iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Absolutely flabbergasted at Last.fm finally being independent again after a decade of neglect by CBS. Incredibly exciting. support.last.fm/t/last-fm-is...

Last.fm is now independent

Today, Last.fm begins a new chapter as an independent company. Ownership has changed,
but the product you use every day has not.

Your account, your listening history, and your data remain exactly where they are. The team
building Last.fm is the same. The service continues as normal.

What stays the same
* Your account and scrobbles
* Your data and privacy settings
* Your Pro subscription and billing (if you're a member)
* The people behind the product

We'll share more about what comes next in the weeks ahead. For now, everything works
exactly as it did yesterday.

Same service. Same team. New chapter. Thanks for being part of it.

Team Last.fm

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RJ @metabrew.com · 26/05/2026

it's outrageous that phone apps can detect when I'm taking a screenshot, let alone block it.

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RJ @metabrew.com · 11/03/2026

First time trying clonezilla in broadcast server config, it's pretty neat. Booted the golden image machine off clonezilla usb, into lite-server mode. It spins up a dhcpd+pxe boot setup. Fresh machines on the same isolated network netboot straight into writing the image. A++ would clone again 💯

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RJ @metabrew.com · 24/02/2026

Devastating news, Rob was one of a kind 💔

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RJ @metabrew.com · 11/01/2026

I'm also optimistic, not to mention amazed, at how useful ai coding tools are. many caveats, but still an incredible productivity boost.

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RJ @metabrew.com · 06/12/2025

I don't understand why driving tests are transferrable.. just link the booked test to the provisional license used to book it? What am I missing here, it doesn't sound that difficult to stop touts when everyone has to present ID anyway.. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Driving test touts offer instructors £250 monthly kickbacks

Touts use instructor login details to bulk-book tests and sell them at a huge mark-up, the BBC finds.

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RJ @metabrew.com · 12/11/2025

I set up policy based routing on my pfsense router at home, so now traffic to imgur egresses via tailscale on a cheap german vm. All that so the embeded screenshots load while i'm browsing minecraft mods.. The state of the UK internet is heartbreaking.

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RJ @metabrew.com · 05/09/2025

I'm getting hooked on Minecraft (because of my kids). It's fun. I know I'm late to this party. ⛏️

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RJ @metabrew.com · 12/08/2025

What's the least effort way of destroying a load of old hard drives? I don't want to power them up. Is there someone who will drive an industrial shredder to my house so I can toss them in?

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RJ @metabrew.com · 07/07/2025

trying to learn Minecraft with the 7yo is making me feel *old*

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

those of us who were born in 1982 grew up in a unique time and have had some really interesting life experiences, but what really makes me laugh is when people born before or after 1982 claim that they’ve also had life experiences. get serious. no you haven’t

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MusicBrainz @musicbrainz.org · 23/04/2025

I recently caught someone talking smack about how many people use MusicBrainz, and it made me go check. Just to reassure myself... To my delight, I was reminded that our editors are killing it!! ~700 releases added /day in 2020, up to ~1,800 in 2025: beta.musicbrainz.org/statistics/t... -a

A screenshot of MusicBrainz’ Release rate of change graph, from 2020 to 2025, which jumps from about 700 releases being added a day to ~1,800

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RJ @metabrew.com · 11/04/2025

Check out this excellent interactive blog post demonstrating bevy_behave, my #rust behaviour tree crate for @bevyengine.org Good use of compiling to wasm and embedding bevy in a webpage ⭐ www.hankruiger.com/posts/bevy-b...

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Modelling Agent Behaviour with Bevy Behave

Interactive blog post about modelling agent behaviour with Bevy Behave

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Bile 🔜 ConFurence ’04 @badfucking.dog · 08/03/2025

the 15th anniversary remaster cover for the fat of the land just adding more crabs is one of the funniest album covers I’ve ever seen. i think about it all the time

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RJ @metabrew.com · 05/03/2025

Replaced a faulty microchip-reading catflap. Didn't even have to grab that cat and shove him through to train it this time: used my Flipper Zero to read and then emulate his rfid chip, and configure the catflap while he was snoozing

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RJ @metabrew.com · 05/02/2025

Wrote a low-overhead behaviour tree crate for @bevyengine.org that does dynamic spawning for tasks. Here's the chase demo from the repo running 100k behaviour trees (second video in the README) www.github.com/RJ/bevy_behave

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RJ @metabrew.com · 18/01/2025

realised i had around 500GB in ~/src/*/target directories from random old rust projects.. very happy to reclaim that space.

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RJ @metabrew.com · 11/01/2025

Love getting dissed by the fancy AI code editor autocomplete suggesting: "// TODO: this is a bit of a mess"

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RJ @metabrew.com · 02/01/2025

fascinating review of goings on in database-land this past year

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april (villainous lesbian) @smokestack.mom · 27/12/2024

hey chat, i need your help for a bit of fiction i’m writing. what would you say is the onomatopoeia of a modem connecting? please feel free to be as elaborate as possible.

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RJ @metabrew.com · 25/12/2024

Christmas Crokinole!

a shiny new Crokinole board and instruction manual

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 12/12/2024

Rare opportunity right now to hire a Jonty

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

every site needs a version of somethingawful's "we can just ban you" policy to use against bad actors who make a game of ruining the site while making sure to always stay 1% shy of violating the rules as-written

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RJ @metabrew.com · 13/12/2024

No one will ever know how many failed workflow runs i deleted from github. Obviously I got it right first time 😇

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RJ @metabrew.com · 09/12/2024

Wrote about my experiments selecting a netcode model for a multiplayer asteroids game, and how to deploy @bevyengine.org gameservers on Edgegap www.metabrew.com/article/rock... www.metabrew.com/article/bevy...

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Rock and Rollback: Realtime multiplayer in the browser, with rust and bevy

How hard it is to build a realtime multiplayer browser game? Like asteroids, but multiplayer. Retro vibes with modern netcode 🚀.

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RJ @metabrew.com · 07/12/2024

Quora was good, briefly. one day I flagged something for being easy to answer with a Google search, mods allowed it, last time I ever posted. Etsy was best when it was just handmade stuff by small creators. Many such examples.

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RJ @metabrew.com · 27/11/2024

hmm, need to check my list of domain names for novelty bsky accounts

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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 24/11/2024

Paprika, the best app ever, is having their annual sale www.paprikaapp.com

paprikaapp.com

Paprika Recipe Manager for iOS, Mac, Android, and Windows

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RJ @metabrew.com · 24/11/2024

Bemused, flabbergasted, and bamboozled by whatever the github search thingamabob is doing here. I'm searching for a word, not doing a cryptic crossword.

I searched for "messages", and it returned "examples/interest_management" which contains some of the letters from "message" in the correct order..

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RJ @metabrew.com · 19/11/2024

🎶🎵 We built this city 🎶🎵 We built this city on .. sqlite

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 17/11/2024

Oh, I never posted my gotofail story on here. Early 2014, someone came to me about a catastrophic vulnerability in Apple's TLS implementation. I shit you not, they'd overheard someone at a bar drunkenly bragging about how they were going to sell it to a FVEY intelligence agency for six figures.

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RJ @metabrew.com · 15/11/2024

Buy yourself some ShadowFoam for christmas, to tidy up the tool cupboard. I did this a year ago and it's been great.

Cupboard lined with shadowfoam to store tools

Cupboard door, lying on desk, lined with shadowfoam in process of cutting out tool shapes in the foam

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RJ @metabrew.com · 30/10/2024

Carved a pumpkin, which we grew from seed. Atlantic Giant, 13.4kg. 🎃

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