iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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nolen @itseieio.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I made a website. It's called "one million chessboards." It has a million chessboards on it. moving a piece moves it for everyone, instantly. No turns. You can move between boards. that's it. Have fun! onemillionchessboards.com

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Vallari @vallari.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I'm so lucky that I saw my teammates doing this around me and picked up this habit too. Great article!

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Vallari @vallari.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Took this survey with great questions! Made me pause and self reflect. Excited to see the results.

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Vallari @vallari.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

There is no greater torture than uploading documents on government sites. It's like we are all cursed like Sisyphus, except our boulder is a single pdf document under 500kb.

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Vallari @vallari.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

best comment from a hunger games deep dive video

YouTube comment: "took me a minute to understand that 'just war theory' meant like... 'fair war', 'morally justifiable war' and that it wasn't 'just' as in 'just girly things'"

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Vallari @vallari.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This episode felt calmer than epsiode 3. Waaay too excited for next one. #jetlag youtu.be/0zTOd9trqEo?...

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Ep 4 - We Raced To Visit The Most European Countries In 6 Days

YouTube video by Jet Lag: The Game

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 01/04/2025

Bluesky rolled out an April Fool's joke to the whole site - love to see it! (Shipping something goofy like this that shows up to every one of your users - when those users are in the millions - makes me smile - usually only startups can do this!) Great stuff from the Bluesky eng team:

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Vallari @vallari.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Reading this little book! 📚💙

Digital cover of book "The Tao of Pooh" by Benjamin Hoff

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Michael Lynch @mtlynch.io · 27/03/2025

In the nine years I've been blogging about software development, some of my posts have hit 300k+ readers, while others flopped, especially early on. I'm sharing all the lessons I learned the hard way about how to write popular blog posts for developers. refactoringenglish.com/chapters/wri...

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How to Write Blog Posts that Developers Read

Software bloggers can make the same mistakes for years that prevent readers from discovering their writing. I know because I'm one of them. Over time, I've learned techniques that help some blog posts...

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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 24/03/2025

Hold on while I overthink about that.

A line graph comparing the amount of time that I spent overthinking a message vs how important the conversation is. At not very important, I start out at more overthinking than I should. It quickly goes up to "A concerning amount" of overthinking at kind of and extremely important.

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Vallari @vallari.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I wrote a blog about building containers! 🐢 thanks to the amazing coding challenge by @johncrickett.bsky.social! vallariagrawal.com/blog/build-o...

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Build your own docker

Learn how containers work - namespaces and cgroups

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Ben @benjdd.com · 13/03/2025

I implemented an ssd, hdd, and tape device. In javascript. For a blog.

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Vallari @vallari.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

That was an interesting story!

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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 11/03/2025

🌟 A meta blog post, about blogging :) ✍️ Write more blogs articles, not fewer (Don’t leave the scraps on the cutting floor) #devRel rmoff.net/2025/03/11/w... (if you like this one, check out rmoff.net/2023/07/19/b... too)

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Write more blog articles, not fewer (Don’t leave the scraps on the cutting floor)

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Vallari @vallari.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Really great video, I think we can all appreciate these optimistic statistics of countries making good choices to reduce emissions! found this on latest issue of @tomscott.com's newsletter!

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How much progress have we made on climate change?

YouTube video by Simon Clark

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Justin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 10/03/2025

I wrote a quick guide to getting started with self-hosting. It doesn't matter what your motivations are, now is a great time to get started taking ownership and responsibility for your data. justingarrison.com/blog/2025-03...

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Get Started With Self-Hosting

Taking ownership of your data and services

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zeu @zeu.dev · 06/03/2025

Yeah no problem, did that a few weeks ago and haven't experienced fomo! Feeds: Web Dev Trending: bsky.app/profile/did:... Quiet Posters: bsky.app/profile/did:... Software Dev: bsky.app/profile/did:... Artist Trending: bsky.app/profile/did:... Good Vibes: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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daniel wraith @danielroe.dev · 02/03/2025

the most beneficial effect of many boycotts is on yourself 'but that won't hurt company x' is often irrelevant I'm taking back some agency I'm aligning my actions with my beliefs I feel better for it that's good enough in fact, imo it's better than punishment as a motive

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Vallari @vallari.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

this is a really helpful guide on writing alt-text

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Max @maxbittker.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

wide emoji maker emoji-stretcher--maxbittker.on.websim.ai

emoji-stretcher--maxbittker.on.websim.ai

wide emoji maker

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

You’ve been clear in saying that Covid has not gone away. You ask people to wear masks at your events. But that attitude is not necessarily where the rest of the world is. How do you think about continuing to take precautions and advising others to do so when it feels as if society has moved on? I do it for a bunch of reasons. Firstly, I have learned that I enjoy not being sick. I know that the cost of long Covid is real and substantial, and I don’t want to run that risk lightly. I also know that I have many friends and people I’m close to who are immunocompromised. So for the sake of the people around me, I also don’t want to get sick. When I do events, I wear a mask for those reasons, and because I know that every time I do a talk, while the vast majority of people in the audience have probably moved on, there are going to be other people who haven’t. I think it makes a huge difference to them to have the person at the front of the stage wear a mask. It tells them, It’s not weird. So I do it for that reason, too. In terms of holding this line at a point when a large swath of society has moved on, I have written a lot about the panic-neglect cycle.

