: Trying granary.io for my RSS feed.
: Messing around with RSS feeds like it’s 2004.
: Just saw an ad for Jira. How’s everyone else?
: Off to a comedy show at a wine bar tonight. First time I’ve ever been given the option to preorder a …
: Releasing the small bit of PHP I used to show people on my website which train I was taking on my …
: Watching Hackers at the movie theater. Preshow is a bunch of stupid fucking AI visuals.
: My latest piece for Tedium is up. All about my mammoth journey across the US and back by train. …
: Taskmaster New Zealand is on the Taskmaster YouTube channel and it’s wonderful. …
: Share your Nintendo Switch friend code. lounge.nintendo.com/friendcod… See how: …
: Make a llate night version of Chopped where everyone’s worked a full day. Also Ted serves drinks and …
: SIRE, I AM FROM THE OTHER COUNTRY github.com/foocorp/h…
: Pumpkin beer is out in New England. Halloween starts today. #indieweb
: What email providers are people using that aren’t Microsoft or Gmail or Fastmail? (I’m currently …
: Heard a lot of songs covered by Weird Al in the last 24 hours.
: Got a self hosted WordPress site? Want a fancy modern static site? github.com/mattl/wor… I’d …
: Anyone else buying all the spoken word albums from the guy from that TV show that rescues dive bars, …
: Anyone else over mid-30s thinking about mortality? ⏰ How many years online is a year in real life? …
: Lack of headphones solved by simply plugging in a HomePod on my desk and listening to New Order on …
: Can’t find any of my headphones. Found my 30 pin charging cable and my iPod Classic though.
: It is wild to me how much better I can see with my glasses on. I should probably wear them more …
: YouTubers should refer to people who watch YouTube, not people who make videos for it.
: The way cars drive k, especially at night makes me wonder how everyone who rides a bike isn’t dead? …
: Seeing Peter Hook at the Light tonight in Boston.
: Buy one-get one free at Boloco today. So Boloco for lunch and dinner today.
: Finally got myself subscribed to 404Media.
: I’m going to try out OmniFocus. I already installed it and it does seem to be what I want. …
: No hyphens in tag names. Yes hyphens in web-component names. I need to write that somewhere.
: Canceled my Nanowrimo account because of their stupid thoughts on AI. …
: Just bought no-ai.club. I’ll let you all know how to join the club soon. There will be stickers.
: Trying to get organized. Looking for a todo app that doesn’t have any AI stuff. All …
: “9th inning presented by Jimmy John’s” We’re doing this to ourselves.
: I’m Matt. I like NeXT and the web. 👋
: Please don’t use AI for anything, ever. That includes Adobe Illustrator.
: Songs I never want to hear: Shipping Up To Boston
: Obsidian Trying Obsidian for posting things. Curious how well it’ll work.
: LOL to Johnny Marr’s response to the idea of a Smiths reunion.
: Slept okay and importantly my arm/shoulder feels much better.
: Deep Blue Sea (1999) Pretty good shark movie. No eels which was nice. Wish the parrot had a name. 5 …
: Had the new COVID vaccine today at CVS pharmacy. My shoulder/arm hurts a biw now but otherwise fine. …
: Watching Deep Blue Sea. I hope there’s no eels in this.
: New blog post: front end study hall. blog.mat.tl/2024/08/2…
: Instead of bags of chips, airlines should serve hotdogs. Details TBC.
: I don’t care if Oasis have a reunion or not but the name oasisinet dot com is a wonderful relic of …
: Happy birthday to Kel Mitchell.
: Who is scared of spider plants? Name names.
: I want to meet someone who emigrated here from the happy world of Haribo.
: If you love #xoxofest I hope you’ll also love indieweb.org Tomorrow there’s an event in PDX. …
: Back at the hotel. I hope to see you all again #xoxofest
: I have about 11 stickers left. Outside the tent with my logo on my shirt and a WebObjects hat. …
: It would be over a year before I even saw my first website in a graphical browser which is when I …
: New rule: you can only call it an article if it’s in the HTML tag.
