iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

The world is just moving too fast. I just took a deepish dive into Typesafe.AI's Jev, and Firecrawl's Alexandria today, and it's made me think I should just rip up and start again on some of the Mastra workflows I've been working on for the last couple of months. Hey ho.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 24/09/2026

Not a good film. Plays fast and loose with history, and the characters are all totally unbelievable. "nul points"

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 24/09/2026

I've been using zed.dev almost exclusively as my main IDE for most of this year, with a brief diversion to Cursor. It's really good as a traditional IDE, but the agent harness is very nice to use too. The main thing I'm missing now are good database tools.

zed.dev

Zed — Your last next editor

Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 11/09/2026

I've changed from using Cursor to Zed for agentic coding. Using the Zed built in agent harness which displays all the "thinking" output from the LLM. One interesting observation is how often the LLM has repeating thoughts: "I'm noticing ..." over and over.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 08/09/2026

Very cool video on getting the new GPT-6 Astra to drive Blender for 3D model generation. Crazy what's possible now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MUk...

youtube.com

New Absolute King of 3D & Blender - GPT-6 Astra

YouTube video by Stefan 3D AI

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 07/09/2026

Superb article, "An Alien Mind" by OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki. openai.com/index/an-ali...

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 05/09/2026

This is excellent! A wonderful antidote to anyone who thinks things were better in the old days. anyhumanever.com

anyhumanever.com

Any Human Ever

One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 03/09/2026

I had no idea that C# didn't support polymorphism before this!

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 26/08/2026

GitHub is facing a Tsunami of code!

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 19/08/2026

Currently experimenting with creating an AI generated corpus of business information. We're starting from a large curated list of business "challenges". We will then index it and use it as input into an agentic chatbot. The hunch is that this will provide more value than a straight chat-with-GPT.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

My UK client is looking for a snr software engineer with XP experience on the JVM - Kotlin preferred but not essential. £90K-£120K. Not a bank. Not a blockchain something something. Established start-up with actual customers like in the old days. OSS tools that developers use.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 17/08/2026

Pevensy Castle this weekend. Crazy that I've not visited before. A Norman Castle inside a massive Roman fort. It must have been very impressive in its heyday.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 13/08/2026

Crazy having a national-news-story trail derailment just a short distance from my house. I walk up and down the riverside footpath next to where the train came off the track, between Lewes and Offham, all the time. I guess I won't be going to London any time soon!

bbc.co.uk

Two seriously injured after train derails near Lewes in East Sussex - follow live

Passenger Rob Bradley tells us he could feel the carriage "rocking" before "everyone got thrown forward". Officials are giving an update now - follow live here.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 07/08/2026

Sitting a cafe "working", watching Claude generate code for me. On another table, two middle aged gents are discussing AI: "It's all a complete scam, it doesn't work, and loads of people are being swindled by it."

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 07/08/2026

There is a huge amount of "cope" among arts people who claim they can spot AI prose (for example) and that it's sub-standard, but then pay $2m for a crime novel that later turns out to be AI generated. I'm tempted to ask if it really matters if a book is AI generated so long as you enjoy it?

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 06/08/2026

"Meat Proxy" that's a great term. gruhn.me/blog/2026-08...

gruhn.me

Don't be a meat proxy

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 06/08/2026

Amazing how many of my late 50s / early 60s friends rail against being called middle-aged and insist that they are still young, as if by sheer force of will they can magic away their greying hair and wrinkling skin.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 27/07/2026

This is a good read. I do think people misunderstand what humans are actually designed for - we're highly optimized survival machines. Survival and reproduction in the physical world is not the same as being good at maths or coding, which are probably by-products. www.noahpinion.blog/p/what-will-...

noahpinion.blog

What will more intelligence actually do for us?

A lot, actually. But it won't look quite like what humans do with our intelligence.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 26/07/2026

Today to Charleston in Lewes for the Walter Sickert and Gladys Hynes exhibitions. Dimly aware of Sickert before, but I'd never heard of Hynes. Her exhibition turned out to be the most interesting, especially on the interwar art world that she was a part of.

charleston.org.uk

Charleston — Gladys Hynes: Radical Lives

Explore a pioneering artist whose work spanned painting, sculpture, illustration and design and was driven by her politics.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 25/07/2026

I had a very interesting time at the Typescript AI conference in London on Thursday. It was hosted by Mastra, the TS agent framework that we're using to build an agentic experience over a CMS. Lots of interesting stuff, especially around running agents in production.

luma.com

TypeScript AI: The only conference for TypeScript AI developers | In-person + Online · Luma

TypeScript AI Conference: London July 23, 2026 | London WATCH THE LIVESTREAM: Python trains, TypeScript ships. The teams shipping production AI today are…

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 17/07/2026

I tried running Firefox in Firefox in Chrome, but it didn't work 😢https://developer.puter.com/labs/firefox-wasm/

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 17/07/2026

This is great. I too owe my life to an early home computer, a TRS-80 in my case.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 16/07/2026

We need a word for non-AI computing. You know, the old thing with deterministic programs. I wonder how long it will be before most people can't discern the boundary between AI and non-AI computing?

