iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Zach Gage @stfj.net · 07/09/2026

Ok im gonna say something here that is going to draw a lot of different feelings from everyone, and I want to be clear i'm not "in support of this" or "against it". i'm just saying it as an observation that seems true to me: I think with the latest frontier LLMs, the “music” era of games is upon us

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 26/08/2026

I’m taking this as a challenge

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Rick @ricksmith.co.uk · 22/07/2026

Worrying stuff! Glad it got caught early.

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Rick @ricksmith.co.uk · 22/07/2026

Do you know how the prompt injection happened? Was it via an email? Or are you saying that it was through a Google Auth’ed app?

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Rick @ricksmith.co.uk · 28/06/2026

Are these going to be available for the UK at any point?

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Lil @lilsky.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

lol "I've closed Jira tickets older than you" is a bar

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Rick @ricksmith.co.uk · 15/06/2026

Plus everyone has their own devices now. Much easier to get caught when everyone shares the same desktop.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Regulating children is not the same thing as regulating social media platforms. Seems very important to distinguish between the two. However, social media platforms tend to be run by powerful billionaires, so easier to go after the kids instead.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 10/06/2026

Twitter/X is an enormous national security threat on a global scale, and a lot more nations need to grow a spine and start blocking it (and taking other active, aggressive measures).

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I have likely missed the serious discourse on this. I'm a big fan of Jess Philips, but the technology does not exist to stop children taking naked pictures of themselves. Or, in so far as it does, the technology is "not letting children have cameras".

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Rick @ricksmith.co.uk · 27/04/2026

These are so great! Are these visuals being driven by the audio or are just jamming in time? If it’s the first one, what are you using for that?

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Jacob @tullamore-jew.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

It's been clear for a hot minute an anti-autism diagnosis campaign is in the works but I am truly stunned they are literally just going for the Detransitioner playbook

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Rick @ricksmith.co.uk · 18/04/2026

Long live the original

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Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I like the web and I like people learning new things. So we're running a free 10 week web development bootcamp online, starting April 24th. 📍Free and not selling/pushing anything 📍Livestreamed lessons with Q&A 📍Expert guest speakers 📍Chill vibes 📍Kind learner community

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The Bad Website Club is Running a Free Responsive Web Design Bootcamp Based on freeCodeCamp

Hi everyone! We (Jess, Carmen, and Eda) are excited to announce the next installation of our free and online bootcamp. We support learners as they work their way through the freeCodeCamp Responsive We

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 02/04/2026

I've been playing around with Chrome's experimental HTML-in-Canvas API (I use it to create my videos), and I wanted to see if I could make text-selection work on a curved surface by moving the underlying element around on pointermove. It works pretty well!

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Rick @ricksmith.co.uk · 25/03/2026

To be fair, it’s better than the usual showy car that gets driven in central. I’d rather the commitment to the bit, than a ‘comfier’ performance car like an XM or an Urus.

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ari velazquez 🌯 @ari.velazquez.fyi · 24/03/2026

it's quite simple. phone is fake computer

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Rick @ricksmith.co.uk · 08/03/2026

When I was at Twitter we helped them out with API access etc, so we were briefly in touch. The bot hasn’t been active since 2023 so I assume it no longer works after the API switched to a paid model.

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I made a tool that turns PCB designs into 3D-printable molds. you sandwich copper tape between the parts, sand the ridges, and you have a real working PCB. no etching, no chemicals. I am losing my mind castpixel.itch.io/pcb-forge

I printed it and stuck self-adhesive copper tape to it. There's copper tape with conductive adhesive so you can add multiple overlapping pieces and it counts as one conductive surface.

Then I used the second part of the mold to shape the copper, so that it sticks inside the recessed traces.

Then I used sandpaper to file away at the raised ridges. The copper traces are now electrically independent of each other. Done!

But if I want, I can remove the extra copper tape.

The companion mold at the bottom. This second 3D-printed part pushes the copper tape down into the recessed trace channels so it conforms to the shape. The two parts sandwich together with alignment spikes to keep everything registered.

screenshot of QZW Labs' raised pcb idea! here is their youtube video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLliKgzKKUI&t=592s

Adobe Illustrator on top (you can use any free tool that makes SVG vector files. I just own an old illustrator version.