: CVS in Boston is bad at times. CVS in downtown Portland is basically a drugstore showroom but …
: Arrived in Portland. #xoxofest
: Amtrak Bidup email/text message was just 7 mins before the train is due to start boarding. That’s a …
: Please don’t have the first thing you do when someone follows you back on social media be to send a …
: The 90s version of Cluedo is weird. People appear as one off actors or celebrity detectives and then …
: Wednesday we’re flying from Boston to Seattle and then taking Amtrak from Seattle down to Portland. …
: All Patreon memberships cancelled. A couple I’ll be moving to Kofi. My name is updated on Patreon to …
: Back on Amtrak. Sadly today I’m not going very far at all.
: I’m going to cancel my Patreon subscriptions again this week. I’ll be reaching out to individuals to …
: I think tomorrow I’ll have the first of a couple different versions of this static version of a …
: Updating my personal website in 2024 using my favorite little CMS: curl :/
: I got a chance to archive a local to me news site. It’s WordPress. What should I do? Please point to …
: Happy to admit I’ve had emacs aliased to nova.app for the last year or so. Not the only editor I use …
: Might just signing everything as “Millsy” for a week and see if anyone notices.
: I hope we have a United Ireland before we agree than both vim and emacs are fine.
: To the guy at the bar bemoaning the lack of Bolocos that are still open. I hope you go to the two in …
: Haven’t gotten a political SMS yet that didn’t call me Matthew yet. How I know they’re pulling from …
: Removed Discord from my phone. I struggle to enjoy Discord at all.
: Really want to know the name of the server in the Diners Drive Ins and Dives intro.
: I missed the idea of traveling solo by train. I had no idea it was so controversial.
: Wow. Just got a 30 day free trial of Apple TV+.
: “I’m an early adopter of social media. 2017” — something dummies say.
: Just played a game of the new Spearhead rules for Age of Sigmar. That’s a whole lot of fun. …
: I think the first reference to Mario Kart in a movie is in My Fellow Americans. In the car chase bit …
: Would I do it again? ABSOLUTELY.
: 9:46pm. Home with the cat and CSI is on.
: 99 hours and 15 mins since I left San Diego I’m back in Boston. Subtract 24 hours from that for the …
: 8:03pm. Just leaving Framingham. Next stop is Boston. 98 hours since I left San Diego and wow… what …
: 5:06pm. Just heard from Farmers Fridge. They have some locations in Boston. This will be fun.
: 3:15pm. Made it to Albany. Couldn’t find a vegetarian steamed ham anywhere. This is my final train …
: 2:43pm. I left San Diego 93 hours ago. In about 6 hours from now I should be home with my wife and …
: 1:11pm. Just passed through Utica and my phone says I’m near the Cooperstown baseball hall of fame …
: 9:10am. Buffalo. Not ready to get up yet so back to sleep for me.
: Farmers Fridge. Sorry. Anyway really good.
: Bought a chickpea wrap from a vending machine called Farmers Fresh at Chicago Union Station. It’s …
: Really thankful for all the interesting people I’ve met on this trip and I’ve had an amazing time so …
: 9:01pm. Sat in my sleeper roomette on the way back to Boston. It’s 10pm there and I’ll be home in …
: 4:51pm. Getting the train out of Chicago in a few hours. I managed to snag a sleeper for tonight so …
: 8:20pm. British person saying they’re into county music klaxon.
: Get to see some Chicago Fire locations.
: Chose to stay an extra night in Chicago.
: 5:37pm. In Chicago and having a beer before my 9:30pm train to Boston.
: 4:04pm. 45 mins until arriving in Chicago, 2 hours late. This train was plagued by a delay early on …
: 1:48pm. Running about 90 minutes late.
: 11:57am. Crossed the Fort Madison bridge into Illinois.
: 11:42. I’m in Fort Madison, Iowa.
: 7:56am. In Kansas City, MO. We’re arriving into Chicago in a few hours.
