iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Shawn Drape @shawn.dra.pe · 22/09/2026

The best part of working from home is that I can drop off the car at the auto shop and continue working without skipping a beat!

Photo of a coffee shop patio, focused on a Starbucks coffee and a Switch 2 console propped up on the table. The loading screen of Fire Emblem Fortune’s Weave can be seen on the display.

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Shawn Drape @shawn.dra.pe · 11/07/2026

Seeing these #RBVendetta Riftbound spoilers and as a non-league player I’m baffled about how Riot got around the Zed trademark issues 🤣

Image showing the design changes of Lord Zedd from the Power Rangers franchise over the years. It shows 1994, 1995, 2023, and 2025. The key highlighted feature is his metal mask with a grate over the mouth coming down to a point at the chin.

The center watermark says The Legacy of Nerd

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Shawn Drape @shawn.dra.pe · 01/03/2026

Happy “gotcha” day to this little gremlin! We’re so glad he’s here…

Photo of Argenti the dog leaping up while playing in the park. Wearing a sweater on a snowy field.

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Shawn Drape @shawn.dra.pe · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas, from our doggo to yours 🎄

Photo of Argenti sitting in front of a fireplace-imitating quilt. He is wearing a sweater, a red and white fur lined collar with bells on it, and smiling for the camera.

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Shawn Drape @shawn.dra.pe · 03/09/2025

I’m excited a healthy amount.

Screenshot of a YouTube video queue showing exclusively Final Fantasy Tactics preview videos, presumably after the embargo from recent events ended.

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Shawn Drape @shawn.dra.pe · 02/09/2025

Double sleeved deck (Left) vs single sleeved deck, before and after an overnight book flattening. Still looks/feels incredibly unwieldy 😰 This is going to take some getting used to.

Before image, showing a double sleeved deck with cards jutting out everywhere, unable to maintain a clear deck shape. It’s taller than the single sleeved deck by a ratio of about 5:3

After image, showing the double sleeved cards as much more organized and pressed down. Ratio of size is closer to 7:5.

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Shawn Drape @shawn.dra.pe · 25/08/2025

Me, to my wife: don’t worry about food before work. I saved leftovers and I’ll eat that. The leftovers:

Picture of a half eaten blueberry chiffon cake, sitting in the fridge

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Shawn Drape @shawn.dra.pe · 20/08/2025

Well… that’s appropriate I guess.

A receipt showing an order number of 40. If you know, you know.

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Shawn Drape @shawn.dra.pe · 17/08/2025

I want sticker packs for social media, for the same reason I want sticker packs in my group chats. Bonus points: * compatible with some open format (see signalstickers.org) * remembers alt text, and reuses canonical url * hosted as a well known route in my PDS for all apps to access???

“Sticker” image from iOS photos app of Argenti the mini Jindo standing with his mouth open and tongue sticking out. Exhausted and panting

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Shawn Drape @shawn.dra.pe · 04/08/2025

Second, swapping out the meaning of errors from std library functions is dead easy. Third, the function capture syntax is a double edged sword, or would be without the type system and the fast, explicit tooling. Any other language, I'd be refactoring that last line for clarity.

$A screenshot of Gleam code that reads: list.strict_zip(chunked1, chunked2) |> result.replace_error(InvalidDiagram("Rows different length")) |> result.map(list.map(_, fn(pair) {list.append(pair.0, pair.1)})) |> result.try(list.try_map(_, list.try_map(_, code_to_plant)))$

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Shawn Drape @shawn.dra.pe · 21/07/2025

My wife put this together 🤣

A picture of a sticker sheet with grumpy looking dogs modelled as loafs of bread, overlayed with a squinty eyed photo of Argenti looking similarly grumpy. The caption reads “Spot the difference??”

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Shawn Drape @shawn.dra.pe · 07/07/2025

Oh… Oh no… Today is not gonna be fun

Screenshot of a FitBit sleep report showing that only 2 hours and 12 minutes of sleep were recorded between 3:32 and 5:50 am

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Shawn Drape @shawn.dra.pe · 06/07/2025

Why did no one inform me about Mecha Kirby?!?!

A screenshot from the Nintendo Today quiz “Name the Kirby” revealing Mecha Kirby. Kirby has a tech suit on with robot arms, shoulder cannons, and a transparent visor over his eyes. The ability description reads “Zap, burn, and smash your foes, then fire your cannon to blast them away!”

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Shawn Drape @shawn.dra.pe · 05/06/2025

This is the most random, and novel, way to deliver a banh mi. I’m so excited to try it 🎉

A wrapped package for a build-your-own banh mi including bread, two spreads, pickled veggies, meat and cilantro.

