Mykal Machon - Blog

I started working at Railway!

At 19, I put a note in my wallet that read "If you're working on harder problems today than you were last year, then you'll be alright."

"And that as the Internet grows, and as our ability to be linked up, like—I mean, you and I coulda done this through e-mail, and I never woulda had to meet you, and that woulda been easier for me.

Found a fun little hack today while trying to copy some test output from my Ubuntu WSL terminal into the Windows clipboard.

I've been messing around with the 1Password developer tools and CLI and have found it extremely useful.

I just read this article and the linked MIT study (TLDR: people "using AI consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels" in testing) over my lunch break.

I just setup a work laptop and and took the chance to look into what setting up a "dotfiles" for windows would look like.

I've noticed I'm spending more and more time with only a terminal open lately, with that, I've found quite a few handy little CLI apps, utilities, and even built setup a pretty shell theme.

It's not perfect, but I think I'm finally starting to get the latte art game down.

I work with docker containers pretty much every day and debugging containers that crash immediately on startup has been a common headache for me.

I've been using this site for a year or two to create my profile pictures and add some semi-ordered noise to pictures.

I've been hanging out over on Bluesky the last few weeks.

I've been on a bit of a tear building out an NGINX reverse-proxy and web server repo at work complete with a whole bunch of goodies (automated testing, deploy, monitoring, and log aggregation, oh my!).

I came across this site while doing a workshop on kubernetes a few months back.

<iframe style="height:600px;" src="/games/picosnake/picosnake.html"></iframe> One of the first "technical" things I remember doing on a computer was making games in GameMaker 8 while watching old-school youtube tutorials.

Today I learned you can literally use Visual Studio Code as an SSH client.

I built out a /follows page that lists all the RSS feeds I'm subscribed too.

AI and LLMs have been the hot-topic this year.

I just watched this talk by Andrej Karpathy, "Intro to Large Language Models".

Look at this photo I took at the grocery store a few days ago.

Bun v1.0 just launched, and I've been very surprised by how hyped people seem to be with the release.

I just deleted 8gb of old node_modules folders for inactive projects!

Thank you for saying it, Dave.

I started as a Systems Analyst I at UFV on May 10th, 2021 and am stoked to be moving on up into a Systems Analyst II role as of May 17th, 2023.

I just bought a physical copy of Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

I was just reading through Maggie Appleton's post on "Computational Notebooks"[^1], and came across Google Colab which provides free cloud compute for Jupyter Notebooks.

I just built a little "job" or "process" that monitors this site's RSS feed, and posts all new entries to my Mastodon account.

This is one of my favourite YouTube channels.

I wrote a very "stream-of-conciousness" thread on AI and how we probably can't put it back in pandoras box on Mastodon.

Josh's post on AI, large language models like GPT3/GPT4, and what they mean for the future of Front-End Development (well, really work in general) is great.

I love containers.

I spent this past weekend at a cabin on an island.

The painting above is titled "The Realm of Convenience II" and was painted by Chris Woods in 1990.It's maintained by and on display in the UFV Permanent Art Collection[^1] My history with the painting This painting was on display between a bunch of classes

I redid my site!

I've had a few friends ask for this recipe so thought I'd write it up on the blog.

I was gifted an espresso machine over the weekend.

Happy New Year everyone!

My Wife Kiya and I at my Father-In laws wedding.

Flipnote Hatena is a now-defunct online platform based on sharing digital "Flipnotes".

This is a highly specific post about recovering failed NextCloud updates that will only really be relevant if you're hosting your own NextCloud instance.

Advent of Code, day 6, is done!

Advent of Code challenge #5 is all done, and I'm officially caught up!

Advent of code challenge #4 is done and dealt with!

Today's challenge, well uh... wasn't today's challenge 😅 I didn't write any actual code this weekend; instead opting to spend some time resting with family and friends.

Today's challenge took a lot more code to solve than my solution for day 1.

As with most years, the advent of code challenges for day one were pretty simple!

A few friends and I were talking about the hot-topic of the Elon Musk twitter takeover, specifically, we were talking about this tweet: <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Btw, I’d like to apologize for Twitter being super slow in many

Ideally Let's Encrypt and Certbot will just ✨automagically⚡ generate all your SSL certificates, but if you're working with internal services (basically anything not exposed to the public internet), or legacy systems that are very specific about the CA / r…

As someone who's worked freelance on and off for years, I've heard quite a few people drop the phrase "we're not a tech company".

It feels like a good chunk of the previously untouchable "tech giants" that rose to popularity (and generated buckets of money) over the last ten years are falling apart all at once.