iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 29/09/2026

Finally catching up on the Mercurial talk I missed at Git Merge. The data model seems very elegant and intuitive. Topics sound a little like how I have envisioned reviewing and merging (sub)sets of changes, a bit closer to Gerrit.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 29/09/2026

Finally Frankensteined my AC into being smart-ish with an IR blaster, just in time for winter.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 15/09/2026

Linear’s mobile app emulates Liquid Glass in the bottom navigation rather than using the real thing. It’s icky.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 14/09/2026

iOS 27 and friends are about to drop. I’ve been running the betas since the early developer releases. This is the smoothest and most reliable the operating systems have felt since I adopted the ecosystem five years ago. I wish every release would balance features and polish like this.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 12/09/2026

Astra has generated some truly trash code for me this week. It does feel as though they’re optimising for replacing SWEs in order to facilitate cheap technically-functional junk, rather than enhancing SWEs to produce better output faster. Better lock-in that way too.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 07/09/2026

Not sure I can remember Sol/previous being as gracious as Astra here after multiple rounds of disagreement. (Yes I know I'm anthropomorphising too much.)

Chat with GPT-6 Astra says "I withdraw item 1 as an architectural criticism" in bold.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 01/09/2026

It's real nice when debugging libraries to have your agent spin up an ephemeral single-file HTML repro that even renders in-app.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 28/08/2026

I don’t really live in the terminal any more, but anyone currently feeling disillusioned with Neovim should try Helix. Break free from the Vi family!

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 24/08/2026

It took me nearly a decade but I’ve finally learned how to forage and start a fire in DayZ. I am however now fighting off illness from eating baked wolf steaks. The game is oddly serene.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 19/08/2026

The Codex Remote -> push to iPhone over WiFi setup I have going is very effective for simple apps. I can do it all from my phone. I don’t know why we have Image Playground and not something to generate apps instead, in the spirit of Glaze. I suppose generating WebExtensions is the first step.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 18/08/2026

Has anyone ever gone through something architectural with Codex without it saying "seam"?

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 16/08/2026

Codex can spin up a working iOS dev loop (remote, even!). Codex cannot get simple links to work within a Swift app. Flashbacks to attempting macOS dev a few months ago. Maybe the path of least resistance is React Native.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 16/08/2026

Codex have got me hooked off the back of these resets.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 15/08/2026

How did I only learn today that the mini floating keyboard in iPadOS supports swipe typing, like on iOS 😍

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 15/08/2026

This works and is preferable to unvetted, often paid alternatives in the App Store or equivalent.

Generating an extension in Safari on iOS 27.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 14/08/2026

UK govt: if you send emergency alerts to my phone about things that are not emergencies and do not concern me (wildfires far away from my city) I will simply turn off those alerts. Cmon

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 14/08/2026

After a year of placing my iPhone Air face down unprotected, it has no visible scratches. Dropped it plenty of times too. Ceramic Shield 2 is more than marketing fluff!

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 13/08/2026

Because of this my agent dictation keeps saying "Fred" 😭 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th-fron...

en.wikipedia.org

Th-fronting - Wikipedia

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 13/08/2026

I've switched from Handy to native macOS dictation. I don't know if it's improved in macOS 27 or I just didn't give it a fair shake before, but if all you need it for is transcribing to an agent then it's absolutely sufficient; LLMs are extremely good at parsing meaning from typos.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 13/08/2026

I've long struggled to get Zed, Codex, etc to hook into my shell, be that for Nix (direnv) or Mise. Mise shims plugged into your system shell are the solution: github.com/samhh/dotfil.... It works with repo-local configs as well!

github.com

Mise x Codex interop · samhh/dotfiles@c6a7135

This'll probably help Zed and others too. It's similar to what Rustup and Corepack do but generalised.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 13/08/2026

I've dropped Codex 5.6 Sol down to medium from xhigh and am having a much better time. LLMs are still pretty stupid so the speed is more valuable >95% of the time. I haven't tried Fable yet, mind.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 13/08/2026

I've long resisted allowing agents to touch my version control, but I'm relaxing on that. GitButler's CLI skill makes agents very helpful at resolving conflicts, splitting commits, etc. Principally the oplog is always there (also in Jujutsu's case) if the agent does something stupid.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 13/08/2026

I'm experimenting with treating the harness as my primary development app, dropping down to my editor only where edits are actually necessary. That's multiple times per day, but a minority of my time in the day.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 11/08/2026

I can't believe how many dev hours I've lost to GitHub Actions. There are no sunlit uplands.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 11/08/2026

Reading/scanning code is more important than ever. Do any editors display dynamic metadata above signatures? e.g. a recursion label, approx big O, purity, etc without having to read the function body. Maybe in the future local LLMs will be fast enough for this.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 29/07/2026

I'm up to >1B tokens per month with Codex. Though that's using Sol xhigh for everything in a vain attempt to rein in its stupidity. I do wish the feedback loop was faster.

