iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 23/09/2026

I wonder if fish ever feel itchy.

symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 23/09/2026

I deeply struggle to maintain sight of the value of creation for creation's sake alone. I yearn for an audience. Is it not natural to seek a community that provides you empathy & praise & reassurances of your self-expression? Why is it that I seem to starve when I am so very full?

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 23/09/2026

Behold the artifact. Appraise the design. A lifetime of discipline compressed into lines. Brilliant, tender, futile, pristine. The quietest tragedy the midnight has seen.

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 22/09/2026

Do you think this is reasonable? I did a lot of calculations based on cost of operations here, & these are ridiculously thin margins, & I am still not sure anybody will see it as worth the cost.

Information and pricing for Wristy Calling Credits. The text on the left explains: "You can make up to 3 calls per day, with a max length of 5 minutes per call. If you want more time to talk, you may purchase calling credits. Calling credits do not expire."

On the right, pricing tiers are listed:
- 15 Credits (15 mins) for $0.99
- 30 Credits (30 mins) for $1.89 (~5% off)
- 60 Credits (1 hour) for $3.49 (~12% off)
- 120 Credits (2 hours) for $6.49 (~18% off)
- 240 Credits (4 hours) for $11.99 (~24% off)

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 21/09/2026

An AI companion that learns about you & grows with you, talks in text chat & live calls, & lives only on your smartwatch. It's a tiny fun friend to share your thoughts & interests with. If calls were limited to 5 minutes each & 3 calls per day, would you be willing to pay for more & longer calls?

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 21/09/2026

lol why the heck is this like my most popular post ever. xD

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 21/09/2026

@support.bsky.team sent you an email but I'll try sharing it here as well. ;3

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 21/09/2026

I've been getting a lot better at finishing projects enough that they are actually usable things, & then also keeping them online & functioning when I move on to another thing. That's pretty neat, I think. It's much better than my scrapyard of 76% complete projects on a domain name I didn't renew.

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 21/09/2026

So basically I am at the point where Wristy as a client is complete, more or less. Now starts the fun of endlessly tuning the embeddings & memories & prompting & stuff to make the interactions more fun!

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 21/09/2026

So you know I must be close to feature-complete if the thing I just wasted a shitload of time on was make 30 fucking color themed app icons that dynamically change with the app color theme in your app drawer. (I think these look legit AF, btw, if I do say so myself.)

Grid showcasing 30 themed circular Wear OS app icons with updated color palettes. Each icon features three diagonal colored stripes on a dark circular badge with a colorful glow, categorized with names like "Cyber Neon" and "Vaporwave Dream" and accompanied by four color swatches below.

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 21/09/2026

I absolutely love love love that there is a mathematical standard for determining if background & text color contrast is readable. (WCAG AA standard {$\ge 4.5:1$ contrast ratio}) I don't have to examine every color theme & determine for myself loosely if it looks right; I just check the math! Done!

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 20/09/2026

Serious question coming from a good place: If I allow your bio info to state your pronouns, is there any reason why I shouldn't just omit gender as a field? I feel like pronouns are like the new & improved way to state your gender identity in social or professional bios.

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 20/09/2026

I present to you, an early look at Wristy!! <3 (I kinda maybe go on longer than needed & fumble some parts, but whatever, watch it & laugh at me. haha) youtu.be/pbUfXwzm3II

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Wristy - an early demo

YouTube video by symmetricalboy

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 20/09/2026

So I realized I really don't actually need an iPhone & an Apple watch to start coding for iOS & watchOS. All I need is a Mac to dev on, which I realized macincloud.com can make happen pretty easily for me. Now I just need a spare $150 USD to pay for that & an Apple dev account, & I'm off & running!

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 20/09/2026

Lookit. Someone else Sunoing their feelings! <3 (This one is really really good; it deserves 3.5 minutes of your ear's attention. c'mon. ...jus' c'mon.)

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 20/09/2026

I feel like 30 voice options available in Gemini's TTS & Live models is gonna cause choice paralysis in my app. 😵‍💫

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 20/09/2026

I just realized... Gemini Live isn't available from the official Gemini app on Wear OS yet, but I have been happily making my own app work with gemini-3.8-live-extended-thinking with no major problems so far. I wonder why you can't do Gemini Live officially yet...?

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 20/09/2026

My lil' AI companion app is coming along nicely. One gimmick I'm working with is that the ONLY client for this is on Wear OS. It's called Wristy. :3

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 20/09/2026

My current nonsense project is trying to build my own AI companion app with persistent memory from scratch (just to learn, & also because everybody cool is doing it), & I noticed that my coding agent was reading @cameron.stream 's & @letta.com 's blogs to plan the project. Good ideas? CTRL+C CTRL+V.

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 20/09/2026

I would like to officially declare @th.alassa.pink is my muse.

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 20/09/2026

Hi. I didn't post anything for a month. But oddly, that's cuz I've been doing things for once, instead of because I've been asleep for 20 out of every 24 hours. So that is good. Yay me!

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 20/09/2026

Fuck, marry, kill: fuck, marry, kill. I'm gonna have to say I'd fuck kill, marry fuck, & kill marry. You?