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Vallari @vallari.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I wrote a blog on using vim for a week. It might help people trying to make the switch! Fun week, there were some tears ngl vallariagrawal.com/blog/vim-week/

Screenshot of my blog "Challenge: A Week of Using Vim"

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Artem Zakharchenko @kettanaito.com · 21/02/2025

To whom it may concern, I've conducted a thorough research on fonts for book covers (specifically, fantasy). Here's what I learned 🧵

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nolen @itseieio.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

what do y'all do with your unclosed tabs? I've been running pong inside all 240 of mine blog with a bunch of details over here: eieio.games/blog/running...

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Vallari @vallari.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

this might be the funniest thing I've ever seen, the way Darth Vader holds that dress youtu.be/WpE_xMRiCLE?...

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This Deal's Getting Worse All The Time | Robot Chicken | Adult Swim

YouTube video by Adult Swim

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Vallari @vallari.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Loved this game so much - putting pressure on three corners of the board.

Screenshot of chess game where I’m playing white. Black’s king is cornered on b8 by two knights and a rook. One of the white pawn on g7 is ready to promote. My king at g2 threatens black’s knight at f4.

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Tobias Petry @tpetry.me · 12/02/2025

I am creating a new course this year. 🔥 I will share with you how to make analytics queries (e.g. dashboards) on large data incredibly fast using Timescale. Just a few PostgreSQL queries executed and you're done - it's magically easy. I love it and always recommend it! ❤️

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 12/02/2025

Incoming Asteroid xkcd.com/3049

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Daniel Mangum @danielmangum.com · 24/11/2024

**This Website is Hosted on Bluesky** This weekend I found myself digging through the AT Protocol specifications and the Bluesky Personal Data Server (PDS) implementation. In doing so, I discovered that I could setup a website that is fully hosted on Bluesky. danielmangum.com/posts/this-w...

Screenshot of the rendered HTML of the website I was able to host on Bluesky.

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Vallari @vallari.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

“Ladies and gentlemen, this is Captain Eric Moody again. We have a small problem in that all four engines have failed. We’re doing our utmost to get them going. I trust you’re not in too much distress.” 🤌 youtu.be/YYwN1R8hVsI?...

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British Airways 009 | The Full Story Of The Jakarta Incident

YouTube video by Mentour Pilot

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Vallari @vallari.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

since there is so much dispute about this… let’s just name it “Gulf of Vallari”, I believe that’ll make everyone happy

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Vallari @vallari.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Published an online store for bookmarks I illustrate: store.vallariagrawal.com More work in progress.. 💙📚

Screenshot of “Vallari’s store” webpage. It includes bookmarks inspired by books like “Hitchhikers guide to galaxy” by Douglas Adams, “Mythos” by Stephen Fry, “And then there were none” by Agatha Christie, “An Immense World” by Ed Yong, “What you are looking for is in the library” by Michiko Aoyama.

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Vallari @vallari.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I love all unhinged ways to organise books on a shelf… but the truth is that the only sane method is sorting by author 💙📚

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Alexander Obenauer @alexanderobenauer.com · 01/02/2025

Let's start with the book: Inspired by many conversations with friends and family, it illustrates how we built each layer of computing out of the one before, from binary up. It's a short, technical book for curious, non-technical people.

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Vallari @vallari.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Amazing talks at Ceph Days India! #CephDays #NVMeoF

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Take back your attention.

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Vallari @vallari.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

my 2025 TBR! if I can read my HP 1 in german by end of the year, that would be the coolest thing ever!

8 books: “Shoe Dog”, “Harry Potter and philosopher’s stone” in German, “Designing Data Intensive Applications”, “Psychology of Money”, “The man who fell to earth”, “Born a Crime”, “Ponti”, “Thinking Fast and Slow”.

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Vallari @vallari.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Everyone needs to read this - so fun!

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Vallari @vallari.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Made a zine of sci-fi movie reviews (from perspective of aliens!) - silly fun at the end of the year! open.substack.com/pub/vallaria...

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Sci-Fi Movies Reviewed by Aliens! 👽

Reviews of classic sci-fi movies from perspective of aliens.

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Vallari @vallari.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Listening to Yuval Noah Harari’s thoughts on: trust in institutions, AI, and the Middle East conflict. youtu.be/jO8ZLWYg71M?...

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Making Bureaucracies Sexier with Yuval Noah Harari | What Now? with Trevor Noah Podcast

YouTube video by What Now? with Trevor Noah

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Vallari @vallari.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Watched James Cameron's "Aliens" (1986) and.. oh my god! I laughed and jumped with the characters throughout. This movie was an experience! My rating: "38... simulated" / 10 Please recommend more science fiction movies like these!

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 20/12/2024

Something completely underappreciated in how Google Chrome revolutionized the web and security and software in general — was the silent background auto-update + and non-admin user-level installs. It set a bar that changed everything on ability to make progress & address threats. Broke IT paradigms.

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Vallari @vallari.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

something I think about the time back in school the teacher asked our class who wants to meet Dalai Lama and no one said yes because we had exams in a week

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