Chris McDonough ✅

Python hacker. Recent obsessions: NixOS, MicroPython. Virginia, US.

GitHub: https://github.com/mcdonc
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@ChrisMcDonough
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chmcdonough/

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2026-05-08 09:10:51 CEST

I have a homelab. It's called production.

2025-06-08 14:54:16 CEST

I'm still on a Michael Caine kick.
Get Carter is one of the best movies I've ever had the pleasure of never having seen before. He is still young and dead-eyed but also the most naturally high-floating piece of shit amongst many other lower floaters. Trainspotting level evil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NtstlDW0Zo

2025-06-02 16:04:46 CEST

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"oh my god it's all shell"
https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/chattingdarkly-files/media_attachments/files/114/614/142/530/617/489/original/872bd20df7aaf295.png

2025-06-01 04:49:35 CEST

Scotty talking to the ship computer has now been rebranded as vibe coding.

2025-05-31 13:05:31 CEST

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t-shirt I'm wearing now
https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/chattingdarkly-files/media_attachments/files/114/602/116/971/001/585/original/b38818bf78f7e8b1.jpg

2025-05-29 11:24:45 CEST

The Roman Republic sent its consuls off for years on end to sack Gaul. He might forget about this tariffs thing if we did.

2025-05-28 09:00:11 CEST

If Hannibal had crossed the Alps without elephants, nobody would remember him, so I am commuting on my elephant this week.

2025-05-22 02:32:19 CEST

Nice to see that there have been at least 20 #Nix / #NixOS videos published on YouTube within the last 5 days. It was getting pretty sparse for a while.

2025-05-15 22:48:00 CEST

From the radio: "A third less films were made last yea...."
Me, from, across the room: "Fewer."
Literally everyone in earshot: "Shut up, Chris."

2025-05-08 00:55:32 CEST

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you'll be back :)

2025-04-25 08:05:48 CEST

As someone with a vaguely anti-pronounceable name, don't apologize before you try to say it. It's not about you, it's literally about me..

2025-04-25 02:00:13 CEST

I'm close now and I may opt to go full compu-anchorite if it has tax benefits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchorite

2025-04-16 09:14:14 CEST

When evaluating a new piece of software, I put it in the "suspect" bucket if most of the folks writing about it are on Medium.

2025-03-13 01:35:12 CET

One of the dumbest fucken things is Slack and Discord "replies" that start a subthread in a conversation. Great, now it's reddit and I have to go fucken expand all that misery, good work.

2025-03-11 20:36:22 CET

The one role you never want to play is the most Git-experienced on your team.

2025-03-09 22:22:00 CET

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and oh yeah the counter is gold.. https://discourse.nixos.org/t/determinate-nix-3-0/61202/161

2025-03-09 18:12:29 CET

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what's good for the goose is good for the gander i guess, but all of it is fucken nonsense

2025-03-09 14:36:51 CET

More pointless shit-stirring. It will never end until the professional dividers are rejected.
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/we-should-urgently-ban-and-denounce-determinate-systems/61356

2025-02-16 18:47:09 CET

Is it safe to post this?
https://youtu.be/MhmsXl51EDU

2025-01-26 18:22:23 CET

Repairable midrange HMD Android phone. The Fusion model is on Amazon now for $175. Probably the slightly more expensive model is my next phone.
https://youtu.be/mgXtPp3n5IQ

2025-01-25 23:32:21 CET

This hits pretty hard. Python's Michael Foord (developer of mock, and many other things, and a solid person) has died.
#python
https://ntoll.org/article/my-friend-michael/

2025-01-25 12:45:56 CET

Seems like a public service
https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/chattingdarkly-files/media_attachments/files/113/888/824/251/731/353/original/332601df733bc1b2.png

2025-01-24 16:01:06 CET

Using oldschool group communications like email and IRC is liberating: you can't correct your errors, and nobody else can either.

2025-01-24 04:14:03 CET

I am always happy when I have to package a #Nix package written in Go. Those things tend to just work without much dependency misery.

2025-01-07 23:55:07 CET

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sorry for your loss. hiliariously, you've hit upon one of my job's main challenges. nvidia uses the term "hybrid mode" to name the graphics card operation mode on this "optimus" laptop; in "hybrid mode" it's basically an intel card until it isn't through some software trickery. it has nothing to do with "hybrid sleep" but of course it's impossible to tell google about that. the laptop sleeps fine when it's in "discrete (nvidia) mode", just not when it's in "hybrid mode". utterly maddening.

2025-01-07 23:30:34 CET

My primary gig of googling "bash for loop", and my secondary job that I can't remember now are still in play but I've now started a third side gig googling "nvidia hybrid mode thinkpad p52 sleep doesnt work linux".

2024-10-28 20:26:23 CET

I'm looking to join a cult, but all the cool ones forbid drinking, so they're right out.

2024-10-10 00:56:23 CEST

Literally just asked a door dash delivery person if he knows how street numbers work. He said no.

2024-09-18 21:56:51 CEST

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https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/chattingdarkly-files/media_attachments/files/113/160/317/140/401/629/original/4f486bdb9df68eee.png

2024-09-02 10:42:08 CEST

VT100: the original dark mode.

2024-09-01 02:15:40 CEST

TIL that Oasis has fans.

2024-08-17 18:04:18 CEST

My first true introduction to the culture was to ask my co-worker Ken Manheimer "do we need to wear a suit?" He looked at me with pity and said "no man, we're hackers."

2024-08-15 01:20:21 CEST

Apropos of nothing, I would like to say how much I like @npub1xsy…e8n0 . He is one of the most positive people on the planet.

2024-08-10 23:32:31 CEST

A blog post about the recent suspension of Tim Peters from Python
https://chrismcdonough.substack.com/p/the-shameful-defenestration-of-tim