Mia
mia.pds.parakeet.at
Mia
@mia.pds.parakeet.at
Hi, I'm Mia!
🏳️‍⚧️ she/her • 23 • programmer (Rust, ATProto @parakeet.at, sometimes more) • photographer • maths/stats nerd • resident of Normal Island.

PFP: https://picrew.me/share?cd=QZKgROU6cC
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I do sincerely enjoy that this account is an unapologetically chaotic mix of serious (and non serious) programming, trans literature, and general other transposting.

Embodying poster’s roulette here
Anyways, I’m probably not going to be around much today (certainly no programming!), so if you celebrate, have a good Christmas Day.
December 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
it is officially Christmas and here I am getting called out by goddamn Dorley 24 (again)

I see myself in 2008 Stef and the way he acts around people and comes out of his shell when he’s around the right people and I’m glad we know how it goes for him.
December 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
me posting is just the “I guess we doing circles now” meme ad nauseam with different technical topics.
December 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Me fr fr
December 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
okay i'm running with an export of my ssh key for now but if anyone knows how to get ragenix to see age-plugin-fido2-hmac please tell me
ragenix is aptly named for how I feel after spending an afternoon trying to get it to find plugins
December 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
learning by doing is nice and all, but sometimes you spend a few hours confused because a chunk of your nix flake isn't connected to anything and therefore isn't doing anything
December 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
starting my Christmas break off right tomorrow by touching grass before spending two weeks on the computer

(I need to collect something from the doctors and my usual lift is busy and I’m not calling an uber for a sub 15 minute walk)
December 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
wondering how much of the site I’ll break if I mute “ai” and “ml” because ESH and reading takes from either side takes up time I could be using for other things.
December 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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68 million years? damn she must almost be up for her first consultation at the Newcastle gender identity clinic
December 21, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I got back here again and oh my god oh my god this is so sweet I love these two so goddamn much gdi just kiss already
Stephanie…
December 21, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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brewing up several steaming hot takes for one day when they’re needed.

(aka editing them to a point that I can tolerate posting them)
November 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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negative health impacts of puberty blockers on trans kids could just as easily be solved by giving them access to hrt
December 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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this is, among other reasons, why i think names & emails as immutable identifiers are bad.

git's model basically forces deadnames in perpetuity. im hoping our next generation of vcses actually tackle this problem instead of punting on it and screwing trans folks over.
Extremely disappointed in the Rust community on this one. Changing your name online should be a very understandable thing to want to do in a trans and neurodivergent inclusive community. For example, having a publicly visible link between your name and deadname can cause real harm. 1/7
December 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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WHEN YOU FELL FROM HEAVEN is my trans/cis lesbian cheerleader series!

In HOW TO FLY, we meet Max and Taylor, and we discover just how much a suitably determined cheer captain can change someone’s life.

mybook.to/HOWTOFLY
alysongreaves.itch.io
books2read.com/u/47LXBN
December 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I’m going to run with the (perhaps) nuclear takes that 1) half of the commenters in this Reddit thread (and others) deserve bans[fn1] because they are blatantly unsafe to be around, 2) the fact that there isn’t a neat way of doing identity renames in git without making everyone suspicious is… (1/n)
December 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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finally landed it!

Tap is your all-in-one sync tool for the Atmosphere: webhooks, backfill, filtering, signaling collections, no cbor/msts/signatures/cursors. this thing's got it all!

give it a go and let me know what you think & if you run into any issues

docs.bsky.app/blog/introdu...
Introducing Tap: Repository Synchronization Made Simple | Bluesky
Just about every app built on AT needs data from a repository at some point. For many use cases – feed generators, labelers, bots – streaming live data through a Relay or Jetstream works well. But som...
docs.bsky.app
December 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
people at work really have proved over the last week that most cis people either literally do not care (in a good way) or are actively supportive of trans people.

some people switched to calling me Mia so fast it caught me off guard
tomorrow - wish me luck (thankfully I am not doing this myself, the boss is doing it and I have approved their wording)

Strongly considering coinciding an early lunchtime walk with the meeting it’s happening in bc even though I know it’ll be fine, idk if I want to be there.
unrelated, how do you tell an office of 80 people you’re trans? asking for a friend.
December 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
putting off frontend by deciding to do some work on lexicon generation first because then I can have types!

generating lexicon* from the rust types using jacquard, naturally - got most of the way there but there’s a few rough edges atm imo

*the plural of lexicon is lexicon or lexica. don’t @ me
I just have to do a few tweaks for better matching but I think I might have to start doing frontend development this week
December 11, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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🎶 Simply 🎶
🎶 cuddling 🎶
🎶 a wonderful kitty cat🎶
December 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/mia.pds.parakeet.at mia fails at webdev
@mia.pds.parakeet.at is 🔴LIVE on stream.place!
mia fails at webdev
stream.place
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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again; the doctor was *NOT* on trial

she was called as a witness to give testimony about Sandie Peggy's objectively horrible behaviour, some of which was targeted at said Doctor.

The courts should face consequence for the danger they have put the rest of her life in. Again; *as a victim*.
the judge who refused the doctor being harassed by a bigot at Fife the right to anonymity throughout these proceedings and ultimately led to her name and photos being published by the press and all of the harassment that has happened since

should still step down

you piece of shit.
December 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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anyway hi just use the new filter rules
bsky.app/profile/did:pl…
December 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
results: sqlite is significantly faster! I can index ~5 operations per second now with FTS, which is an acceptable speed. even the analysis is fast and runs over a few thousand records in 300ms.

sqlite stays winning, as ever, even if the DB is 26GB.
Need to finish moving the tables in to see what effect this will have on analysis, I guess it shouldn’t be too bad with some well placed indices but even worst case I can do a job system for the analysis and I want to cache anyways.
December 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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We are hearing that those few who were on NHS GIDS prescribed puberty blockers before GIDS closed, who were transferred to a small legacy clinic at Nottingham, are now being told all referrals for MDT panel approval to start hormones have been stopped. 1/2
December 8, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I should really stop taking on projects. I’ve got like three programming things, four leaflet drafts, an infrastructure migration to do / prep for, and the beginnings of another programming thing that I want to turn into a talk eventually.
December 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM