Yet another blog post. Two in a week is a new record for me. A quick guide to rescuing a locked MacBook Pro.
https://www.marclittlemore.com/rescuing-my-bricked-m1-macbook-pro/
Notes
I want 2026 to be a year where I start blogging on my own site again. I've finally published a blog post after it sitting in draft for 4 months. Only a year after my last blog post. 🙈
https://www.marclittlemore.com/recovering-my-apple-podcast-feed/
Spent about 4 hours talking to Gemini to try to get a Proxmox samba share to work with my Mac. It's just going round in circles getting me to change the config over and over again. Still doesn't work.
This is so good. Someone has built an old MTV player. It just streams old MTV footage and videos 24/7. I still remember loving watching MTV in hotels in Germany when I was DJing over there in the 90s/2000s as we didn't have it at home.
The Stranger Things finale did the series justice IMHO. I might have shed a little tear or two at the end.
Locking in to watch the final episode of Stranger Things. Hopefully it’ll wrap it all up nicely and Steve and Dustin don’t die. 🤞🏻
It’s NYE. Both of our late teenage kids are away for the evening. I’m drinking a glass of red wine and cooking the dish I made for my wife on one of our first dates almost 25 years ago. Enjoy your evenings and Happy New Year! ❤️
In case anyone else is trying to watch Disney+ on a Fire Stick, it drops frames every 10 seconds and the video stutters. Thought it was our internet but it’s a known issue.
Turkey stock and turkey chilli day. Living the Christmas dream. 😂
Testing out an update to my notes automation and hoping that this will now have a thumbnail on Bluesky. Check out the Cooking Soul "A Tribe Called Christmas" mixtape as it's wonderful.
This is a great episode of the Louis Theroux podcast with Jimmy Carr. I’m always fascinated by how other people work and hearing Jimmy talking about how he plans his shows and comedy is really interesting.
It’s Home Alone time. Keep the change, ya filthy animal!
If you haven’t heard this Christmas classic mixtape then you really should enjoy it over the festive period. Lots of Christmas songs cut up with MF DOOM rapping. So good.
We use Google Meet at work and we've got the latest version which supports custom emoji reactions. The crabs are taking over. 🦀
Been trying to use https://conductor.build/ to run some Claude Code agents in the background while I write some documents. Seems pretty great so far and has a really nice UI/UX for creating PRs.
My son is coming home from uni tonight for Christmas. This is making me very happy. 🎄😍
Yes, I’ve made some gravy ready for Christmas. I’m that interesting.
Oooh lovely! A Tiny Desk concert by Air. A band I've never seen live but really should have.
Notion and Linear are not working. Looks like Cloudflare may be having issues again. #HugOps to their team.
Fly Life by Basement Jaxx has just been played on @6music.bsky.social. Almost 30 years old but still a huge tune.
I bought a cheap ASUS DVD drive to rip some old DVDs for my media library. I’m just ripping one my old DJ mix CDs like I’m back in the early 2000s. 😂
Set up a @jellyfin.bsky.social server last night. Managed to get GPU transcoding working too. I can see how the homelab rabbit hole is going to make me buy a NAS next. 🙈
Finally bought a mini-PC to build a little homelab device. I know almost nothing about them so I’m looking forward to entering a world of Linux confusion. Currently installing Proxmox so let’s see what happens.
All of the card machines at WH Smith’s at Manchester Airport aren’t working. Having to acquire a Boots meal deal for my journey instead. 😀
Busy sorting out my collection of house music to DJ at a company offsite. Forgot about all of the things you need to think about when using Rekordbox. I'm hoping I've formatted everything properly this time. 🤞
I’ve just watched Poor Things. I _think_ I enjoyed it?! 🤨
Yes, I did buy gingerbread Kit Kats at the supermarket. No, I would not buy them again. 🤢
Fixed the RSS feed for my website notes this morning. @11ty.dev makes it super easy to do. Except I got caught out by caching. I must remember that dates are cached in JSON as strings. 🤦
I hate to say it but I wouldn't have been able to reset the MacBook without Claude. Both an IT company and Apple told me I wouldn't be able to unlock the machine without the recovery key. It saved the day.
I have an old MacBook which is stuck in mobile device management limbo. It's been removed from MDM and Apple Business Manager but nobody has a recovery key. Performing surgery to see if I can sort it.
I want to stay up and make my workflow support posting threaded messages but it’s late and I’m old. I’m going to have to write a blog post about this too. POSSE for the win.
Just added a build command to my Telegram @n8n.io workflow. I can now trigger a build and deploy of my @netlify.com site. 🚀
Ah so you have to add an embed object to make URLs unfurl via the Bluesky API. A bit annoying but I try it in my @n8n.io workflow.
I always love the Adam Buxton podcast. This new episode also mentions the comedian Phil Cool, a name I haven’t heard since the late 80s. My brother and I often quoted him. A very funny man with a very rubbery face.
This note was sent via Telegram and should now be syndicated to Bluesky and Mastodon. It'll also appear on my website but I only rebuild it a couple of times per day so it won't be immediate. Check https://marclittlemore.com/notes to see them.
I’ve been really enjoying the On The Mend podcast recently after discovering it on Instagram. This episode on goal setting is interesting if you're rubbish at setting goals like I am!
Setting up POSSE note syndicating using an n8n workflow.
This is a great documentary from Valve sharing the story from the original dev team of how Half-Life was developed. A great watch!
How on earth is it 25 years since it came out? I feel old. 😱
👋 Testing out posting notes from my blog via APIs. The aim is to post once and syndicate the content to multiple social media platforms following the https://indieweb.org/POSSE idea - Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. Let's see how this works!