iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 15/06/2026

The Old King’s Crown! Play #3, and not quite sure if I like it yet. Beautiful artwork though.

Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 07/02/2026

I feel the paradox of choice so much more intensely when I’m building hobby projects with agents. Because my own familiarity with a coding domain is no longer a useful razor at prioritizing, it’s very disorienting being able to do... anything!

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 16/10/2025

I’ve come to dread the cognitive burden of new Apple hardware. I tell myself I don’t need to upgrade to the latest [phone / laptop / watch]. But then the daily struggle begins: “Wouldn’t it be nice to have that [new feature]?” “See that person? They have the new [y]; shouldn’t you have it?” 😭

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 02/10/2025

Attack on Titan S4 is some heavy stuff

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 16/09/2025

🧵 AI coding agents — like Claude Code and Codex — are amazing, but they’re also unpredictable and hard to control. Today at Tessl we’re announcing a framework that helps keep agents on the rails and arms with the context they need to get things right. It has two parts:

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 18/07/2025

Not sure when Google Docs enabled right-clicking to copy embedded images to the clipboard, but I’m so grateful. All is forgiven, Google Docs. 🥳

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 18/05/2025

I track things like the food I eat, shows I watch, how I spend my time generally, etc. Lately I switched from using custom apps for this (e.g., Sofa for media; MacroFactor for food) to just writing a free form log in a daily note and having my AI assistant analyze it. It’s so much better!

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 10/02/2025

Finding it’s delightful to have put myself into two obscure categories, from an IT troubleshooting point of view: * Families with more than four children * Families who immigrate to another country but still want to have access to their original country’s digital assets Absolutely delightful.

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 05/02/2025

I’ve seen some high friction spam unsubscribe forms in my day, but this Amazon one is next level. Amazing. Illegal?

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 02/02/2025

Reviewing my car insurance. Says I have 32 years of driving experience. First reaction: “That’s wild, I wonder where they came up with that.” Second reaction: 🥺

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 28/01/2025

In practice, the new iOS text effects are just another way for iOS to do something to my text that I didn’t want, and for me to spend extra cycles trying to undo it. Yay.

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 25/01/2025

“Dad, why do so many company names start with ‘a‘?” Son, lemme tell you a story about these ancient things called “phone books”...

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 04/01/2025

Can’t decide which blows my mind more: • the Apple ][‘s peak sales year was six years after its introduction • the Apple ][ was an active SKU for 16 years • the Apple ][‘s lifetime sales of 6 million units is routinely bested by a few *days* of iPhone sales

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 15/12/2024

I used to find most headlines from The Onion laugh-out-loud funny, but lately the jokes just aren’t landing with me. Have I changed, or have they?

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 15/12/2024

I’m surprised that cursor positioning and text selection remains excruciating on iOS in late 2024.

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 10/12/2024

My daughter has a nice smartphone but asked for this for Christmas. 🤔

A screen capture of a Christmas wishlist asking for an old school digital camera

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 06/07/2023

Weird to go from infinitely configurable custom feeds to “here’s a ton of threads that intersect in an undefined way between your interests and ours.”

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 05/07/2023

Is it okay to start playing Christmas music in July if it’s lo-fi?

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 01/07/2023

Trying to grok the galaxy brain strategy Starbucks is employing that explains why their bakery display cases across the country are consistently gross.

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 30/06/2023

There’s awful, and then there’s “incapable of using logic” and “posting videos of your lame workouts and then making excuses about them.” Two different leagues. JFK was a very rational, logical guy.

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 30/06/2023

This one hits me hard. I have fond memories of looking through dozens of back issues of Nat Geo when visiting my grandparents, and of looking forward to each month’s new issue. Still, times are changing, and I haven’t subscribed for decades.

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 24/06/2023

As I age, I wish more adventure games were *linear* and almost on rails. I don’t have much free time, and any time spent wandering around wondering what to do next and whether I’m on the right track winds up being stressful. Just keep feeding me puzzles on a straightforward narrative track.

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 23/06/2023

5k lbs per sq inch is truly 🤯

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 23/06/2023

I feel like this is the right reaction

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/06/2023

lol. everyone knows elon musk is gonna wuss out unless the chancery court of delaware forces him to fight mark zuckerberg

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 21/06/2023

Playing Heat for this evening’s game night. Love this game. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/366013/…

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 18/06/2023

Best Dad’s day gift.

Old man eating the best kind of donut (chocolate glazed old-fashioned, of course)

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 18/06/2023

Disappointing article. No effort to contextualize the performance of Tesla self-driving / automation, vs. human driving. Just some absolute numbers while acknowledging that Tesla’s scale dwarfs any other party attempting similar automations.

washingtonpost.com

17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot

Crashes have surged in the past four years, reflecting the hazards associated with increasing use of Tesla’s futuristic driver-assistance tech.

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 15/06/2023

Loved this bit: “Mr. Gottlieb… often signaled changes with hieroglyphics in the margins: a wavy line for language too florid, ellipses or question marks advising a writer to ‘think harder and try again.’” www.nytimes.com/2023/06/14/books/ro…

nytimes.com

Robert Gottlieb, Eminent Editor From le Carré to Clinton, Dies at 92

At Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker, he polished the work of a who’s who of mid-to-late 20th century writers.

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 04/06/2023

Welcome to Bluesky, @alexgalbs.bsky.social! I can’t wait to see what you bring here.

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 02/06/2023

“[some new startup] claims it is actually an AI play!” Shocking turn of events. 😉

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 02/06/2023

This LLM stuff has me super uneasy about how often my brain generates words that I say, and then work out why I said them. Ideally it’s gen’d by some subsystem that actually has a goal aligned with something self-serving, but… how often is it just… pattern matching? 😬

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