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

We’re releasing these early — they’re very much a beta — and there’s a long journey ahead. We’re doing it in the open and excited to build this with a community of like-minded pioneers! Check it our launch post and let me know what you think: tessl.co/l5y

tessl.co

Announcing Tessl's Products to Unlock the Power of Agents

Tessl introduces AI native development where specs drive everything. Build reliable AI-powered software with autonomous maintenance, cross-platform generation, and self-optimizing performance. Request...

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 16/09/2025

(2) a registry of specs that document thousands of open-source libraries, helping coding agents use third-party code with fewer hallucinations and research / try / fix loops.

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 16/09/2025

(1) a CLI + MCP server that provides tooling and context for a spec-driven development process: creating and editing specs (from prompts and existing code), keeping code and specs in sync, build tests, etc.

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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 · 11/04/2025

Adam — gutted to hear the news. So sorry man. ❤️❤️❤️

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 11/03/2025

...or move them around in the various To, Cc, Bcc fields! Serious “you have one job” territory.

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 19/02/2025

👋 Bizarre to see the same move made 15 years later with a different cast of characters on both sides.

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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 · 05/01/2025

LLMs have helped me realize how often talking is not conscious effort, but some other subliminal process that we occasionally steer, and often just… do. As you say, much easier than actively thinking.

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 05/01/2025

Having a stable hardware platform for that long was amazing, and the software ecosystem was amazing. Super fun time.

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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 · 20/12/2024

oh man my childhood resurrected keep the good times coming man

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 20/12/2024

I did that back in the day! Good memory.

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 15/12/2024

LHarc / LZH was good stuff back in the day, when we pushed bits through 2400 baud straws. Good memories.

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 15/12/2024

🤣 reminds me of when young me used bat2exe to make silly little DOS scripts seem fancy

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 15/12/2024

Haven’t been on Twitter or Threads for ages, so happy to see your witticisms again!

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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

It does seem that way.

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 15/12/2024

The lies some of my relatives believe about Biden are gobsmacking.

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 15/12/2024

I kinda like that Claude relies on its memory for more queries than ChatGPT does; I often just want inference from that, versus a RAG over webpages.

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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 · 20/11/2024

Love this. I keep track of my reading in a Todoist project with swimlanes, but the simplicity of your approach is wonderful.

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Ben Galbraith @octo.dad · 14/11/2024

It does feel like an unstable state when we’re not conjoined

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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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