iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

en💩ification of everything 🤡 #1password #darkpatterns

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 24/09/2026

latest task in #asideai browser: 712 follows dumped so far. BYE felicia 👻 I knew ai good for smth besides #emdashgate #unfollow #declutter cc @hiddenest.dev

aside browser agent view: bluesky timelines scanned, 712 follows flagged for removal, 96 kept

000

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 26/12/2025

@kristiburke.bsky.social I love your content! Your style reminds me of an evangelical speaker I listened to in the 2010s. I particularly remember her once at Breakaway Ministries in Texas. Any chance you know her name? Asking in case she influenced you too

000

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 24/11/2025

Excited to finally test drive the route developer browser 🥇

000

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 23/11/2025

@polypane.app Feature idea 💡 Antigravity's browser is configurable. It'd be cool if it could launch Polypane! I wonder if its own MCP might help too

110

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 26/08/2025

I feel guilty thinking it but good AI art looks as good as human to me youtu.be/Pwy5T6OPGzA?...

youtu.be

Kling's Frames Are Insane & MORE Nano Banana!

YouTube video by Theoretically Media

020

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 08/08/2025

I couldn't get "OpenGPT" (4-bit quantized) to respond sanely. It was chatty, broke Markdown formatting, and often ended with long chains of gibberish tokens. I used a basic Fibonacci prompt with a custom code execution tool. I tried the following SOTA models instead (spoiler: Qwen3 won) 🧵

110

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 05/08/2025

At least once a day @raycast.com AI integration/MCP does something for me that would've been a chore 🪄

010

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 23/07/2025

I'm so late to the party but dev containers and especially IDE support like @webstorm.jetbrains.com is fire ❤️‍🔥

000

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 05/05/2025

I 🤬 at Gemini so it did it back with emphasis 🤣

000

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 17/04/2025

This. I avoid politics because I'm anti-🇺🇸 in general. But fuck me if Disney hasn't been too on the nose. Like "news next month" level 💔

000

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 23/03/2025

With the Augment Code on @jetbrains.com and Junie on the horizon I'm in the process of switching to @webstorm.jetbrains.com. But the biggest surprise of the week was Fleet ❤️‍🔥 I've seen so many bad reviews but it's everything I ever wanted from Code! If VS gets on your nerves it's worth a try

010

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 23/03/2025

A week later I still love dropping into Codespaces for random shit like fixes to Obsidian plugins. But I'm surprised how often I lose my terminal connection inside. It also doesn't warn me before accidentally closing my broswer tab vs editor pane

000

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 14/03/2025

I know it's stupid but sometimes I don't PR just because I don't want to clone etc. Lately I've been opening a repo into GitHub.dev to make easy fixes then jumping straight into Codespace when necessary. And @github.com has made the flow between sites completely seamless. It's 🔥🔥🔥

000

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 28/02/2025

I've had a challenging past year. Just merged my first (tiny) PR in months. Progress 💪🏼

000

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 24/02/2025

Just discovered Make.md completely replaces Notion in @obsidian.md while supporting SSG with BrainDB 😍 youtu.be/ISpII6nsego?...

110

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 18/02/2025

I'm torn whether to follow fellow technicians I probably agree with politically but want less politics in my feed 🥲

100

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 15/02/2025

2014 - Stockfish dominates humans by checking all reasonable moves 2017 - Google AlphaZero destroys SF 100-0 by learning against itself 2019 - open source Leela Chess Zero inspired by a0 beats SF Ratings: SF - 3680 lc0 - 3650 Humans - <2900 youtu.be/jYlyOwlD5dA?... Other significant moments in 🧵

youtu.be

Stockfish Gets Absolutely EMBARRASSED

YouTube video by GothamChess

110

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 13/02/2025

There's a mismatch between public perception of what AI is, what it's good at, and what's being done to improve it. My own brother working in DS with high security clearance didn't believe me that SOTA LLMs train on largely synthetic data. TLDR "next word predictors" memorize vs "do" math

100

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 13/02/2025

This is how I feel about our entire political system every fucking day

000

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 10/02/2025

Facebook is actively blocking messages from my (not new) personal account to several US (close) friends for mentioning country names 😳

120

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 08/02/2025

Thinking about quantum mechanics this week I realized how many scientific facts could be plausibly denied if you didn't investigate how they were uncovered. @3blue1brown.bsky.social illustrated how astronomical distances were determined. Using grade school math! youtu.be/YdOXS_9_P4U?...

youtu.be

Terence Tao on how we measure the cosmos | Part 1

YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown

010

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 07/02/2025

I dropped my university physics degree because I believed quantum was a fairy tale. Later they proved it. Now it's in actual tech ⚛️ youtube.com/watch?v=zWd3...

youtube.com

010

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 06/02/2025

As an American living in Asia the criticism of R1 for censoring Tiananmen Square infuriates me: 1. The western account is at least partially invented 2. Should your first question for o3 be how many children US bombs slaughtered last year 🧵 x.com/texastoland/...

x.com

110

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 04/02/2025

This is the biggest thing since Windsurf for me 🎆 Finally an agentic editor with @jetbrains.com support! And maybe even outperforms Cursor in both quality and speed?

