Marks Polakovs
@markspolakovs.me
DevOps person | recovering amateur broadcast engineer | Latvian in England | they/them
Summary of today at work:
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October 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Absolutely _had_ to get this phone case from @nattj.bsky.social - think it's my entire personality in phone case form
September 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Absolutely _had_ to get this phone case from @nattj.bsky.social - think it's my entire personality in phone case form
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Had an oddly similar experience, except this time the top result was the bug tracker of a popular Linux distro, and the person who has filed the bug was…
me
me
You know it's good when you're troubleshooting something, you google the error message, get only one result, that being a link to the source code, and said link being purple.
March 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Had an oddly similar experience, except this time the top result was the bug tracker of a popular Linux distro, and the person who has filed the bug was…
me
me
You know it's good when you're troubleshooting something, you google the error message, get only one result, that being a link to the source code, and said link being purple.
February 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
You know it's good when you're troubleshooting something, you google the error message, get only one result, that being a link to the source code, and said link being purple.
Great summary of what LLMs are and aren't good at:
* Turn text into less text than you started: great
* Turn text into the same amount of different text: so-so
* Turn text into more text than you started: forget about it
* Turn text into less text than you started: great
* Turn text into the same amount of different text: so-so
* Turn text into more text than you started: forget about it
What I've learned about writing AI apps, so far: seldo.com/posts/what-i...
What I've learned about writing AI apps so far | Seldo.com
I started writing a post called
seldo.com
January 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Great summary of what LLMs are and aren't good at:
* Turn text into less text than you started: great
* Turn text into the same amount of different text: so-so
* Turn text into more text than you started: forget about it
* Turn text into less text than you started: great
* Turn text into the same amount of different text: so-so
* Turn text into more text than you started: forget about it
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Happy 2025. Have fun, seek out joy, and don’t give a shit. Be your authentic you. Crack on!
January 1, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Happy 2025. Have fun, seek out joy, and don’t give a shit. Be your authentic you. Crack on!
Things I should have discovered much sooner: the Node.js vscode debug terminal.
Opens a terminal, and any Node process you run from it has the vscode debugger automagically attached. Handles child processes of child processes as well. No faffing about with --inspect, it Just Works.
Opens a terminal, and any Node process you run from it has the vscode debugger automagically attached. Handles child processes of child processes as well. No faffing about with --inspect, it Just Works.
December 27, 2024 at 10:12 AM
Things I should have discovered much sooner: the Node.js vscode debug terminal.
Opens a terminal, and any Node process you run from it has the vscode debugger automagically attached. Handles child processes of child processes as well. No faffing about with --inspect, it Just Works.
Opens a terminal, and any Node process you run from it has the vscode debugger automagically attached. Handles child processes of child processes as well. No faffing about with --inspect, it Just Works.
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Our Christmas special just dropped - it’s the most wonderful time of the year, so why not spend it listening to @itscfox.bsky.social @markspolakovs.me @mstratford.net @koryanderson.co.uk and Jamie talk rubbish for an hour?
youtu.be/KomMjPaJ75U
youtu.be/KomMjPaJ75U
A cracker of a show | Untitled.mov Episode 6
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December 26, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Our Christmas special just dropped - it’s the most wonderful time of the year, so why not spend it listening to @itscfox.bsky.social @markspolakovs.me @mstratford.net @koryanderson.co.uk and Jamie talk rubbish for an hour?
youtu.be/KomMjPaJ75U
youtu.be/KomMjPaJ75U
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Punctuation matters. Way more than you think. Bad punctuation can be devastating.
Don't believe me?
Alright, then gather around, children, because I'm going to tell you a short true story about how not understanding ONE punctuation mark once cost a company millions of dollars in a lawsuit.
Don't believe me?
Alright, then gather around, children, because I'm going to tell you a short true story about how not understanding ONE punctuation mark once cost a company millions of dollars in a lawsuit.
December 24, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Punctuation matters. Way more than you think. Bad punctuation can be devastating.
Don't believe me?
Alright, then gather around, children, because I'm going to tell you a short true story about how not understanding ONE punctuation mark once cost a company millions of dollars in a lawsuit.
Don't believe me?
