iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

sidney @sidney.me · 02/08/2026

This bullshit was the final straw and why I started paying for Kagi this year Antitrust cannot come soon enough for Google aftermath.site/google-search-...

aftermath.site

Stop Talking To Me, Google Search

Since May, Google's AI summaries have tried to lure users into conversation with AI

000

sidney @sidney.me · 02/08/2026

In Sydney, a queer-owned creative arts space, Divine Playhouse, was evicted by their landl*rd after a coordinated campaign by Christian activists online. They're just so *performative*. This has been a frustrating reminder of why I left the Church. open.substack.com/pub/sidneyn...

open.substack.com

The targeting of Divine Playhouse is a frustrating reminder of why I left the Church

With so many stones cast, we must be living in a sea of saints

100

sidney @sidney.me · 21/05/2026

This is a bit out of left field for me, but I kept seeing Reel after Reel condemning the "Wasian meetups" happing in NYC and SF, which expanded to condemning "Wasians" and was like … wtf?? So this is me trying to make sense of it all #culture #wasian open.substack.com/pub/sidneyn...

open.substack.com

The Wasian discourse is weird (as an Asian Australian)

Asian Americans can find shared identity in more than just infighting and their inherent privilege

000

sidney @sidney.me · 02/05/2026

"We simply do not mock these people enough, and we should all be working to remedy this." ⭐️ fraude.design/about

fraude.design

Fraude Design

The AI-free site builder for genius founders

000

sidney @sidney.me · 18/04/2026

Big YES to this, I hate how small the click/tap target is when some links "click here", or worse, just "here" unsung.aresluna.org/use-links...

unsung.aresluna.org

“Use links, don’t talk about them.” – Unsung

A blog about software craft and quality

000

sidney @sidney.me · 11/04/2026

(It's `2ch` to maintain the monospace alignment with centred text!)

Screenshot of my /uses page, which contains monospaced text. The footer has centred monospaced text with line lengths of even numbers. A blue vertical line over the screenshot shows how the centred footer’s text aligns with the other monospaced text.

010

sidney @sidney.me · 11/04/2026

Just found out about the #CSS `round()` function while making my new /uses page at sidney.me/uses ! It really sells the monospace layout of the receipt design: it's always just the right width to fit an exact number of characters for the separator, using multiples of `2ch` units

100

sidney @sidney.me · 10/04/2026

This is currently my favourite photo from Artemis II: www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2ex... It really shines with Liquid Glass!

Screenshot of an iOS lock screen with NASA’s photo “Artemis II Looking Back at Earth” as the wallpaper

000

sidney @sidney.me · 02/04/2026

It marked a great opportunity for me to give my writing a permanent home on my own domain, and have full control over how they’re presented There are so many small details I sweated over—I wrote about a bunch of them and the overarching details of the design here: sidney.me/writing/desi...

Screenshot of the linked ‘Design details’ post, showing text over a dotted background, with list bullet points aligned to those dots.

000

sidney @sidney.me · 02/04/2026

I had a lot of fun building these microinteractions and making my site feel at home on Apple platforms I can’t count how much time I spent on this popover animation—it got me inspecting screen recordings frame by frame

100

sidney @sidney.me · 02/04/2026

This year, I (finally) redesigned my #PersonalWebsite: sidney.me 🎉 It’s based on postcards: a design constraint that helped me make more thoughtful decisions about what I want to say, how to stay succinct, and how to do it graphically. They also focus attention and scale well to mobile #WebDev

100

sidney @sidney.me · 10/07/2025

UPDATE: I’ve switched back to Chrome at work and I’m not even missing features like Peek View … wow

000

sidney @sidney.me · 22/06/2025

I’d been using the Arc browser daily since it was invite-only, so The Browser Company confirming it’s effectively dead still stings. I really admired Arc for how much thought and craft went into it. So I wrote an obituary for my favourite browser: sidney.me/writing/arc-... #ArcBrowser

sidney.me

Arc, the first browser by The Browser Company of New York, dies at three

An obituary for the Arc browser from a current user

121

Reposted by sidney

no. @joles.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

applying for jobs again

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question).

an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question:

"there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.

it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same.

it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.”

there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price

for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

152235509112

Reposted by sidney

joanne mcneil @jomc.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

it’s possible to not care if people (humans, readers) pirate my book—or even feel pleased they do, if anything; and, at the same time, express fury when corporations grab and grind the text up like scrap metal for their word-garbage generators

012526

sidney @sidney.me · 01/04/2025

Context: I built instaframe.sidney.me 3 years ago to frame photos for Instagram and it randomly got a pull request recently, so I found the time to give it some love and create this button 😍

instaframe.sidney.me

Instaframe

Frame your Instagram photos for free. No ads. No tracking.

