iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

$Let (M, d) be a metric space, and let {p_i} be a countable set of points in M. Further, let B_i = { x | d(x, p_i) < 1 } denote the unit open ball centered at a given point p_i. Now, consider a subset P \subseteq M such that P \subseteq \bigcup_{i=1}^\infty B_i (i.e., P is contained entirely within the balls).$

010

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

parsec has a race condition where if you change the client caps lock state while connecting, it can get out of sync with the server caps lock state

010

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

they put less caffeine in the celsius in canada

010

Reposted by Micah Johnston

eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 07/08/2026

with times being what they are, it seems like you basically can't have a public open source repo without receiving LLM-written PRs. thus, after a great deal of thought, i have adopted the somewhat idiosyncratic Mycelium AI Policy in my personal projects: github.com/hawkw/myceli...

github.com

chore: introducing the Mycelium AI Policy (#566) · hawkw/mycelium@b77e854

2635547

Reposted by Micah Johnston

lynn @chordbug.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

fixed your headline

A hit song on the Billboard 100 charts is termed *$k$-good* if it is _ever_ in a weekly top-$k$, and *$k$-immediate* if it _debuts_ in the top-$k$.

An artist is *$(n,k)$-Olivian* if their $n$ first $k$-good hits are all also $k$-immediate.

*Headline 1.* Olivia Rodrigo is the first $(10,10)$-Olivian woman.

392040558

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Louis Rasteur is commonly recognized as the founder of modern computer graphics for his invention of the rasteurization process

0123

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

displaying HDR images and videos as brighter than the surrounding UI is such a nonsensical thing to do. it would be like playing 32-bit audio 6dB louder than 16-bit audio

191

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

anything to stave off the excruciating experience of actually thinking about a problem (or worse, talking about a problem) for a few precious moments

031

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

bodybuilding-oriented content is a psyop to make you a worse athlete

130

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I have a WWJD knuckle tattoo on one hand but I haven’t decided what to get OTOH

010

Reposted by Micah Johnston

Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 20/03/2026

I spent some of this week making an I/O system for level scripting in Unreal for @sleightofhand.game! I have long had thoughts on why these kick ass. Here's an unusually long blog post on: -why these kick ass -why they are necessary -how mine works -etc etc www.joewintergreen.com/i-o-systems-...

2334295

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

tip for would-be open source contributors: no matter how good your code change is, if the PR description is a huge brick of subheadings and bulleted lists that clearly came from an LLM, I am going to be fighting the urge to close it immediately and never look at it again

091

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I wish it hadn't taken me so long to realize that (for me personally) cardio is the most effective ADHD medication available

020

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I can feel my brain starting to take damage from the number of times I have started to read something (code or prose) under the assumption it was written by a human and only realized partway through that it was slop

070

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

any model-based reinforcement learning algorithm with tunable hyperparameters is secretly just the inner loop of a model-free meta-reinforcement learning algorithm (using any black-box optimization algorithm, e.g. evolution strategies), and the bitter lesson says that you should treat it as such

250

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

why do you eat it? *brad pitt points to jonah hill* because it fits my macros

110

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

sup big dog how many pilates you got on that barre

040

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

fun thing to do after gaining some muscle is to perform every movement in your daily life (opening and closing cupboards and doors, etc.) a little bit more explosively

060

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

all the FUD about phytoestrogens in soy milk and tofu is a psyop to keep you from getting big

071

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

the VST 3 SDK was recently changed from a dual GPLv3–proprietary license to the MIT license, which made it possible for me to simplify the build process for vst3-rs (the set of Rust bindings that I maintain). I wrote a blog post with some more details: micahrj.github.io/posts/vst3/

micahrj.github.io

Simplifying the build process for vst3-rs — Micah Johnston

172

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

97-year-old web designer still prevents margin collapse the old-fashioned way

060

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

imagine being a logician named George Boolos en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...

Screenshot of Wikipedia article:

George Boolos
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Not to be confused with George Boole.

040

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

laughing at the idea of a builder-pattern interface in C++ that uses move semantics to pass the builder between method calls

030

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

downloaded the trial for Max/MSP and I'm making an earnest attempt at getting familiar with it

120

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I think LP5 and EP7 will continue to be my favorite Autechre era, but I'm enjoying all their post-Exai material a lot more than I used to. for a long time it all felt pretty opaque to me

140

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

crowd at autechre chicago has the highest rate of earplug adherence out of any show I’ve ever been to

040

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

made it out to my local theatre on a weeknight to watch multiple battles in succession

140

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

finished reading This Is How You Lose the Time War. highly recommend

100

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

it has been 0 days since I have encountered someone saying "I heard you aren't supposed to use mutexes or interact with the scheduler on the audio thread, so I'm busy-waiting instead"

050

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

hey are you a bag of mixed greens? because you're looking chopped and washed

031

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

published the window management/platform abstraction library I’ve been working on to crates.io: crates.io/crates/portl...

crates.io

crates.io: Rust Package Registry

070

Reposted by Micah Johnston

🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

the thing is basically all interesting art happens when the next token isnt predicted by the previous ones

834351

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

JEAN-LUC I HAVE A QUESTION IT IS A BOUT DE SOUFFLE SHOULD I TAKE IT OUT OF DE OVEN

041

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Tame Things I Hate About Shrew

030

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I can recommend getting a baguette on your way to the office and gnawing on it throughout your work day

030

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

*nate dogg voice* my infant and me had to coregulate

020

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Cracking open a cool red dwarf star with the boys

050

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

This post perfectly encapsulates my experience with so much of the discourse around Rust

020

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

“Whole Foods shoppers” is a funny intersection of target markets. Like there’s a granola brand I’ve been getting, and almost every one of their products says “vegan” on the front, except the other day I picked up a box of their instant oatmeal and it had bovine collagen in the ingredients

120

Reposted by Micah Johnston

Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 01/05/2025

then again, i also keep things very simple, and lots of folks try to make things more complicated

1302

Micah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

crazy the degree to which web devs have just deliberately destroyed basic browser functionality. I wanted to copy the name of an artist to the clipboard from the spotify web client (because it contained chinese characters I didn't know how to type) and I fully had to open developer tools

281