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I would take this over the previous code any day of the week. Is it more LoC? yup! but I can actually read it and it's not clever.

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like look at this feature flag function I just reviewed. what human would ever read or write things that way

$const useFeatureFlag = Boolean( (req.user && (await isFeatureFlagEnabledForUser( req.user.id, "NEW_FEATURE", ))) || (await isFeatureEnabledForTeam({ flagName: "NEW_FEATURE", target: { req.user.teamId }, })), );$

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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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A quiet chill brain is where all good ideas come from. Getting the coffee is very important

Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 05/08/2026

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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looking like the default tsconfig.json up in there

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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 01/08/2026

Can confirm it is peak. If you grew up loving spiderman like I did it's just spiderman at his best.

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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 · 01/08/2026

Stoked to see it! Personally a big fan of the new range selector / hover states.

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 · 28/07/2026

another hint: your **index** finger, some might call it the **01**st finger

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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 28/07/2026

I got mine earlier today. Still early but it already feels very familiar.

Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 27/07/2026

TIL @hankgreen.bsky.social is one of the most prescient commentators on modern SWE

Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 27/07/2026

Very stoked to see more and more wasm things moving forward!

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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 26/07/2026

This is basically what using X is like nowadays tbf.

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

hint: it goes on your finger ☝️

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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 · 24/07/2026

No need to apologize at all! I got the joke ha. This just popped up on my TL and wanted to explain the "why" a bit.

Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 24/07/2026

Hey! Bummer to hear that you got hit by that. Unfortunately it's hard for us to support email on that tier without abuse that harms other users workloads. interested generally, does the PDS you're using not support external email services?

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In general we try to make it so the easy/default choice is the right one. If you do give it a shot and get stuck or have feedback I'd be happy to chat. DMs are open 👐

A large part of why we don't call our setup "Fully Managed" is because you still have full access to the underlying containers. Managed offerings typically abstract those lower-level controls away in favour of a more guided and controlled experience. On Railway you just have a bit more control.

We have all of that today actually if that's what you'd like. - docs.railway.com/volumes/back... - docs.railway.com/deployments/... Setting this up is as simple as - create a db - enable daily backups - enable automatic updates Just tested this and was live in ~30 seconds!

Point-in-Time Recovery | Railway Docs

Not anything fully managed yet, but PostgreSQL has been getting some great features as of late like PITR and High Availability - docs.railway.com/volumes/poin... - docs.railway.com/databases/po... Happy to answer any questions you might have 😊

docs.railway.com

Recover a Railway Postgres service to any moment within the WAL retention window using continuous pgBackRest WAL archiving.

Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 14/07/2026

+1 it's very good! Not just saying that cause I work there as well, have been using @railway.com for fun since 2021 and for serious work since 2023. my elevator pitch is that It's progressive disclosure for infrastructure

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Til the yellow "cashierless farmers market" shop on a backroad by my office has antimemetic shielding

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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 14/07/2026

Feels good to be building things that provide value for people man

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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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 13/07/2026

(this is yet another test; will delete)

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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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The whole feature genuinely also seems backwards in a world where: - We have multiple reverse proxies that are load-balanced - We should probably be versioning / auditing changes to config - Testing and validation of config should be a pre-flight step.

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a man with a mustache is making a funny face while talking on a video call .

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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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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Apple can no longer offer Advanced Data Protection in the United Kingdom to new users - Apple Support

example: The UK put a similar bill in place in 2025; it resulted in apple completely removing their data protection features in the country. You can't build a back door in a system without, by definition, creating an exploitable vulnerability in said system. support.apple.com/en-us/122234

support.apple.com

Here's what it means.

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Look at how this has played out for every other country with similar legislature. a few extra cyber criminals caught per year, secure systems pull out of the country, and for those who stay the government gets wide reaching and non-public mass surveillance controls.

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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.

If you do have taste, you can achieve a lot with agentic systems, but I think output still needs to be gated by understanding. You can build quickly, but your understanding of the system is a function of time spent building it. You can easily end up in a system you can't explain. All new skills.

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I think the real question for the future is going to be how to cultivate and maintain strong taste in a world where everyone can cook without ever having toiled to develop the skill. Friction forces reflection, reflection develops taste, taste develops good product.

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It's very easy to get caught in the dopamine slot-machine of Claude code without experiencing the friction that would cause reflection, and course correction. Never been easier to burn yourself out "building" while producing very little. This is true personally (learning) and fiscally (product).

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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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