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@pckt.blog custom domain setup was quick and easy! My ramblings now accessible via my subdomain: blog.mikehacks.io
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I Put Bazzite on My Gaming PC and I'm Not Sure I'm Going Back to Windows
I've been saying I should give Linux gaming another shot for a few years now. Today I actually did it, and six hours later I'm sitting here genuinely impressed in a way I didn't expect. My gaming rig has a spare 2TB SATA SSD that's been doing nothing, which made this a zero-risk experiment. Windows stays untouched on its own NVMe, and if the whole thing goes sideways, nothing is lost except an afternoon. I chose Bazzite because it's built specifically for gaming and runs on Fedora Atomic, which ...
Migrated my PDS server from the DigitalOcean marketplace install to a clean ansible baselined Debian 13 vps and leveraged Docker to consolidate PDS, atplan.io, and mikehacks.io into a single vps along with automated backups locally, regionally, and nationally. whew.
Really enjoying the @pckt.blog platform! Here's something I wrote about travel, packing, and anxiety. pckt.blog/b/mike-hacks...
Carrying Less, Accessing More
Over the last year or so, my relationship with travel technology has been quietly shifting. It started as a pretty straightforward pack lighter project, but it's turned into something more interesting; connected to how I think about stress, attention, and what I actually want technology to do for me as I get older. For most of my career, I approached travel the way I'd approach infrastructure: plan for failure, build in redundancy, carry optionality. Extra chargers, backup batteries, multiple ca...
Just shipped atplan — a reimagining of the Unix .plan file tradition for ATProto. Back in the VAX days, finger user@host told you what someone was working on. atplan brings that back — user-owned records on your own PDS. 🌐 atplan.io 📦 io.atplan.plan 🔧 github.com/mikro6/atplan
My "Dead" Crucial SSDs Weren't Dead — They Just Needed a Better Cable and a Firmware Update
A couple years ago, after a macOS update I honestly can't remember anymore, two of my external SSDs became unreadable almost at the same time. Not one — two. Both encrypted APFS volumes. Both completely unreachable. I assumed the worst, threw them in a drawer, and moved on. Fast forward to now, where SSD prices are painful enough that just replace them felt a lot less appealing than it used to. Since both drives had failed in basically the same way, I figured it was worth taking one more look be...
