iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

matt @stavola.xyz · 09/10/2026

I hate to xpost from Twitter, but @tinyclouds.org doesn't post here. Really looks like the motivation is a complete philosophical shift to celld/Workers. I'm skeptical, to say the least, but I guess this is kind of a blind spot for me. I'm a big fan of Cap'n Proto and I know Workers builds on it.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 08/10/2026

Well, it's not wrong...

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matt @stavola.xyz · 06/10/2026

Note to self: never introduce Paul to @kibi.bichonfri.se

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matt @stavola.xyz · 04/10/2026

@popfeed.social love the app but the action bar needs to be bumped up a bit so it doesn't hide behind the system nav 😞

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matt @stavola.xyz · 03/10/2026

Don't worry, I gotchu!

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matt @stavola.xyz · 02/10/2026

I think one of the most valuable things that bsky can do for the atmosphere is leverage its position as the only app with a large audience and heavily promote "high quality" ATProto apps in-app. The live indicator and profile buttons are cool, but it's really limited and discovery is spontaneous.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 15/09/2026

Communism or Cyberpunk 2077, sure, but have you considered Dune?

God Emperor of Dune, Leto II. Artistic rendition.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 08/09/2026

RIP, not going to be able to pull before the event ends. This is one of the few characters that really interested me, side stepping the goonbait the characters are usually designed as. I've pretty much used all my free lucky tokens on her since the event began and I ain't got shit to show for it.

Screenshot from Riichi City showing the event list.

At the top is a button with a label. The button is indicating a "back" action with a left pointing open arrow. The text reads "gacha."

Below are the events.

One, on the bottom, is fully visible and the other is cut in half, indeterminate but colored whitish yellow with some pink, green, and gold sparkles with the silhouette of some female character.

The other, on the top, shows the character Saionji Rukia with the text "Blue Dreams" over her. There is a count down indicating the amount of time left in the event, currently reading 17h 51m.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 03/09/2026

Dogpiling with a dog pile!

Two fluffy white Bichon Friss lie on their sides in a small pile on a gray couch, legs sprawled and eyes half-closed. A gray blanket is bunched beside it, and a wooden bookshelf, dog gate, and scattered toys are visible in the background.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 01/08/2026

After ping-ponging back and forth between wins and losses for those remaining few matches, I've finally made it. Time to get my ass kicked in the Sun Room!

Dan Ladder ranking screen from Riichi City. The player is at 4th Dan (四段) with 1035/2000 points toward the next rank, shown at the top right. The ladder progresses left to right through three tiers: MOON (1st–4th Dan), SUN (4th–7th Dan), and GALAXY (7th Dan to Legend). Ranks shown as gold and silver medallion icons include C2, A1, 初段 (1st Dan), 二段 (2nd), 三段 (3rd), 四段 (4th, marked 'You're here!'), 五段 (5th), 六段 (6th), 七段 (7th), 八段 (8th), 九段 (9th), and 十段 (10th). A footer notes: "Your Dan controls which level of Ranked Match tables you're allowed to play at."

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matt @stavola.xyz · 29/07/2026

First round of the first game today. Off to a good start 😉

A hand result screen from a mahjong game (styled after Riichi City) showing a Tsumo win worth 13 han, 50 fu, scored as a "Counted Yakuman" for 24,000 points as a non-dealer. The winning hand consists of a pair of 1 sou tiles, a triplet of 6 sou tiles, a pair of East wind tiles, a triplet of red dragon (chun) tiles, and a triplet of East wind tiles with the winning tile highlighted. No pin or man tiles were used. Yaku listed: Prevailing Wind (1 han), Haku (1 han), Chun (1 han), Honitsu (2 han), Sanankou (2 han), Toitoi (2 han), Honroutou (2 han), and Nukidora (2 han), plus a north dora indicator shown x2. On the right stands Celestia Ludenberg from Danganronpa, a young woman with long black hair styled in elaborate ringlet curls, a white lace headdress, red eyes, and a black gothic dress with a red tie, posing with one hand near her chin.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 29/07/2026

Got my first Counted Yakuman today! I was originally going for Chuuren Poutou but the 2 sou were exhausted before I could reach tenpai. Either way, two yakuman in one day, I'm happy with that.

