Mark Story
@markstory.bsky.social
Staff engineer @ Sentry. Core developer for CakePHP, Dad, MTG player and occasional Illustrator.
Went 3-3 today at an old school magic event with RUG aggro. I made a few play errors, and got totally dunked on by The Abyss.
September 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Went 3-3 today at an old school magic event with RUG aggro. I made a few play errors, and got totally dunked on by The Abyss.
Achievement unlocked - Taught my son how to ride a bicycle after years of no interest and fear.
September 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Achievement unlocked - Taught my son how to ride a bicycle after years of no interest and fear.
My first pass at getting my GPU working on Linux was pretty rough, and I needed to do CMOS reset as I goofed a bios change. The second attempt went much better as read the logs from the first attempt and installed the amdgpu drivers.
August 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
My first pass at getting my GPU working on Linux was pretty rough, and I needed to do CMOS reset as I goofed a bios change. The second attempt went much better as read the logs from the first attempt and installed the amdgpu drivers.
Bought a GPU to finish off my desktop build. It has 16GB of vram. I think the last GPU I bought was a Voodoo 2 with 4MB of vram.
August 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Bought a GPU to finish off my desktop build. It has 16GB of vram. I think the last GPU I bought was a Voodoo 2 with 4MB of vram.
Hiked out to Lion's Head lookout. It was a slog with the kids, but worth it for the views.
August 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Hiked out to Lion's Head lookout. It was a slog with the kids, but worth it for the views.
Got to visit flowerpot island in Tobermory yesterday. I love how different the Niagara Escarpment is up here compared to Milton.
August 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Got to visit flowerpot island in Tobermory yesterday. I love how different the Niagara Escarpment is up here compared to Milton.
Upgraded the case fans and CPU cooler on my desktop with silent options from Noctua and the difference from the stock fans is noticeable.
August 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Upgraded the case fans and CPU cooler on my desktop with silent options from Noctua and the difference from the stock fans is noticeable.
I am very pleased that my monitor which is also my USB hub also can function as KVM for my mouse and keyboard if I put my desktop to sleep before plugging in my work laptop.
July 30, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I am very pleased that my monitor which is also my USB hub also can function as KVM for my mouse and keyboard if I put my desktop to sleep before plugging in my work laptop.
TIL that modern desktop CPUs really do need you to plug the dedicated 12V line. Or the system will show CPU light.
July 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
TIL that modern desktop CPUs really do need you to plug the dedicated 12V line. Or the system will show CPU light.
With my personal laptop dead, I am going to try and build a small form factor machine. It will be the first desktop I have built in almost 20 years.
July 24, 2025 at 2:11 AM
With my personal laptop dead, I am going to try and build a small form factor machine. It will be the first desktop I have built in almost 20 years.
There are so many bunnies in my area. This little one visits my yard on the regular, and I saw 5 more on my evening walk.
July 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
There are so many bunnies in my area. This little one visits my yard on the regular, and I saw 5 more on my evening walk.
Got out to pick strawberries on Canada Day.
July 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Got out to pick strawberries on Canada Day.
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"Study after study shows that the only way to fix traffic is fewer vehicles, not by adding extra car lanes or other futile measures, such as removing bike lanes...Public transit is the workhorse that moves well over a million passengers through Toronto everyday." -Shawn Micallef
Shawn Micallef: How this transit plan could finally make ‘Sufferin’ Dufferin’ a thing of the past
There are 'RapidTO' plans to create transit priority lanes on Dufferin as well as Bathurst streets.
buff.ly
June 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
"Study after study shows that the only way to fix traffic is fewer vehicles, not by adding extra car lanes or other futile measures, such as removing bike lanes...Public transit is the workhorse that moves well over a million passengers through Toronto everyday." -Shawn Micallef
Came across an adorable gaze of young raccoons last night.
June 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Came across an adorable gaze of young raccoons last night.
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lol it was a null pointer
incident report is out and this one is actually painful
Google Cloud Service Health
status.cloud.google.com
June 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM
lol it was a null pointer
Vampire survivors is quite fun. It is interesting that both Balatro, and Vampire Survivors are the same genre.
June 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Vampire survivors is quite fun. It is interesting that both Balatro, and Vampire Survivors are the same genre.
I finished Neva on the switch last night. I loved the mix of platforming, and combat mechanics. The story was well integrated into the mechanics, and made for gameplay was challenging and rewarding, but not *hard*.
June 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I finished Neva on the switch last night. I loved the mix of platforming, and combat mechanics. The story was well integrated into the mechanics, and made for gameplay was challenging and rewarding, but not *hard*.
I love getting issues like this github.com/cakephp/cake...
Chained calls to Table::find are not independent · Issue #18716 · cakephp/cakephp
Description I stumbled across a bug while using chained calls to different finders on a table. The original bug is caused by this code snippet from my code: $affectedReservations = $this->Reservati...
github.com
June 4, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I love getting issues like this github.com/cakephp/cake...
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> our implementation was not developed by Mozilla employees, but was contributed entirely by a single volunteer, André Bargull.
Temporal is an absolutely massive spec and complicated implementation - it's been YEARS in the making.
André out here just beating out billion dollar corps
Temporal is an absolutely massive spec and complicated implementation - it's been YEARS in the making.
André out here just beating out billion dollar corps
May 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
> our implementation was not developed by Mozilla employees, but was contributed entirely by a single volunteer, André Bargull.
Temporal is an absolutely massive spec and complicated implementation - it's been YEARS in the making.
André out here just beating out billion dollar corps
Temporal is an absolutely massive spec and complicated implementation - it's been YEARS in the making.
André out here just beating out billion dollar corps
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This is the best thing written about monorepos I have ever read
blog.swgillespie.me/posts/monore...
blog.swgillespie.me/posts/monore...
The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo
blog.swgillespie.me
May 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This is the best thing written about monorepos I have ever read
blog.swgillespie.me/posts/monore...
blog.swgillespie.me/posts/monore...
Wrote about my recent experience going through the rustlings exercises mark-story.com/posts/view/r...
Rustling exercise notes
This Easter I had some time to dedicate to working through the rustling exercises. I still consider myself a novice rust developer. I frequently don’t know rust idioms, and spend a lot of time s...
mark-story.com
May 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Wrote about my recent experience going through the rustlings exercises mark-story.com/posts/view/r...
New shadow of intent track! And, they are touring with Lorna Shore this fall 🤯
youtu.be/QtQs0V6RkmU?...
youtu.be/QtQs0V6RkmU?...
SHADOW OF INTENT - Infinity of Horrors (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Shadow Of Intent
youtu.be
May 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
New shadow of intent track! And, they are touring with Lorna Shore this fall 🤯
youtu.be/QtQs0V6RkmU?...
youtu.be/QtQs0V6RkmU?...
New Lorna Shore single is so good. youtu.be/DJIPepGa07M?...
Lorna Shore - Oblivion (Official Video)
YouTube video by Lorna Shore
youtu.be
May 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM
New Lorna Shore single is so good. youtu.be/DJIPepGa07M?...
I still really hate that MacOS upgrades clobber compiler tool chains, and that the solution is to download all of xcode.
May 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I still really hate that MacOS upgrades clobber compiler tool chains, and that the solution is to download all of xcode.
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IMO blogs aren't dead yet – with so many having switched to video, I think writing is due for a comeback
May 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
IMO blogs aren't dead yet – with so many having switched to video, I think writing is due for a comeback