iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 12/04/2026

Somehow, my process over these last few weeks: - I'm gonna work on this game idea - I should abstract the high-level stuff in a lib - ...write a blog post about it - ...get my blog off GitHub - ...migrate my public projects off GitHub - ...run my own CI box - ...migrate my blog to Hugo

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 09/04/2026

Unsolicited advice from someone who's gone through hundreds of applications: Don't use LLMs to fill out your application. You're submitting the same answers as everyone else, and it's obvious. You *won't* stand out, no matter how perfect the answer. I know it's more work, but be yourself.

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Rogerio Romao @rogerioromao.dev · 01/04/2026

The story of my Github suspension, a thread 🧵. This is also a plea for help, if you have any advice or can otherwise put me in touch with someone who can have this looked at inside @github.com. Last Sunday 29th March, I was working away in vscode in one of my side projects.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 06/01/2026

After mostly un-Google-ing in 2025, 2026 is the year of un-Microsoft-ing my life. I spent the first part of my career developing .NET and Visual C++ applications and was an honest-to-god paying MSDN member and event attendee. I actually quite liked their dev ecosystem up to about 10 years ago...

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Oh wow. Lanes on I-10 narrowed suddenly, forcing ALL drivers to exit at a weigh station. A makeshift checkpoint—digital sign read: “Have Passport Ready” 1 of like 12 ICE agents, all standing around—in full military gear—ordered me to open my window: “You a U.S. citizen?” “Uh yes” then let me go..

Screenshot of GPS map, with current location on 1-10 near El Paso, Texas

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 29/06/2025

@chuckwendig.bsky.social I’m getting some powerful Randall Flagg vibes from this Eddie Naberius guy in The Staircase in the Woods…

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 26/06/2025

I ordered a backup Pilot Vanishing Point since my current one is nearing 10 years old and looking a bit worn out. I guess I'm feeling a bit sentimental about that specific fountain pen..? What a workhorse, though. I haven't looked back at any of my other FPs ever since I switched to this one.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

A 49 year old Canadian has died while in ICE custody.

ICE press release:

Johnny Noviello, a 49 year old Canadian, has died in the custody of ICE. The cause of death is under investigation.

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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

AI in the wild? This tray tissue I was given at a restaurant is full of errors and hallucinations…!

a tissue on a tray with a bunch of pictures and phrases and about food. but it seemingly contains a bunch of errors and nonsense:

“Doltclous”
“A full suamsh makes for you a happy heram”
“bood food is bood mood”

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 13/06/2025

What a fucking week.

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 06/03/2025

but dang, changing this theme to a monthly/yearly subscription (without a lifetime one-time purchase, which i'd gladly pay and have for every other platform) and then hijacking the existing plugin which worked for a few years and slipping this in, as a forced update... feels in poor taste. wdyt?

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🦇Red Vampire🦇 (Pls check pinned) @redvampire.itch.io · 21/05/2025

Adobe isn't even worth pirating the old versions anymore. github.com/KenneyNL/Ado...

This is a chart of Adobe alternatives for illustrative purposes, it is too exhaustive to fully alt text, you can use an alt text bot to break it down if you want I won't be offended, but a full list of alternatives is provided in a link in the main post.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 21/05/2025

I feel conflicted about supporting Khan Academy. It's incredibly useful to brush up on math skills, but I don't know if I want to give them money that will pay for AI bills rather than human salaries.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 07/05/2025

Fuck this. A company with a $79B market cap shouldn’t ask its customers for donations. That $1M goal is 0.00127% of UPS’s market cap. A fart in a storm.

Shows the goal of $1M with $1610 raised so far.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 30/04/2025

Six-Spotted Tiger Beetle near my pond. Is it me or does it look like it’s drinking a tiny droplet of water?

Photo shows a shiny blueish green beetle.

A closeup of the same beetle as in the first photo.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 27/04/2025

Probably the largest moth I’ve ever seen irl.

A close up of a moth’s face, chilling on an onion leaf.

