iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The Expanse: A Little Death trade paperback collection is now available for pre-order! Co-written by fan-favorite series actor Wes Chatham ("Amos Burton") and myself, with art by Francesco Pisa and cover art by Christian Ward.

#TheExpanse A Little Death cover art by Christian Ward

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I suspect that in the long term we'll realize applying "just be Extra Careful and review everything super thoroughly and you'll be fine" attitudes to bot-authored code will be just as ineffectual as it has been for all of the load-bearing, long-lived C code.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19

Rise Against - Siren Song of the Counter Culture (2004)

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Feels like you could print a small greeting card run of sentiments like "Your project got posted to HN, and I'm sorry they were predictably very Hacker News about it" and dispense them all within a month or two.

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Iroh @iroh.computer · 15/06/2026

We just released the first stable version of iroh, v1.0! Read about it: www.iroh.computer/blog/v1 We're super proud of where we landed with iroh's 1.0. Since version 0.35 it feels like we've entirely replaced the "engine underneath". Are you a fellow key-dialer? Come tell us how you use iroh!

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Iroh 1.0 - Dial Keys, not IPs

Iroh 1.0 is out. Now is the time to build.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I have achieved levels of caffeination that can only be accompanied by ~2000-2012 punk albums played at painfully high volume. Otherwise, what are Fridays even *for*?

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Am I reading this right, the second ever board-approved project being funded by the Rust Foundation via their Innovation Lab is some AI thing created directly by two of the five Project Directors of the Foundation? Coolcoolcoolcool no doubt no doubt. Absolutely love that for us.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I have many more friends who like fantasy genre stuff than ones who don't, but so far I'm pretty sure I have not convinced a single one of them to try reading or watching Frieren and that bums me out. It was one of my top entertainment experiences last year. Even the dub is solid!

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Count me out of the "big tent" worldview for tech community if it means hanging out with military/"defense" tech people whatsoever. I don't care how you rationalize it - more contributions, funding, clout, mindshare, whatever. No reward is worth the cost of helping people do a better job of killing.

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Ky @ky.fyi · 24/04/2026

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

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Do I belong in tech anymore?

On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Everything I've learned about mogging and maxxing has been against my will

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

New "XKCD Standards" comic just dropped. Now we just need a reliable way to concisely differentiate them in conversation so that everyone accurately knows which one is meant.

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James Whitbrook @jwhitbrook.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

can't believe we're really getting the taxation of trade routes being in dispute *and* a blockade of deadly battleships

A photo from behind the scenes on filming Revenge of the Sith. Against a bluescreen backdrop, George Lucas snarls and raises his hands to the sky, as Ian McDiarmid in full costume as Palpatine, does similarly in the background.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I did not, until reading this thread just now, realize this was meant to be a 4/1 joke and based on the replies to Sascha here, I'm in good company.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Holy smokes, that ATmosphereConf talk from @kissane.myatproto.social . Just incredible.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

If some trenchcoated, sunglasses-at-night man turned up to offer me a choice, and said I could take a blue pill and wake up in a simulation of 1999 while my body directly fueled a machine apocalypse, I would be snatching and dry-swallowing that blue pill before he could finish his second sentence.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Keep experiencing Rust CLI/TUI projects building compelling replacements for old C software with huge QOL improvements and often better perf/security, but then exhibiting major scope creep / scope sprawl after a year or two. Please just let good software be considered feature-complete, sometimes.

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The Expanse Quotes @expanse-quotes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Havelock: What's the deal with the hat? Miller: Keeps the rain off my head. #TheExpanse

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

My go-to example of something that is technologically very long in the tooth but basically immortal due to network effects is BoardGameGeek. I have debated often whether I could make a more modern and pleasant UX for that niche without having that user base or all the domain-specific content ready.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

If you have recommendations for space/astronomy documentaries, lay 'em on me. We watched The Farthest last night about Voyager and it cheered me up a lot to escape into that world of hope and discovery for a couple hours.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Ghost of Yotei is sooooo pretty. I only left the first region last night, and got some really beautiful story beats (that are not in the screenshots).

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André Arko @indirect.io · 06/10/2025

announcing a new community-focused gem server from the team previously behind rubygems: gem.coop. join us and start using it today!

