Matt Brown

Nobody has ever enjoyed reading the code I wrote, whereas they have on occasion enjoyed my words and designs. That’s why I’m able to give the LLM code-writing tasks but not word-writing ones.

Created a collection of metric-compatible MS Office stand-ins, including a lightly adapted Inter by @rsms.me: muglug.github.io/offaux-fonts/

baldwin's de niro impression ...never seen anything like it. supernatural.

The contagion of fear bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/t...

Happy 4th from the other side of the fence

New paper in Nature where researchers measured impact of different Bluesky algorithms before & after the November 2024 election.

Have you seen this on the @theguardian.com website? I only ask because as a subscriber I cannot trigger it to see it on the page. It is an ad that I made for them that appears to non-subscribers so I can never make it appear.

Snow pic!

Slack now supports video unfurls cc @jimray.bsky.team

My dentist can do it all, from a simple cleaning to identifying my charred remains

Great stories here. youtu.be/VSrQK6bSHko?...

Also @catherine-vaughan.bsky.social took this v good Zohran pic yesterday

Hey it’s mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

One of these men is gonna be mayor (photos by me)

Ok funny story: there's a very old divine being — name is under NDA, but you have definitely heard of Him — who’s one of our biggest customers, and he wanted to have his actual birthday on there.

TIL: Bernstein repurposed a scrapped West Side Story opening number — "Make a mess of them" — an anthem composed for Chichester Cathedral www.chichestercathedral.org.uk/news/creatio...

New York baby

New: Kristi Noem secretly took a cut of political donations. A dark money group routed the funds to Noem's Delaware LLC, tax records show. The original source of the money remains unknown. www.propublica.org/article/kris...

look what he posted about JFK SMDH

Coney Island

Toronto is an extremely violent city. I just witnessed this guy beat up three guys and nobody around him did ANYTHING. People seemed numb to it. And then he did it AGAIN.

Love some dive bar salsa dancing

That twist towards the end where you go from “oh no” to “oh no no no no no no god oh no”

For the absolute last time: I *never* said I thought E.T. dressed in the wig and the dress was sexy, I said *I could see why people would think that*

v good blog

Gentle reminder to choose your words carefully when discussing the end of a bromance between two increasingly erratic billionaires.

Thank you for that, Slackbot.

Some of you have never seen all the angry panda commercials (actually a brilliant campaign for Egypt's Panda Cheese) and honestly especially these days there's no downside in getting you better educated on this particular matter

The only meaningful problem with 23andMe going into bankruptcy is that they are the only way for people to obtain information about certain SNPs there *is no commercially available alternate test for* and your doctor cannot order and the specific genetic variant you carry can have treatment effects

Market day in Delhi

thinking about when siskel and ebert were dicking off and riffing in-between takes and decided to roast the shit out of the protestants

Pro-Palestinian protest on Westminster Bridge

London commute

@caseynewton.bsky.social was delighted that you followed me, a verified idiot, but it turned out to be an imposter: bsky.app/profile/case...

What an interesting #software #development story. "20 years working on the same software product". 😮 successfulsoftware.net/2025/02/21/2... Old timers like me will appreciate the mention of software on CDs. :-) 💿 #programming

Mr. Marathon Is a 26-Mile Tribute to Cheap Produce

Birds went

At the Deathbed, by Edvard Munch, 1895

These are unprecedented times, and they’ve been hard on all of us. In the face of global uncertainty, it’s easy for the smaller things to slip through the cracks. Thats’s why we were so concerned when we noticed you left an item in your cart but didn’t finish checking out

What I did yesterday ft @gillian.bsky.social @ekbergmann.bsky.social

What I did yesterday ft @gillian.bsky.social @ekbergmann.bsky.social

before tiktok, before bluesky, before twitter, before meta, before it all, there were sewers. after all, there will be sewers.