iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

this project started with me thinking i was going to build an app that reverse engineered my camera's syncing protocol. turned out i could just bridge three existing apps (camera app, S3, tailscale) with Shortcuts

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colton @mccurdyc.dev · 8h

im an ios developer now

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

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colton @mccurdyc.dev · 29/09/2026

"break fake rules"

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Fastly @fastly.com · 28/09/2026

Fastly and Comcast are creating a new blueprint for high-quality live streaming. Fastly’s content delivery software will run directly on Comcast’s 200 AI-powered edge compute centers, expanding capacity and improving efficiency during #Peacock’s biggest live moments. www.fastly.com/press/press-...

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colton @mccurdyc.dev · 13/09/2026

terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/13/h... "This appearance is a feature not of LLMs, but of the LLMs as the AI companies want them."

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 13/09/2026

This is pretty neat: ChatGPT Work and GPT-6 Astra (I used "Max") can take an address and produce a 5K/10K circular running route starting from that address, using OSM data simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/12/...

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Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work

Here’s a neat thing I had ChatGPT Work with GPT-6 Astra (Max) do this morning: I live at <my address>. Figure out 5K and 10K running routes from me that …

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colton @mccurdyc.dev · 12/09/2026

"how to make sure that, as AI changes the way work is done, we do not lose sight of what that work was meant to achieve in the first place."

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colton @mccurdyc.dev · 12/09/2026

"The issues the mathematical community faces now are similar to issues that other scientific and creative professions are facing, and indicate issues that all of humanity might face"

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colton @mccurdyc.dev · 12/09/2026

"We are witnessing a general threat to intellectual work, with misalignment between the outcome of the use of AI and its initial purpose."

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colton @mccurdyc.dev · 12/09/2026

"Indeed, the mass production at faster and faster pace of "true/false" statements could destroy fertile ground instead of breathing life into new ideas."

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colton @mccurdyc.dev · 12/09/2026

"solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight. Forgetting this in the world of AI may turn the tool against the primary goal."

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colton @mccurdyc.dev · 12/09/2026

"The mathematical community functions, in many ways, as a miniature version of humanity."

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colton @mccurdyc.dev · 12/09/2026

and this comes from Terrence Tao who is pro-ai and has started sair.foundation we have to remember life isn't a game. these are communities and these problems exist to test OUR understanding of spaces and the fundamentals beneath of both math and humanity

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The Foundation for Science and AI Research (SAIR)

Co-founded by Terence Tao, SAIR unites Nobel, Turing, and Fields laureates to scale scientific discovery with AI, and ground AI in science.

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colton @mccurdyc.dev · 12/09/2026

"The goals of the AI companies and the goals of the mathematical community are severely misaligned. We see these as part of broader alignment issues impacting other scientific and creative professions, as well as the whole of society.⁠⁠"

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colton @mccurdyc.dev · 12/09/2026

"However, the push by AI companies to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is detrimental to the science of mathematics, and to the mathematical community..."

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colton @mccurdyc.dev · 12/09/2026

"...the mathematical capabilities of LLMs have improved dramatically, to the point that they can solve major outstanding problems in many fields of mathematics."

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colton @mccurdyc.dev · 10/09/2026

corporate.comcast.com/stories/comc...

corporate.comcast.com

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colton @mccurdyc.dev · 29/08/2026

it's about ideas. guardrails and interfaces now that implementation is cheap

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colton @mccurdyc.dev · 29/08/2026

agents are still too "dumb" to have a human in the loop for getting work done. their lack of knowledge requires them to try a bunch of different things to gather context. add guardrails and remove yourself from the implementation loop. let go.

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colton @mccurdyc.dev · 24/08/2026

for personal projects, i honestly really enjoy having an ai "colleague" to learn from. i learn more faster than i did before my problem w/ ai is the expectations that it brings in terms of pace and capabilities. i learn less than i did before. learning is less of the goal. it's about doing now.

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colton @mccurdyc.dev · 20/08/2026

i was thinking of this combo too! let us know how it goes!

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Fastly @fastly.com · 17/08/2026

Learn how Fastly is helping arXiv ensure the world's most critical research remains open, secure, and highly available. 🛡️Neutralized over 150 million attack requests in one month 📈Handled traffic spikes of up to 650 million CDN requests www.fastly.com/customers/arxiv

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colton @mccurdyc.dev · 17/08/2026

"tortellini is forever"

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colton @mccurdyc.dev · 17/08/2026

great value brand cottage cheese is better

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colton @mccurdyc.dev · 13/08/2026

but you have to think... that future time, while it may be more, each unit of time (years, decades) in the future is worth less. a year at 20 is worth 1/20 of you life then, but a year at 80 is 1/80. so every year at 20 is "worth" 4x a year at 80! live, friends

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colton @mccurdyc.dev · 13/08/2026

like everything it's about balance; spending a little guaranteed time right now for the CHANCE at just a bit more time in the future if you aren't living now; you are a gambler

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colton @mccurdyc.dev · 13/08/2026

time is the real currency

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 08/08/2026

one final thought is that the sense for when an abstraction is called for and when it’s premature *is* in many ways something you learn in a world where writing code takes time. if you can generate the abstraction for “free” by telling claude to, you don’t end up ask yourself if it’s necessary…

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colton @mccurdyc.dev · 08/08/2026

when you reject these things it feeds ego

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colton @mccurdyc.dev · 08/08/2026

fully rejecting societal “norms” like social media, tv and drinking is also not good for mental health. it’s a balance. everything in life is about balance

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 02/08/2026

If a technology *can* be abused, it *will* be abused. This goes doubly for those in positions of power. Technology policy can be difficult, but we should never lose sight of this fact.

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colton @mccurdyc.dev · 30/07/2026

that’s amazing! and i think the consistency toward the goal is amazing by itself! keep it up!

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colton @mccurdyc.dev · 25/07/2026

kilomiles maybe you are assuming it’s metric when you see km, but it’s actually kilomiles

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 24/07/2026

The drawback to this approach is I tend to present a negative view of the world even when I find myself at peace and surrounded by positivity.

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James Munns @jamesmunns.com · 18/07/2026

And chick-fil-a runs a kubernetes cluster on a stack of NUCs in every restaurant (or at least did as of a few years back): medium.com/chick-fil-at...

medium.com

Enterprise Restaurant Compute

by the CFA Enterprise Restaurant Compute Team

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colton @mccurdyc.dev · 18/07/2026

oooh i’ll have to check it out!!!

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