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Mykal Machon

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🚄 Support Engineering @Railway.com 📝 Pragmatist, computer nerd, dad 🚩 Canada ll 0.0.0.0

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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 25/08/2026
Don't know what it is but I can't bring myself to start Dark Age (Red Rising). I've never been so anxious to read a book; I just know bad things are coming and want to live in a world where they aren't here yet for awhile longer.
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 07/08/2026
blows my mind agents can write so much, at the end of the day effective, code that is unreadable incoherent slop guess it's a feature not a bug for inference providers at the end of the day: "how will you fix your repos if you cancel! you can't even read it anymore!"
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 07/08/2026
Funny how 3 years ago if you told me GitHub would be the worst part of my dev workflow I would have never believed you
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 01/08/2026
My very mcu critical brother just went and saw spider man and unironically told me it's a 10/10 movie. I have panic purchased tickets for 20 minutes from now ha.
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 29/07/2026
Have had the index 01 for a singular day and I don't ever want to be without one now. Can't remember the last time I felt that way about a gadget
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 27/07/2026
TIL @hankgreen.bsky.social is one of the most prescient commentators on modern SWE
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 27/07/2026
Very stoked to see more and more wasm things moving forward!
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
A meme using images of Scully from The X-Files getting increasingly more interested at what she's reading on the computer. It is in the style of the Vince McMahon meme. It reads

They are making a Neruomancer TV Show

For Apple+

JD Dillard is co-creating it

William Gibson is thrilled with it
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 26/07/2026
Blows my mind people use gchat over slack / discord in the big '26. I would genuinely rather go back to teams
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 25/07/2026
Got into a *very* exciting alpha testing program for some hardware 👀 arrives Monday!
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 14/07/2026
Feels good to be building things that provide value for people man
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 14/07/2026
@railway.com has a pretty sweet new feature flags system in priority boarding. Would definitely recommend checking it out if you're building there.
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dax @thdxr.com · 22/03/2026
rlhf stands for reinforcement learning have fun
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alice @alice.mosphere.at · 22/03/2026
GLP-1 Haiku GLP-1 Sonnet GLP-1 Opus (preview)
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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu · 20/03/2026
Ohhh why didn't anyone tell me this was a thing 👀 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...
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light-dark() - CSS | MDN
The light-dark() CSS <color> function enables setting two colors for a property - returning one of the two colors options by detecting if the developer has set a light or dark color scheme or the user...
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 19/03/2026
Was just in a sales call for a routing management web gateway (LB, Reverse Proxies, etc). They're showing us a "remote push" feature for NGINX config. I asked how it handles validation pre-deploy and rollback of bad configs: "Well, I'd try not to push bad configs..." and then "test locally first."
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a man with a mustache is making a funny face while talking on a video call .
Alt: a GIF of me laughing, then slowly losing my mind and crying because the validation plan being "don't push bad configs" is wild for an "enterprise" LB management gateway.
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 19/03/2026
Just read through the clauses in Bill C-22. Disappointing. This bill is a net negative for all Canadian's digital privacy rights; it's literally just legislating a carve-out for mass surveillance of Canadian citizens.
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 16/03/2026
Feeling like we are learning in real time that the friction around writing code was a useful filter for quality. To build something meaningful you had to really want to build it, now you can sort of just vibe code tools together without much commitment.
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 16/03/2026
Got the whole family addicted. High score of 52 left so far- will check in
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Someone gets it. (See also: qntm.org/mmacevedo — I maintain that Sam would be one of the most significant hard SF authors of the decade if he didn't have a day job to distract him from writing)
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 06/03/2026
feels good
screenshot of a git diff showing 9 lines added and 1,000 removed
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 26/02/2026
CSS was always a programming language y'all just couldn't handle that you were bad at it.
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Rebane @rebane2001.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript) you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS lyra.horse/x86css/
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 24/02/2026
Just finished iron gold part 1. All I have to say is
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a cartoon smiley face with a hand sticking out of it 's mouth
ALT: a cartoon smiley face with a hand sticking out of it 's mouth
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qntm @qntm.org · 23/02/2026
Dropping into random PR discussions on the public GitHub and commenting "lgtm" with a 👍
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 23/02/2026
Everyone in tech is over optimizing for scale that they'll never see and I'm tired of pretending all the added complexity is always the right engineering choice.
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 22/02/2026
I seriously love writing Golang, but I have 0 legitimate use for it at work- feels so hard to find time to actually learn it deeply. Any chance I do feels great though.
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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Jobs I would want an Open Claw to do: Cycle my passwords and delete old accounts. Jobs I would _never_ want an Open Claw do: Cycle my passwords and delete old accounts.
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 10/02/2026
Built a tool called Gauge that helps @railway.com template creators track revenue, retention, health, and growth metrics over time via their API. Railway's team liked it enough to recommend it in their docs 😎 docs.railway.com/templates/me...
docs.railway.com
Template Metrics | Railway Docs
Track deployments, earnings, and health metrics for your published templates.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 03/12/2025
A perfect CVSS 10 🧑🏻‍🍳💋 CVE-2025-55182: Unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in React Server Components The vuln is in versions 19.0, 19.1.0, 19.1.1, and 19.2.0: react-server-dom-webpack react-server-dom-parcel react-server-dom-turbopack Upgrade immediately!
react.dev
Critical Security Vulnerability in React Server Components – React
The library for web and native user interfaces
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 04/12/2025
Serverless functions might scale throughout well but good God do they not scale maintainability in the same way. Have a ~15k LoC Function App I've built out for a project at work to really kick the tires on it and man 🫩
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anna 🍂🍁🍎 @anna.germnetwork.com · 02/12/2025
gen ai laying claim to the cute sparkle motif is sooooooooooo effed up for the rest of us
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 16/11/2025
Man I love being a dad. I know there will be tough times ahead, just as there have been tough times in the past but I've never been part of something so rewarding and beautiful. So cool getting to help a little one grow. Even if sometimes he robs you of sleep and pukes on you.
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 13/08/2025
Mermaid Charts are sweet; had a team member show them to me last week and having your diagrams exist alongside code as code is surprisingly ergonomic / useful. I expected it to be a PIA as a big excalidraw user but I've found it all surprisingly simple to adapt to.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 10/07/2025
Stop killing games