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Shawn Drape @shawn.dra.pe · 01/06/2025

Without downloading any new pics where are you mentally

Photo of a birthday greeting card. The cover is a solid orange background with a small tombstone on it, drawn in a cartoonish style. The text at the top of the card reads “you’re still alive?”

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Shawn Drape @shawn.dra.pe · 31/05/2025

Too many days since dog photo. Must fix. Here’s one from last weekend where we took Argenti to a convention as part of socializing him to large crowds. He, um… did okay. More practice needed. Everyone was a bark target 😅 #dogtraining

Shawn and Argenti (the dog) in a selfie while sitting on a curb. Argenti is staring left of the camera, out at the distance. Very distracted. Shawn looks serious to the degree of seeming upset (but isn’t, that’s just his face)

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Shawn Drape @shawn.dra.pe · 24/05/2025

Feelin’ bougie at the ‘bucks

A breakfast sandwich on a plate and a cortado in a mug, enjoyed on a Starbucks patio

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Shawn Drape @shawn.dra.pe · 16/05/2025

I could have a million of the best treat in the world right now and I could not convince this dog to pay attention. #dogtraining

Photo of the dog Argenti sitting on a driveway facing away from the camera. He’s tethered to a long lead and paying close attention to the street

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Shawn Drape @shawn.dra.pe · 01/05/2025

Two month anniversary of having Argenti join us 🎉🐕 It’s definitely been a challenging time as he’s still adjusting to us and our lifestyle, but in moments like this it’s easy for the stress to fade away leaving only the bliss

Argenti lying next to a desk on a bed that’s way too small for him

Argenti playing tug of war with a rope that is as big as his face

Argenti peeking at me around the corner from inside his crate, standing over an empty dinner bowl

Argenti lying calmly on the bed, paws folded over and tongue out in a smile

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Shawn Drape @shawn.dra.pe · 29/04/2025

Me watching #cdnpoli election coverage all night

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Shawn Drape @shawn.dra.pe · 27/04/2025

Once again I am playing the “Sit for San-Check” game where I futility plead with the dog to sit even once so I can put on good leash and do the walk he wants to go on. You can tell he’s doing well.

Picture of a dog packing the hallway, not looking up, and definitely not sitting

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Shawn Drape @shawn.dra.pe · 27/04/2025

I went back to my toy example this morning to see if I could things up a bit (in particular introduce custom types for the errors), and it's looking a lot more pleasant. This change in particular is good, but it had me wondering if there was a better way to add the case check at the end. #gleamlang

Gleam code diff that shows an old version where the case statement is the start of the function with a pipeline of operators in it before the evaluation, and a new version with the same pipeline of operators ending with an anonymous function which handles the case statement.

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Shawn Drape @shawn.dra.pe · 26/04/2025

If Ecobee plays its cards right it stands to get a lot of business from early Nest adopters unhappy with Google’s decision here. After the mea culpa discount, the Gen 4 Nest is $CAD220 (before tariffs). Just $30 off the price of their enhanced thermostat puts them at parity.

Screenshot of an Ecobee web cart showing a smart camera priced at $130 Canadian and a smart thermostat enhanced for $250 Canadian

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Shawn Drape @shawn.dra.pe · 16/04/2025

I have been craving this for ages! 🥰 It’s so rare for me to get downtown these days, so I’ve got to savour it. Not featured are the two bags of freshly roasted beans that I’ll be emitting for the next month 😊

A blueberry latte (chilled in ice) and a blueberry scone from De Mello cafe

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Shawn Drape @shawn.dra.pe · 11/04/2025

This feels like a monkey paw moment… all I wanted was him to settle down in the basement. And then he took all the blankets. Pawed them off my body to build his bed. But, you know, he’s being chill.

Argenti the mini Jindo snuggled up on top of a pile of blankets, on the couch

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Shawn Drape @shawn.dra.pe · 08/04/2025

I’m not a morning person, but guess who is…

Argenti the mini Jindo playing tug of war with a rope toy

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Shawn Drape @shawn.dra.pe · 07/04/2025

The custom feeds have really helped with this. Hasn’t stopped me from scrolling over but at least I know I have a shortcut to friendos

Screenshot of the post being replied to, being shown in the bsky.app Mutuals feed

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Shawn Drape @shawn.dra.pe · 18/03/2025

He thinks he just told the best joke. (The real joke of course being the idea of me being able to get more work done today)

Brown and white dog smiling with tongue out and wide open eyes

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