Mykal Machon

Life-hack: - buy an e-ink device - create a CLI / skill to send it documents - push articles / books to it - push explainer docs to it with agents - leave your phone inside - go outside and learn on your lunch break

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!"

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

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.

Got into a *very* exciting alpha testing program for some hardware 👀 arrives Monday!

hint: it goes on your finger ☝️

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I seriously love writing Golang, but I have 0 legitimate use for it at work- feels so hard to find time to actually learn it deeply. Any chance I do feels great though.

Everyone in tech is over optimizing for scale that they'll never see and I'm tired of pretending all the added complexity is always the right engineering choice.

Hell, I manage a crusty windows VM with IIS on it that does 70-150 million requests a month (mix of static and php) with 8gb of ram, 4 cores, and the most *basic* caching rules. So much money to make in people not wanting to learn basic hosting skills lmao

Everyone in tech is over optimizing for scale that they'll never see and I'm tired of pretending all the added complexity is always the right engineering choice.