iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 07/03/2026

I've been doing the Duolingo chess course for a month now. It's engaging and I like the puzzle solving aspect of the exercise. I am still very bad at _playing_ chess, however.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 09/01/2026

I wrote a thing! It's sort of about npm, but mostly about things like WebAuthn and token hygiene and supply-chain security in general. :)

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 19/05/2025

Deux salles, deux ambiances … #EUpol

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 17/05/2025

Good news everybody! You can buy #Bluesky at the French supermarket now.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 14/05/2025

Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

A photograph of Louis Bamberger, seated on the right, wearing a mustache and bowler hat, and his sister Caroline Bamberger Fuld, standing on the left, wearing a fur hat and shawl

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 06/05/2025

The future of web development is… - Java applets - ActiveX - Flash - XHTML - Silverlight - Progressive Web Apps - CSS-inJS - Blockchain - AI …Get on or get left behind. alex.party/posts/2025-0... 😆

alex.party

The future of web development is AI. Get on or get left behind.

Editor’s Note: previous titles for this article have been added here for posterity.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 23/04/2025

The refresh of Elder Scrolls #Oblivion is wild y'all. It looks now like I *thought* it looked like way back when. If this release does well enough commercially, perhaps they'll refresh #Morrowind next? A boy can dream.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Death by Shakespeare Causes of 74 deaths in Shakespeare's plays #ShakespeareDay

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 10/03/2025

I'll be speaking at #OWASP #Snowfroc this Friday! The talk is called "Patterns of failure in modern #authorization" and it's about why #authz is getting harder instead of easier. Some academic research but also interesting examples of authz failure at large, well-known brands. Hope to see you there!

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 26/02/2025

Listening to some classic rock lately and have rediscovered Blue Öyster Cult. Apparently they're still active, having released an album in 2024. For reference, their eponymous debut album came out in 1972. For further reference, my parents were kids when that album came out. That's wild to me, haha

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 17/02/2025

Fascinating commentary of what statehood means with respect to land, or the lack thereof.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 04/02/2025

«There are no built-in constructs for looping. Nobody has time for yesterday's loops or last week's break statements. If you must loop, use recursion. Every program must end with PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE, because you have to grow your audience! Hashtag hustle.» 😆 tabloid.vercel.app

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Tabloid: the clickbait headline programming language

Tabloid is a real, turing complete programming language written in JavaScript, inspired by cilckbait headlines.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 03/02/2025

Got the inevitable message that my Windows 10 is now EOL and that I need to upgrade to 11. The machine is perfectly fine but it doesn't have the secure boot stuff, so there's no good upgrade path. This isn't even my daily driver (I use a MacBook for work), so I'm definitely not buying anything new.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 03/02/2025

#HTTP status code 451 "Unavailable For Legal Reasons"; for use when a server operator has received a legal demand to deny access to a resource. Used to provide transparency in circumstances where issues of law or public policy affect server operations. www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7725....

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RFC 7725: An HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 28/01/2025

It is heartwarming to see three of the four #NHL divisions currently being lead by Canadian teams. Notably, my beloved @winnipegjets.com—who appear to have an active account—and the other great prairie team, the Edmonton Oilers. (Oh and the Leafs too, which is fine, I guess.) #GoJetsGo!

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 28/01/2025

All these companies out here with job listings for "senior developer" and "staff engineer", are the same companies that are busy trying to replace juniors and mids with LLMs. Where do you think the seniors and staffs are coming from, my dudes?