Riichi City game result screen showing a dealer win by ron worth 20 han, 60 fu, 48000 points, labeled "Counted Yakuman." Yaku breakdown lists Riichi (1 han), Chinitsu (6 han), Sanankou (2 han), Dora (2 han), Akadora (1 han), Nukidora (2 han), and Ura (6 han). The hand consists entirely of sou tiles with three ones and three nines, and the winning tile is highlighted in green. Dora indicators show red dragon and west wind; ura dora indicators show two sou tiles and west wind, with North wind x2 also noted. The player character is Celestia Ludenberg from Danganronpa (dark hair in ringlet twintails, red eyes, wearing a black gothic lolita-style dress with a red tie), shown on the right, labeled "Dealer."

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matt @stavola.xyz · 25/07/2026

What looks to be a Red Admiral Butterfly has landed on my screen, just chillin and taking in the breeze.

A black butterfly with orange and white markings, wings closed, resting on the outside of a window screen. Beyond the mesh, a light-colored building facade with windows is visible in the background.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 25/07/2026

Didn't realize Uruguay was so based

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matt @stavola.xyz · 24/07/2026

I had a crisis of the heart in my last ranked match. Setup for suuankou, healthy chance of completing it, but the next guy dealt in immediately. I *really* wanted to ignore the ron and just go for it but I also didn't want to pass up a layup. If I let it go I *could've* gotten it... maybe...

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matt @stavola.xyz · 20/07/2026

My first ever Yakuman in Riichi City: 13 Orphans! Extremely lucky and very happy to finally knock that out after so many close calls. The poor guy who dealt into it not only got hit with the Yakuman but also a double Ron, sending them into the negatives. Ouch!

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matt @stavola.xyz · 17/07/2026

I am now a major believer in Corsi-Rosenthal boxes.

Screenshot of the Airthings air quality app showing PM2.5 levels for "Bedroom" over a 3-hour window, roughly 9:45 PM to 12:15 AM. The red line oscillates between about 150 and 185 µg/m³ for the first hour, then begins a steep sustained decline after about 11:15 PM, falling to roughly 30 µg/m³ by the end of the trace. A marker is positioned near the start of the drop with a callout reading "21 min. ago — Value 156 µg/m3." Horizontal threshold lines are marked at 25 (red) and 10 (yellow).

Screenshot of the Airthings air quality app showing PM2.5 levels in a room labeled "Bedroom" over a 3-hour window, roughly 10:45 PM to 1:00 AM. The red line starts high around 175–180 µg/m³ with small fluctuations, holds roughly flat until about 11:15 PM, then drops steeply and continuously, passing 100 and 50, before easing off near the end. A marker sits at the current point with a callout reading "Just now — Value 35 µg/m3." Horizontal threshold lines are marked at 25 (red) and 10 (yellow); the current reading remains above both.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 01/07/2026

Feeling a bit more confident seeing patterns and building towards more valuable hands. I started this match off with a solid hand that was already 1-shanten, but I realized with a bit of moxie and some risk I could make something beautiful. Very close to a counted yakuman, but I fell just short.

Riichi City's game spectator UI, showing a match. The point of view player has a hand showing red 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, and 7 pin as well as red 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, and 8 sou. The player has drawn a white dragon as well. The player has also kita'd two North Winds.

The player is in tenpai, waiting for either 5 or 8 sou. Their hand is glowing with a flaming aura, indicating there is a chance of a yakuman.

Riichi City results screen. The player (as dealer) finished the game with red 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, and 7 pin plus red 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, and 8 sou. They have called ron on a five sou to complete their hand.