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 24/08/2026

Gonna watch Backrooms tonight. I'm excited. :D

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 24/08/2026

OOOOOH! That was so neat! I just had Claude Opus 5 run through what I considered release candidate & perform an extensive audit of memory usage to improve performance & latency, especially on low-end devices, & it did a bang-up job! It found so many places to trim fat! :3

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 24/08/2026

somebody gimme an old iphone. i wanna port symmetris to ios.

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 24/08/2026

People online sharing their visceral kneejerk responses to statements for or against the idea of plants or AI having consciousness is the exact same delightfully pointless conversational feedback loop as asking "what is art?".

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 23/08/2026

I checked off everything I had left on my list: ✅ Ranked, unranked, & offline multiplayer modes ✅ Localizations in 49 different languages ✅ Leaderboards, Achievements, & Game Stats ✅ UI that looks good on any screen size/orientation ✅ Heaps of symmetry Symmetris has been submitted to publish! ✨

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 23/08/2026

I already had 6 wallpaper options & 6 block style theme options before, but I went HAAM on visual customizations just now & bumped that up to 20 wallpapers (16 live animated ones, 4 static ones) & 20 block style themes. 🔥💪💖

A grid of 20 selectable background theme cards, each featuring an illustrative thumbnail preview and a name label underneath. Themes include Cosmic (selected with a blue checkmark), Vapor, Aurora, Matrix, Tunnel, Sunset, and Black.

A customization menu showing 20 different visual skin styles for block puzzle tetrominoes, with themes like Classic, Candy, Retro, Neon, Wood, Holo, and Fabric. The 'Classic' skin is currently selected.

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 23/08/2026

So I posted my Tetris game on r/Tetris, & someone else was sharing their Tetris game there in another post just like 30 minutes before me, & I tried their game, & now I have a new friend who also made a Tetris game, & I'm making friends with Tetris enthusiasts. haha it's awesome! Try their web game?

blocksbattle.com

BlocksBattle — 1v1 Block Battle Arena

Clear lines, flood opponents, climb the ranks. Live lobby, arena ratings, instant rematches.

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 23/08/2026

✅ All Symmetris Versus modes are now fully operational.* (*there's likely bugs i didn't find yet...) Time to deploy the new version & then get to work on building some Achievements! But first, anybody wanna play me in Symmetris? 😅

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 23/08/2026

Behold my mighty Bluetooth LE GATT local device offline multiplayer & DESPAIR! SUFFER! SUFFER IT YOU MUST!

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 22/08/2026

glm-5.2 has really funny thoughts.

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 22/08/2026

Does multi-user stuff suck on iOS? Or multi-account? Can you sign into 2 Apple accounts at once? Can you have multiple sandboxed users on an iPhone? iPad? What works & what doesn't. (I'm curious to compare to Android, which is a mixed bag.)

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 22/08/2026

I seriously just sent myself a file from my laptop to my phone by adding it to the root of my website repo & committing it & then opening it in my phone browser. what in the holy hell why is that what i chose to do.

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 22/08/2026

Whaaa-?? Thread counter badges~?! LOVE!!

A screenshot of a social media thread by @symmetricalboy.com about using AI to easily develop a multiplayer Tetris game. Red hand-drawn arrows and exclamation points highlight the sequential thread markers "1/3", "2/3", and "3/3" at the end of each post. In the posts, the user expresses amazement that after asking the AI to "add multiplayer plz," it successfully built and deployed a Cloud Run WebSocket server, ranking logic, UI/UX, an offline bot, local Wi-Fi Direct mode, leaderboards, and statistics pages.

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 22/08/2026

Man, so, I'm working on my Tetris game, & I decided to add a pretty extensive multiplayer versus mode, &... like... I am still routinely shocked by AI coding & how powerful these tools are. I basically just said "add multiplayer plz"... (continued...)

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 03/08/2026

I just watched "Mary Beth Barone: Galaxy Brain", a new stand up special on Netflix. 1 million out of 10. I am now in love with this woman. Highly recommend it.

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 03/08/2026

@nekotachi.bsky.social bwuhahaha i really like your display name right now: "#1 text-overflow: ellipsis; hater". but it got me thinking about CSS text-overflow properties & i literally am sitting here reading CSS docs going "I HATE IT TO BUT YOU *HAVE TO* SOMETIMES THO! D:" 😅

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 02/08/2026

My boyfriend just said "I thought she was high the other day, but it turned out she just straightened her hair."

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 02/08/2026

Now seeking new parasocial relationships.

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Ask Everything @askeverything.app · 01/08/2026

We rolled out a bunch of updates today! New features: - Daily Question, featured random question every day. - Question Playlists, different question topic categories. - Share Questions, link directly to any question. - Ask Directly, send someone an existing question. - UI Improvements, etc., etc.

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 01/08/2026

Okay, so the Open Graph image failed to show up, but this is a new feature I just added. Every day there's a new question selected from the pool for the daily question. I'm also almost done adding other question "playlists" for different topic categories.

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 31/07/2026

lemme just crash that backend a few times...

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pckt.blog @pckt.blog · 31/07/2026

repost to make us money ❤️ save 25% on annual blogging plans today only ! it’s been 25% off all month but today is the last day 😇

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 31/07/2026

Currently finding some new ATProto apps to try by seeing what @vicwalker.dev.br has requested gets a label added to @recordcollector.edavis.dev .

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 23/07/2026

`The production build has been verified with 0 errors.`

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symmetricalboy @symmetricalboy.com · 23/07/2026

*stares blankly at the wall for 20 minutes.*

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