Matt's Blog
Matt's Blog
Matthew Weber
Matt is a writer, historian, and a YouTuber. He is also a voracious reader and consumer of media. On this blog, he talks about books, life, politics, and technology. It’s a place to ramble.
Latest Posts
Yes, this is late. It has been a busy few days. Work Wait. Work? Yeah, kinda. I got a call back a few days ago, and now have an interview scheduled for January. I received another call back today, but no interview with that one yet, they...
I was so close, y’all. I promised myself that I would blog every day from mid-September to the end of the year. But I’ve failed. I wanted to write yesterday, but I had nothing to write about. Same with today. It’s not like I have no...
This is an awesome post. I may end up doing something similar to Alex, though I’m not sure my drivel on social media over the last twenty years is really all the effort. It’d still be a type of online digital journal, so it might be...
Normally, it takes until about the middle of February for me to get sick of Winter. Usually, in mid-December we still see some 40 degree days. Almost never are we under 20 degrees. This year, we’ve seen -8 Degrees (these are all in...
Video: https://youtu.be/bcYJY7Ci9i8?si=vmNhbY8XkmErkgUfTaylor Bell Running the NYC MarathonI couldn’t walk a mile if you paid me to do so. But I found this video incredibly inspiring.
Another week gone past. The year is almost over. How’d that happen? Programming This week was focused on Checkbox. It is very slow going. I’ve spent basically the entire week on native language scheduling. First, I tried an existing...
Video: https://youtu.be/2Pkwj5ksAi4?si=w1ejepeueVEjmCNUNo Bolts Left BehindI’ve been having a blast watching this series. I’m not much of a car guy, but I still get into these types of videos from time to time.
I use FreshRSS to manage all of my RSS feeds. It is wonderful. Maybe the best thing I use on a daily basis. I adore being able to use the internet in this way, for many reasons. I’ve talked about my eternal love of RSS before, so I don’t...
I’ve been working on making it so I can self host my own music library over the last few months. This has entailed buying some music from Bandcamp and pulling in some tracks from a seafaring friend. Do I feel guilty for sailing the seven...
With my recent unemployment, I’m returning to a blog post idea I had a few months ago. I wrote this idea down and just didn’t know how it fit, as it was during the time when I started to think more carefully about my health and getting...
So, I’ve been working on my music collection and it is really coming along. I’ve downloaded a metric shit ton of music in the last month. My biggest problem remains, however. Metadata is crap. Even though now all of my files are...
I really think I’ve gotten better at writing since school. Granted I’ve been a writer professionally for nearly 20 years at this point. But, one thing I’ve struggled with is the changing tone of the writing I do. It’s hard for a writer...
I’ve changed the naming scheme a little. I stole the idea from Justin Vollmer. Yoink. Programming I have started yet another project. I’m calling it Checkbox, and it’s a todo list application that will one day replace TickTick for me. It...
So, I use Hugo for this site. And I used 11ty for TLC for a long while before moving that to Hugo as well. I’m pretty good with Hugo but I will admit that they can be complicated to set up. But in his response to the article that Jan...
My favorite television show of all time is The West Wing. Aaron Sorkin is awesome, and most of his stuff is just good. The West Wing is my favorite for many reasons, but I loved it because it dealt with human problems in at least...