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
I’ve been writing about notes, note-taking, and notebooks a lot lately. Beyond the fact that I have a crappy memory and writing everything down helps with that, I also feel the need to create a record of my own personal history. As I get...
I feel this. I’m the type of person who will willingly go on Twitter (even though I hate Twitter) just to find spoilers for whatever show I’m watching. Back when Castle was on, I visited TVLine almost every day looking to see if they had...
I’ve written about notebooks a lot in the last couple of months. And that should be a pretty good indicator that something fishy is going on. I’m developing a new… interest. I was going to use the word obsession, but I’m not there yet. I...
I really like to blog. I do not know if you can tell that, as I only blog every single day. I know a lot of my fellow bloggers who have the same passion I do for maintaining and producing content for their blogs. One thing I have...
I’m resisting buying a new keyboard. I have promised myself that my need to collect new keebs is over, and I can be happy with what I have. I tell myself that at least once a day. I have a problem. The thing that is prodding me towards...
I’m filling up my Field Notes notebooks quickly, so I’ve been on the lookout for my next set. I figured I would go cheaper this time, since Field Notes (it’s a brand) are quite pricey. I found some generic A6 size notebooks on Amazon...
The other day on The Linux Cast, we talked a lot about security, and one of the things that we talked about was changing your password. Now, I use a password manager for the things that matter, so it’s quite easy to change passwords when...
So, a few days ago, I wrote about how my bookmarking system is a mess. I’m still thinking about what to do about that, but I’m still slowly going through my saved RSS articles, my bookmarks, and my notes. I’m weeding things out in the...
Back in June, I wrote a post about how I had started keeping track of certain habits. These were things I wanted to improve upon by doing every single day. I’ve done a somewhat good job of actually doing this since then. First, as I said...
I like Discord. I also kinda hate Discord. The problem I have with it is that there are a lot of people there. The thing I like about it is that there are a lot of people there. It’s a mixed bag. You will find a lot of great things on...
I’ve had some blog stats available on my About page for a while, but I wanted to see if I could make my script a little more robust. For one, I wanted more stats, but I also wanted graphs. What I had before was a simple bash script that...
I have looked into getting into fountain pens myself, if I’m being honest. I love the idea of them. And I do own one. I do not know if it’s a good one or not, I just bought it on Amazon when I was looking for a new pen (I ended up with...
Back when Twitter was fun and Tumblr was new, the idea of posting small blogs, or “micro blogging”, caught the public’s eye. For those of us who found regular, long-form, blogging to be too overwhelming, posting a little thought here or...
A few days ago I wrote about my inability to actually play games that I buy. In that post I made a… lukewarm mention of trying harder. You could tell I really didn’t believe it. Honestly, I still don’t believe it. But, I’m going to stick...
This post kind of pissed me off. It’s written to make people who can own physical media feel guilt for doing so. It has no point other than that. Because what should we feel about it? Should we stop trying to own physical media because...