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Selzero @selzero.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The Welsh told the Saxons this hill was called "pen" (meaning "hill"). The Saxons added their word for hill, "tor," and called it Torpen (hill hill). Later the Norse added their world for hill. So it became Torpen Haugr (Hill Hill Hill). Now the English call it Torpenhow Hill (Hill Hill Hill Hill)

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Christoph Bautz @christophbautz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Mittlerweile ist klar: Nicht 50.000, sondern 70.000 Menschen sind heute in Köln auf die Straße gegangen. Gegen die AfD und den Plänen von Friedrich Merz, gemeinsam eine Mehrheit mit ihnen zu finden. Das ist ein starkes Zeichen. Danke! ♥️

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 22/01/2025

«What truly limits democracy is the power of the elites […] It is the power of those who think that because they are rich, they are above the law and can do anything. That is why, my friends, that is why the tech billionaires want to overthrow democracy.» www.politico.eu/article/spai...

politico.eu

Tech billionaires want to ‘overthrow democracy’ with social media, Spain PM Sánchez says

“The technology that was intended to free us has become the tool of our own oppression.”

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 19/01/2025

Taking in some live #NHL whilst in Winnipeg. It is *much* warmer on the ice than it is outside. #Jets are down 0-2 to the #Flames but there's still a full period to play. Go Jets Go!

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 09/01/2025

Hello @bsky.app, here's to looking into more #bluesky and beyond... 😉

Image of the Moon, on a background of the blackness of space, and foreground at right of Earth's atmosphere in shades of blue, taken by ESA astronaut André Kuipers from the ISS in 2012.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford Medicine have devised an influenza vaccine that prompts immunity to ALL four major flu subtypes AND shows potential against bird flu, indicating a significant advancement in flu prevention and a potential increase in vaccine efficacy. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 31/12/2024

LinkedIn is cool because I was always wondering what it would be like if people I sort of knew wrote mediocre press releases about themselves.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 01/01/2025

Via @bylineseast.bsky.social: « #Privatisation has had little effect on long-term trends on prices or productivity in #Britain. Instead it has led to more wealth for the already wealthy, declining services and has been costly to the taxpayer. » eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/fin...

eastangliabylines.co.uk

Privatisation promised prosperity but delivered decline

Privatisation promised efficiency but led to declining services and higher costs. No wonder the public now favours renationalisation

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I’ll be honest I just don’t think I can commit to 2025 right now. I need a gap year or something. Just some time to find myself and figure out if another calendar year is really what I want to do with my life.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 29/12/2024

From @nebylines.bsky.social, a brief but interesting look at the blend of old and new political systems practiced by four of Europe's smallest countries (incorrectly grouped as microstates, but just ignore that label). northeastbylines.co.uk/news/europe-...

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Europe’s microstates: the medieval monarchies that survive in our midst

Europe’s microstates—Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco, and San Marino—preserve unique medieval institutions, blending tradition and modern governance

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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2024

🚨 ATTENTION THEORYCELS: PEAK FOUCAULT HAS BEEN REACHED 🚨 ANNUAL CITATIONS FOR FOUCAULT HAVE BEEN IN DECLINE SINCE 2020 YOU CAN STOP PRETENDING TO HAVE READ FOUCAULT, AND INSTEAD PRETEND TO BE ABOVE READING FOUCAULT

a bar chart of michel foucault's citations per year. it peaks in 2019 at 84,000.

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I drew this stupid comic in 5 minutes and people have been arguing about it on the internet ever since

A Venn diagram of 3 circles labeled "Blockchain", Gen AI", and "A senior Software Engineer". Blockchain is "still searching for a use case", Gen AI is "still searching for a business model", and the senior SWE is "still searching for a semicolon". The intersection of Blockchain and the senior SWE is "falsely believes logic can solve human disputes", between the SWE and Gen AI is "writes buggy code", between Blockchain and Gen AI is "massively overhyped". The intersection of all three circles is labeled "technically just a slow database".

