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JJ MacLean
@packetcop.bsky.social
NetEng, CyberSecurity, and systems engineering. Recovering workaholic, runner, and aspiring hobby artist.
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Sick of everything being Orwellian or Kafkaesque. I demand more Scarrylous situations, where animals drive vehicles and run small businesses.
July 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Child of Omelas? That’s thinking too small. What if like eight billion people suffered so a few dozen guys could live lives so insane they convinced themselves it’s more likely they’re inside a computer simulation
July 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
If you run a website or blog, make sure you have an RSS feed. I've been trying to stop the endless scroll of Reddit by going directly to the source, but it's difficult if there's no way to easily see new content short of visiting every site individually. Make it easy and cut out the middleman!
March 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Donating to Wikipedia is more important than ever, and it only takes a couple of minutes! donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
January 21, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Day 3 of #JanuArty is Shape

Another practice piece inspired by my love of stained glass and the photography of Bing Wright. 🧵👇🏼

#Art #Painting #AcrylicPainting
January 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Day 3 #Januarty Shapes
I love the look of opaque colored pencil on black paper. When you add a touch of white everything just pops! (There’s a bit of acrylic marker on here too-) #wip #coloredpencil #doodleart #doodle
January 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I'm putting together an end-of-year personal retrospective. I try each year and I'm always left wanting for some greater insight. I'm curious how others do it?
Is it structured or unstructured?
What are you including or NOT including?
And what do you do once you have it?
December 20, 2024 at 3:40 PM
#artAdventCalendar is so damn awesome. I'm super impressed by the creativity and skill on display.
Maybe I'll have something to contribute for next year's...
December 7, 2024 at 4:58 PM
I'm tired of the lackluster performance of my work Dell laptop, so I'm adding another Win11 install on my main gaming rig for work, but I figure why stop there? Now queuing up Linux Mint and maybe NixOS?
December 7, 2024 at 4:32 PM
I just finished "A City on Mars" by Kelly and @zachweinersmith.bsky.social. I'd been a big fan of Zach's for a long time and the book was fantastic. Space colonization always struck me as seeming too easy the way certain folks talk about it, but I didn't appreciate the breadth of issues to overcome.
December 1, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Hot take: I shouldn't have to pay a cloud/SaaS provider for a stream of security logs, and they should definitely not be behind a paywall to even see the logs. All this rent seeking for basic functionality is wild.
November 25, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Running at night has to be the best time to run. Complete solitude and it’s moving meditation.

Aside from those horrible new car lights, doubly so for the ones that automatically turn on the high beams on dark roads.
November 25, 2024 at 2:02 AM
Rather than keep doomscrolling the news, I'll share this (I think) pretty cool stained glass piece I made. It was my second piece ever and my first design. Now need somewhere to hang it!
#stainedglass #art #trek
November 13, 2024 at 4:33 AM
I can't help but feel like this is, deep down, the result of a deep lack of empathy for others. How do we both be empathetic and not lose our society to those pandering to people's spiteful nature?
November 6, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Early morning BGP labs! Mix of IOSv and IOS XE in GNS3. I'm amazed at how much this has improved in the last 10 years. Not having to tweak idle-pc values and using multiple host nodes, imposing packet loss with a few clicks. Really impressed!
October 26, 2024 at 3:25 PM
When I stepped back from management and took a 100% technical job again I was surprised at how rusty I was in so many regards. But the amount of educational materials and labbing options (beyond manually tweaking GNS3) is mind boggling and has made the transition possible (and fun!).
October 23, 2024 at 2:14 PM