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 16/07/2026

What's the estimated event horizon for _everything_ to be rewritten in Rust? It's going to end up as _the_ language. bun.com/blog/bun-in-...

bun.com

Rewriting Bun in Rust

Why & how we rewrote Bun from Zig to Rust

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 16/07/2026

lore.kernel.org/linux-media/...

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 09/07/2026

1. Binary size went down, performance improved. 2. 19 regressions; all fixed. 3. 100+ bugs fixed by memory safety. 4. $160,000 in cost, took 1 engineer 11 days

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 08/07/2026

Current iteration of my Raspberry Pi desk clock. Based on wtfutil and some custom scripts.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 06/07/2026

If England barely fights off the Norwegians, but then is too exhausted to resist France, you do realize we’re getting a tapestry about it

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 04/07/2026

My current project is hooking up an agent (based on mastra.ai) to a Strapi CMS using a RAG and the Strapi MCP. Mastra is very easy to work with and we've been able to hook the whole thing up in just a matter of days. With lots of help from Claude of course.

mastra.ai

TypeScript AI Framework for Agents and Apps | Mastra

Ship AI agents that reason, remember, and act in TypeScript. Mastra provides memory, tools, MCP, and observability to go from prototype to production.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 03/07/2026

What's the word for non-AI computing? I can imagine that it'll be a thing soon where people say their computer system does not have any AI integration. I wonder how long before the average person can no longer discriminate, or even understand that you can use a computer without AI?

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 02/07/2026

And it's not even as if Bayeux is that far away. Just a short ferry ride and drive from southern England. Perfect for a weekend trip. I've been several times. It's a very pretty historic town.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 28/06/2026

The Android feature which suddenly drops the volume to "protect your heating" is extremely annoying. Nanny technology at its worst.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 08/06/2026

I really enjoyed @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com's interview with Anders Hejlsberg. Almost my entire career has been working with languages that he has designed, so it was a fantastic trip down memory lane. Well worth a listen. newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/typescript...

newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com

TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsberg

Anders Hejlsberg reflects on building Turbo Pascal, C#, and TypeScript, and shares what AI may change about the future of software engineering.

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Patrik Svensson @patriksvensson.se · 06/06/2026

This is pretty much how every zombie movie ever created starts.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 27/04/2026

Guitar Dashboard gets dark mode! Thanks for Elon Gliksberg for the excellent PR. guitardashboard.com

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 25/04/2026

Gemini is very nice about guitardashboard.com:

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 22/04/2026

Inside the front cover of a recently published book. Rather embarrassing :)

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 15/04/2026

New blog post: Running individual Bun tests with Zed tasks mikehadlow.com/posts/2026-04-15-run…

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 15/04/2026

Currently working on adding pentatonic scales to Guitar Dashboard. It's a tricky one because of the huge range of chords that work with them. My current approach is to find all diatonic modes that are the superset of the pentatonic and display the chords of those modes as concentric rings.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 10/04/2026

New look menu for Guitar Dashboard. The old-style text now replaced by icons and the scale family drop down moved to the control panel, which means that the current scale type is now visible. guitardashboard.com

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 09/04/2026

Guitar Dashboard now has sound. It's been too long coming. Now you can hear scales, modes, and chords without having to reach for your guitar. guitardashboard.com

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 06/04/2026

Our local chalk stream. Crystal clear water, but very cold. It's a very popular wild swimming spot. That pool is about 5ft deep.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 06/04/2026

I've got OpenClaw running on Ubuntu server on an old 2011 MacBook Pro. At last a great use for old laptops.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 06/04/2026

Now working on adding sound to Guitar Dashboard. I've chosen the smplr library for this. It's super easy to get going. Sound in the browser has come a long way from when I first looked at this back in 2018. github.com/danigb/smplr

github.com

GitHub - danigb/smplr: A web audio sampler instrument

A web audio sampler instrument. Contribute to danigb/smplr development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 04/04/2026

Guitar Dashboard get the ultimate upgrade today: rounded corners. guitardashboard.com "Round corners are everywhere" - Steve Jobs

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