The yaku list for this hand is as follows:

Riichi: 1 han
Tanyao: 1 han
Pinfu: 1 han
Ryanpeikou: 3 han
Dora: 2 han
Akadora: 2 han
Nukidora: 2 han

The value of the hand is 30 fu, 12 han for a total of 36000 points. The hand is sanbaiman.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 29/06/2026

I fucked up a total layup yakuman by getting too excited and hitting Ron at the wrong time, but otherwise was making the right choices.

AI Rating results screen from Riichi City. At the top, four and a half gold stars arc above a circular portrait of an anime character with short orange hair, green eyes, and an open-mouthed smile, holding a microphone. Below, stylized gold text reads 'AI Rating.' Three stat rows follow, each marked with a circled exclamation icon: 'Overall AI Match Rate 80.0%', 'Matches 48/60' (in green), and 'Discrepancies 12/60' (in yellow)

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matt @stavola.xyz · 27/06/2026

Switched to Mahjong Soul for a bit just so I can see what's up and mess around with the Akagi event. I have to say, even at the lowest room I was getting my ass handed to me. I don't know if I've been getting lazy / too fancy or if there are just killers here. Oh and I got my first yakuman, sick.

Decorative mahjong achievement banner titled "Four Concealed Triplets" with the Chinese characters 四暗刻 in large stylized lettering. A blue and gold whale and an ethereal floating figure swirl through ocean waves in the background. The winning tile hand is displayed in a row: 8-8-8 circles, 9-9-9 circles, 7-7 bamboo, South wind tiles (南), Red Dragon tiles (中), and a 9 circles tile, illustrating the yakuman hand.

Mahjong Soul victory screen. An anime-style character in a red and cream kimono with cat ears and bells in her dark hair stands on the left. The winning hand of 14 tiles is displayed at the top: 8-8-8 circles, 9-9-9 circles, 7-7 bamboo, South wind triplet (南南南), and Red Dragon triplet (中中中). Text reads "Tsumo," "Four Concealed Triplets," and "Yakuman." The score "32000" is shown in large white numerals. Player name "Madotsukihi" appears at lower left, with dora indicators (East wind, White dragon hidden dora) and a "Confirm" button at bottom right. The room is labeled "Bronze Room · 3-Player East."

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matt @stavola.xyz · 27/06/2026

Consistency is key

Results screen from the Britmonkey quiz, dark background with blue and red horizontal bar meters. Three sliders show: 66% Techbro / 34% Neo-Luddite; 45% Hopepilled / 55% Doomer; and 75% Davos / 25% Dubai. Below, a boxed section reads 'YOUR CLOSEST MATCH:' followed by the name Zohran Mamdani in large blue text, above a circular photo of a smiling bearded man in a suit and tie (it's Mamdani).

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matt @stavola.xyz · 26/06/2026

Got dangerously close to a Suuankou, but we reached a draw before it materialized. I also didn't realize that 1 and 7 sou don't count for Ryuuiisou, which was a huge bummer 😔 We're getting there...

Screenshot of a Riichi City 3-player mahjong game (Star room, East Only, East 3, Turn 20), shown in replay mode. The bottom player, "Me," is marked Tenpai and holds a pair of 5-pin, a pair of 6-sou, three white dragons, and a freshly drawn 7-pin. Two AI opponents sit left (Player1) and right (Player3), each with rows of discarded tiles. The center scoreboard reads Player1 39,200, Player3 31,900, and Me 32,900, surrounded by a pool of discarded tiles.

Screenshot of a Riichi City 3-player mahjong game (Star room, East Only, South 1, Turn 17), in replay mode. The bottom player, "Me," holds a full-flush bamboo (souzu) hand: a 1-sou pair, 2-sou, two 3-sou, two 4-sou, 6-sou, 7-sou, 8-sou, and a single green dragon (發), with a few tiles highlighted pink. Player1 (left) is marked Tenpai. The center scoreboard reads Player1 38,200, Player3 30,900, and Me 34,900.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 26/06/2026

I was sweating bullets, I thought this was going to be my first yakuman. Little did I know that the two remaining dragons were in the dead and the next guy was going to deal in. Oh well, next time!

