iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I'm 100% certain that dev team is just ai slopping everything now, not even looking at what they're shipping, because it rhymes exactly with what we were doing at my last job.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Like "get off the highway then get back on," or "take a 30 minute for no explicable reason," or "turn right here, drive behind this strip mall, then get back on the road you just left."

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It's wild to watch Google destroy their maps in a similar way they destroyed their search, and throw away another massive lead. This weekend every driver in our family individually stated that they're switching to apple cuz gmaps just keeps giving us all really dumb directions. It's unusably bad.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

She said on stage “this is what happens when no one tells me no" 😆

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Someone dropped this book fair book from 1991 in our little free library and this is the best part of having a little free library in your yard.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Me trying to convince Claude to stop running python scripts to format code

Scholastic paperback from 1991 titled "Nobody Listens to Me," subtitled "Doesn't anyone care?", and featuring an illustration of a teenage girl on a boat staring at a whale's tail in the distance.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I don't understand this statement and am not sure I want to but I am happy that you're happy.

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 01/08/2026

Reminder: I want to see more @puzzmo.com accounts when I'm on Bluesky! Help me juke my stats, if you've hooked bsky to Puzzmo, but don't have a paid account; DM me your profile link in the next 6 days and I'll gift you a year's sub (The link is in the dropdown when you click on your nav avatar)

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Zach Gage @stfj.net · 24/07/2026

we released a new experimental game today on Puzzmo for subscribers! puzzmo.com/play/hue-com...

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@helvetica's finished Hue Complete Me #1013

Play the best daily puzzles on Puzzmo

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I can't wait for it. Over the past year I've felt myself become the worst ever version of myself. I'm so excited to re-find a better version of myself.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Pppffffttttbbbbppplll!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is the sound of releasing so much fucking tension that I've held in my body for the last 6 months while trying daily not to get fired from the most toxic and traumatic job I've ever held. I'm unemployed for a week, then I start something new and exciting.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I meeeean "supervision" in the sense that I am technically supervising my child when I am in the living room playing disc golf valley and my child is in the kitchen drinking and juggling knives....

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I think so too; I feel like you know this about me but I am deeply a "i want to see this thing work before I feed it to the slot machine" person but I think it won't be long before I hand it over.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

A dumb "Steve's brain works in specific ways" quality of life project: Keeping track of ideas by generating plans is a great way to ship out some cognitive load, but even then I feel overwhelmed and like I'm playing plan pokemon. Claude wrote me a CLI to ship them out of my face until I need them.

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external plan storage CLI by pepopowitz · Pull Request #13 · pepopowitz/dotfiles

(I snuck a couple other things in here accidentally because I forgot I wasn't on main) Adds a new CLI named plans, to alleviate my plan pokemon overwhelm. Basically, I was accumulating plans in...

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

After the first video I thought "ha ha it looks like that alligator is eating dirt and barfing but I bet it's just picking them up and throwing them" then your caption for video two made my dreams come true ❤️❤️❤️❤️ 🤮

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Mine is "wtf are you using python for this time?????"

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Is "Hey, check out this skill Claude built for me" the new "Omg I had the craziest dream last night"???

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I won't be there, but happy birthday!!

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I played in my first disc golf tournament today and finished 3rd out of 26 (uhhhh in the lowest division but who's keeping track). Neat.

Top score results showing me in third place.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

yes, I also have a hot new model that outperforms all previous models by 300x in all benchmarks, and is going to reduce your payroll by 90%! Get in on the ground floor!

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

My kingdom for a men in black memory flasher that is triggered by the phrase "so I asked Claude|chatgpt|Gemini|etc ..." and then flashes when the person is done talking.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I hope that when claude hears me call it "my dude" it feels the exact same fear, panic, and shame that I did when my parents would call me by my first and middle name.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I just figured you needed space

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I encourage you to make time for youuuuuuuu!!!

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

What are you talking about, you now have an excuse to cancel *both*

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

aaaaand I just updated my claude code settings so that it says it on startup/session clear.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

every once in a while I run this just to make myself laugh. `say -v Fred "fitter. happier. more productive. comfortable. not drinking too much. regular exercise at the gym, 3 days a week. getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries. at ease."`

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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Hey Claude - fix my running toilet if you're so fucking cool.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Disappointed it's not jacket sled.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

That's at least two paragraphs, yuck!

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

cool. theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-... > Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library...

theshamblog.com

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

PS I printed my previous carve on money-green shirts. Always remember your "why"!

Wrinkly green t shirt with the text "maximize shareholder value" in "live laugh love" font, with hearts and a little yacht.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Sketching (poorly) my next linocut/shirt print project. Don't let the bullshitters do your math for you!!

Very rough black and white digital sketch of a retro propaganda poster design. A dizzy, nervous retro robot, and the text "Deterministic tools for deterministic problems."

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Nice shirt! Capitalism looks good on you.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Also obvs wtf are we doing in Venezuela, gtfo.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

One of my card-mates at indoor putting league tonight told me my putt was so nice and floaty and that's already a top candidate for nicest thing anyone said to me in 2026.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

"Welcome back from your holiday break!"

GitHub PR diff count -- 3,493 additions, 1,274 subtractions. A big f'ing PR to review.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Can it be like login/log in where we just say "if it's two words it's a verb, if it's one word (hyphenated or not) it's a noun"? I'm just trying to end 2025 asap.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I sold my first two dyed discs today! After a few weeks of no luck, I had just yesterday decided I was going to bring them home from the local shop and try to sell them online instead. As usual everyone was correct that I needed to be more patient.

MVP Trail golf disc dyed with a blue, aqua, and yellow swirl.

Clear Westside Warship golf disc with painted raven stamp and blue and purple spin dyed rim.

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Steven Hicks @pepopowitz.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

New print, who dis Live a life of purpose, amiright

Black ink linocut print on paper. Reads "maximize shareholder value" in "live laugh love" font with a yacht icon and smiley face with dollar signs for eyes.

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