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 18/12/2024

Got my #Covid booster AND #flu shot yesterday. One in each arm, obv. Ngl, #boxing session was a mess today. Honestly, looking forward to it being "just" leg day tomorrow :P

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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Great data journalism: people report “best times” is when they were 10-15 yo www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Chauvet Cave was discovered on the 18th December 1994. 30 years ago today. To many it is the most arresting expression of cave art in the archaeological record & it is one of the oldest examples in Europe. Here are four of my highlights. archeologie.culture.gouv.fr/chauvet/en #AncientSky 🦣🏺

For cat lovers everywhere, no less than 15 big cats, cave lions?, lionesses?, in black outline on the beige limestone rock.
All are looking left, their attention utterly caught by the bison and bear drawn there.
There is so much energy in their attentiveness, as if about to move.
Some close superimposition of cat profiles hints at animation

At least 10 Woolly Rhinos, in black outline on the beige limestone rock.
At the top four look closely superimposed giving an impression of animated movement.

Finally the famous, beautiful image of four horses, all facing left drawn in black outline on the beige limestone with yellow ochre paint to the rear.
The person, or people, who drew these, captured something so essential in the nature of the horse, as with so many Chauvet animals there is empathy/sympathy here.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 16/12/2024

The #EU is planning a satellite-based internet solution (like #Starlink). In principle this is a great way to democratise internet access across the continent. In reality, I'm sceptical—not in the technology per se, but in the EU's capacity to actually make it happen. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

ec.europa.eu

Commission takes next step to deploy the IRIS² secure satellite system

The Commission has signed the concession contract for the Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellite (IRIS²), a multi-orbital constellation of 290 satellite, with the S...

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 11/12/2024

#Scotland to propose a « new law which could see the bosses of major polluters jailed for up to 20 years » specifically targeting the *executives* of companies guilty of #ecocide. Bravo ! 👏 www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Bill to jail bosses of major polluters set to be introduced in Scotland

The Ecocide Prevention Bill would impose harsh penalties on executives responsible for major environmental damage.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 10/12/2024

All of the #EU policy wonks, political journos, and Brussels commentariat have found their way to Bsky from X. Correspondingly, my shift from the latter to the former is complete, as EU news was the only reason I opened X anymore. That was quick, relatively speaking.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 07/12/2024

I tried to be nice, random IoT mailing list, but from here on out it's scorched earth in my inbox filters.

A simple web page model that says "unsubscribe failure!"

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 05/12/2024

Aww you're too kind! It was a pleasure and an honour to accompany so many intelligent, accomplished professionals on stage over the past two days at #DevOpsREX24. 😊

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 29/11/2024

«Enjoy the warm glow of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen as their combustion casts a calming, flickering glow.» Clearly this is the greatest #fireplace #video ever conceived. Thank you for your service, humans of #NASA. www.sciencealert.com/nasa-just-re...

sciencealert.com

NASA Just Released a Fireplace Video For The Holidays, And It's Hilarious

There's a new contender for your holiday fireplace video.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 22/11/2024

« Since the 1980s, tar has been the go-to method for bundling and archiving multiple files … how did a magnetic tape utility become the standard for archiving files even 40 years later? » A fun and interesting look into the #tar and #gzip file formats. depot.dev/blog/what-is...

depot.dev

What is a tar file?

What is a "tar" (tape archive) file? A deep dive into the history and inner workings of the tar file format to create better optimized archives.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 21/11/2024

Q: What's the tallest mountain on Earth? A: Uh, mount Everest, sort of, but also not—honestly, it's complicated. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

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List of highest mountains on Earth - Wikipedia

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 19/11/2024

Because life, I'm going to be in #Winnipeg 🇨🇦 in January. If you're not familiar with this part of the world during the winter months, it's effectively Siberia. That is not an exaggeration. As recompense, I've got tickets to see the #NHL Jets take on the Flames. Live 🏒 is the best. Already stoked!

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 08/09/2024

A thing that I do generally appreciate about #Bluesky is how well it works in a web #browser —specifically, how well it works on #mobile #Firefox. The interface is clean and responsive. All the functionality is all there. It's so refreshing to _not_ have to use an app.

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? We don't all have the same number of bones or muscles. There's an average, I guess. We all kind of cluster around it. Some muscles are pretty rare. Some people just invent their own artisanal bones.

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Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com · 13/06/2024

Still not really into bsky idk

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