Alright, then gather around, children, because I'm going to tell you a short true story about how not understanding ONE punctuation mark once cost a company millions of dollars in a lawsuit.
@un.titled.mov: we’re a serious show having serious discussions about serious topics in serious tech
Also @un.titled.mov: www.youtube.com/watch?v=scKv...
Also @un.titled.mov: www.youtube.com/watch?v=scKv...
Failing to start a show for 35 seconds
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December 19, 2024 at 6:13 PM
@un.titled.mov: we’re a serious show having serious discussions about serious topics in serious tech
Also @un.titled.mov: www.youtube.com/watch?v=scKv...
Also @un.titled.mov: www.youtube.com/watch?v=scKv...
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Moonlighting as a podcast editor now apparently.
If you’re interested in some very (very (very)) in-depth football analysis, go listen to these geezers.
If you’re interested in some very (very (very)) in-depth football analysis, go listen to these geezers.
💥MORE DROPPED POINTS 💥
#106: A Familiar Feeling (feat. Arham)
🎙: @towells.bsky.social @lorcanmcc.bsky.social & Arham (@A1ZH4RY on twitter)
⚪️ Open-play creation issues
🟡 The defensive injury list
🔵 Do we need better forwards?
🔴 Can we win the league?
Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/28f291
#106: A Familiar Feeling (feat. Arham)
🎙: @towells.bsky.social @lorcanmcc.bsky.social & Arham (@A1ZH4RY on twitter)
⚪️ Open-play creation issues
🟡 The defensive injury list
🔵 Do we need better forwards?
🔴 Can we win the league?
Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/28f291
December 12, 2024 at 10:46 AM
Moonlighting as a podcast editor now apparently.
If you’re interested in some very (very (very)) in-depth football analysis, go listen to these geezers.
If you’re interested in some very (very (very)) in-depth football analysis, go listen to these geezers.
@itscfox.bsky.social has an interesting thesis: "twitter" should be a genericised trademark for "social networking site made up of short-form text content". X is 'a twitter'. Mastodon and Bluesky are 'twitters'.
November 24, 2024 at 9:49 PM
@itscfox.bsky.social has an interesting thesis: "twitter" should be a genericised trademark for "social networking site made up of short-form text content". X is 'a twitter'. Mastodon and Bluesky are 'twitters'.
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ok, uhhh i've got like 3 more hours in the sky club to kill. every like == 1 hot take about observability
November 22, 2024 at 5:25 AM
ok, uhhh i've got like 3 more hours in the sky club to kill. every like == 1 hot take about observability
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God grant me the serenity to accept I am cooked,
The courage to say fuck it we ball,
And the wisdom to know when we are so back
The courage to say fuck it we ball,
And the wisdom to know when we are so back
November 11, 2024 at 2:24 AM
God grant me the serenity to accept I am cooked,
The courage to say fuck it we ball,
And the wisdom to know when we are so back
The courage to say fuck it we ball,
And the wisdom to know when we are so back
Nonsense abounds.
New highlight! @markspolakovs.me just ran a 10K. Never mind that, let’s talk about the Garmin Forerunner 735XT and some bone conduction headphones instead.
youtu.be/b98d3ZEBH8M
youtu.be/b98d3ZEBH8M
Ten minutes of rambling about sports tech
YouTube video by Untitled․mov
youtu.be
November 10, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Nonsense abounds.
Got tired of spending longer making my personal site than writing content on it, so here's the new and improved markspolakovs.me
(still under construction)
(still under construction)
Marks Polakovs
markspolakovs.me
November 9, 2024 at 9:17 PM
Got tired of spending longer making my personal site than writing content on it, so here's the new and improved markspolakovs.me
(still under construction)
(still under construction)
In case it needed saying, trans rights are human rights.
November 9, 2024 at 1:28 AM
In case it needed saying, trans rights are human rights.
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swifties genuinely did the funniest possible thing by collectively migrating to another app on a random thursday
November 7, 2024 at 11:34 PM
swifties genuinely did the funniest possible thing by collectively migrating to another app on a random thursday
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so we better make this place work huh 😅
November 8, 2024 at 11:21 AM
so we better make this place work huh 😅
