iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 03/10/2026

Started using last.fm again after a decade away. I used it with iTunes for a very long time, and having that old history was really useful for rebuilding my music library post-Spotify

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 27/09/2026

registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/joy-and-cu...

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 26/09/2026

My approach for the photos is to 1) pass them through an image generator to get a stylized B&W image, 2) do Atkinson dithering on the stylized image. Works really nicely for landscapes and cityscapes, less good for humans+pets.

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 26/09/2026

current status: weather, grocery list, calendar, personal photos with mega-dither applied

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 25/09/2026

13” e-ink here we goooooooo

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 23/09/2026

I was hoping to do this and... sigh. It will be purchaseable someday but it's unclear when. I love my Framework but availability of parts could be better.

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 22/09/2026

The competition on cost at the low end is wild. In under 2 months I've moved to Luna, to GLM 5.3 Flash, and now probably back to Luna for high-volume tasks

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 20/09/2026

Got access to Jev, prototyped the spreadsheet sorting+matching ideas and they seem to work really well. This stuff has been kicking around in my head since the CrowdDB paper 15 years ago, neat that it's practical at speed now www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol4/p...

screenshot of a "Jev Sheet" prototype that uses Jev for smart sorting and matching

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 20/09/2026

this is where I post from btw

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 13/09/2026

thinking about the Norwegian fish farming sea lice lasers again www.cermaq.com/news/cermaq-...

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 09/09/2026

was slumming it in the ChatGPT web UI and did not expect it to be able to do this, nice

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 29/08/2026

they don't make software like they used to archive.org/details/MacJ...

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 27/08/2026

This old @randomascii.bsky.social post is one of my most frequently referenced, I use it several times/year to remind myself how to write about performance randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/02/04/w...

What We Talk About When We Talk About Performance
Posted on February 4, 2018 by brucedawson

TL;DR – the phrase “90% faster” is interpreted by people in two different ways:

90% less time
The speed (ops/sec or km/h) is 90% greater

I strongly prefer #2 but due to the ambiguity this phrase should never be used. The preferred unambiguous phrase should be “1.9 times as fast” (or “ten times as fast”, if that is what you were trying to say). To do otherwise is to risk being misunderstood by a significant portion of your audience.

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 24/08/2026

Feeling bullish on personalized social media curation:

Cheap LLMs open up new use cases

The price of decent models has dropped a lot lately, and that opens up some interesting new use cases. Bluesky supports custom feeds, and now I consume most of my social media through a custom feed which scores+filters every post by people I follow through Luna for about $5/mo. Nobody’s immune to rage-bait and doom-scrolling (least of all me), and this is a remarkably effective way to curate my social media diet. I spent a bit of time experimenting with even cheaper models on OpenRouter, but wasn’t happy with the performance compared to Luna.

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 22/08/2026

This is REAL embedded software, done by REAL embedded engineers they have played us for absolute fools

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 21/08/2026

ooooooooo Pimoroni has a 13" colour e-ink display now shop.pimoroni.com/products/ink...

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 20/08/2026

Yeah, custom web app (Rust backend, Tiptap, yjs) for just my wife and I. Struggled to find something off the shelf that met our needs, so I knocked together something crappy 3 years ago and have been iterating on it ever since.

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 17/08/2026

I would like to give it a try but discouraging "Projects written and maintained with heavy use of LLMs" does not feel very tenable these days blog.codeberg.org/protecting-o...

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 17/08/2026

problem: I want rack hardware but it's loud possible insane solution:

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 14/08/2026

most horrifying thing in that photo is the urban planning, jesus that neighbourhood

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 13/08/2026

Ubuntu Software: hey you've got software you can update Me: ok Ubuntu Software: of course I can't update myself. you fool. you absolute buffoon

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 12/08/2026

whoa, DigitalOcean is doing inference now?

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 08/08/2026

Been wanting nice Sonos integration for my local music collection for a while but it was too painful until recently. 2024: poked at the Music API docs, gave up b/c it was like a week of work 2025: Sonnet 4 got partway there in a few evenings but couldn't finish 2026: gpt-5.6-sol nails it in 20 min

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 07/08/2026

Also happy without a car here but if I could get a left-hand-drive kei truck with insurance incentives like they have in Japan...

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 25/07/2026

Fun post, and I think writing about this makes it more likely: www.seangoedecke.com/powerful-ais...

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 21/07/2026

That's a good one, 3 separate bookmarks in my janky homegrown longform music player

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 20/07/2026

Sunday work: planted a climbing rose, crepe myrtle, and raspberry bush, hooked them all up to irrigation

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 19/07/2026

New systemctl-tui release, finally added timer support: github.com/rgwood/syste...

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 16/07/2026

it's sold out (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 14/07/2026

systemctl-tui feature: canned descriptions for popular systemd units, because "Run anacron jobs" means nothing unless you already know anacron

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 13/07/2026

tryin’ out a USB pedal for push-to-talk transcription, I kinda like it

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 13/07/2026

After ~10 back and forths with Sol, a pretty good GTK+Rust systemd GUI. Like, I think most distros could ship this and it would be a big improvement on the CLI-for-everything status quo. Maybe the Year of the Linux Desktop isn't so far off after all

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 12/07/2026

Plus a big investment in testing. Containerized test suite that exercises several different distros and systemd versions; good example of the "tests that you otherwise wouldn’t have written because they are too tedious" thing from crespo.business/posts/not-cu...

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 12/07/2026

New systemctl-tui version. Remote support, extensive mouse+clipboard support, more info about services, status filters, and a bunch of bugfixes github.com/rgwood/syste...

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 10/07/2026

github.com/ReimuNotMoe/...

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 06/07/2026

That’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. For a while he was running a (pretty good!) German restaurant here in Vancouver. (and hooooo boy that movie 😬)

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 04/07/2026

this was supposed to be a new garden bed for flowers, but alas

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 27/06/2026

good post by Jamie Brandon (but I repeat myself) www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/im-n...

I remember when we were worried it would be able to persuade its jailers to release it from a locked box.

In hindsight, it was childish to think that we'd put it in a box at all. Not enough curiosity to pause to figure out what exactly we summoned before pushing it out into the streets to turn tricks. Bunch of cut-rate Fagins calling the shots.

It's a better story this way though. We can jump right to the action.

I don't know what will happen to us. I have no faith in the people in charge of the future, but humanity isn't going to change any time soon. I refuse to be incurious about magic just because we can't be trusted with it.

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 31/05/2026

One gets the impression that Google doesn't actually *want* people using their MCP servers

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 31/05/2026

this is very good, I encounter a lot of people who have not figured this out yet www.seangoedecke.com/build-agents...

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 27/05/2026

Yes, a million times this point by @simonwillison.net The term “coding agent” is really misleading in that it focuses on the process not the outcome simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/...

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 01/05/2026

found some swag from when my spouse was at Grace Hopper

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Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 17/04/2026

Unprompted, my mom started talking about how Google is not very smart so she's probably going to switch to Claude for her genealogy hobby

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