000

sidney @sidney.me · 01/04/2025

mmmm pretty button

100

sidney @sidney.me · 05/02/2025

I just got an email from an *airline* that they now have AI to generate a wall of text … pero en español

Screenshot of an email from Iberia airline announcing their AI travel assistant

010

sidney @sidney.me · 29/01/2025

i saw a response to this saying spotify silently inserting AI-generated music is no different to the industrial revolution displacing furniture artisans for mass production and how i feel about that can be described by the florence pugh frown emoji ☹️ alexeystar.com/blog/slopify/

alexeystar.com

Alexey Staroselets | Goodbye, Slopify

000

Reposted by sidney

Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 06/01/2025

tired: fearing that robots will become so smart they take your job wired: fearing that robots will still be dumb but take your job anyway

483725794

sidney @sidney.me · 24/12/2024

youtube really gave me one (1) recommendation for a mini motorways video and now I bought the game and can’t stop playing shoutout @dinopoloclub.bsky.social, I also love mini metro

Screenshot of a Mini Motorways playthrough of London with 2,743 points

110

sidney @sidney.me · 23/12/2024

protect your prized possessions! (bulk pack of antihistamines) (you’re waiting to get the $10 cashback)

000

sidney @sidney.me · 20/12/2024

why yes i am a southerner (south newtown resident) (please don’t hike my rent next year)

010

sidney @sidney.me · 10/12/2024

if you are reading this, yes it is time to watch an episode of The X-Files

010

sidney @sidney.me · 09/12/2024

i’m in queer media (luigi mangione updates)

010

sidney @sidney.me · 09/12/2024

the old man sitting at the front of the bus just offered the driver a snake lolly 💖

010

Reposted by sidney

kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 08/12/2024

this is what it must have felt like to hear Robin Hood stories in 1370

112538412

Reposted by sidney

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 04/12/2024

jpeg is the working class image format. png is for coastal elites. tif belongs to the ivory tower intelligentsia. gif is libertarian borderline sovcit and webp is the DNC

601400217

sidney @sidney.me · 04/12/2024

oops just saw the brat hashtag on here is all porn

010

sidney @sidney.me · 04/12/2024

the absolute chokehold #brat has had on me this year #SpotifyWrapped

screenshot of Spotify Wrapped 2024 top songs: 360, Von dutch, Talk talk, Apple (all by Charli xcx), and What’s The Time Where You Are by Troye Sivan

120

sidney @sidney.me · 04/12/2024

where all the sydney people at? i want to post hyperlocal inner west things and get attention

030

sidney @sidney.me · 03/12/2024

shoutout to clairo

010

sidney @sidney.me · 30/11/2024

finally saturday! i can go from my online job to my favourite pastime: online

020

sidney @sidney.me · 27/11/2024

marrickville metro is the centre of the universe

010

Reposted by sidney

Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 23/11/2024

I’ve said this before, but at a certain level of engineering your ability to write a doc is likely to have more impact than your ability to write code. Not because you won’t write code, but because your ability to convey an architecture, idea, or approach and get folks buy in is essential.

1824434

Reposted by sidney

dan @danabra.mov · 21/11/2024

is there a german word for peeking under the hood of the abstraction and realizing it’s neither as good as you thought of it when it was at its best nor as bad as you feared it would be at its lowest moments

2429610

Reposted by sidney

Bramus @bram.us · 20/11/2024

As of Chrome 131 you have more options to style `<details>` and `<summary>`. You can now use of the `display` property on these elements, and also use a `::details-content` pseudo-element to style the part that expands and collapses. developer.chrome.com/blog/styling...

1553990

Reposted by sidney

onion person @junlper.beer · 21/11/2024

despite the world becoming scary i still have a perhaps niave but unwaivering belief that a better world is possible

788327865366

sidney @sidney.me · 20/11/2024

ah shit yeah about to do some real dramatic shit at work (make button appear conditionally)

Screenshot of a Spotify Daylist titled “dark classical royalcorw wednesday morning”

000

sidney @sidney.me · 20/11/2024

my current opp is whomever keeps changing the name of Woolworths at Marrickville Metro on Google Maps to Woolworths Metro Marrickville it’s not a woolies metro!! it’s a regular woolies! at marrickville metro!!!! what happens if they open a woolies metro somewhere in marrickville huh ??

Screenshot of Google Maps showing Woolworths Metro Marrickville

010

Reposted by sidney

Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 19/11/2024

Bluesky is proof that cryptocurrency isn't a core tenant of decentralization. The team demonstrated extreme levels of pragmatism by leveraging new and existing technologies to produce something people actually use.

773735319

Reposted by sidney

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 19/11/2024

We love links because we love the open web

214160541313

Reposted by sidney

Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

My kingdom for an edit button

2195110326