A 3-player mahjong game (Star, East Only) in East 2, Turn 19. The player ("Me") sits at the bottom with a 13-tile hand: a pair of 4-sou and 5-sou (bamboo, with red fives), a triplet of East winds, a pair of North winds, a triplet of Green dragons, and a single Red dragon (marked R for the just-drawn tile). To the right, three White dragon tiles sit drawn aside as a called/discarded set. The hand is labeled "1-shanten" in the bottom-right replay panel, indicating it is one tile away from tenpai — the hand is built around collecting dragons (a Big Three Dragons / Daisangen attempt). Both opponents, Player1 (top right) and Player2 (top left), are marked "Tenpai." Scores show 34000, 48000, and 22000. The center display reads "East 2" with a wall count of 3 tiles remaining. The discard pond in the middle is full of tiles from all players, reflecting the late stage of the hand.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 01/06/2026

I have no idea what this is but I like seeing numbers

A dark-mode user interface displaying a "Simcluster Score" of 20 out of 100, categorized as "PERIPHERAL". Below the score, a breakdown shows four metrics: "Seed following" at 0/30, "Seed followership" at 0/30, "Reciprocal connects" at 0/20, and "Hub proximity" at 20/20 with a filled blue progress bar. A bottom section titled "SEEDS YOU FOLLOW" displays "(none)". Underneath this interface card is a form field labeled "Descriptive alt text" with a text input box containing the placeholder text "Alt text," followed by a blue "Save" button.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 18/05/2026

Sweet! Rust and Slop, my Claude's favorite.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 01/05/2026

Hm, something seems off here

A snippet of an email sent by Sniff Spot.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 29/04/2026

Tangentially related, I don't know what happened to my Updon't shirt, but I still got the broken Sanwa button that came with it. I've been holding onto this thing for 13 years, damn.

A red sanwa switch sitting on a macbook.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 20/04/2026

Like even by saving these I feel like my intent is clear, but it's basically just a bookmark

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matt @stavola.xyz · 20/04/2026

Throwing myself on the floor. Crying, vomiting.

A UI element from a domain registrar, showing a domain that is unavailable for purchase.

"Sort by price" and "aort by renewal price" are individual buttons tucked away in the top right. They are subtle and demure.

Underneath, just as unassuming but opposite in position is a hyperlink that says "show more aftermarket domains."

The main segment of the UI is bound within a thin-bordered rectangle. At the top left, like an envelope, is the text "bichon.dog" (the domain apparent) and it is struck through. Further below and to the right is some text that says "unavailable" with a question mark icon tucked next to it. Immediately following this is a button labeled "inquire."

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matt @stavola.xyz · 18/04/2026

Yup! No more of this DNS and PDS wrangling nonsense.

A screenshot of a terminal.

The prompt starts with the time (written literally as "[02:02]"), a space, a dollar sign, and then another space.

The command on the prompt is "mlf publish," the "mlf" portion is in light blue and the "publish" portion is in neon green.

It seems the user has run the command. The out reads as follows:

Loading workspace...

Plan:
+ lol.mlf.package cid=bafyreicejizdbqjxzhye7bedv5xmmhuxhf4oxjc67kp57noyhynbtbfv6y

Authenticating to PDS...

Reconciling DNS authorities...
+ _lexicon.mlf.lol
Applying 1 action(s)...
✓ put lol.mlf.package
Writing manifest (lol.mlf.package/3mjqrdy4w52o2)...

✓ Publish complete

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matt @stavola.xyz · 08/04/2026

Chat, we're close.

The first frame of an ATmosphereConf talk, showing the logos of all the sponsors.

At the top it says "ATmsophereConf," the "AT portion is in light blue and the "mosphereConf" portion is in black. Directly underneath it is the tagline "the global AT Protocol community conference."

The middle to bottom of the frame is littered with logos from various sponsors. From top to bottom, left to right:

BlueSky and StreamPlace.

New-Public, Cloudflare, Graze, Cosmik.

Fedica, Protocol Labs.