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

There's a part of my brain muttering "man this is so cool" every few minutes while playing Ghost of Yotei, and Tsushima before it. Very happy with my time spent with each.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Every time I think I remember how hideous it is to read DHH's writing with my own eyes, I've still always underestimated how bad it is.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Saw a GitHub phishing attempt using an impersonation of a YCombinator account and a malicious GitHub app, be careful out there! (Already reported)

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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

#TheExpanse A Little Death #1 is in stores today! Co-written by Wes Chatham (who plays Amos in the TV show) and myself; art by Francesco Pisa; covers by Christian Ward, Justine Florentino and Björn Barends. Good hunting, beltalowdas! 🚀

The Expanse: A Little Death #1 cover by Christian Ward

The Expanse: A Little Death #1 cover by Björn Barends

The Expanse: A Little Death #1 cover by Justine Florentino

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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

All six seasons of #TheExpanse are back on Amazon Prime, if you want to check it out sometime...

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I am so unbelievably bad at Silksong. One boss kept me stymied for at least an hour straight yesterday, and it's still quite early.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

We're definitely on the timeline where we wind up with a real life Wayland-Yutani in ~100 years. Honestly, that's like... kind of a hopeful take, even. If you put various contemporary CEOs into the world of the Alien movie franchise I have no reason to believe they'd be any less cruel to employees.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

No new pictures, where are you at mentally?

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Me reading lots of positive hype about Superman (2025) Ok cool, I don't love Gunn's other work but I guess I'll give it a shot Me actually watching Superman, roughly every 5 minutes:

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a woman is making a funny face in front of the word what .

Alt: Anna Kendrick in Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, saying "What?" incredulously

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

The thing about Alien: Earth that requires my strongest suspense-of-disbelief is that anyone of any age would enjoy watching the Ice Age movie franchise in the year ~2120 lmao It's so hamfisted.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

This is the *only* Nix I think people should voluntarily become familiar with.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

AFAICT GitHub does *not* want you to use your private RSS feed anymore. It got wayyyyyy less helpful and way more noisy about 6 days ago.

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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

what's stupid about "upskill w/ AI or die" is that we're currently talking about at best a ~25% productivity gain. that's probably in the same category as "learning all your IDE features", but govts / corps aren't in a full panic to push LSP onto everyone

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

KPop Demon Hunters was a pretty great time!

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Lurking in an open-signup developer Discord be like:

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Man, I can't wait for a Tapbots client for Bluesky, Ivory and Tweetbot ruled the roost.

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localthunk @localthunk.com · 03/06/2025

The honest reason I don't have microtransactions/season pass/ads/100 DLCs/etc in Balatro isn't just about the ethics of those practices but because when I play other games that have those things it makes me want to put my computer in the dishwasher and set it to pots & pans

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Show me one picture from Star Trek that perfectly embodies your aura.

Worf saying "I am not a merry man!" Data and Geordi are also visible, and all are dressed in medieval costume in red/orange colors. The episode is a send up of Robin Hood.

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Darya @daryam.com · 26/05/2025

Meme in the style of "you wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign that says "you wouldn't overscope a project"

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

This timeline is a nightmare and this is way, way down on my personal list of garbage things that LLMs have brought to society, but "an upcoming text editor has to have a status page so it can report outages of all its AI slop features" is definitely sad-funny.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

"That's illegal/unconstitutional/unethical" being a useful deterrent whatsoever is something I never realized I had been taking for granted.

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Shane Sveller @shanesveller.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Blocked every Valnet owned site in my DNS filters today. Tiny gesture because (other than Polygon, which I read ~daily) I don't think I'd had any visits to the rest in the last 6 months, but now it will surely stay that way. Gotta do our part to make sure the vultures starve. 🫗

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Toussaint Egan @thesaintoftous.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

By now you've probably heard the news: Polygon has been sold to Valnet and I, along with most of my wonderful colleagues, have been laid off. That said, I'm now open to new opportunities! If you've enjoyed my work and would like to work together in any capacity, please feel to hit me up via my DMs!

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ALT: a close up of a person 's face with a white coat

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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Sometimes you get to co-write Amos Burton with the guy who plays him. "A noir revenge thriller — and just letting Amos go 'full Amos.' I describe it as Churn Mode." #TheExpanse 🚀

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New EXPANSE Sequel Gives The TV Show's Star His Own 'Man on Fire' Thriller

The Expanse is giving Amos a new mission in the franchise's next sequel, 'A Little Death.'

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