iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

One of the best things on youtube right now, and almost impossible to get anyone else into. "He makes these amazing dioramas... that he buries... and is hilarious... oh... and he sometimes sings... and writes romance novels... and..."

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The number of git commit messages I've seen cursing out safari for its perpetual miscreant behaviour is incredibly high.

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Imagine having this job. I guess I'm pretty stoked to be pissing off the people who are actively making my country uninhabitable.

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Neil Lewis @neil-lewis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Imagine spending an amount of money that could solve American homelessness for 3-4 years on detention centers for people who are generally busy working, renting, parenting, and paying taxes.

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

It's astonishing to me that we just so willingly gave up on being able to select text to copy in so many apps? Granted, the text selection on mobile has always been substandard, but the fact that so few apps allow selection of text in so many places is infuriating.

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

self host a Forgejo instance! I haven't pushed one too hard, but it's super slick, and a nice way to unshackle from the tech titans

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Every time I think a boolean is sufficient, some new feature pushes it toward an enum, or some kind of multiple timestamps. Every, damn, time

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

As annoying as this AWS outage has been, it's a warning signal to engineering teams across the globe that our reliance on monopolistic cloud providers is bad for business

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I converted a few of my old rails apps to Hanami last year, and was pleasantly surprised how little time it took. Granted many of them were relatively simple apps but ultimately it's a wonderful opportunity to simplify any lingering complexity

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I keep thinking about an interaction with one of the major ai tools recently: [me] How to do x? [llm] Have you tried y? [me] Ok, I just tried y, it didn't work. [llm] I see you tried y, that's how you fix x, what else can I help you with?

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

in case you're not sure who dhh is, he's a danish counterstrike player and race car owner who writes essays like "i am smarter than you" and "foreigners bad" rich enough not to worry about consequences but at the very same time, still desperate for status, a man two friends short of a podcast

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I feel like printer is the perfect insult for someone who is lazy and never does anything

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Eliminating the headphone jack did this to society.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

A thing I think we miss is that the “authoritarian playbook” isn’t a set of instructions authoritarians are reading from, it’s just a list of things that happen when narcissists get too much power.

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Phillip Ayoub @payoub.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Starting to lose count of the number of times I spin up a new app to try out a new JS framework, and realize that I really prefer vanilla JS, and that their abstraction is too much mental overhead for my productivity

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

They're a pale shadow of their former, innovative self, and Tim Cook really needs to ask "are we the baddies?"

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

With tariffs throwing international shipping into chaos, it’s only a matter of time before the toilet paper wars return right?

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I'm starting to feel the same way, I like seeing related methods grouped in larger classes. A lot of rubyists prefer indenting everything under the private keyword, but the OCD in me can't handle it. It's not a block or a method, so your code is just dangling there with no end!

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Trusting in your web framework’s magic is like swiping a credit card, smooth and effortless upfront, but the bill always arrives. Sometimes when your app scales, other times just when you color outside the lines

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todor @todoralexandrov.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Meets JD Vance. Dies hours later. My guess is the Pope was unable to overcome that level of stupidity.

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Why do get the feeling the next decade of software engineering is just gonna be cleaning up the crusty spaghetti left behind by someone who 'vibe coded' their way into production at 2am in an over-caffeinated stupor?

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Melbourne Airport: Agent: "Your carry-on is over the limit, that will be $42." Man: "Why is that so important? It’s only just over." Agent: "We need to stay under the weight, this is very important to the safety of your flight." Man: "It can’t be that important if you’re not weighing us!"

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I regret not going all in on Phlex, and taking the "safe" View Component route with our companies main app. Phlex is elegant and beautiful. For context I really don't like erb, but I do actually like jsx, so there's clearly something a little off with my assessments

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Bumper sticker that says, "Bought after the pedo diver thing... during the Grimes thing... you know what, this is on me. My bad"

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

After converting a personal project to Hanami, it blows my mind how elegantly it solves many issues I've faced with other frameworks. Bravo! I'm going to have to migrate some much larger projects over

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

As much as I love the aesthetics of symbol keys in a ruby hash, the mix of symbols and strings in ruby hashes in different projects can be a genuine nightmare. Pick a lane people!

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I'd be genuinely curious to see how "Mr. Free Speech" would handle actual dissent. But, of course, he makes sure to keep his repugnant views safely insulated within echo chambers or spaces where disagreement feels more like a risk than a conversation.

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

[open source repo with zero updates for 6 months] "Clearly abandonware!" [personal repo with zero updates for 4 years] "This is fine."

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

It's rarely pointed out, but no country in history has ever willingly given up as much power and influence as the USA just did. Nation states crave power and influence. They seek to build it, and work hard at not losing any. But here the US is going hog wild on losing as much of it as possible.

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

We often judge a company's success by its profits and stock price, but most people probably care more about its minimum and median wages. After all, if planning on spending money there, it's good to know you're not just contributing to income inequality.

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

We often talk about classic albums as "revolutionary," but with time, we lose the context that made them so shocking and new. Take Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band—it must have sounded completely mind-blowing in 1967, but today, it’s hard to hear it with the same fresh ears

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

My nvim LSP has been broken for a week now, and honestly? I haven’t rushed to fix it. Turns out, there’s a certain serenity in coding without an overzealous autocomplete breathing down my neck. No little suggestions. No judgmental squiggly lines. Just me, code, and occasional linting issue in PR's

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

One underrated perk of living in the EU: when most of your app's users are in the US, you can deploy while they’re asleep. Rails update? Ruby update? No problem, something breaks, you’ve got time to revert before anyone notices.

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The more time I spend running sql queries the more I realize that the boolean column is almost always a mistake. visible, enabled, active should almost always be a datetime: marked_visible_at, marked_enabled_at, marked_active_at

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

with or without rails helper gave almost identical results

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

rspec: Finished in 1.16 seconds (files took 1.15 seconds to load)

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Sinatra, Hanami, and Roda (my fave) are great alternatives, but they’re not beginner friendly for building larger apps. A truly viable alternative needs to let you create things like a blog or instaclone quickly and easily with simple documentation. Otherwise it just becomes the domain of ruby geeks

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Mate, you could write a 5000 page nonfiction epic on the great kazoo players throughout history and I'd pre-order it.

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Replacing ActiveStorage with Shrine in our main app. ActiveStorage's variant handling in the db is overly complex, and our app relies heavily on variants. Shrine is a pure joy so far, loving the switch!

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Sometimes I get super stoked at how few dependencies we have on our main production rails app, then deployments fail and I see the whole slew of CI and deployment dependencies

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I think we just forgot how shitty he is since another billionaire out-shitied him for the last few years

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Toby @tobyond.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I love rails, but I also love javascript. Sometimes it feels like the framework has done everything in its power to not embrace it.

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