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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 25/09/2026

Hell of a week to launch a service that depends on this

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 18/09/2026

I have built an obscure and obtuse social network dotplan.space/about

dotplan.space

About | dotplan.space

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 20/08/2026

I am once again asking the writers of Strange New Worlds to lay off the edibles for maybe just one episode

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 22/06/2026

Did some fairly low-stakes bike touring at the weekend. My first overnight trip, to a campsite I have already been to. It was fun! I was slow, but I got there and back. I am pretty sure I took too much stuff, but I actually can't think of much gear I wouldn't take again.

A very orange hybrid bike leaning against a gate on a field. It has a slightly paler orange pannier bag on the back. The pannier bag honestly looks a little like a packed liferaft.

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 23/05/2026

I first saw this film when I was very young and have seen it many, many times since. It's one of my favourites. I took it at face value the first time have been too familar with it to be objective about it. But this video has some good points. (And I laughed out loud at the "it's regulation" bit)

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 02/04/2026

#Nix folks: Do you use anything like NixOps, Morph, Colmena, or something along those lines? If so, what's your preference?

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 18/03/2026

If you run 5k, is that an inframarathon?

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 09/03/2026

Quebec barefoot polka dot microtonal triangle band is good

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 20/02/2026

Hey, nixos-anywhere is pretty neat

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 18/01/2026

Attempting to make 2026 a year where I get really into utility cycling

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 08/12/2025

Getting kind of bored of helping people out of the poor UX around passkeys. (It's not their fault, it's the platform)

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 05/12/2025

Currently enjoying how Windows now has a migration tool to help transfer your data from an old to a new computer, except that the documentation says that it specifically excludes all of the data that I wanted to migrate

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 29/09/2025

The fun part of having a rotating set of interests is that one week I can have zero motivation in working on, reading about or even thinking of a particular topic, but next week I'm knee deep in minutiae of something which will last two weeks before moving on to whatever disinterests me at the time

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 23/09/2025

I can really see why you'd be deathly scared of this thing if you were a character in a novel

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 17/09/2025

It might be completely legitimate, but any time I get an email from a service saying "we've updated our login system, you'll need to reset your password", I get suspicious. Maybe they have moved and couldn't migrate the password hashes for some reason? They are hashes, right...? Alternatively...

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 20/08/2025

The first rule of PKI club is: you do not make another PKI The second rule of PKI club is: *you do not make another PKI*

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 30/07/2025

HTTP 555 None Of This Is My Fault

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 01/07/2025

Can we please quit with the onboarding popups

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 24/06/2025

iOS seems to have developed support for RCS messaging, which I have only learned due to a huge uptick in the amount of scam messages I've been receiving

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 19/05/2025

I set my Slack username to this for a bit. It was great

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 21/04/2025

The keywords “MUST”, “MUST NOT”, “REQUIRED”, “RECOMMENDED”, and “OPTIONAL” in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 and also read like a Beastie Boys song

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 09/04/2025

A colleague got me earlier by mentioning two topics that merged into one laser-guided precision nerd snipe which I'm not sure I'm able to pull off but it is occupying most of my brain right now

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 11/02/2025

A cross functional team is one that writes Haskell angrily

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 29/01/2025

A couple of @akrabat.com's posts on uv have been useful to me today. Being able to define the dependencies inside the Python script is nice: akrabat.com/defining-pyt... And then it's made even nicer by being able to hide the uv interaction in the shebang: akrabat.com/using-uv-as-... Thanks Rob!

akrabat.com

Defining Python dependencies at the top of the file

An article by Rob Allen

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 05/01/2025

Back to work tomorrow, where I can place bets on how many Slack bots are going to be built in the next three months called Norbot

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 13/12/2024

I have watched an awful lot of Star Trek over the years, and one of the things I observed is that a lot of the courses they set end in 215. I’m sure that everyone else was as curious as me to find out how often this happened, so I have set out to investigate this important issue.

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 04/12/2024

I haven't bothered looking at Spotify Wrapped because I know what it will tell me (and my listening is split across two platforms anyway), but I would appreciate a feature where I can ban all of the stuff that I normally get fed by Daily Mix etc and only hear new-to-me stuff

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 30/11/2024

Today is #NixOS release day. I've got an OVH box with it, on encrypted ZFS, with the full "erase your darlings" thing going on, and just switched it to flakes and upgraded to 24.11 without a hitch. I don't have a serial console on this one, so upgrades make me a bit nervous but they're usually fine

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 12/11/2024

Typo of the day: HTTPSPS, which is how you call a cat securely over the web

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 02/08/2023

Recent macOS and choices made by app developers seem to make it very hard to work out which window actually has focus right now

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