Leon Mika · Scour

I always get caught out trying to type a Euro sign on a US keyboard. This morning, I figured out why. £ is bound to Opt+3, and ¢ i...

Really enjoying the latest releases from Lee Rosevere . 🎵

Modern micro-service development practices are so silo-inducing. No one developer can truly understand how the entire system should behave. If you want to kn...

Bunching due to delayed trams working in my favour today.

It’s amusing that the role of developer on an engineering team can feel like a role in politics, where you’re lobbying for approvals for MRs base...

Grafana dashboards should be definable using a DSL, maybe XML. Editing the dashboard manually, exporting the JSON, checking that into Git, and calling it &ld...

Feeling a little bit restless. Might be time to get a few more stamps in my passport (figuratively speaking).

Have been playing around with coding agent orchestrators recently, notably Paperclip and <a href="https://gastownhall.ai"...

Some could say we’re experiencing a power outage, but I prefer to say that I’m involuntarily exercising my UPS. 😛

Just had my last consultation with my doctor. For a time I thought I had a doctor , but he’s...

I’ve been burned by my designs of something that’s “future proof” so often by now that I’m skeptical of any thought I have alon...

Saw this in a Mastodon reply:

Reminder to myself: not everything said on a podcast, even “news” based ones, is true or accurate.

Managed to get a count of how many phones I have in my Google Photo library. The roundabout way I did it was to open a file picker on Vivaldi, select Files, ...

People go on about the quality of code generated by AI coding agents, but I just encountered a careless copy-and-paste bug I made that completely screwed me ...

go checkout . git build . . Just some of the miss-types I’ve been making in quick succession this morning.

I think I’m coming round to liking passkeys, but they’ve still got quite a way to go, particularly in their UX. Tried enrolling a passkey for som...

First proper fog for a while. Plenty of people with their cameras out on my walk to the office, for good reason.

Hmm, either these barriers received a software update, or I was completely wrong about why PTV staff is attaching <a href="https://lmika.org/2026/04/11/the-m...

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