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This is a web feed, also known as an Atom feed. Subscribe by copying the URL from the address bar into your newsreader. Visit About Feeds to learn more and get started. It's free.Visit websiteRecent postsUpdated on $DATEdateMike's BlogMike's BlogThe personal, rarely updated, blog of Michael ParkZola2026-06-11T00:00:00+00:00https://mhpark.me/atom.xmlStarship JJ Theme2026-06-11T00:00:00+00:002026-06-11T00:00:00+00:00Unknownhttps://mhpark.me/posts/jj-starship/There are a few nice modules for JJ that exist currently for starship.rs but none of them fit what I was after…Convenient auto-command for vim.pack.update2026-05-04T00:00:00+00:002026-05-04T00:00:00+00:00Unknownhttps://mhpark.me/posts/vim-pack-update-convenience/Neovim 0.12's new built-in package management is a breath of fresh air, but the
default confirmation buffer is a bit bare-bones when it comes to quick
interactions. If you're like me and want to just hit a key to sync everything
up instead of using the code action ca and selecting update on each package…Finding Nerd Fonts in Neovim2026-03-10T00:00:00+00:002026-03-10T00:00:00+00:00Unknownhttps://mhpark.me/posts/nerd-font-icon-picker-fzf-lua/I have been writing quite a few presentations in presenterm
and was repeatedly going over to the nerd font website to search for the icon that I wanted to pick
copying it, then pasting it in neovim. Surely... there is a better way…Two useful aliases for use with JJ2026-02-04T00:00:00+00:002026-02-04T00:00:00+00:00Unknownhttps://mhpark.me/posts/jj-aliases/Everyone will have the jj tug alias defined in their list of aliases in
their jj config.
I would like to share two that I think are quite nifty and useful!…Updating Treesitter's Config to use Main2025-12-15T00:00:00+00:002025-12-15T00:00:00+00:00Unknownhttps://mhpark.me/posts/update-treesitter-main/If you woke up to the news that treesitter has set
their default branch to main from the now frozen
master then you may wish to know how to now configure
your plugins that depend on it in neovim. Here's how I did
it in my local dotfiles…Wildcard Routing with Cloudflare Email Forwarding2024-11-12T00:00:00+00:002024-11-12T00:00:00+00:00Unknownhttps://mhpark.me/posts/cloudflare-wildcards/If you have your own domain name but are cheap like me and don't want to pay
for a third party service you can use Cloudflare to route your
emails to your gmail
address. (And after reading this quick post, can forward even plus suffixed
email addresses to your gmail account…Speed up Python Github Actions2024-10-15T00:00:00+00:002024-10-15T00:00:00+00:00Unknownhttps://mhpark.me/posts/speed-up-python-ci-builds/If you want to speed up your CI builds you can use this
setup on your GitHub actions. Doing this from the previous
method cut my build times from 2 minutes to 1 minute…Treesitter Highlights for Jenkinsfile2024-01-31T00:00:00+00:002024-01-31T00:00:00+00:00Unknownhttps://mhpark.me/posts/jenkinsfile-md/Ever wanted syntax in neovim for Jenkinsfiles?
Let's create an autocommand to do just that!…The Flaw in Taking Photos to Capture Memories (and how to fix it)2024-01-28T00:00:00+00:002024-01-28T00:00:00+00:00Unknownhttps://mhpark.me/posts/memories-md/Years ago, I was looking through old photo collections of my youth.