: 9:04pm. About half way now. 882 miles W of Chicago 863 miles NE of Los Angeles Tomorrow I’ll get …
: 7pm. Now in Colorado for a short while but the train is running slightly behind schedule so I’ll …
: 6:49pm. Just passed through the Raton Pass again.
: 4:50pm. What’s a good photo sharing site/piece of software I can self install these days? Normally …
: 4:32pm. Just left the other Las Vegas.
: 1:20pm. Leaving Albuquerque.
: 7:49am. Getting some breakfast in the dining car.
: 7:13am. Good morning. I slept through the night rather well. Woke up just a few minutes ago outside …
: Watch a full length monkey movie I made for free. www.youtube.com/watch Feel free to remix it, share …
: The people I appreciate the most on this trip are the service workers: bartenders, coffee shop …
: I’m on train 4. My home for the next 43 hours. I have a person across the aisle from me also going …
: The fun thing about doing this in reverse will be seeing places I didn’t or couldn’t see the first …
: Just like that the first train is done. Now I have a little bit of a wait until my next train which …
: Boarded for my first train from San Diego back to Boston. First stop will be just outside Los …
: I think that’s basically a wrap for me on another year of Comic-Con. Pictures to follow on my way …
: My last full day in San Diego today. Tomorrow I take a train around lunchtime to the Los Angeles …
: Getting ready to head into the Eisner Awards. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisn…
: Went to a panel on licensing. Turns out it’s not about licensing of games (ie. OGL) but licensing …
: Begging places to have a consistent usage of vegan and vegetarian labeling on menus. If you can …
: Almost nobody with a mask on at Comic Con… not good. Thousands of people in a huge room together.
: It’s very hot here in San Diego but the food here is so good. If you’re at #sdcc2024 lmk. I’ll be …
: Amtrak food was good but nothing tasted better than my breakfast burrito from this place this …
: At the hotel. Time to eat cheese and watch Food Network. I’ve been handed snacks and a bottle of …
: 11:40am. On a very full Pacific Surfliner Amtrak 770 down to San Diego. Sat on the good side of the …
: 10:03am. Getting ready to leave Los Angeles with a very full train of people heading to San Diego …
: 8:32am. Arrived in Los Angeles.
: 5:35am. Woke up just as we left Victorville. A couple of hours left until we pull into Los Angeles. …
: If I ever get a drivers license and buy a car I want an observation car. I want to drive a glass box …
: 8:36pm. Oh yeah this 73 hour, 4 day train thing? I’m doing it again on Sunday.
: 8:27pm. I’m now on California time. Had dinner on the train. No photos but same as yesterday. It’s …
: 6:46pm. Made it to Gallup, NM. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallup,_New_Mexico
: 4:24pm. Leaving Albuquerque. Hopefully we catch up a bit now.
: Took advantage of the longer break in Albuquerque to step off the train and into the excellent …
: 2:28pm. En route to Albuquerque. They warned us the train would be bumpy for a bit as it’s on a dirt …
: Made a nice vertical video for you and the Quibi team of the Raton Pass. youtu.be/VQlJgPlTp… …
: Sign that reads “Raton Tunnel Highest point on the Santa Fe 7588ft elevation”
: In about 40 mins we’ll be at 7500ft (2286 metres) — the highest elevation point on this train. …
: 9:14am in Trinidad, Colorado. This is the last stop before New Mexico. Train ahead of mine had some …
: 7:56am (now in Mountain Time) just had a Coke Zero and a Blueberry Muffin for breakfast. In La …
: 4:55am. Waking up on the outskirts of Dodge City, Kansas. Time to sleep for a bit longer.
