Michael Maclean

Devs everywhere today

If you use Nix you can never run out of disk space, because you just run `nix store gc` and it all comes back, it's great especially given the price of storage these days

Hell of a week to launch a service that depends on this

I blogged about my daft new social network mgdm.net/weblog/dotpl...

I have built an obscure and obtuse social network dotplan.space/about

I am once again asking the writers of Strange New Worlds to lay off the edibles for maybe just one episode

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.

I first saw this film when I was very young and have seen it many, many times since. It's one of my favourites. I took it at face value the first time have been too familar with it to be objective about it. But this video has some good points. (And I laughed out loud at the "it's regulation" bit)

#Nix folks: Do you use anything like NixOps, Morph, Colmena, or something along those lines? If so, what's your preference?

If you run 5k, is that an inframarathon?

Attempting to make 2026 a year where I get really into utility cycling

Getting kind of bored of helping people out of the poor UX around passkeys. (It's not their fault, it's the platform)

@lucperkins.dev Spotted

Currently enjoying how Windows now has a migration tool to help transfer your data from an old to a new computer, except that the documentation says that it specifically excludes all of the data that I wanted to migrate

The fun part of having a rotating set of interests is that one week I can have zero motivation in working on, reading about or even thinking of a particular topic, but next week I'm knee deep in minutiae of something which will last two weeks before moving on to whatever disinterests me at the time

I can really see why you'd be deathly scared of this thing if you were a character in a novel

It might be completely legitimate, but any time I get an email from a service saying "we've updated our login system, you'll need to reset your password", I get suspicious. Maybe they have moved and couldn't migrate the password hashes for some reason? They are hashes, right...? Alternatively...

The first rule of PKI club is: you do not make another PKI The second rule of PKI club is: *you do not make another PKI*

HTTP 555 None Of This Is My Fault

Can we please quit with the onboarding popups

iOS seems to have developed support for RCS messaging, which I have only learned due to a huge uptick in the amount of scam messages I've been receiving

@tailscale.com Your most recent blog post about Proxmox seems to 404, though it's linked from tailscale.com/blog

@gavmaclean.bsky.social somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/p...

I set my Slack username to this for a bit. It was great

The keywords “MUST”, “MUST NOT”, “REQUIRED”, “RECOMMENDED”, and “OPTIONAL” in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 and also read like a Beastie Boys song

A colleague got me earlier by mentioning two topics that merged into one laser-guided precision nerd snipe which I'm not sure I'm able to pull off but it is occupying most of my brain right now

A cross functional team is one that writes Haskell angrily

Back to work tomorrow, where I can place bets on how many Slack bots are going to be built in the next three months called Norbot

I haven't bothered looking at Spotify Wrapped because I know what it will tell me (and my listening is split across two platforms anyway), but I would appreciate a feature where I can ban all of the stuff that I normally get fed by Daily Mix etc and only hear new-to-me stuff

Today is #NixOS release day. I've got an OVH box with it, on encrypted ZFS, with the full "erase your darlings" thing going on, and just switched it to flakes and upgraded to 24.11 without a hitch. I don't have a serial console on this one, so upgrades make me a bit nervous but they're usually fine

Typo of the day: HTTPSPS, which is how you call a cat securely over the web