iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

rfcbittwiddler @rfcbittwiddler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wow. I think this is the first time I've seen that word used _not_ in the context of a war crime.

rfcbittwiddler @rfcbittwiddler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Knowing how things are put together and how various AIs behave lets you do some really neat things these days. Behold my vast array of connector splicing signal taps (generated from a parametric script):

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rfcbittwiddler @rfcbittwiddler.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Never seen anything quite like that, though my gut is telling me kelvin connection to a busbar or foil strip (a la bat lithium pouch cells).

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

YES. IT WORKS it cools me down to a point where i get less brain fog

contraption made of a chiller with a vapor compression refrigerant loop (propane/butane mix) and liquid cooling vest (not currently worn)

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rfcbittwiddler @rfcbittwiddler.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Ltspice is your friend when you want to start playing with analog concepts.

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rfcbittwiddler @rfcbittwiddler.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

So, I started a new job a couple of weeks ago. Since then I've been drinking from the firehose and slowly working to build out a test suite for a specific library. Yesterday I submitted my first pull request in my time here: Files changed 102, insertions 8251, deletions 24 Lol

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Dumb Megan @dmbmeg.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Finally able to redo the house the way SHE wants to

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

I find myself living up to the cliche "you need ADHD medication if you keep forgetting to take your allegedly very addictive amphetamines"

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Tred @tredlocity.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

video game nostalgia is a constant battle between "you felt that way because you were twelve" and "the video game industry liked video games back then"

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Daniel A. Horwitz @danielahorwitz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Speaking as just one guy who sues the government a lot: This basically does not happen. It is a transparent effort to shut down further inquiry by conceding relief. What they are seeking to cover up must be unspeakably bad.

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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

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Marta @martastic.me · 08/07/2026

This article perfectly sums up why I'm still a techno-optimist and also a AI hater. Thanks @aftermath.site and specifically Gita Jackson for this. aftermath.site/anthropic-cl...

aftermath.site

The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited

Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This looks suspiciously like the government taking my tax dollars to subsidize lifestyles I disagree with smh

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 19/06/2026

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...

Benjamin owns a farm. He employs 100 workers plowing his fields. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10 percent productivity gain. Benjamin fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000 percent productivity gain. The driverless mules cause plow damage to his property in excess of $50 million. Benjamin loses another $5 million due to the loss of productivity from his one remaining employee, who no longer guides a plow but instead spends 100 percent of his time shoveling mule shit.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 19/06/2026

Democrats should make 2 key points. 1) The illegal war in Iran has been a blunder & we are worse off than before it started. 2) There’s no good way out of a bad war. We should reject the talking points of those who cheered it on & want to drag us back into it. When you're in a hole, stop digging.

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Vale @vale.rocks · 19/06/2026

There are only two file formats: disguised zips and renamed text files. JSON? Text. EPUB? Zip. CSV? Text. EXE? Zip. SVG? Text. DOCX? Zip. ICS? Text. APK? Zip.

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rfcbittwiddler @rfcbittwiddler.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Thinking about it, the bridge scene reminds me a _lot_ of the scene in Das Boot with the dial. If you've seen it, you know the one; if you haven't, I won't spoil it. But yeah, the most critical of stakes, for the most mundane of things.

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Trans-Neptunian Otter (Ace, they/them) @blueearotter.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Happy us flag day to this iconic post

A twitter post by user yang-wenIi pointing out that the original us flag code has no color shade or element placement specifications. Uses trans colors

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just chase 🎃 @manacurves.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The rich crave and envy community so much that they enter it just to taint and destroy it.

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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The web should be accessible to people with poor internet connections & assistive technologies. As a UX designer, I will absolutely die on this hill.

mohkohn.co.uk

How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 13/06/2026

Elon Musk having “a trillion dollars” doesn’t really mean anything except that the stock market is underregulated to such an extent that one morally insane capitalist can contaminate the entire global economy

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rfcbittwiddler @rfcbittwiddler.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

At this point, I've seen the word once before and no longer need a translation, so, uh, footnote and don't bother?

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Trinket @trinketbirdy.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

No seriously they're stuck in a shit pub being yelled at by Fatboy Slim

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Mark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

People sometimes ask me when Silicon Valley really turned bad. I always say: although it's a continuum, there was a distinct change in 2008-2009, when the Wall Street bros saw their scam collapse and moved west to start it up again.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The gods of metaphor have been putting in OT lately.

Photo of an MMA fighter.

Headline below: UFC White House fighter throws up at weigh-in: "So what? I was drinking."

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 09/06/2026

grabbing every small business owner I can find by the shoulders and yelling directly into their faces that IF I DON'T HAVE AN INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT I CAN'T SEE ANY OF YOUR SHIT GET A FUCKING WEBSITE

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

it must be fundamentally absurd and on some level unreconcilable to be both, 1. A devout Catholic 2. The brother of the current Pope

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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Watched Sorcerer (1977). Good film.

Shot from Sorcerer (1977) of a hand clinging on to one slat of a rope bridge as a big lorry approaches from behind.

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rfcbittwiddler @rfcbittwiddler.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

That. Rickety. Bridge. Holy crap, genuinely, I think that was more intense than the airport scene in Heat. I was literally on the edge of my seat the first time I saw it.

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

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rfcbittwiddler @rfcbittwiddler.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Royal Enfield is famous for the fact that when the current head took over he made a rule that every exec had to ride to the office at least two days a week. The more I've learned about them over time, the more impressed I am

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Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Shake Hands with Danger (1980) Directed by Herk Harvey - BOTD in 1924

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/01/2026

every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

As a student of history, Peter Thiel fleeing to Argentina is a bit too on the nose. #IYKYK

nytimes.com

Why Peter Thiel Is Decamping to the End of the World

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rfcbittwiddler @rfcbittwiddler.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

... The fact that I know what you're talking about even though I've never even seen this in my life is perplexing to me. You didn't run across the same historical food video on the subject as well, did you?

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rfcbittwiddler @rfcbittwiddler.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

17.86mm, and yeah, it's derived from 3/4", by way of desired gasket compression and decimal imperial :P Did I mention that it's one of the rare instances of _British_ imperial standards from the 20th century?

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rfcbittwiddler @rfcbittwiddler.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Well, that was interesting. Spent most of today applying to jobs (oh, I got laid off at the beginning of the month btw...), and interestingly there's a way more embedded software jobs in Seattle than I've seen previously.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

youtu.be

Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026

YouTube video by Stephen Colbert

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maimonides nutz @maimonidesnutz.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

This picture is more American than anything Norman Rockwell could have ever dreamed up

A picture of a large lifting truck that has run up the front of a sports car in a TJ Maxx parking lot

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil. It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.

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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 19/04/2026

It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you

A screenshot of a white-on-black terminal depicting a 19x19 go board in ascii graphics, with empty grid intersections as periods, and black and white as Os and #s

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history

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rfcbittwiddler @rfcbittwiddler.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I still crack up anytime I'm driving and see an "Old ..." road, because I once had a moment of moderate dyslexia and read "Old Sappho-Pysht Highway" as "Old Sappho-Physt Highway" and thought "Wow, why don't that just call it old lesbian road?". Did I mention that it's just after Beaver Lake?

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