Mia

Hi, I'm Mia! 🏳️‍⚧️ she/her • 23 • GB • programmer (Rust, ATProto @parakeet.at, Nix, & more) • occasional photographer • maths/stats nerd

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Dec 30, 2025

Mia's Roundup 2025

hailey

@hailey.at

atproto desperately needs a way to deactivate on a per-service (per lexicon namespace?) level. wanting to tune out of one service shouldn't mean removing your entire atproto identity.

Mia

@mia.pds.parakeet.at

*logs on*
*looks around*
> tf did I miss?
*logs off*

Mia

@mia.pds.parakeet.at

finally, after years, I am documenting my goddamn truenas ACL situation, in some vague attempt at understanding what I actually need this nightmare for

Mia

@mia.pds.parakeet.at

Having an objectively rough one this week and I think I’m going to deal with it this weekend by tackling the list of places I need to change my name

hailey

@hailey.at

we'd be doing a lot better if folks would stop assuming malice every single time something goes wrong, especially about things that are highly nuanced and extremely difficult to manage. things going correctly ~99% of the time and having ~1% of things go wrong doesn't immediately invalidate the 99%.

Mia

@mia.pds.parakeet.at

for extremely normal and extremely professional reasons, I am considering inserting gifs into a word document.
I have been assured this is possible and I do not know how to feel, but it *is* useful in this circumstance

Mia

@mia.pds.parakeet.at

just spotted that my NAS has been offline for an undisclosed amount of time, I’m sure this is nothing to worry about

Mia

@mia.pds.parakeet.at

I am without chocolate eggs today, for it is February, and also nearly midnight, but oh my god I cannot get over this bit and *clears throat* need!
(towards the end of the Dorley chapter “Old Soldiers”)

Mia @mia.pds.parakeet.at

yeah he does, Steph.

anyway, think i need another chocolate egg after that ending

Mia

@mia.pds.parakeet.at

just discovered some awful behaviour in my lastfm scrobbler (it duplicates if I pause a song for long enough after 50%/4m) and now I'm back to wanting to write one in Rust

Mia

@mia.pds.parakeet.at

It is absolutely cruel that I cannot belt Chappell Roan whilst in the office, like wdym I can’t scream Casual or Good Luck, Babe?

Mia

@mia.pds.parakeet.at

(Belated) January CD haul:

this is (a tad over) £100 of CDs and there’s quite a few favourites in here.

A picture of two rows of CDs laid out on a light cream coloured bed. There’s Sam Fender “People Watching” (Deluxe), Conan Gray “Wishbone”, Mimi Webb “Confessions” (which is signed), then Chappell Roan “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess”, and Sam Fender “Seventeen Going Under” (Deluxe). All of them are still plastic wrapped and some have stickers

A picture of three CDs laid out in an upside down triangle on a light cream coloured bed. There’s Conan Gray “Superache”, Bleachers “Bleachers”, and Mimi Webb “Amelia” (the alternative cover)

Mia

@mia.pds.parakeet.at

fosdem? no, I prefer forcefem

(is this anything? I have like four permutations of this and they’re all this bad)
(90% chance I’ve seen this somewhere and it’s not original lmao)

Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️

@magicariot.com

you ever think about how if you or I had Money we would, like, upgrade our gaming PC, get some life-saving medicine, pay for dinner for our friends, commission art of our blorbo, help out with somebody's mutual aid. and instead all these people took trips to Sex Crimes Island and get to run society

patak

@patak.dev

npmx is the first of many projects that will flourish from the relationships and bridges between communities we'll cultivate during the following months

James @43081j.com

the highlight of the npmx hype train for me is the folks it has brought out and given a new exciting thing to collaborate on

the idea is secondary to the reinvigoration of the community

Mia

@mia.pds.parakeet.at

mentioned this in my year end leaflet, but think I might make an actual goal of getting myself to fosdem next year, because it sounds like it’s popping off with ATProto +adjacent peeps this year

Mia

@mia.pds.parakeet.at

this is the last of all places i expected a spherical cow joke but they're always highly appreciated

Mia

@mia.pds.parakeet.at

“Consider: you just don’t have to get weird” is a whole mood

especially in the context of names too. switching names for people isn’t hard, and not being weird about people switching names isn’t hard

isabel

@isabelroses.com

do you guys know I like nix?

Mia

@mia.pds.parakeet.at

Going to get back into parakeet development tomorrow(finally!) by ripping out my did-resolver and replacing it with jacquard.

At some point I want to do the same for the lexicon definitions - there’s no real point to me (manually) maintaining a copy in-tree.

Mia

@mia.pds.parakeet.at

how on earth did I forget “personality is stored in the balls” from Dorley, uh, whatever the first chapter of book 3 is.

absolute gem, need to use that one in conversation.