Modal Foundation, Expo, Google, IPFS.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 15/02/2026

You could never accuse me of being terminally online

A heatmap of my Bluesky activity. The activity is very sporadic, many blank spaces.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 05/02/2026

I don't have the creativity to make something for this, but I just want you to know that there is a cat face on my ceiling. Maybe the guy who did the plaster 50 years ago intended to enter the contest.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 22/01/2026

I'll let you know how it works once I am done time traveling 2^22 years into the past.

A screen cap of the Bluesky video component. It should be loading Rudy's video but instead it renders no content. The scrobble bar shows a very amusing time position of -153722867280913:-56.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 21/01/2026

React should adopt the styled-components project and ship it natively

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matt @stavola.xyz · 11/01/2026

Let's see how this looks

Same image as the start of the thread. Alt text once again:

"Two Bichon Frise dogs sleeping side by side on the end of a sectional's chaise lounge. The one on the left is completely on the couch surface, facing towards the left side of the image. the one on the right is hanging off of the edge, ever so slightly, facing towards the right side of the image. Both have their eyes tightly shut, but the Bichon on the right is extra cozy which obscures his face slightly. There is a bookcase providing an incidental backdrop for this slumbering scene, but the photographer didn't think to clean up his and his wife's books before the taking the opportunity to capture this moment. Now everyone knows this family overindexed on a few genres of books, have run out of room, and are too proud to admit their organizing system was ill thought out. It is very embarrassing for them, but we'll all laugh privately and tell the couple that they did a good job with the room they had. Wow this is a lot characters to type in order to hit the limit, I'll run out of ideas."

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matt @stavola.xyz · 11/01/2026

Two sleepy guys. Also, a cross-post test!

Two Bichon Frise dogs sleeping side by side on the end of a sectional's chaise lounge. The one on the left is completely on the couch surface, facing towards the left side of the image. the one on the right is hanging off of the edge, ever so slightly, facing towards the right side of the image. Both have their eyes tightly shut, but the Bichon on the right is extra cozy which obscures his face slightly. There is a bookcase providing an incidental backdrop for this slumbering scene, but the photographer didn't think to clean up his and his wife's books before the taking the opportunity to capture this moment. Now everyone knows this family overindexed on a few genres of books, have run out of room, and are too proud to admit their organizing system was ill thought out. It is very embarrassing for them, but we'll all laugh privately and tell the couple that they did a good job with the room they had. Wow this is a lot characters to type in order to hit the limit, I'll run out of ideas.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 02/11/2025

I completely disagree, it is quite literally often used to describe social media. Even a quick Google can give you the exact thing you say doesn't exist.

A Reddit thread from roughly eight months ago with three replies, names of users are censored.

First user:

"Social media like Instagram and tiktok is a bit of a torment nexus when you think about it."

Second user:

"This, If twitter was a actual place it would be tunnel where strangers slowly approach you and say the most insane shit and if you interact with them your suddenly surrounded by tens of people in a massive discourse war, everything about tiktok, twitter and Instragram is actively designed to make you insane for retention."

Third user:

"social media, especially dealing with parasocial issues, is pretty close to what Fahrenheit 451 was actually warning us about."

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matt @stavola.xyz · 22/10/2025

The link to your blog post on Sized seems to be broken.

So what can we do about it?

This situation is very analogous to the challenge of revisiting the default Sized bound, and I think the same basic approach that I outlined in [this blog post][sized] will work.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 17/10/2025

While I don't entirely agree with this assessment, it's in the ballpark. - AI is definitely a technological advancement, but the utility is often oversold - The real danger isn't the AI itself but the human evil it enables at scale - Regulation is necessary but ultimately will be ineffective

A results screen with text and an image. The text reads:

"Your AI-dentity is...

the Pro-Human Idealist"

The image is of a human male(?) with glasses and short, seemingly curly, red hair. They are wearing a white shirt that has the word "Man" above a horizontal line with the word "Machine" below it, the implication possibly reading as "Man over machine." They are also wearing blue pants and black boots. They are kneeling with one knee on the ground and are pointing at their head with one hand while raising the other directly in the air. They are smiling.

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