Colin Mackay
colin-mackay.bsky.social
Colin Mackay
@colin-mackay.bsky.social
Software Developer 👨‍💻, Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, Gay🏳️‍🌈, Star Trek fan 🖖.
Catching up on safety courses that work make us do. The multiple choice quiz at the end always has questions in the form of:

What should you do in this potentially hazardous situation?

* poke the bear with a stick.
* punch the bear on the nose.
* leave the bear along and tell the ranger about it.
December 24, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Succubus - female demon that seduces men,
Incubus - male demon that seduces women,
Vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party.
November 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Queen does K-POP
October 3, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Reposted by Colin Mackay
Join @kestr.al for the launch of Tubelines, their incredible new poetry collection, at events in both London and Glasgow.

Accessible venues, free tickets, and loads of fantastic poetry.

reconnectingrainbows.co.uk/events/
September 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
V for Vendetta is more relevant today than it’s ever been
September 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
September 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
What if the Severance theme was played at the Music Dance Experience? I was playing with Garage Band and somehow came up with this simultaneously more up-beat and creepy version of the severance theme.
March 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Did you know that the #dotnet property DateTime.UtcNow can sometimes go backwards between one call and the next? I didn't, but here's a possible solution compensating for that if you need to create a monotonic (always ascending or descending) sequence of timestamps: colinmackay.scot/2025/02/25/f...
Fixing out of sequence timestamps
I maintain a small open source project that helps test log message. Part of this is that each log message has a sequence number and timestamp attached to it. You should be able to sequence the logs…
colinmackay.scot
February 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I managed to spill some juice on my Apple Magic Keyboard. Luckily I found a video on how to pry the keys off and clean them properly. That would have been an expensive fix if I had to replace it (It was the full sized one with the numeric keypad).

Here’s the video, www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPba...
How to Remove and Clean Sticky Keys on Apple Magic Keyboard 2 Step by Step Repair (Detailed Fix)
YouTube video by thecollegepicker
www.youtube.com
January 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
To be perfectly honest, I think only registered voters should be able to contribute to political parties, election funds, etc. and that amount to have an annual cap. But, this is still a step in the right direction.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Tighten the rules on political donations
We want the government to: Remove loopholes that allow wealthy foreign individuals to make donations into UK political parties (e.g. by funnelling through UK registered companies). Cap all donations ...
petition.parliament.uk
January 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Despite all the negative comments about the recent Star Trek series (Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks, Strange New Worlds, Prodigy) I’ve rather enjoyed them all. Until now. My God, the characters in the new Section 31 movie were irritating! I liked the concept, but I just found the people unlikeable.
January 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Asda sent me a notification about my shopping habits. Apparently I bought a lot of pasta salad last year. It’s kind of interesting, but I’m not sure what to do with this information.
January 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The story so far, 2 years ago I was just shy of 120kg. I lost roughly 20kg each of the last 2 years. I did put on a little over Christmas, so my starting weight on 1/Jan was 83kg.

My goal for this year is to get down to 70kg which would put me in the middle of my ideal weight.
January 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I listened for 30,437 minutes in 2024. What about you? #SpotifyWrapped

Top Artists
1 Jean-Michel Jarre
2 Niteworks
3 Mànran
4 The Proclaimers
5 Capercaillie

Top Songs
1 Streets of Edinburgh
2 Air Fair an Là
3 An Toll Dubh
4 Fare Well, Pt. 2
5 Somhairle
December 4, 2024 at 10:39 PM