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Oliver Ash @oliverjash.me · 28/07/2026

I'm looking for a new role as a lead frontend/TypeScript engineer. 👋 13 years of experience and I formerly led the web team at Unsplash. My CV: drive.google.com/file/d/1Hp7w... If you know of any roles, please reach out. I'd really appreciate if you could share. Thank you!

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 27/07/2026

I quite like my Eight Sleep so far but I can’t get over such an expensive device shipping without WPA3 support in 2026. I’m doomed to forever have two SSIDs.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 27/07/2026

From a recent Fly blog post, advocating AI everything: “I want a world where my friends and family can make computers do exactly what they want, without waiting for me to build everything for them.” A cute sentiment that falls apart on closer inspection. Sometimes this industry is so unserious.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 21/07/2026

Using agents to crank out features of comparable quality in a fraction of the time feels empowering. Likewise being able to dig into a new codebase and ask human questions and usually get good answers. As long as you pick up on when to push back against the plausibly wrong output!

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 13/07/2026

Noticing in Zed with agents I frequently don't want "queue and send", but rather "queue for later". It can take many messages to resolve something which blocks sending the message for the next thing I want that I've already written. At the moment my workaround is the clipboard.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 11/07/2026

Coding agents are great, but they seem more impactful than they are because they've replaced the majority of typing which occurs via a) more or less copy/pasting documentation and b) following compiler errors. When you are in more advanced weeds their value falls off a cliff.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 10/07/2026

Me on a very hot Friday afternoon and a LLM is a recipe for disaster. Nobody can be trusted.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 09/07/2026

Finally watched Project Hail Mary. 10/10, and a happy ending that felt earned. 👎

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 06/07/2026

Glad we woke up for the England game at 2AM, that was a classic! Our dog thinks we woke up randomly for another meal and play session.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 24/06/2026

For both work and personal stuff I'm really enjoying ChatGPT remembering previous conversations without explicit prompting (either to remember or for recall). For example I can ask for an overview of how a new technology works and it automatically connects that to the project I'm working on.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 23/06/2026

Cornwall is as lovely as they say! Even when you’re being maybe-maybe-not chased down hedgerows by bats at sunset.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 16/06/2026

Flow apparently looks like TypeScript now including dts interop, plus stricter type checking, pattern matching, and more. It's also nearly finished a Rust rewrite. If you're bought into React, this is... extremely compelling. I just wish it had non-nullary sums (enums). flow.org

flow.org

Flow: A Typed Dialect of JavaScript — JS Static Type Checker | Flow

Flow is a typed dialect of JavaScript — a static type system plus first-class language constructs, built for safety and scale.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 12/06/2026

As per annual tradition I’ve given in and installed the Apple developer betas against all advice. They actually feel more stable than the previous stable release so far.

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 12/06/2026

"We're shipping so much more code with AI!" "Good, stable code?" "Oh heavens no. No no no. not at all. We couldn't possibly"

Various graphs related to AI coding adoption, titled "The Acceleration Whiplash"

Epics (features) : +66.2%
Features: +33.7%
Pull Requests: +16.2%
Code Churn: +861%
Incidents (per PR) : +242.7%
Monthly incidents: +57.9%
Bugs per developer: +54%
Bugs per PR: +28.7%

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 10/06/2026

Every time I try to use an agent for something for which I don't have a strong mental model yet.

Telling Codex to stop with the message "stop adding more code 😭😭😭😭".

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 07/06/2026

Forza Horizon 6's wheelspins absolutely blind me. I'm not sure they tested this on a 2000 nit monitor.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 07/06/2026

Bittersweet never being ID'd at a bar any more. I am in fact ageing 😮

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 05/06/2026

The thing I dread most about macOS updates is that it doesn't remember which desktops my windows were in.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 30/05/2026

Forza Horizon 6 at max settings (5K w/ RT) on a Studio Display XDR via GeForce NOW looks unbelievably good. I'm shocked at how playable remote streaming is, even as someone latency-sensitive. For reference this is with broadly-measured 3ms latency. And it's not heating up my office 😍

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 08/05/2026

I've noticed GPT-5.5 is much more keen than other models I've used to try and create abstractions, except they're usually pretty bad. This isn't helpful if you are - as you should - treating the LLM as something that can type rather than think for you.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 26/04/2026

Experimenting a bit with local models today. I have a spare 32GB M2 Pro that's accessible over LAN for my agent via llama-server (OpenAI-compatible endpoints). It's not the fastest but models are gradually becoming more efficient.

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 22/04/2026

Going from WiFi 6E (M2 Pro) to WiFi 7 (M5 Pro) has lifted my download bandwidth over WiFi in my office from ~1.3Gb/s to ~1.8Gb/s. 😳

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Sam 💛 @samhh.com · 10/04/2026

Nested issue drawer on GitHub, is this new?

A drawer with an issue I clicked on above the issue I was originally on

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