: 11:18pm. People in front of me won’t stop talking and I can hear them with earplugs. It’s quieter in …
: 10:18pm. Kansas City now. Quiet time on the train starts now so I took some Zzzquil. My new seat …
: 9:25pm. Ate dinner on the train. It was oddly bumpy. It already feels better back in my seat. Dinner …
: 7:32pm. LaPlata, MO. It’s raining outside the train. Everyone is telling everyone it’s raining. The …
: 6:10pm. Arriving into Fort Madison, Iowa for the first scheduled leg stretch break. Lot of people …
: Have found a reasonable spot in the observation area with a table for me to read my ebook. I got my …
: 5:28pm. Having quickly abandoned the chatterbox for the observation car I decided to book myself in …
: 4:28pm. A few minutes late leaving. One guy in my section of the train hasn’t stopped talking for …
: 1pm. Just ate a threatening tiny piece of chocolate called “AWAKE” with an owl on the package. Going …
: 11:47am. Took a recommendation and left the station for the nearest dive bar. Having an Old Style …
: 10:40am. I am reminded that like many people who grew up in the UK I don’t easily remember time …
: 10:26am. Sat in the Amtrak lounge with a Coke Zero and a muffin. Going to go wandering around …
: 9:47am. Arriving into Chicago. First train done. I feel a little tired because I only got maybe …
: 9:19am. Just spoke to helpful person at my bank so a replacement card should be with me very soon. …
: 8:04am. Waterloo, Indiana. The family I met and was chatting to have left the train after their trip …
: Hurtling through the Midwest this morning at 78 mph. About to leave Ohio and enter Indiana. At some …
: 6:44am. I’m in Toledo, OH. Four hours until Chicago.
: 5:50am. Woke up in Sandusky, OH. Slept pretty good overall. Time to wake up now.
: Feeling very grateful today. I don’t often get to do silly things like take a 73 hour train across …
: Tomorrow I get breakfast in Chicago, use of the lounge at the station and the observation car where …
: Lights are down low on the train. I have two seats to myself and my makeshift bed. Had an amazing …
: Utica… apparently I’m near the baseball hall of fame but it’s also 9:30pm and dark
: An hour ago: Almost to Albany, NY. Here I get to get off the train for about 45 mins and stretch my …
: I made it to Pittsfield, MA. Hometown of Elizabeth Banks and there’s a bunch of very faded photos of …
: Every new Pokemon game is like “wow you just moved here? cool!” and then the next person you talk to …
: Almost in Springfield, MA. Train is running on time so far. railrat.net/trains/44… …
: Amtrak WiFi is showing approximately 0.3mbps for a train full of people. My personal hotspot is …
: Okay this is pretty cool. A live train tracker. I’m on this train for the next 20 or so hours. …
: Now seated and watching Psych on my iPad.
: Crisis averted thanks to Max and Ali. On the first train now where I’ll be until tomorrow morning.
: My bank chose today to have an ATM eat my debit card. Really not happy.
: Just under five hours before I embark on my 76 hour train journey across the US. I just received …
: Testing micro.blog to Mastodon
: Taking a train from Boston to San Diego tomorrow. If you’re going to be at San Diego Comic-con let …
: Heading to San Diego Comic-con. I’ll be back in about 9 days. Looking forward to a week of not …
: In my 16 years of making free/open social networks, the thing that really ends up grinding at you is …
: My Analogue SuperNt and Mega Sg FPGA video game consoles finally shipped! Just in time for me to …
: Any/all “real programmer” shit should fuck off forever.
: Emails that have Re: in the subject that aren’t replies should be banned.
: Sorry we didn’t get 90000 million people to join in a day but Libre.fm remains the social networking …
: Threads is hard to use. I can’t find most of my friends on there and finding people is hard. Also …
: Social media CEO should be something you go to jail for.
: Don’t make a bunch of fucking randos appear in my feed #Threads
: Disappointed to find no official OPENSTEP Threads app.
: Someone should make an app for JPEG users to post some text as a treat.
: I’m on Threads as @mat.tl. Install the app to follow my threads and replies. …
: If I was a billionaire who bought a social network I would try to just pay my bills and not be a …
: Very excited to add the new version of Epic to my pile of opportunities. Image shows the 223 …
: Remember when HP released a co-branded iPod? Remember the U2 iPod before Apple was forcing an …
: It continues to astound me how many people get their own email address wrong and send me their sign …
: Thinking about getting into Enterprise Linux. What’s good these days?
: Delighted to see the cryptocurrency bro utterly fail on Jeopardy yesterday.
