iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Chesterton on eugenics, quoted in this great essay on correlation, data visualization, and dual use. Perhaps reminds one of current “il faut” discourse from some AI builders and effective altruists. “it seems clear that they do not mean that the democracy must do it, whatever else they may mean”

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Toph @toph.me · 27/08/2026

Man. So good. And especially impressive to do a good one when we’ve been visualizing conics for millennia. Daniel Mendelsohn’s review of The Odyssey described Aristotle’s review of The Odyssey… similar feeling.

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llimllib @billmill.org · 09/07/2026

All systems' outputs are independently distributed from without and correlated within

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 26/04/2026

i've passively appreciated @redblobgames.com for years but this is the first time i've dedicated the time to focusing and reading his writing. it's an absolute treasure, an incredible resource on so much, and incredibly high quality. for example an intro to a*: www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/...

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Implementation of A*

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Toph @toph.me · 26/04/2026

anyone wanna hang out in philly tmrw morning? here for one night for a wedding

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Patrick Dubroy @dubroy.com · 13/03/2026

One more time — I'm looking for new consulting clients. Some ways I can help: ∙ Fractional tech leadership (tackling "leadership debt" in small eng orgs) ∙ Full-stack, 0 to 1 projects ∙ Language design & impl (eg with @ohmjs.org) ∙ JavaScript/TypeScript perf (🔁 appreciated)

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Toph @toph.me · 06/02/2026

lol sauron was a conlanger?? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_S...

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Black Speech - Wikipedia

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Josh Horowitz @joshuahhh.com · 26/10/2025

Last 5 years (?) everyone's been making websites where when you scroll down new stuff fades in. It's so counterproductive and distracting and it makes me so mad so mad so mad. What is this called? Where's the blog post explaining how much it sucks that I can send to people who use it?

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Mike Bostock @ocks.org · 29/07/2025

Notebooks 2.0 is here! 📓🔮 Previewing today: Notebook Kit, an open file format for notebooks with open-source tooling for generating static sites; and Observable Desktop, a macOS desktop application for editing notebooks as local files, with a radical new approach to AI. observablehq.com/notebooks/2/

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Observable Notebooks 2.0 Technology Preview | Observable

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Toph @toph.me · 30/06/2025

national review should interview randy

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The first Friday of May is celebrated by many cultures around the world by enrolling in workshops about birds and data visualization. This is true and there are too just many sources to site 🐦📊 jerthorp.me

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Josh Horowitz @joshuahhh.com · 23/03/2025

Just learned tennis scoring; thanks @pte.bsky.social. I thought the terminology was overcomplicated, until I saw that it turns an infinite state-space of scores into a finite one. Q1. Is this bisimulation? Q2. Generalize: Which winning-score sets A, B ⊆ ℕ² can be tracked with a finite # of states?

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Toph @toph.me · 03/12/2024

here's a better link for the stream, going on at 11:45am PT / 2:45pm ET www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIjn...

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Insight 2024

YouTube video by Observable

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Toph @toph.me · 03/12/2024

streaming a chat with @geoffreylitt.com today at 11:45am PT / 2:45pm ET register to watch: streamyard.com/watch/Qxyjtf... i think stream will appear on the @observablehq.com LinkedIn? linkedin.com/company/obse... more context: x.com/tophtucker/s...

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Toph @toph.me · 25/11/2024

posted up at Brooklyn Social til 10pm, come by!

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Toph @toph.me · 23/10/2024

hows everyone doin over here

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Toph @toph.me · 16/11/2023

flying to tokyo rn, any recs

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Toph @toph.me · 12/11/2023

ive been coughing for seven weeks (dry fits, mucus in nose, post-nasal drip, throwing up from gagging on it, no covid, no fever, no fluid in lungs, bloodwork normal) & lost 15 lbs. supposed to fly to tokyo w claire on thurs; any last-min tips to feel better? 😬

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Toph @toph.me · 31/07/2023

is the marshmallow test a nonzirp phenomenon

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Toph @toph.me · 13/06/2023

got a new phone so now i gotta use the app store version instead of the testflight version… rip 🥲

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Toph @toph.me · 10/06/2023

this looks like a rothko

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Toph @toph.me · 07/06/2023

the orca story seems more interesting than the alien story

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Toph @toph.me · 31/05/2023

turned on radio in car and it feels like matrix revolutions when the matrix is just all smiths (iheartradio stations). if a kid looked at it theyd be like oh duh i see why radio died. the new medium reduces the old to a shell to magnify its superiority, make its victory retrospectively preordained

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Toph @toph.me · 22/05/2023

as someone who never had braces (is this relevant?) i'd like if more restaurant bathrooms had toothpicks. or floss? floss picks would be good but the plastic waste feels unconscionable. you see them on the sidewalk so often!

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Toph @toph.me · 13/05/2023

oops it's my wedding day and i totally forgot to get into the best shape of my life!

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Joe Weisenthal @weisenthal.bsky.social · 13/05/2023

It’s @toph.me and fiancée Claire on the Jumbotron

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Toph @toph.me · 07/05/2023

im leaving sf and giving away free stuff if you come to nob hill - wood side table - chairs - glass top coffee table - folding table and 4 chair set - more!

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Toph @toph.me · 06/05/2023

i have a floppy disk and a cassette tape (unrelated) i gotta figure out how to read/play

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Toph @toph.me · 04/05/2023

got the time wrong and was two and a half hours late to the future of coding meetup and solidly missed it lol

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Toph @toph.me · 30/04/2023

walking over to Peacekeeper if anyone wants to join

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Toph @toph.me · 08/04/2023

was gonna ask if anyone on bluesky in sf wanted to get dinner tn but then i worked too late and everything closed

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Toph @toph.me · 03/03/2023

did ppl in the 3rd c. BC look at the pyramid of giza like we look at the pyramid of ryugyong

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Toph @toph.me · 02/03/2023

if i die in a car crash i'd love to get one of those roadside crosses. i love those. although i don't know if i'd want to be buried there. are ppl ever or is it always just a "cenotaph"?

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Toph @toph.me · 02/03/2023

if your name is mike your order might be ready at one of the two jfk terminal 4 shake shacks

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Toph @toph.me · 15/02/2023

Happy Valentine's Day!

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Toph @toph.me · 09/02/2023

hung out at mt auburn cemetery for a while on sunday. loved it! love cemeteries. my grandparents' ashes are there unmarked somewhere, they died before i was born. a plaque on a hill says the view (of boston) is perhaps unrivaled on the continent, lol

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Toph @toph.me · 04/02/2023

how's gui design different from api design? (here based on making a simple chartbuilder.) what are others?

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Toph @toph.me · 04/02/2023

Gotta shower and then I think I'm gonna go to Dunkin. Stayed up too late last night writing a little history of current work project. Got a little less sleep so I feel a little sicker

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Toph @toph.me · 03/02/2023

I bought my dad a record player because our old one broke years ago. We’re listening to his college a cappella album from around 1962. He’s declining fast so it feels like time is running out.

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