iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 18/09/2026

I drove some friends up to Snoqualmie and we did #twinpeaks things. Sign was missing, that was a bummer. Coffee was damn fine though

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 03/09/2026

If you are in PDX, tracking down the Wildwood birds is a great walking activity

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 08/04/2026

Playing with netgraph for the first time on my primary interface is always a wise idea. I'm glad my home server has ipmi and I didn't have to get up at all.

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 24/02/2026

Firefox, please go fuck yourself. JWZ has already said as much.

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 13/12/2025

I hastily ran up to @samlakewrites.bsky.social at the game awards and could not be happier. It's hard to express in a few seconds how impactful someones work has been to you. From Max Payne to Control and Alan Wake. Jesus even the Final Reality benchmark I used to run after each windows reinstall

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 12/12/2025

I'm at LAX ready to go home to PDX and I'm so happy to see @sgj.bsky.social book on display. Truly a must read in my opinion

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 02/05/2025

come on steam, keep up with my new 2/2GB tube

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 29/04/2025

Normally I either ignore my doorbell or politely but firmly say "I don't mean to waste your time the answer is no" Tonight while I was in the garage, some kids were selling homemade bracelets. Guess who is a proud owner or two bracelets!

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 02/04/2025

These books are insane (Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories)

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 07/03/2025

Something happened on my home server (which has 128GB RAM) Honestly it was probably the minecraft server I have running in a jail and not in k8s with some quotas Thank goodness I have IPMI, I was able to see the death knell in my browser; out of swap space

grafana chart showing memory usage, and running out

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 02/03/2025

A local food cart has an AI generated banner. I immediately thought something was off and started looking closer. The fingers on the pretzel killed me

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 27/02/2025

I really appreciate that the library here at Blizzard has @jasonschreier.bsky.social Play Nice book, prominently on display

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 25/02/2025

I've worked for Blizzard for over three years now and I finally got to visit the main campus. I also awkwardly ran into @jesawyer.bsky.social and the poor guy had no idea I have a parasocial relationship with him and we've been best friends for months now. Thanks for being kind Josh!

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 17/02/2025

Avowed is really pretty and just plain fun #Avowed

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 13/02/2025

Avowed is so far beautiful and fun. I love it. Plus, there was loot behind a little waterfall #Avowed #ObsidianEntertainment

Avowed PC Screenshot loot behind a waterfall

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 24/01/2025

sometimes my photo library reminds me I have this photo, and I just laugh and laugh and laugh Stolen top tier apes was the funniest shit ever

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 23/01/2025

I started reading Pilgrim: A Medieval Horror and I came across this gem

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 20/01/2025

It's always worth a rewatch

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 07/01/2025

Current status My coworker is a desk hog

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 05/01/2025

they fixed it! The text during shader compilation is no longer reversed

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 20/12/2024

I'm playing Bloodborne with ShadePS4 at 900p and 60fps This is all I wanted. Damn Sony for not releasing it on PC I don't think the emulator can do online chalice dungeons, or multiplayer Grinding for bullets or vials is really quick given the fact this is on a nvme and the load times are instant

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 12/12/2024

I caught an elevator rebooting

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 02/12/2024

Levi, showing me how cool he is

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 28/11/2024

I'm researching motherboards because I'm planning on a new build (it's been 3 years and my household depends on "trickle-down electronics") After all of the RGB, black, white, etc options I'm now yearning for this color scheme just to shave $ off of the price. X870 is not cheap but STALKER2 demands

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 27/11/2024

absolutely loving STALKER 2 It reminds me how much I fell in love with STALKER, enough to read Roadside Picnic and watch the film Stalker Anyway, back to the Zone

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 22/10/2024

So what do you think? Think I was successful in replacing my drifting joysticks with hall effect joysticks? No, because leaded solder FUCKING SUCKS when you still have your 25w soldering iron from high school. After hours, and two attempts, a landing pad ripped off and I cried a little

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 28/09/2024

Seattle is very nice today

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 24/09/2024

AARP ALREADY?! Are you fucking kidding me? I'm not that old! j/k, it was spam... it did make me look though

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 22/09/2024

"thank you for visiting, please don't move here"

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 11/08/2024

I went to the Tillamook State Park and went up to their fire watch tower!

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 08/08/2024

Gray's harbor lighthouse

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 05/08/2024

You know, there was a moment in time when I could brag that my work unix based desktop was way more resource friendly. I used to run FreeBSD w/xfce4 and firefox (for years) Last week I upgraded to 64GB because system+chrome+firefox+goland+slack+zoom was starting to use swap space

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 30/07/2024

Hobby lobby is selling very very bad ai generated "art" for 25.99. they pay no license or royalties because you cannot copywrite generated art. AI is the next asbestos

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 10/04/2024

I haven't stopped laughing at this picture of Levi sleeping for about a week now

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 10/03/2024

I finished Mundaun, and it was just amazing. I feel like the developer opened up my head, took a look inside, and made a game just for me. More please.

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 17/02/2024

Serial Experiment Lain predicted these Apple Vision Pro psychopaths 20+ years ago

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 15/01/2024

I wish I slept this soundly

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 02/01/2024

It's good to have a gym partner to keep you honest and motivated Synin is always out here with me, but she mostly trains in cardio and stretching.

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 19/12/2023

I'm a sucker for my gaming year in review, and while steam is the most accurate reflection, it's missing my second cyberpunk 2077 playthrough and Alan Wake 2. Both are my two favorites of the year. My Xbox year in review is skewed towards game pass titles

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Mike Carlson @michaelc.dev · 25/11/2023

Levi is helping decorate

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