iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 23/08/2026

Yes, and he hasn't stopped reminding people about it since either

Happy Hashtag Day! On August 23, 2007, the first hashtag appeared on social media, an idea by Chris Messina to make it easier to search for topics.

000

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 11/08/2026

That’s from the podcast link - it’s adding the ). to the link

000

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 06/07/2026

I really get annoyed when app makers throw my network under the bus when it's clearly NOT my network. if only there was SOME WAY for a computer to tell if it's online or not… 🙄

: Waiting for API response will retry in Is • check your network

000

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 08/06/2026

Boy, will my 19 year old be surprised when I convert her account to one of Apple's new child accounts! 😄

100

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 06/06/2026

Uh… yeah… you don't SAY my internal disk wasn't ejected…

The disk "Macintosh HD" wasn't ejected because one or more programs may be using it. You can try to eject the disk again or click Force Eject to eject it immediately.

000

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 19/05/2026

Are we sure there's not a supply chain attack on Supabase? It seems like it's getting an update every single day now, after, I don't know, a YEAR of nothing.

• brew update ==> Updating Homebrew ... ==> Updated Homebrew from a7f3847d5f to 637bc60a16. Updated 3 taps (supabase/tap, homebrew/core and homebrew/cask). ==> New Formulae zerolang: Programming language for agents with explicit effects and predictable memory ==> New Casks executor: Tool discovery and execution layer for AI agents pgen: PostgreSQL client ==> Outdated Formulae supabase

You have 1 outdated formula installed. You can upgrade it with brew upgrade or list it with brew outdated.

010

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 19/05/2026

Midnight is sleeping on my arm, and he must be dreaming about fighting our other cat Mikan, because he's twitching away

000

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 19/05/2026

My wife and daughter are 5,258 miles away 😿 But they're having FUN!! 😄

000

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 17/05/2026

Patrick Boyle does make me laugh. He is brilliant.

000

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 28/04/2026

Ok, these people are a little slow, but better late than never

Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys

000

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 01/04/2026

Everything is food truck. And I love food trucks, but sometimes you just want a g¥%+~'b or whatever restaurant

000

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 21/03/2026

Well, this sucks… uv is the one I really wish wasn't OpenAI's now.

Thoughts on OpenAl acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty. - 2026-03-19

The big news on Thursday morning: Astral to join OpenAl (on the Astral blog) and OpenAl to acquire Astral (the OpenAl announcement). Astral are the ompany behind uv, ruff, and ty. - three increasingly load-bearing open source projects in the Python ecosystem. I have thoughts!

000

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 14/02/2026

How far John Cusack has fallen

000

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 11/02/2026

I mean... I can eat two pizzas by myself, so...

Amazon's two-pizza team — the idea that no team should be larger than what two pizzas can feed

000

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 17/01/2026

I don't think OpenAI not worrying about ethics is especially startling. www.wired.com/story/thinking-...

OpenAI’s CEO of applications, Fidji Simo, said the hiring had been in the works for weeks. Simo also noted that she did not share Thinking Machines’ concerns over Zoph’s ethics.

010

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 30/12/2025

The main character in this book starts 99.9999% of his sentences with "Now,", and it's starting to drive me insane.

"Now, in these high-energy-density partial penetration welds," Leo lectured into his spacesuit's audio pick-up, "the electron beam must not be allowed to achieve a penetrating steady-state. This beam can punch through half a meter of steel. Even one spiking event and your, say, nuclear pressure vessel or your propulsion chamber can lose its structural integrity. Now, the pulser that Pramod is checking right now"— Leo made his voice heavy with

010

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 30/11/2025

Apparently Apple Foundation model cannot help me.

Apple Foundation ›
Why do I have to clean the cat litter box about 1 billion times a day?
I cannot provide an accurate answer to this question. Cats generally don't produce that much waste.

121

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 22/11/2025

I don't think "Border Patrol" actually means border patrol anymore.

Police departments and officials from Border Patrol used Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras to monitor protests hundreds of times around the country during the last year, including No Kings protests in June and October, according to data obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

041

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 04/11/2025

Laser ABBA at OMSI, everyone tickets.omsi.edu/events/019a2...

010

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 01/11/2025

Can you tell from the YouTube history on my /now page (scottwillsey.com/now) that I was interested in setting up Ghostty last night?

My YouTube history showing tons of Ghostty related videos from last night

010

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 31/10/2025

I have really enjoyed making the scripts that pull all this stuff for my website's /now page... I don't have it update itself, but i do have all the data gathering and formatting automated. It's great. scottwillsey.com/now/

My website’s /now page with recent media history, images, and links

010

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 15/10/2025

@theverge.com Version History’s artwork - low res and jaggy on purpose?

000

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 15/10/2025

@verge-poster.bsky.social the artwork for version history is very low-res in a jaggy way

000

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 11/10/2025

To go along with Zuckerberg's recent 5x leap in general shittiness

Meta Tells Workers
Building Metaverse to Use Al to 'Go 5x Faster'

Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."

From 404 Media

010

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 11/09/2025

Friends with Brews 90: One Topic Yubikey It's all Yubikey all the time as Peter and Scott perform live technical exercises for your listening displeasure!

010

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 07/08/2025

Turned this super annoying feature OFF.

Song Transitions
Beginnings and endings of songs blend together seamlessly. Albums and some genres will still play without transitions.

000

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 06/08/2025

Sadly, this applies to 100% of Microsoft documentation on all topics.

Update 8/6/2025: We have temporarily removed the content of post as it has proven more confusing than we intended. We plan to repost after additional reviews and consideration of feedback that we received. Leaving the post comments in place for now so existing conversations can continue.

000

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 05/07/2025

Midnight, I love you, but you are an absolute furnace, and also I have stuff to do 😄

Midnight the cat sleeps the day away on me

000

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 03/07/2025

Oh, and drinking a 1 pint 9 oz Kirin Ichiban 一番搾り and hanging out with my buddy Midnight while doing so!

Beer. Cat. Beer going in me, not in cat.

000

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 04/06/2025

Our cats loves baskets too

000

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 20/05/2025

I don't know, I just can't feel bad about this. Most crypto is apparently just ripe for the stealing because crypto companies and the crypto industry are full of unserious people whose primary concern is their own wealth.

000

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 19/05/2025

I received a notification that my pre-order of Puzzmo was now available. I tapped the notification. It took me to Puzzmo in the App Store, complete with an Open button. I tapped that. I received this message. Apple is very bad at software in recent years. There's no pretending otherwise.

Coming Soon
You'll be notified when Puzzmo: Solve. Smile.
Share. becomes available. Do you want to cancel the notification?

000

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 18/05/2025

Great news, Finnish parents giving skin cancer a chance!

Parents becoming less diligent about sun protection, study shows Finland's radiation watchdog warns that parents are becoming less diligent in protecting their children from the sun.

000

Scott Willsey @scottwillsey.com · 17/05/2025

I'm very sorry, but Wilson was a volleyball, not a basketball. This is important. 😄

This is especially true because humans are so susceptible to forming relationships with *anything*, whether it's a basketball that reminds you of home, as in the 2000 movie Cast Away, or a chatbot that appears to answer your questions, as in 1966's ELIZA or today's ChatGPT.

000