iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 6h

I made a hat for Halloween. You’ll never guess what I’m going as.

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 02/10/2026

Absolutely no way this can legally backfire. None whatsoever. 😑

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 01/10/2026

🤞 please be good stewards, please be good stewards 🤞

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 29/09/2026

It's weird how hard it is to do so many simple things the old Siri could do, like playing music. With Apple Music. A thing that you think they'd nail.

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 29/09/2026

Siri AI is a bit hit-and-miss. One thing it does well is when I say "Add this to my calendar" and it creates the event for whatever is on my screen. I've done it with a hotel reservation and a JPEG of an event at my library, and it got it right the first time. Just don't have it change the event.😬

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 28/09/2026

That’s the great thing about homebridge. It just works and I don’t have to think about it, because a lot of the hard stuff is handled by HomeKit.

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 28/09/2026

I run homebridge to track my solar production, and turn on and off my car charger outlet so my car mostly charges on sunlight. That, plus the seasonal lights, is the limit of my home automation. Now that it’s set up, there is zero tweaking, and I love it.

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 28/09/2026

I was big into UI interface theming on MacOS 9 and the early versions of OSX. It was thrilling, time consuming, and exhausting. I think that phase smacked the desire to tweak right out of me, hence why agents don’t appeal to me. (I also have the most vanilla smart home. Home Assistant is a pain)

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 28/09/2026

Bonus: the assistant is a human being, not an amorphous mega-corporation.

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 27/09/2026

Like, dude, I love that you think your particular skills and experience apply here, but maybe cool your jets half a second.

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 27/09/2026

I just love it when a person has a very specific hammer, unique to them, and they are just whacking every single nail-shaped thing with it.

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 26/09/2026

I’m just not convinced that I need an agent to help run my digital life. It’s got such a small interface with my irl life, and I’m not doing that much with my digital life to warrant an agent. It’s just not appealing to me to have a computer telling me what to do and doing things on my behalf.

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 26/09/2026

I've been working on the same spaceship game for the past 6 years (and I was working on its predecessor for 4 years before that). Seeing it finally starting to come together is incredibly gratifying. Doing big things for a long time is great.

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 24/09/2026

“One day I had to pump gas…” Oh man, this guy is totally disconnected from every day life for most Americans (let alone humans in general.) Classic survivorship bias. “I don’t need to know my address, ergo people don’t need to learn how to read, write, and do math.”

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 24/09/2026

Deno desktop, but afaik that uses the system webview. If you depend on Chrome, it’s either Electron or Electrobun. Actually, you can embed Chromium. docs.deno.com/runtime/desk...

docs.deno.com

Backends

Pick a rendering engine for your desktop app: bundled Chromium, the OS webview, or raw windowing. Tradeoffs and how to switch.

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 24/09/2026

> I took a brief detour with Electronbun Yep, been there, done that. Seems to have lost the plot. If you want options for replacing Electron to get a smaller bundle size, I'd be happy to talk about it. Incidentally, I like the look of this one that just crossed my radar. tinyjs.app

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 23/09/2026

You did not remember the 21st night of September, I'm afraid

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 21/09/2026

Huh. That is intriguing. Nicely done. No idea if this is a good score 😅 #Tupo - Sep 21st 2026 (Easy) ⏱️ Solved in 2:22 💯 A perfect game! Play at playtupo.com

playtupo.com

Tupo · A daily sudoku-style logic puzzle with a twist

A simple logic puzzle of numbers and colors. One new puzzle every day, starting easy and getting harder through the week.

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 21/09/2026

Everything I thought I knew about creating original musical compositions is wrong.

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 21/09/2026

Very last-day-of-summer vibes. Also, do it. You will not regret it.

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Hugo @hugorcd.com · 20/09/2026

For me, that means taking more photos, spending time in museums, becoming curious about unfamiliar subjects and genuinely pursuing the things that move me. It also means continuing to treat code as art: choosing what I build and giving it the time and care to become something I’m proud of.

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 19/09/2026

Always good advice. I am so disconnected, I thought the “sf sex cult” thing was a metaphor, or poetic license. You make it sound like it’s quite literal and quite real. Am I going to regret searching “SF sex cult”?

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 18/09/2026

Dies Irae still slaps, centuries later.

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 16/09/2026

This feels spot on, but it makes me wonder — is pointing out to your friend or to the crowd that you think their behavior in and of itself rude? Is it rude to say "that's rude"? Or do we owe it to them?

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 16/09/2026

I just love the disk image background for my spaceship game. Warms my heart every time I see it.

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 15/09/2026

Unironically and unsarcastically, I think date based versions are very sensible. It's impossible to mess up. If you need more granular than YY.MM, feel free to throw a counter on the end. But trying to define what "breaking change" even means is exhausting. It's not worth it to authors or devs.

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 15/09/2026

Too bad the owner of NPM and the owner of TypeScript have nothing to do with each other... Wait...

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 15/09/2026

If not semver, why semver shaped? 🤷‍♂️

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 14/09/2026

Can you also do “Please listen closely, as our options have changed.” As a service too?

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 13/09/2026

Hearing the voice in my head now: “Let’s try that again to show it was not a fluke”

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 13/09/2026

Already is for some of us alexanderson.leaflet.pub/3mriha2hbxk2g

alexanderson.leaflet.pub

The Joy of Programming

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 11/09/2026

Couldn’t be my beloved Gill Sans.

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 10/09/2026

This notion has been noodling in my head for a while. It’s a good one.

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 10/09/2026

“A URL is technical, a link is cultural.“ What a Pitch Perfect sentiment

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 10/09/2026

My child has a onesie with long pants and 11 buttons, which is perfect for teaching her how to count from 0 to 10 as I button them. Except I fear I am cursing her to live with a 0 indexed mindset.

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 09/09/2026

I dunno, I kinda want to be the kind of person with less phone, not more phone.

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 06/09/2026

TIL your first name is Bryan.

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 03/09/2026

It’s soooooo good now, and getting better.

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 02/09/2026

I've seen this more times than I'm comfortable with. I don't get it either.

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 01/09/2026

Right. It only works if you’re okay with a bit of inconsistency, but depending on the type of app, it could work really well, and limit compute costs. (Though I have zero sense of what it costs to constantly read the jet stream)

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R. Alex Anderson @ralexanderson.com · 01/09/2026

So you don’t tail the jet stream, you have a cron pull in the latest every so often? For a low-write traffic site, that makes a ton of sense.

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