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鈥檚 a place to ramble.
Latest Posts
Another week gone past. The year is almost over. How鈥檇 that happen? Programming This week was focused on Checkbox. It is very slow going. I鈥檝e spent basically the entire week on native language scheduling. First, I tried an existing...
Video: https://youtu.be/2Pkwj5ksAi4?si=w1ejepeueVEjmCNUNo Bolts Left BehindI鈥檝e been having a blast watching this series. I鈥檓 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鈥檝e talked about my eternal love of RSS before, so I don鈥檛...
I鈥檝e 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鈥檓 returning to a blog post idea I had a few months ago. I wrote this idea down and just didn鈥檛 know how it fit, as it was during the time when I started to think more carefully about my health and getting...
So, I鈥檝e been working on my music collection and it is really coming along. I鈥檝e 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鈥檝e gotten better at writing since school. Granted I鈥檝e been a writer professionally for nearly 20 years at this point. But, one thing I鈥檝e struggled with is the changing tone of the writing I do. It鈥檚 hard for a writer...
I鈥檝e changed the naming scheme a little. I stole the idea from Justin Vollmer. Yoink. Programming I have started yet another project. I鈥檓 calling it Checkbox, and it鈥檚 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鈥檓 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...
Happy Thanksgiving! It is important to say thanks. So, I鈥檓 just going to say thank you. Thank you to my family for putting up with me. Thank you to my buddies who have been with me through it all. Thanks to all of those people who have...
First off, Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends. Second, yes, this post is being written on turkey day, despite being time stamped the day before. I鈥檓 not cheating, I鈥檓 adapting. Or so I tell myself. I spent most of today cooking...
Free at last? Work My last day was Friday. Well, technically it was my last day of work. I decided last Monday that I wanted Turkey Week off, so I put in a series of 14 hour days so that I could get my work done. And I am done. The...
This is my 200th post in 2025. There鈥檚 still over a month to go in this year, so I鈥檒l have more. When I started this blog, it was going to be nothing but books. I wanted a place where I could talk about books I鈥檝e read, what I was going...
For years, I鈥檝e just used the Kindle app to read on my Android or iPhone. It was easy, and send to Kindle is awesome. The UI, while cluttered with Amazon nonsense, was pleasing enough to get along with. But I now host all of my own...