This is an interesting read about "outcome engineering" from the CTO of Onebrief, Cory Ondrejka. https://o16g.com/

Outcome Engineering

It was never about the code.

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This makes me really happy that a random blog post I wrote has helped someone. Keep writing about your learnings everyone! Your personal blogs help people. 😍

@alexunpacked.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Thank you so much for this post. I wiped my Mac and it ended up stuck in a boot loop, and reinstalling macOS would just hang for 4 hours. I also tried an Apple Configurator restore, but that failed too. The thing that finally fixed it was downloading the OS from IPSW. Now it’s working normally again

Watching the snowboard men’s big air event at the Winter Olympics. I remember when 1080 spins were seen as a big deal and here we have 1980 spins. Incredible!

Yet another blog post. Two in a week is a new record for me. A quick guide to rescuing a locked MacBook Pro. https://www.marclittlemore.com/rescuing-my-bricked-m1-macbook-pro/

Rescuing My Bricked M1 MacBook Pro

Found a locked M1 Mac in the wardrobe? Here is how to bypass the MDM recovery lock using DFU mode without losing your mind.

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I want 2026 to be a year where I start blogging on my own site again. I've finally published a blog post after it sitting in draft for 4 months. Only a year after my last blog post. 🙈 https://www.marclittlemore.com/recovering-my-apple-podcast-feed/

Recovering My Apple Podcast Feed

How I reclaimed ownership of my podcast feed after nearly 20 years.

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Spent about 4 hours talking to Gemini to try to get a Proxmox samba share to work with my Mac. It's just going round in circles getting me to change the config over and over again. Still doesn't work.

This is so good. Someone has built an old MTV player. It just streams old MTV footage and videos 24/7. I still remember loving watching MTV in hotels in Germany when I was DJing over there in the 90s/2000s as we didn't have it at home. https://wantmymtv.vercel.app/player.html

The Stranger Things finale did the series justice IMHO. I might have shed a little tear or two at the end.

Locking in to watch the final episode of Stranger Things. Hopefully it’ll wrap it all up nicely and Steve and Dustin don’t die. 🤞🏻

It’s NYE. Both of our late teenage kids are away for the evening. I’m drinking a glass of red wine and cooking the dish I made for my wife on one of our first dates almost 25 years ago. Enjoy your evenings and Happy New Year! ❤️

In case anyone else is trying to watch Disney+ on a Fire Stick, it drops frames every 10 seconds and the video stutters. Thought it was our internet but it’s a known issue. https://www.reddit.com/r/firestick/comments/1putd8k/anyone_else_having_brief_stuttersframe_rate_drops/

Turkey stock and turkey chilli day. Living the Christmas dream. 😂

Testing out an update to my notes automation and hoping that this will now have a thumbnail on Bluesky. Check out the Cooking Soul "A Tribe Called Christmas" mixtape as it's wonderful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45ZFjiABLwI

Cookin Soul - A Tribe Called Xmas (full tape)

Video by Cookin Soul

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This is a great episode of the Louis Theroux podcast with Jimmy Carr. I’m always fascinated by how other people work and hearing Jimmy talking about how he plans his shows and comedy is really interesting. https://pca.st/episode/77905825-0bbf-4990-96cd-fa96dbc77371

It’s Home Alone time. Keep the change, ya filthy animal!

If you haven’t heard this Christmas classic mixtape then you really should enjoy it over the festive period. Lots of Christmas songs cut up with MF DOOM rapping. So good. https://youtu.be/EwzBjBHfDIs

We use Google Meet at work and we've got the latest version which supports custom emoji reactions. The crabs are taking over. 🦀

Been trying to use https://conductor.build/ to run some Claude Code agents in the background while I write some documents. Seems pretty great so far and has a really nice UI/UX for creating PRs.

My son is coming home from uni tonight for Christmas. This is making me very happy. 🎄😍

Yes, I’ve made some gravy ready for Christmas. I’m that interesting.

Oooh lovely! A Tiny Desk concert by Air. A band I've never seen live but really should have. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjuorGiEUS4

Notion and Linear are not working. Looks like Cloudflare may be having issues again. #HugOps to their team.

Fly Life by Basement Jaxx has just been played on @6music.bsky.social. Almost 30 years old but still a huge tune. https://open.spotify.com/track/0vfLUZdPDddYcaWum9TpA6

I bought a cheap ASUS DVD drive to rip some old DVDs for my media library. I’m just ripping one my old DJ mix CDs like I’m back in the early 2000s. 😂

Set up a @jellyfin.bsky.social server last night. Managed to get GPU transcoding working too. I can see how the homelab rabbit hole is going to make me buy a NAS next. 🙈

This is fantastic!

Finally bought a mini-PC to build a little homelab device. I know almost nothing about them so I’m looking forward to entering a world of Linux confusion. Currently installing Proxmox so let’s see what happens.

All of the card machines at WH Smith’s at Manchester Airport aren’t working. Having to acquire a Boots meal deal for my journey instead. 😀

Busy sorting out my collection of house music to DJ at a company offsite. Forgot about all of the things you need to think about when using Rekordbox. I'm hoping I've formatted everything properly this time. 🤞

I’ve just watched Poor Things. I think I enjoyed it?! 🤨