Despite the happiness on my face, the people smiling
around me, there something missing, my father…Python Logging2024-01-24T00:00:00+00:002024-01-24T00:00:00+00:00Unknownhttps://mhpark.me/posts/logging-md/Just a very quick post/memo to myself about an awesome
way to configure logging in python based on an excellent
Github repo I stumbled across via a YouTube video…2023 - A Tech Year in Review2023-12-10T00:00:00+00:002023-12-10T00:00:00+00:00Unknownhttps://mhpark.me/posts/2023-tools-in-review-md/2023 gave me the ability to experience a lot of different
tools, languages, and technologies, many did not make the
cut long-term but I would like to put together a list of
the core tooling that I use day to day with an example or two
along the way…SQLAlchemy, OnUpdate & Datetime UTCNOW deprecation in 3.122023-11-20T00:00:00+00:002023-11-20T00:00:00+00:00Unknownhttps://mhpark.me/posts/sqlalchemy-updatedat-on-update/This is a quick post about migrating your utcnow() to now(tz=UTC)
in SQLAlchemy for your onupdate function argument to your SQL Models…Connecting to Internal VPC Through Bastion in One Hop2023-10-19T00:00:00+00:002023-10-19T00:00:00+00:00Unknownhttps://mhpark.me/posts/connecting-to-internal-vpc-with-ssh/If you've ever wanted to load up your local database IDE to view
a database that sits inside an internal VPC. You may be a bit puzzled
on how to do it considering most tools like DBeaver, DataGrip, TablePlus
allow you to connect via SSH, but that SSH connection is always to a
bastion instance. How does one connect directly?…Big Uploads and Checksum Validation2023-10-04T00:00:00+00:002023-10-04T00:00:00+00:00Unknownhttps://mhpark.me/posts/big-uploads-with-fastapi/Ever wanted to upload big files without storing
them in memory as they are being written with FastAPI?…Git Signing and Authentication with SSH2023-10-04T00:00:00+00:002023-10-04T00:00:00+00:00Unknownhttps://mhpark.me/posts/ssh-signing-and-auth-with-git/This is a quick guide to set up git with SSH ed25519 keys
not only for authenticating with GitHub or GitLab but also
for signing commits without the need to install GPG/PGP
which has some serious criticisms / flaws that has led me to move
into a world without it. The new world isn't as straightforward
as the old so I thought I'd just throw together a quick guide
to help you out…Mocking the Post Method on an Async HTTPX Post Request2023-08-02T00:00:00+00:002023-08-02T00:00:00+00:00Unknownhttps://mhpark.me/posts/mocking-async-httpx-metods/A quick snippet for mocking HTTP requests with an the async
httpx context manager.
async with httpx.AsyncClient() as client:
signup_response = await client.post(
f"https://{AUTH0_DOMAIN}/api/v2/users",
data=signup_request_body,
headers=signup_request_headers,
timeout=30,
)…Tmux in Linux and Mac With Wezterm2023-03-10T00:00:00+00:002023-03-10T00:00:00+00:00Unknownhttps://mhpark.me/posts/tmux-between-linux-mac/After struggling to get tmux to run seamlessly between Mac (on ARM i.e. M1/M2)
and linux due to the fact that brew installs packages to /opt/homebrew/bin/
and it isn't on the path before the shell loads, I have finally worked out how to
get tmux to launch/attach to existing sessions when launching a new terminal both
in linux and on MacOS…Testing in the Terminal2023-02-16T00:00:00+00:002023-02-16T00:00:00+00:00Unknownhttps://mhpark.me/posts/enter-entr/Find yourself running a pytest command repeatedly trying to work out
what a problem is and getting sick of clicking back on the terminal
window where the output is and pressing arrow up to re-run the test?
Or even running tests in an IDE and sick of re-running the test
time after time with your mouse?…Gaming on Xbox with OpenWRT2022-09-13T00:00:00+00:002022-09-13T00:00:00+00:00Unknownhttps://mhpark.me/posts/xbox-gaming/If you are like me and decided to switch their router firmware
to the much praised OpenWRT you may - like me -
found the lag in FPS games pretty unbreable after switching the firmware…The Pursuit2022-05-28T00:00:00+00:002022-05-28T00:00:00+00:00Unknownhttps://mhpark.me/posts/the-pursuit/The pursuit of excellence can sometimes be
overwhelming. Whether it be in sports, your career,
games…Looking Forward to 2022; The Ease of Being a Cynic2021-12-23T00:00:00+00:002021-12-23T00:00:00+00:00Unknownhttps://mhpark.me/posts/christmas-wishes/My goals for 2022 are nothing out of the ordinary; apart from having some of
them be to actually travel somewhere of relatively far distance in a hopefully
more open world. The main goal that should hopefully help drive the rest is
optimism…The Little Things2021-11-28T00:00:00+00:002021-11-28T00:00:00+00:00Unknownhttps://mhpark.me/posts/the-little-things/The dozens of predictions that economists have been making over the last two
years centers around this idea that once everything returns to a certain level
of normal - probably better to use safe instead of normal but I'm sure we all
agree normal means something different than it used to - consumers are going
to start splurging on all the money they have been saving up. Personally, even
if this turns out to be the case eventually, I think this saga of our
lives really has given us enjoyment in the little things…