Mykal Machon - Blog

I'm in the process of rebuilding the Tinybox website.

I had a friend ask me for a go-to cauliflower rice recipe so here it is.

I was watching one of Theo Browne's live streams with Jason Lengstorf today and they got around to talking about the archetypes of people who excel in certain roles (here's a link to that part of the stream).

After making a reservation on Feb 28th of this year, receiving a "Your Steam Deck is now available" email from Valve on Sept 1st, and waiting until Sept 14th, I've finally received my Steam Deck!

Linux is typically my operating system of choice and if I ever needed to set up a quick scheduled job, I'd typically just do it via crontab.

Kiya and I were talking about how we miss having access to fresh veggies at home a few days ago.

On the morning of July 31st, 2022 our cat, Ash, also lovingly known as Bubba, passed away suddenly and without reason while we were on vacation.

Some photos of my cat, Ash.

I've been looking into how to be more pro-active about monitoring my HomeLab lately.

I found out that you could get any Shopify product as JSON/XML way too late in my Shopify development game.

A week or so ago I was scrolling around on twitter and came across a tweet mentioning an "AeroPress Latte".

If you're unfamiliar with the term, I would define self-hosting as the practice of hosting your own server and services either in your home or place of business.

This post outlines a few tricks that I've been re-discovering over and over again.

This post was inspired by Andrew Walpole's "What's Your Go-To Web Stack" post.

I've really gotten into Coffee lately (cliché, I know) and I wanted to summarize my setup in a post.

Docker is such an amazing piece of technology.

Forms on the web are awesome: They're one of the first instances of web interactivity.

My new ActivityPub server setup with GoToSocial.

I've been thinking a lot about owning your own data indie-web style.

I was talking with a friend yesterday about how I learned web dev.

I'm starting as a Systems Analyst at the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV)!

In May of 2019, during the first few months of the Coronavirus pandemic I made the decision to start an e-commerce / web development freelancing business, Tinybox Software Development.

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As of April 28th, 2019, I finished my third year at University!

This year's Battlesnake competition takes place on March 2nd 2019 at the Victoria Convention Center and I've got quite a bit of preparation to do before then.