A moth, as seen from its back. Sitting on an onion leaf.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 22/04/2025

American Airlines taking the opportunity during the flight to sell a credit card. This announcement is taking longer than pre flight instructions. How bad are things for airlines right now?

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🦇Red Vampire🦇 (Pls check pinned) @redvampire.itch.io · 21/04/2025

This "trusted verifiers" system won't be abused at all! Nothing at all reminiscent of when Bluesky started and had "trusted community blocklists" which turned out to be run by awful wannabe cybercop bullies.

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@Symatt™ 🍉🌽 @symatt.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I still have some #ttrpg books that I need to sell on. They're not getting the love they deserve with me. Can you give them a loving home? DM me with an offer.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 19/04/2025

Beholding the state of the internet in 2025. Also, youwerethechosenone.jpg

A closeup shot of Vito Corleone saying “look how they massacred my boy.”

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 18/04/2025

The slippery slope is a logical fallacy, but in tech, it seems to be true through a trend towards enshittification. With Series-A funding comes a promise of a subscription service and now account verifications a la Twitter. I hope this public benefit company will continue to benefit the public.

github.com

Verification by estrattonbailey · Pull Request #8226 · bluesky-social/social-app

Adding a PR description after all of the comments below! This PR adds support for Bluesky's new delegated verification system, which takes the form of badges i.e. blue checks throughout the UI....

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 18/04/2025

github.com

Verification by estrattonbailey · Pull Request #8226 · bluesky-social/social-app

Adding a PR description after all of the comments below! This PR adds support for Bluesky's new delegated verification system, which takes the form of badges i.e. blue checks throughout the UI....

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 18/04/2025

This is your annual Larry Niven appreciation reminder. Please take some time today to appreciate Larry Niven. Thank you.

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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Seriously. Tesla that shit.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 18/04/2025

Show me a pic from star trek that embodies your aura

An image of a nonplussed female Klingon superimposed with the text “y’all petaqs need kahless”

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 10/04/2025

the dude yelling at passing women outside a dollar general has 23k followers on here

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 04/04/2025

Caught a patriotic moment 🇺🇸

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 01/04/2025

Hey GitLab, maybe sending an email saying you’re going to start collecting usage data from self-managed instances isn’t the best thing to send on April 1st. Of all days…

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 30/03/2025

Americans identify more closely with Amerigo Vespucci rather than Christopher Columbus. Every red blooded American child knows that. Yes, yes, this is obviously a historical correction.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 27/03/2025

How long until the estates of deceased authors start selling AI-generated dreck in the style of?

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ryan @cybreco.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

they made an ai game where you can talk to the patients but forgot to add in prompt safety controls

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 10/03/2025

This won’t fix this problem, but it may help you down the line: get a USB 4k drive and rip/backup, all of your DVDs and Blu-ray disks. Jellyfin is free and network storage is affordable. MakeMKV -> Handbrake -> NAS -> Jellyfin Keep your physical copies for the booklets.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 10/03/2025

Glass half empty: 2025 is likely to be the hottest year on record. Glass half full: 2025 is likely to be the coolest year you’ll ever experience again. And so will the next year. And the one after that.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 10/03/2025

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 07/03/2025

A society that worships sociopathy under the guise of "entrepreneurship." No wonder it performed poorly on YouTube.

youtu.be

On Wealth Worship & Cultural Inertia

YouTube video by Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 05/03/2025

Did anyone have Digg coming back on their 2025 bingo card? youtu.be/-vNS62f-ino

youtu.be

Digg: Old Rivals, New Vision

YouTube video by Diggnation

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 05/03/2025

God bless Al Green.

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Omnigeek @omnigeek.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Terrible take. AfD got second place and almost doubled their 2021 result. This is not a wide rejection of the far right.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Surely this new video won't make me seem like a crank. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...

youtube.com

Algorithms are breaking how we think

YouTube video by Technology Connections

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Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

damn all the worst are full of passionate intensity ?? Well let me at least see how the best are doi—… Oh guys. Guys it’s not good

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 19/02/2025

What a terrible day to have a brain.

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Rep. Greg Stanton @repgregstanton.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

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