Daniel Michaels

It's become apparent to me recently that I am more of an outlier than the norm when it comes to writing markdown This is shocking to me but from my experience a lot of dev's do not know markdown well

Anyone used AWS workspaces before? Or similar? Interested to learn more tbh. Workspaces is expensive

My desktop monitors started playing up so I rebooted. Now it wont even POST Checked RAM, GPU, PSU voltages and different monitors I'm sort of lost, hoping its the mobo which I can pick up tomorrow 🙏

Tinkering with a new idea. Go, twillio and react. Haven't really used twillio before so this should be fun Users will call and leave messages which we'll do stuff with. Testbed for a large project to support another businesses expansion Got that new idea excitement again

Happy Australia day everyone 🇦🇺🇦🇺

Just did a typing test at monkeytype at hit 65wpm Nothing to write home about but I'm happy with it! Learning touch typing was a worthy investment and I think all tech workers should be able to do it

Wrote a short piece on how I use Github actions, Go and Hugo to automatically rebuild my static site when I create new entries in my zettelkasten. Includes how I write my notes with my custom CLI tool danielms.site/blog/github-...

When I joined the army, they taught you the map and compass before you were allowed a GPS After that you primarily used the GPS but I guarantee you no one can navigate *effectively* without learning the map and compass first Same with AI Its not a replacement for skill

Put self hosted umami analytics on my blog. Its really cool being able to track if users are clicking between pages - really enjoying the vanity metrics too Hosting it on my own domain should mean I get more data as my site wont be on a block list

Having some odd issues with rabbitmq throughput at work lately. We're seeing significant slow downs in msg processing - inbound mostly. Really flappy, 17k p/s then dropping to 400 p/s an hour later We have a lot of queues, theres many possible bottlenecks Anyone had similar issues? On AWS

Githubs outage broke my coolify deployments today I think we take for granted something so important, and forget that it can have outages too - just like our own products and applications

Upgrading my hugo site from v105 to v136 tonight proved to be a bit punishing I do a few custom things to build pages, and deprecating getJSON caused some headaches Namely, I wasnt using an assets folder to store my custom json files. The getJSON replacement, resources.Get, requires this to work

My thoughts on AWS captured in a single picture

Going to write a browser extension this year. It'll be wired up to one of my apps and automatically resolve shortlinks to their final URL Cant be that hard to do

Started migrating from caprover to Coolify this week. Very happy with it so far, DX is great Wrote a little note on why, danielms.site/zet/2025/mig...

This is an amazingly good looking site turbopuffer.com

Another pocketbase milestone, just embedded my react FE into the go binary. Took maybe ten lines of code and an updated Vite base url, now it all works perfectly Dockerising it now with litestream before I push to caprover Still very rough but a functional self hosted file sharing app is born

Got my PocketBase file sharing app up to the point of finessing the UI and creating basic tables etc to display analytics Opinion so far, massive speed up in PoC deliverable for Go with JS frontends. Learning the syntax, hooks and ORM takes a bit of time but isnt too complicated Very good DX imo

Browser caching file URLs in PocketBase caught me out today. Every page hit after the first download wont hit the server again. At least in my small file examples - it caches and the browser just "downloaded" the file again - meaning my hooks wouldn't fire. Wouldnt even show in network tab

Super impressed with PocketBase For PoC or even production apps this things a real time saver. I think in future ill start with PB for everything and scale out where needed Auth, DB, JS SDK, Rate limiting, ACL, file upload w/ s3 support, and more. Absolute beast

Well, there goes my free time to tinker on side quests. The in laws just rocked up for a week

Feels good to have time at work to fix things, make DX improvements and do all the little things you dont get time for during the year

Alright, AnthonyGG has nerd sniped me into looking at Pocketbase. Now ive just gotta find something to build with it!

Mondays are a punish. Long ass commute into the office to hop on teams like I do at home. Its the trade off I made to earn good money but WFH 80% of the time. Next step is to find a fully remote comparable role

I cant take makefiles seriously. Use Taskfile or a bash script. What an ridiculous bunch of idioms we grow accustomed to

Getting more and more apps tell me my 2018 S9 will no longer be supported and I wont be able to use the apps anymore I really cbf buying another phone. Overpriced garbage Could I stick cuttlefish or grapheneOS on this instead? Or is all lost for this old soul of a phone?

The Discover feed is whack. Full of opinions and hate. This place really aint different to the other place - just a different echo chamber for folks I really hope this place becomes the water cooler of tech it was advertised to be. So far im disappointed but ill hang around and see what happens

Where remote work shines. Today im out all day driving to appointments so in WFO only teams id have to take the day off This evening, ill work instead of doing side quests. I can fulfill family commitments without losing income

Ya know what was a nice feeling? Introducing k9s to my old team and seeing them gradually adopt it. On any given day you could look around and see the TUI on someones terminal I was told it was the single best tool they'd ever been introduced to I miss using k9s now that im not working with k8s

Today I start the process of trying to convince my team to switch from plain logging to structured logging with trace ID's I'm dead tired of debugging threaded code across multiple containers and none of it has correlation identifiers.

I busted out an actual book today during code review. Really wanted to give the best feedback I could. Fluent Python purchase paying off.

We're heading full steam into an economic deadzone in this country youtu.be/VHtAHw1u15g

A colleague described my transition from the army with the greatest slogan I've heard to date: From the frontline to the command line

When did uber cars become dogshit. I remember the cars had standards. The last two have been 3k junkers with roof trim about to fall in

Back in Canberra for a quick visit Yeah don't miss this place

I love working remote except for one thing My co dont consider themselves remote but WFH. 40% are not in the HQ state This leads to silo'ing of ideas and exclusion Direction is decided without remote staff input. Its frustrating and results in less input from externals, and its a bit lonely tbh

No matter the platform you cannot escape language wars When we gonna start slagging off tailwind again. I think thats up for renewal soon Not seeing how this place is much different right now

I've never done Advent of Code and at this point I'm afraid to try

YouTubes recommendations algo is whack. Years of software related content obliterated after I watch a couple stalker streams. Now all I have is video game content So much for genius level SWE if they cant even keep history in context for recommendations All that leet code hiring not paying off

Just setup Loki to push logs into Grafana locally for tracing between NATS events. OTel was too much effort but this works surprisingly well for now Always had this stuff available at dayjob but never done it myself. Happy with the outcome so far

@betterstack.com is a great example of writing useful content and driving traffic to your site The YT videos and written content is great. Thank you

I am straight up unfollowing anyone that gets trump derangement syndrome or other political word spew on here I was sold that this place was the new tech watercooler and I intend to keep my feed that way

Dipping my toes into opentelemetry to track messages flowing through my NATS pipeline. Im sure its not correct but it is working and so good seeing what happens in a "single" event