Bottom: the PCB Forge tool I made

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Rick @ricksmith.co.uk · 06/02/2026

@trangirlismo.bsky.social can you talk about the Ecoboost Mustang and the C63 AMG Black every episode please.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

im building machines that i keep saying will both throw you out of work and allow masked special police forces in service to a lunatic i bought and paid for to recognize your face and check if i agree with your beliefs. im part of a pedophile ring that put this into motion. why are you rude to me

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 02/02/2026

The Index is 11 away from 4k subscribers. I'm not much of a metrics enjoyer, but it would be nice to hit that milestone for sure. piccalil.li/the-index/

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The Index

Join thousands of subscribers and discover our twice weekly newsletter, featuring high quality, curated design, dev and tech links.

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

After announcing it in the summer, today the UK government launched free training courses to AI upskill workers. It's free because it's funded by big-tech companies such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others, and not by local organisations in the UK who have been working with communities->

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Rick @ricksmith.co.uk · 23/01/2026

I’m at the Pokémon Centre. I’m at the Drag Show. I’m at the combination Pokémon Centre and Drag Show.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Anyway, everything is obviously terrible but - to quote the mighty Rebecca Solnit - "hope is the ax you break the door down with in an emergency". We have some potentially VERY exciting news to share soon, but in the meantime, hopeful.technology

As Rebecca Solnit says in Hope in the Dark, “Hope is an ax you break down the door with in an emergency”.

Findings from our 2025 survey of 522 UK tech workers show 98% don’t feel represented by leading industry voices, but only 15% are comfortable raising concerns.

Many tech workers need support and confidence to craft a more socially and environmentally positive future for technology – but it can be very easy to get stuck listing what’s wrong.

The Society for Hopeful Technologists exists to lift up and shape trustworthy and socially beneficial approaches to technology, and to amplify the hope and ambition of everyone who knows a better way is possible.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I just accidentally sent out the Society for Hopeful Technologists email newsletter 12 hours earlier than planned, but the upside of that is that I can share our excellent new website and plan of action buttondown.com/society-of-h...

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#4: New Year, New Hope ⭐️

Our new purpose, workplan, and website - building a solidarity network for everyone who wants technologies to work for people and planet

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

this is how every outlet should refer to X

Financial Times: Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The worst world events filtered through the worst AI imaginable by the worst people on earth overseen by the worst man on earth www.404media.co/groks-ai-csa...

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Grok's AI CSAM Shitshow

We are experiencing world events like the kidnapping of Maduro through the lens of the most depraved AI you can imagine.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

People logging back into Bluesky for the first time in a year

Homer crawling through the Supplicant door

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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I’m geeked up on that pure Na’vi yayo while an eight foot tall goth cat gf cuts me. I’m high off that Pandora Payakan talking directly to the ancestors. We sipping pure Tulkun brain goo. That Mangkwan coochie got me waging war on Eywa. I’ve died. I will die again. This shit ain’t nothing to me man.

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

"save systems should dynamically handle object IDs and automatically populate the serialized data of every object that requires save states, and then for dialogue progression it needs to-" team cherry: WRONG. 1400 hardcoded fields in PlayerData.cs

a bunch of very specifically named hardcoded boolean fields in a single script representing the entire save state of the game

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 14/12/2025

The World Is Not A Desktop - Mark Weiser dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Take intelligent agents. The idea, as near as I can tell, is that the ideal computer should be like a human being, only more obedient. Anything so insidiously appealing should immediately give pause. Why should a computer be anything like a human being? Are airplanes like birds, typewriters like pens, alphabets like mouths, cars like horses? Are human interactions so free of trouble, misunderstanding, and ambiguity that they represent a desirable computer interface goal? Further, it takes a lot of time and attention to build and maintain a smoothly running team of people, even a pair of people. A computer that I must talk to, give commands to, or have a relationship with (much less be intimate with), is a computer that is too much the center of attention.

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Adam Argyle @nerdy.dev · 05/12/2025

Fit width text in 1 line of CSS `text-grow: per-line scale;` nerdy.dev/css-text-grow (prototype in Canary 165+)

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Rick @ricksmith.co.uk · 03/12/2025

Sektori is all I’ve been playing since it came out. It definitely deserves more sales than this! Go and play it!

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

So... spells. We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning. And trapping evil cars in circles of salt. The old ways are new again.

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