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Michael Maclean

@mgdm.net

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Developer, software architect, former sailor, occasional photographer, sometime cyclist, full-time geek. He/him.

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 · 20/05/2026

The "you wouldn't download a car" anti-piracy warning, but edited to read "you wouldn't cache a page", in reference to all the recent Linux security vulnerabilities involving the page cache

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 13/04/2026

Obligatory

A screenshot of the What3Words site showing that a location named expressed.invest.interest exists and is somewhat north of Fairbanks, Alaska, USA

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 25/03/2026

If you are a programmer and use Rust, you can do this

A screenshot of a terminal session on a Mac where the user has typed `cargo install cargo-space`, which installed a package, and then ran the command `cargo space`, which replied with "car no do that. car go road"

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 19/02/2026

An electron microscrope image of a tardigrade, playing a violin. A scale at the bottom right indiciates that it's around 150μm in length.

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

@lucperkins.dev Spotted

A screenshot from a Wired video where Alex Honnold is answering climbing questions from Twitter. Luc asked one.

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Michael Maclean @mgdm.net · 30/12/2024

The Greggs Semiotic Standard. The icons from a Greggs paper bag that tell you what the markings on bakes mean, redrawn in a way inspired by the icons from Ron Cobb's Semiotic Standards for the Alien films.

Why yes I have been enjoying my time off, why do you ask

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

And this is for DS9, where there are an astonishing _seven_ instances of "mark two one five"! Also, a good showing for 215 in the yaw too! This is absolutely where I got the impression from as, because it’s the best show, I’ve re-watched it more than any of the others.

Another pair of polar plots. This time, there is a big spike at 215° in the pitch plot, indicating there are a total of seven occurences where someone says "mark two one five" in the show.

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

By the power of matplotlib, we can turn this into a polar plot. This is heavily inspired by @lemonodor.bsky.social's code for plotting geese orientations: bsky.app/profile/lemo... The red line has been drawn at 215°, this far, no further. In TNG, there are four occurrences of a "mark 215"

Two separate polar plots of the yaws and pitches specified on the show. There are big spikes at low numbers like fifteen, and a red line pointing out where 215° lies at. In the Pitch plot, there are four at this point.

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