read Mike Davis. Go read Obi Kaufman. Stop prognosticating and show love and support to those affected.

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Lizz Porter @lizzporter.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

SoCal friends, I’m so sorry you’re dealing with this. A few things I wish I’d known as we evacuated ahead of a wildfire (that took our home in 2021) 🧵

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 08/01/2025

I expect a @kelseyhightower.com sound effects board soon!!

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 07/01/2025

Last year this pod leapfrogged all other tech pods as my favorite listen. Great interviews of course, but more than anything they’re funny and always keep it 💯. Thanks for continuing it @justingarrison.com @withenoughcoffee.com 🙏🙏 open.spotify.com/episode/7wBc...

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Remaining Authentic in Retirement with Kelsey Hightower

Fork Around And Find Out · Episode

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 06/01/2025

Getting E2E tests going for our Expo app and this article proved really helpful, specifically the string matching bit: blog.theodo.com/2024/03/thre... Kind of odd that it wouldn't initially pass on such a simple assertion, but adding `.*` fixed the issue.

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Three Hacks to Level Up Your Maestro Testing | Theodo

Discover solutions to problems faced when writing end-to-end tests for a React Native mobile app, using Maestro and Flashlight. Learn how to identify elements using testID, use regex with your string ...

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 06/01/2025

back from holiday, and realized I hadn't properly responded to this, but that's super helpful info, so thank you! think we're going to go for it. our use case is pretty straightforward, so might as well give it a go! thanks again 🙏

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 01/01/2025

in bed by 10:30! every year we stay in, wear pajamas, drink champagne, and eat latkes 😇

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 30/12/2024

I'm sticking with @darthbluesky.bsky.social's take on this. Promote what you want and be proud of your work and ignore the haters. bsky.app/profile/dart...

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 30/12/2024

Trying to reach her level of blissed out. Goals.

A dachshund is completely wrapped in blankets so only its head is visible, blissfully snoozing

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 24/12/2024

Run club had a holiday pizza party and a buddy and I made dough. I engineered my face off and he went with a more… unstructured method 😅 Both turned out great

On the left, a large container of sourdough bubbles and overflows like a slowly creeping amoeba monster, and on the right, individual dough balls neatly packed and ready to go.

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 20/12/2024

@expo.dev happy friday! I'm evaluating where to run my Maestro tests, and I'm curious about the 'preview mode' disclaimer on EAS Workflows. Do you have customers using it in prod? Is it mostly stable? Would love to leverage these workflows now but don't know if I should wait a bit. Thanks!

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 17/12/2024

Those pretzel chip things are literal razor blades. Chomp at your own peril 🔪

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 15/12/2024

The launch went really well! I followed it with a two week torrent of UI details/fast-follows. Dust is settling and it’s time to write a launch post-mortem. I’ve learned a few things and I’m excited to share.

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Lucas Homer @lucashomer.com · 08/12/2024

Autumn in the Topatopa Mountains 🤩 Got some great training in this morning, and now I’m firmly on the couch.

Sisar Creek crosses the trail, and a California Sycamore turning colors is centered in the frame

Heading up the side of Sisar canyon, and looking south to see all the way to the Santa Monica mountains and the pacific coast near Oxnard, CA

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

It important to know the names of women researchers who've been studying, speaking & writing about bias and AI. Dr Timnit Gebru, Dr Rumman Chowdhury, Dr Safiya Noble, Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Dr Buolamwini And many many more within/outside academia. Free link: archive.ph/2023.11.22-1... 👑👑👑

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These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI

Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears

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Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

You can only be great at Development and programming if you are truly willing to be bad at it first. If you are willing to be bad, pay attention and learn. If you do that, you will truly become great at this!

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