iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 16/06/2026

🎉 I am so back with Rust. Currently playing with Axum and Bruno.

Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 03/05/2026

There seems to be a sudden rise in pro-AI articles from tech media after the debacles of AI in the past weeks. 🤔 Is this a coordinated attempt at fixing AI's image?

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 23/03/2026

🐧 Planning to move to Linux once I buy myself a new laptop. Thinking of working with a minimal Debian + OpenRC + COSMIC DE install.

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 22/03/2026

Thinking about trying out Odin.

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 03/03/2026

Ugh. BOM in UTF-8 files can lead to hard-to-debug bugs. 🫠

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 09/02/2026

Today at work, I found out that we already have an auto-out system after 8 hours. 😅 It's giving "plesh go away now. dont overwork. k tnx bye" energy.

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 17/01/2026

🙌 Officially a credit card holder. 😅

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 02/01/2026

💪 Can't wait for Monday, not for work, but for gym. Time to pump them gains, brothers, and listen to J-Pop and JP girl groups. RAGHHH! (Disclaimer: GIF does not accurately portray my current fitness level. I am a human blob.)

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a person is lifting a barbell in a gym

ALT: a person is lifting a barbell in a gym

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 01/01/2026

I suppose we'll be starting off 2026 with a contribution to an open source project. For this one, we'll be contributing to Clay. 😅

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 31/12/2025

Considering dropping Qt for Clay. 🤔

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 30/12/2025

Alright. Did not expect using Qt in a CMake + conan project would be this difficult. 🤔

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 02/12/2025

I understand the appeal of Netflix now.

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 12/10/2025

Did not expect a "I paid for the whole CPU; I'm gonna use the entire CPU" ahh moment before I started to compile the Qt framework. 💀 May God have mercy on my CPU's cores.

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 12/10/2025

Hello again, Conan (the C++ package manager). It's been... a while. 🥹

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 04/10/2025

This is disappointing, @jetbrains.com. Very disappointing. I'll still keep my subscription, but I am disappointed. Using our data and potentially exposing our data to training despite intending to opt-out without even some sort of compensation does not sit right with me.

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Better AI Depends on Better Data: We Need Your Help | The JetBrains Blog

TL;DR Over the past few years, AI has made remarkable progress, but it doesn’t always deliver what professional developers need. One key reason is that most models are trained on public datasets th

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 02/10/2025

I can't believe I can read these Hiragana nowadays. 😭

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 28/09/2025

Mobile dev is quite a relief from web dev. 😌

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 27/09/2025

I NEED EPISODE 24 OF KAIJU NO. 8 NOW! UGHHH! RAGHHHH! 💢💢💢

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 27/09/2025

So annoying when they do an opt-out model, instead of an opt-in one. 🙃 🔗 www.linkedin.com/help/linkedi...

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 26/09/2025

We've been in a JS-dominated web for so long, that I forgot how fast things are if you don't use JS! 🤯

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 26/09/2025

Hello, SourceHut. 🎉 Slowly starting to migrate away from GitHub for my personal projects, after Microsoft's decision to put GitHub in the CoreAI team. Time to see how SourceHut goes. 👀

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 26/09/2025

It's always a relief seeing websites that don't need a ton of JavaScript. 😌

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 09/09/2025

🧠 Tonight is a night for learning.

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 24/08/2025

I regret not watching Superman (2025) in the theatre. 😔

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 22/08/2025

Crazy CS2 match tonight. 😂

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 15/08/2025

🖼️ Experimented with doing a tubelight effect via Affinity Photo basing off a tutorial from Facebook. Decent results really.

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 12/08/2025

Happy to have lost 0.5kgs in weight, thanks to the power of God, anime, and J-Pop Girl Group music. 🥹 39.5 kgs more to go.

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 11/08/2025

✏️ A post-workout activity of learning Kana. 😊

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 10/08/2025

⚒️ I guess I'll be building a Rust game engine, but with the gameplay logic handled by a higher-level language. 🤔 Now, time to check if I should go for Lua or check out AngelScript.

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 07/08/2025

🤩 Kaiju No. 8 never fails to make me all giddy and feel excited whenever Kafka gets to do something awesome!

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 04/08/2025

Confirmed. Squats are the bane of my legs. 🫠

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 02/08/2025

Weightlifting is actually nice. I can't believe I feel excited to do it again! 💪

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 01/08/2025

✨ Gym Day 1. Here's to hoping to return to 65kgs! 💪 Having a good experience at the gym so far.

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 30/07/2025

📚 It's really time for me to spend and dedicate time to reading books. I just bought another set of books, and I don't want to see them picking up dust in my room. This year is our year for self-improvement! 💪

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 29/07/2025

Ugh. I hate working with PHP. 🫠

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 28/07/2025

Sometimes, i just wanna play Stardew Valley the whole day in a quiet place. 😩

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 13/07/2025

✨ Oh the start of a new project that will hopefully bring me back to writing articles again. Building with C++20 and Qt. #buildinpublic

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 13/07/2025

I'm starting to feel a Japanese mode within me as I get to learn the language more. My brain got fried hard when I joined a Japanese language voice chat last night, but it was a wonderful experience. Hoping to get fluent in it soon. 🤞

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 09/07/2025

I love the ridiculousness of Kojima. I LOVE IT! WHAT THE FRAGILE, BUT I LOVE IT! 🤘

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 07/07/2025

Yow! They added Gen Hoshino in Death Stranding 2!!! 🥳

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 06/07/2025

It's been a while, C++ and Qt. 🥳

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 05/07/2025

Ugh. I am not liking the Doctrine ORM. What do you mean you're adding an incomplete discriminator column condition in the query??

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 03/07/2025

12 years on, Battlefield 4 is still gorgeous. 😍

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 09/06/2025

Yeah, I think I'm starting to like project management tools. Taiga has been really useful for managing our initiatives at our developer community, Dev8. 😅

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 22/05/2025

🥳 I DID IT! I FINALLY DID IT! I FINALLY BEAT HALO 2 IN LEGENDARY!

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 18/05/2025

🎉 Migrated to Proton Mail from Namecheap Private Email. Let's hope the move is worth it.

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 12/05/2025

Today I learned that I'm the lone voter for ML party list in my precinct. 😅

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Sean Ballais @seanballais.com · 10/05/2025

"Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing" is a pretty neat movie. A great break from the typical Hollywood formula. I love it. I connected the core theme with the ongoing societal issues in Japan, such as depression and pressure. 10/10 will watch again.

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