Minecraft Creator Says That If Buying a Game Is Not a Purchase, Then Pirating Is Not TheftThe worst person you know just made a great point guy
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 08/07/2025
scoop.sh is so awesome. Feels so good to have a centralized way to both install and update all my apps from the CLI on windows.
scoop.sh
A command-line installer for Windows
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 02/07/2025
mykal.codes just renewed for $ 79.99 CAD 🥲 brutal. definitely considering moving back to mykalmachon.com so I don't have to pay insane prices for my domain lol.
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Home | Mykal Machon
The home page of Mykal Machon!
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 12/06/2025
"Bro all you're doing is building a wrapper over CPU, Memory, and Network"
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 07/06/2025
I have landed on PopOS! and it's tiling manager. It's not as hype as arch or hyprland but it is a lot more reliable.
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 07/06/2025
I have been a big time AI hater basically forever but I gotta say, I've been using MCP and agents to automate first-pass code review and drafting new issues and it has given me so much more time to just write good code (which AI still seemingly can't do)
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 10/05/2025
got scared cause my wireless keyboard was dropping it's connection to my PC every 15 seconds. I restarted the PC and it hasn't happened in 30 minutes. I really didn't want to have to re-solder all those headers. Cool to be able to build stuff but it's so much scarier when it breaks 😅
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 06/05/2025
never thought I'd be that guy but arch and hyprland sort of rip. Genuinely enjoying toying around with all the config files and styling everything. I have a distinct memory of one of my friends in uni showing me a debian setup with i3. At the time I thought he was crazy.
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 19/04/2025
Stevia is a blight to my taste buds and man kind. There should be more drinks available that are just basically unsweetened tea.
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 08/04/2025
apparently jailbreaking your kindle is extremely easy and unlocks a bunch of features (like native access to EPUB/PDF and wireless sync with calibre). Probably going to try cracking mine sometime tomorrow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtk7...
youtube.com
It's Time to Jailbreak Your Kindle.
YouTube video by Dammit Jeff
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 20/03/2025
wild that programming on almost every level (ops, frontend, backend, etc) is just guiding someone down a path and then error management when they stray off that path.
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 05/03/2025
Security locked down local admin on your windows machines? Install WSL and do everything in there. never use windows again! problem solved!
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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 28/02/2025
wild to me how little information there is about setting up Grafana Tempo. Seems like it could be insanely powerful and affordable tracing if done right. Are people all really just using Sentry / DataDog for this?
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jeran @jeran.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
checking the git blame and seeing myself
Dylan from Severance with the caption “He dumb?” in reference to his outtie.
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qntm @qntm.org · 23/12/2024
You can buy my story "Lena" in ebook, paperback and hardcover here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0BL24DFMW
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Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories
Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories - Kindle edition by qntm. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Unfortunately for AI, humans have a billion year head start on learning how to learn
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How Sr Devs are *really* made
YouTube video by Alberta Tech
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