inconvenience store

Friendly (and unfortunate) reminder: Free services, including things that might be hard to imagine paying for like search and email, are absolutely still making money off of you in significantly more nefarious ways. It's worth it to pay (in dollars and not privacy) for trustworthy services, imo.

the ado cube

goddamn bic camera jingle stuck in my head for like 6 months

I have discovered that I inadvertently own two copies of How to Train Your Dragon 2 on Blu-Ray.

k-pop ramen huh

nothing like a good cry in the Taco Bell drive thru on a Monday night I always say

Bluesky's next thing is AI (Claude) powered feed algorithms. I remain irked that the mass migration from Twitter happened with precisely no thought given to the centralized, corporation-controlled architecture that allowed it to become a terrible place the first time around. We learned nothing.

Talking to The Pals for the first time since beef night and thus far we've had spontaneous reprisals of "Take Me Out to the Beef Night", "We Built Beef City on Rock and Roll", and "Hey beef, don't let me down". It's been twenty minutes.

night chili

Hello everyone. I spilled a little bit of water and it made my slippers squeak on the floor in the exact first five notes of Barbie Girl by Aqua. Thanks for reading.

Everybody beefed responsibly

The action in today’s Frieren is really, really good.

I’m hosting another beef night. Place your kalshi bets now on whether Matt overbeefs.

badda bing badda boom

the two kinds of 30-somethings that exist in 2026 are: the ones who go to linkedin to post AI-generated engagement bait and, the ones who go to bluesky to post things like “the voice inside my yed”

I have tomorrow off 👍 …to do my taxes 👎 and there won’t even be a Frieren to look forward to 👎👎👎

alright it is time to play a different game

I’m about 25 hours into an Emerald (re)playthrough after very intentionally deciding to engage more with books and games instead of scrolling on the internet and lemme tell you, it’s been much better on the mental health.

I haven't *fully* gotten rid of it from my life for the occasional call but I also haven't regularly used Discord since some time last year. Keep an eye out for it, the writing has been on the wall! Let any platform gain a centralized critical mass of users long enough and turns bad!

Since I know I’ve seen people talk about Notepad++ here before: Their auto-updater has been compromised by state-sponsored actors for a good chunk of the past year. It’d be wise to destroy any OS installs that have touched it in that time.

they really threw every goofy face possible into one episode of frieren huh

Would I like Myst and Riven?

Hmm just like that, years of trust (well, at least mostly) in Cloudflare engineering evaporated

I won’t post about it excessively but having Frieren Fridays back again is the best thing that’s happened in months.

Someone whose newsletter I (used to) follow just sent out a "Claude Code for writers" mailer and boy sorry dude but I've never unsubscribed from something faster.

“surus it seigi” im gonna throw up

yeah sure, I've been looking for something to do somewhere else, why not

can I show up to a project meeting all wrapped up in a blanket y/n

dinner time: thrice upon a beefening (I am now out of shabu shabu)

beef round 2

wooOOAAaahhhh

Matt may have consumed more beef tonight than I’ve ever seen a person eat in one sitting.

Been thinking about relearning iOS app dev. It’s been about 10 years since I’ve last published. My first project I’m actually sitting down to make is a camera with effects. Super original idea. Gonna be big.

why

oh my god

fuck

I made a salisbury steak out of Costco’s ground wagyu (first time with this sauce recipe) and it kicked ass

to the surprise of nobody who would have seen me shoveling albums into my basket at tower records shibuya, my top artists of the year are yorushika and ado

is the new kirby air riders good

Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:

@mattfromalaska.bsky.social @impulsings.bsky.social didn’t we see these AI bears in Japan? am I misremembering that?

fight me and my special ears

Many, many years ago, before this could possibly have been the work of AI, I added the stupidest iron-on patch ant I've ever seen to my Amazon wishlist and it'll probably stay there forever.

how do you fuck up this bad with a penguin mascot this good

Butternut squash dinner

@iainnd.bsky.social I bought this. It wasn’t terribly cheap either... It has components on it so I think it’s functional in some way but it came with zero instructions.

love to get my shots in both arms so that everything hurts symmetrically later

A little while ago, Apple Music added an auto-DJ sort of thing where it mixes the end of one song into the next one, and I have mostly left it alone... however, I just had shuffle on and it made a *disgusting* mix of Fujii Kaze's 'Garden' into ABBA's 'The Winner Takes It All'. It was impressive.

For what it's worth: If you're in an industry where networking on LinkedIn is the norm and you're all but forced to have a presence there, you have TWO MORE DAYS to opt out of AI usage in your data privacy settings.