iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 30/04/2026

After a few years, I'm realizing that I don't actually like ultrawide displays. Surprising.

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 29/04/2026

This looks neat! As long as it's more "Bluesky" and less "Mastodon"…

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 10/12/2025

I think @steve-yegge.bsky.social's `beads` project is super cool, but it's a little heavy for my typical usage (smaller, mostly solo projects). So I built an even simpler issue tracker. Issues are tracked in a simple YAML file. No daemons. Link issues to each other. Find ready work.

Screenshot of mint in use, in light mode, showing several issues.

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 07/11/2025

That gold "Walk of Fame" script physically hurts me.

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 28/10/2025

Playing with some ideas for our client-facing proposal UI.

A screenshot of a Buildertrend interface, showing a job proposal. A left sidebar displays details on the proposal price and required signees. A right sidebar shows a chat where a user has asked some questions about the proposal.

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 16/10/2025

Some Buildertrend command palette designs from a while ago.

Mockups of a Buildertrend command palette in several different states.

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 06/10/2025

After 13 years with my HHKB Pro 2, I finally built a new keyboard.

A keyboard in the HHKB layout, with a silver case and white keycaps.

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 30/09/2025

Playing with some ideas for my personal site.

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 30/09/2025

I'm printing two lines! It's just Unicode block characters.

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 26/09/2025

Last week I wanted a larger, 4x4 pixel-ish font for a terminal-based timer I was building. So I designed this one out of Unicode full- and half-block characters. Maybe I'll wrap it up and release it as a Go and/or Typescript library.

The 26 characters of the alphabet rendered in the custom pixel font.

A screenshot of the custom timer tool, in "working…" mode.

A screenshot of the custom timer tool, in "break" mode.

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 19/09/2025

TIL that JankyBorders allows gradients for the border color.

A screenshot of my terminal window, with a border (provided by Jankyborders) around the edge, going from yellow in the top left to red in the bottom right.

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 17/09/2025

In Things on macOS, you just type to search. From anywhere. Just start typing stuff. Then hit enter, and you're at the thing. No hotkey required. It's one of my favorite interactions in any of the software that I use.

Screenshot of the search interface in Things.app on macOS, showing a search for "work" with several results below.

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 10/09/2025

In the 300s and 400s AD, the ancient Christian church held a series of four councils, trying to define what the Bible taught about the person and nature of Jesus. Their creeds came to form what's now called the Chalcedonian Box, with each council forming one side.

A graphic representation of the Chalcedonian Box, showing "Nicea" and "Truly God" at the top, "Chalcedon" and "Two Natures" on the right, "Truly Man" and "Constantinople" on the bottom, and "One Person" and "Ephesus" on the left.

A young man wearing a white t-shirt showing the Chalcedonian Box on the front.

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 31/07/2025

My annotation component I'm using for designs in Figma.

A screenshot of an annotation component for Figma designs. There are four variations: NOTE, IDEA, TODO, and WARN.

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 25/07/2025

Playing with ascii shaders in the terminal.

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 21/07/2025

I built a terminal program that takes today's Things tasks and shows me two at a time, to help me figure out what I should do first. I use it every day.

Screenshot of the program in use, in light mode, showing several tasks prioritized, completed, or yet to be prioritized.

Screenshot of the program in use, in dark mode, showing several tasks prioritized, completed, or yet to be prioritized.

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 17/07/2025

The other night I couldn't sleep so I made a simple MCP server to let LLMs grab YouTube transcripts. Quickly get a summary, ask questions about it, etc. github.com/mybuddymicha...

A screenshot of a terminal interface. Showing the user asking an LLM to summarize the video at a YouTube URL.

A screenshot of a terminal interface. Showing the LLM responding with details about a YouTube video.

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 11/07/2025

(I just wish I could search my previous sessions…)

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 10/07/2025

I'm increasingly convinced that terminal UIs are the last remaining bastion of good, fast, reliable software.

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 20/06/2025

why is coding with agents so addicting

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 16/06/2025

Though there does seem to be a specific cutoff that happens pretty quickly where slow is just way too slow, no matter how accurate it is. I'm also craving a tool that lets me dictate something and then immediately use voice instructions to correct what it just transcribed!

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 16/06/2025

I'm using dictation more and more on my Mac. My first instinct was that speed is the most important quality, but I'm increasingly realizing that accuracy is way more important than speed.

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 05/06/2025

And I know everything jj does is technically possible with git, but jj's ergonomics sure are a lot better.

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 05/06/2025

Jujutsu docs: jj-vcs.github.io/jj/v0.30.0/ It took me a minute to wrap my head around it, but now that I have… I can't see myself going back to plain old git.

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 05/06/2025

Jujutsu (jj) feels like the Git front end for the agentic era. It's so easy to just explore directions, experiment with things, backtrack, move commits around…

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 28/05/2025

Working on a Time Timer-esque app.

A screenshot of a timer app, showing an orangish-red partial circle that is counting down minutes. 42 minutes are remaining on the timer.

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 23/05/2025

I finally set things up so I can build for iOS without running Xcode. And now I'm at, approximately… 50% of the joy I feel when building for the web. 🫠

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 07/05/2025

Ooo, yes! Can't wait to give it a spin!

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 12/04/2025

I'm so sorry. I got laid off last year (from a different company). Getting laid off sucks. It sucks so bad, full stop. Sending the best of good vibes your way.

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 08/04/2025

Lovely post. Thanks for sharing! And I assume that's a new version of Pile you're teasing there! 👀

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 02/04/2025

As far as I can tell, I have three options: 1. Don't make components until I'm completely done. 2. Detach or delete the components in the new frame and create a new component. 3. Create variants of the original component, I guess? (Can't do this inline.) A constant paper cut.

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 02/04/2025

A constant problem for me with @figma.com: I have repetitive elements (like list items), so I make a component. But then I duplicate the top-level frame and want to edit the repetitive elements on this new frame without changing the old one. How?

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 01/04/2025

I would fr use the heck out of this 😆

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 15/11/2024

Working on some tables and row highlighting.

A mockup of a table UI containing line items for a home remodel estimate.

A close-up view of a table containing line items for a home remodel estimate. In the center of the view is a color picker for changing the color of the line item group.

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 28/03/2025

This made me say "wow!" out loud! Very clever! 👏

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Michael Hanson @michaelhanson.org · 19/11/2024

Project proposal UI details.

A screenshot of part of a user interface for a proposal document builder. It shows a column with options for style settings, adding objects to the proposal such as text, images, videos, tables, PDFs, and maps. An additional section lets the user choose which clients to send the proposal two. On the right, a preview of the document is partially displayed.

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