Mykal Machon

@mykalmachon.com

🚄 Support Engineering @Railway.com 📝 Pragmatist, computer nerd, dad 🚩 Canada ll 0.0.0.0

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.

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."

a man with a mustache is making a funny face while talking on a video call .

Alt: a GIF of me laughing, then slowly losing my mind and crying because the validation plan being "don't push bad configs" is wild for an "enterprise" LB management gateway.

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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.

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.

Dropping into random PR discussions on the public GitHub and commenting "lgtm" with a 👍

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.

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.

Serverless functions might scale throughout well but good God do they not scale maintainability in the same way. Have a ~15k LoC Function App I've built out for a project at work to really kick the tires on it and man 🫩

Man I love being a dad. I know there will be tough times ahead, just as there have been tough times in the past but I've never been part of something so rewarding and beautiful. So cool getting to help a little one grow. Even if sometimes he robs you of sleep and pukes on you.