iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

There should be an equivalent of Letterboxd for buildings you’ve visited.

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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

A fun image processing distraction today -- how to clean up the noisy background of a photo of a microfilm of a medieval manuscript? Thread, in which I use Photoshop, but similar tools are available in GIMP and other image processing software.

Photo of a microfilm of a medieval manuscript, with a dark grey background

Photo of a microfilm of a medieval manuscript, rendered more visible by removal of the background

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Omar Rizwan @omar.website · 24/07/2026

Woah throwback in the HTMLImageElement MDN

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Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com · 10/06/2026

Sorry for vanishing, we arrived at Glas for dinner 😉 As Katrine said they were making statements as masters of their craft; calling them “artists” in the modern sense would have bewildered them as alien to the world they worked in — and in any case “artista” was for grammarian/logician/rhetorician…

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evelyn @evelynwebsite.com · 06/06/2026

yeah I want to be able to text an app to the group chat

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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

“nostalgic design”: the tendency to create something for their idealized childhood www.goodreads.com/review/show/... via @omar.website

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Omar Rizwan @omar.website · 26/05/2026

feel like I should have a blog or something where I make a post every time I get sent the same link by 3+ different people

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Greg Technology ❪⎷❫ @greg.technology · 03/05/2026

singleride.nyc by @obtusatum.bsky.social !!!!! Amazing!!!!!!

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Omar Rizwan @omar.website · 03/05/2026

always feel a little gross when I have a Makefile target to actually run the program, not just to compile it

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

something that is particularly interesting is how much interface design relies on white lies -- computers are great examples, the icon and semiotics of "saving" a document has very little to do with what is actually happening. so cognitive abstractions for managing a ship being semi-reliable is fun

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Laurel @laurel.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

save the date :0 !!! html day 8.8.2026 ! @htmlenergy.bsky.social

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html energy @htmlenergy.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

effects of HTML: - mood lift, euphoria - increased giggling and laughing - creative, philosophical or deep thinking: ideas flow more easily - boring tasks or entertainment can become more interesting or funny - sensation of insight - intense feelings of wonder

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Omar Rizwan @omar.website · 27/03/2026

need a dedicated device for messaging

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Omar Rizwan @omar.website · 27/03/2026

data gathering tools…

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Omar Rizwan @omar.website · 24/03/2026

yeah, you can't program your phone from your phone and really be a peer of the Apple/Google software on it, so in some sense it's not a "computer" at all, it's closer to a video game console than a PC

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snufkin @snufkin.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

why are macs so obsessed with storing DSs anyway. Aren't they on the switch nowdays.

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 15/03/2026

memory's gotten so expensive! still cheaper than forgetting, though

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Michael Marquis Albright @chicagomstie.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Paying my water bill on the city's blog.

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Omar Rizwan @omar.website · 14/03/2026

"blog" is now a synonym for what people used to call "website"

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Omar Rizwan @omar.website · 14/03/2026

introduction of end-to-end encryption to Facebook Messenger has made my life significantly worse

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Omar Rizwan @omar.website · 14/03/2026

eee pc / other netbooks were cool category because for the first time they weren't 'laptop', where 'laptop' in the 2000s was a pretty expensive, slightly more portable replacement for a desktop

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Omar Rizwan @omar.website · 04/03/2026

making an IDE might be harder than making an OS tbh

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Nick Bergson-Shilcock @nicholasbs.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

This computer is the reason you can't download all software for free. The Franklin Computer Corp was a computer manufacturer founded in the early 1980s. Their flagship product was a clone of the Apple II, one of the most popular personal computers of the day. 1/4

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Greetings from the Northwestern University Transportation Library, where Rachel just showed me the original!

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Omar Rizwan @omar.website · 28/02/2026

wifi network that your phone automatically connects to that only exists inside a Faraday cage box that you have to put your phone inside, so you can never see or use your phone while it's on the network

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Tom Taylor @tomtaylor.co.uk · 24/02/2026

Satellite Eyes is a free, open source MacOS app that sets your desktop wallpaper to the satellite view of your current location. I've just released 2.0, which adds an option to shuffle through a selection of interesting-to-look-at places from around the world. satelliteeyes.tomtaylor.co.uk

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Satellite Eyes

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henry @henryzoo.com · 24/02/2026

has anyone played around with Airpods apis (head tracking for spatial audio)? my hope is to play around with controlling an app without having to look at a screen.. would be an interesting design challenge and would be great when walking around, on the subway, or just a diff experience

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Omar Rizwan @omar.website · 21/02/2026

They should let me store data on the Velcro patch on the back of my phone

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VIEWS project @viewsproject.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Turns out you can get a really nice bladed stylus with Play-doh, perfect for Linear B!

Palmleaf Linear B tablet in purple Play-doh, reading pi-pa MUL 1 ko-wo 1

Purple Play-doh Linear B tablet with red stylus and son's curly red hair in the background

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 13/02/2026

bring back technical children's books

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Harlem in 1970 or a management strategy game from 1999? 🤔

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Red Blob Games @redblobgames.com · 16/02/2026

Trying to find a good way to build intuition around distance field fonts: how about comparing it to a map? The land is the filled text, the beach is the outline, the ocean is transparent (optionally a glow/shadow effect). Not sure whether this will make sense to the reader.

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Omar Rizwan @omar.website · 14/02/2026

What if you sealed an ancient evil into a QR code

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snufkin @snufkin.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

welcome to my new forum: something nice. we'll pay you $10 to join.

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Omar Rizwan @omar.website · 13/02/2026

I like all of these but especially the quotes -- very "vivid assertions"

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Omar Rizwan @omar.website · 13/02/2026

I should have a "Recently:" section on my website

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Omar Rizwan @omar.website · 11/02/2026

lazily evaluated environment variable

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Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com · 10/02/2026

More shared context because ~everything is said out loud, in detail It’s makes computing more social and shared in the sense we understand what the other person is trying to doing on their otherwise silent and unshared screen. Doesn’t scale to more than a few people in a space, but nice for a pair

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Omar Rizwan @omar.website · 06/02/2026

programmable barcode scanner

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Milton tangent complete, I am returning to my work on erased/struck out/obliterated inscriptions. For many reasons they aren't the easiest things to locate in online catalogues. So if you come across any fun ones (esp. in books published prior to ~1750), here is a public request to think of me.

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Omar Rizwan @omar.website · 01/02/2026

"Lighter shades of gray will fade more quickly than darker shades, due to the nature of thermal paper, so bi-level printing is preferable if long-term legibility is of concern."

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Omar Rizwan @omar.website · 31/01/2026

filesystem that automatically deletes orphaned files (any file not referred to in a text message, email, document, etc)

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