130

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 02/02/2025

Temporal looks so good! Node esp. has lacked so much compared to .NET etc. Between this, all-inclusive runtimes like Bun, and @deno.land's new standard library JS feels like a whole new ecosystem 🔥 Props @betterstack.com for this overview youtu.be/zwFlVPdtKvE?...

youtu.be

STOP using Dates in JavaScript - Temporal API

YouTube video by Better Stack

130

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 01/02/2025

TIL modern LLMs are practically identical (minus some math and scale) to the mechanical perceptron invented in 1958 🤯 Even back propagation has been around since 1986. It's like a jigsaw puzzle slowly (compared to today) slotting into place until the 2020 magnum opus youtu.be/l-9ALe3U-Fg?...

youtu.be

ChatGPT is made from 100 million of these [The Perceptron]

YouTube video by Welch Labs

100

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 01/02/2025

My deep hope for this term is that the current autocrat crosses enough red lines to lose his cult and shock the next regime into actual democratic reform (a boy can dream)

000

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 01/02/2025

Epic AI web scraping pipeline into structured data. I'm sure I could build this out myself with LangGraph but this Just Works ™️ youtu.be/Qq1pFm8enZo?...

youtu.be

/extract by Firecrawl - Get structured web data with just a prompt (Open Beta)

YouTube video by Firecrawl

110

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 01/02/2025

Should you use AI to learn (anything)? This response is wonderfully even-handed. I both agree and disagree. Listening to other takes before I stake mine 🤔 youtu.be/Y3IxS2Bakig?...

youtu.be

Should YOU use Copilot while learning to code?

YouTube video by CodeSlate

100

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 01/02/2025

Audio books, PDFs, and podcasts with celebrity voices 🗣 Similar to NotebookLM but for casual everyday use. Even supports multiple languages and automatic translation. I'm already addicted! youtu.be/8X08FYL8RJQ?...

youtu.be

Turn Text into Audio Fast! | Elevenlabs Reader App Review

YouTube video by Dustin Schermaul

000

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 31/01/2025

Oldie but a goodie. @t3.gg was a little off back in the day but IFL either he's simmered down or I have. Regardless I strongly agree! Except s/cloud/ @coolify.io/ ever since watching @w3cj.com's course on @syntax.fm 🔥 youtu.be/H5sPGruv2yc?...

youtu.be

You Don’t Need Kubernetes

YouTube video by Theo - t3․gg

000

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 31/01/2025

I loved SigmaOS (WebKit based) but it's nearly as inactive Arc who gaslighted everybody about not abandoning it 💔

000

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 30/01/2025

Because Murica has no misinformation. Or censorship. At all 🤔 Pick your poison I guess </politics>

200

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 30/01/2025

Not using an agentic IDE is just a fast track to unemployability 🚮 Expertise will always matter but tools like Windsurf have changed my entire perspective on work

000

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 30/01/2025

Today a third Chinese company after DeepSeek and Qwen trolled OpenAI's US$200/month o1 model all for 🆓️ (but the government is surely funding their server bills) youtu.be/TG7MMeLzRr8?...

youtu.be

How to use Kimi k1.5 for free ? better than OpenAI-o1

YouTube video by Data Science in your pocket

000

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 28/01/2025

What are people using as their "todo app" for training a transformer from scratch?

000

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 28/01/2025

Does using AI coding agents (Composer, Cascade, etc.) affect your choice of frameworks (front or back end)? For example are you more likely to choose React or less?

000

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 28/01/2025

MKBHD is like the Michael Jordan of YouTube having exclusive access to Samsung's upcoming VR competitor/knockoff (in the best way) 💰 youtu.be/az5QL_NLBvg?...

youtu.be

I Tried Samsung's Secret Android XR Headset!

YouTube video by Marques Brownlee

000

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 23/01/2025

IFL LLMs are net negative for humanity but I haven't been as enthralled about a technology since coding in Flash 🍿

100

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 20/01/2025

In case you've never heard of a Valeriepieris circle 🌏 (paper linked below of you're nerdy like that) github.com/rudyarthur/v...

000

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 20/01/2025

Warning this is long as shit. Probably going to have to listen for a week before I finish. But it's my 2 favorite nutritionists talking about not nutrition (AI, sociology, etc.) surprisingly accurately (or at least aligned with my current worldviews) youtu.be/dm1dSSZ7k3w?...

youtu.be

An Uncomfortable Conversation About Obesity | Dr. Mike Israetel

YouTube video by Doctor Mike

110

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 19/01/2025

Drop-in user-friendly local LLM host with IDE integration. My only hesitation is it's a step behind agentic IDEs like Cursor and Windsurf (total 🐐). But on Mac Silicon this is 70% of the power for practically free (not that the others are expensive) docs.continue.dev/customize/mo...

docs.continue.dev

Msty | Continue

Msty is an application for Windows, Mac, and Linux that makes it really easy to run online as well as local open-source models, including Llama-2, DeepSeek Coder, etc. No need to fidget with your term...

120

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 17/01/2025

Embarrassed to admit I actually enjoy Theo's videos more than Prime's lately 🍿

000

Texas Toland @texastoland.com · 14/01/2025

How to configure the discover feed to exclude politics? Maybe important but not why I'm here

010