: A month until I get on a plane for the first time in four years and head to San Diego for Comic-Con. …
: If you’ve ever engaged with Warhammer 40,000 I want to hear about it. #40k #warhammer
: If anyone ever asks me what my job is I tell them I’m a monorail driver at a zoo. This was …
: Moving my Mastodon profile from social.mat.tl/@mattl to social.coop/@mattl – things should …
: Bad news.. Via the Horus Heresy game I have accidentally become an historical wargamer.
: How does your group chat work? We have an ridiculous amount of admin, an awards ceremony every year, …
: I wish Bishop Allen would do more records. The Broken String was perfect and even Lights Out is …
: Someone should spit at the people who make mobile apps.
: Weird af that Boston Red Sox have an official hot tea.
: I forgot what email address I used for my original UIN so I wound up registering another. By then it …
: I can’t believe this is from 1980. youtu.be/pLc9f_R-C…
: Nobody on Bsky has mansplained federation or the Internet to me yet, which is a plus.
: Live music is back in Boston! (Drinking a $7 PBR listening to someone who should be in Blues …
: I believe that had Ian Curtis lived to the present day he’d love 40K and would have an Ork army. …
: Space dwarf progress and a hint at my next army. Alt: several images of space dwarfs and space orks …
: Begging the MBTA to use punctuation in announcements.
: Spent 11 hours painting models today: all my original Rogue Trader space dwarf models all 9 of …
: Now I’m just waiting for Analogue to deliver 3 consoles to me.
: Made great progress yesterday evening.
: You can follow me on Bluesky at: bsky.app/profile/m…
: Zelda is hard. I would like to know what I am supposed to do but it was fun to put a fan on a mine …
: I keep buying more space dwarfs but I am pausing to paint my dream army. Goblin green bases are …
: Could also be a talon agency.
: Going to open a tallen agency. It’s a talent agency but we only have Tim Allen impressions.
: Keep getting email spam that’s just a link to a Google doc and they’re all from .ru email addresses. …
: All video games should let you rename characters. I don’t want to fight Ganon, I want to fight King …
: Whatever console Nintendo makes next should be backward compatible with the Switch but should also …
: Respect to whoever I just saw sign on to play Picross right now.
: Thanks to a new collaboration between Nintendo and the pollen count I’m coughing and sneezing while …
: Times must be tough if DHL had to switch to using a Gmail account for all of their email 🤷♂️
: Someone should make a 45 minute YouTube video on how Super Mario Bros. 2 was different in Japan vs …
: 15 Switch friends online right now. Amazing.
: And that’s a wrap on assembling my space dwarf army. Now it’s time to put some paint on them.
: I can’t be in love if it’s plastic
: Being older is a lot of telling other people you were sitting down moments previously.
: Changing my name to “Merchant Copy”
: How’s everyone’s Saturday night going?
: Trans rights are human rights.
: Knocked out another 33 miniatures last night/today. I’m down to the last 20 now. Also it’s …
: My Flipper Zero arrives today. If you have one please let me know what you do with yours…
: Might change my name to “Bug fixes and stability improvements” and then just walk into the Apple …
: Every single city in the US should offer a free domain name in the city.state.us domain name to …
: Does anyone still use WAP on a phone? It’s well and truly dead, I assume, but I welcome the …
: In my element of sticking small plastic space soldiers together while listening to music from 1979.
: I think hiding the lock icon on websites using HTTPS is mistake that will make it harder for users …
: Okay time to watch Alias and ignore the internet until tomorrow.
: Does anyone think the next Nintendo console will have a “find your friends” feature that targets …
: Does anyone have any experience with the HD Homerun? Do you love it? Hate it? Thinking about new …
: I need to update my Starbucks name. I wonder if I can get them to print a URL?
: Okay, trying some hot crossposting action. Posting from micro.blog to a couple different places. And …
: A bus and two convenient trains. I didn’t need to ride the bus but I would like more buses, so …
: I like to ride the airport shuttle. I like to take the free bus to work. I like to board a bus full …
: Got my micro.blog account up and posting to various places now. Let me know if you saw this and …