Matthew Tift — Wise Action
Matthew Tift — Wise Action
Matthew Tift
I build websites with Drupal and other Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS). I teach yoga and meditation. I like to write about both.
Latest Posts
Winter Camping and the Four Requisites mtift Tue, 06/09/2026 - 08:21 My daughter is off at grad school now, and she left a few tubs of her things in our basement. Over the weekend she came home to sort through them, and somehow the whole...
Joy in the Arboretum, Joy Inside mtift Tue, 06/02/2026 - 08:45 A lot of people have been asking me what’s happening with yoga at the Arboretum. I wish I had a happier answer.The Arboretum is one of my favorite places to teach yoga. My...
Use Any Means or Method mtift Tue, 05/26/2026 - 08:13 Last Thursday night, I asked a Tibetan monk if we should keep using the same practices in a world where the political climate feels unstable and AI threatens to change everything. He...
When the Mind Stops Updating mtift Fri, 05/15/2026 - 08:14 There’s a new large language model (LLM) on the block, and it got me thinking about why I practice meditation.The model is called Talkie, and it’s not like the other models....
Goblins in the Machine and Goblins in the Mind Monster by one of my kids. Its name is ghost. mtift Wed, 05/13/2026 - 18:30 GPT had a goblin problem. Yep, you read that right. The model kept mentioning goblins and other creatures in its...
Contentment with Markdown mtift Mon, 05/11/2026 - 15:33 If one tool can make the work look more exciting, why choose a different tool that makes the work look basic?Last week, Thariq Shihipar, who works on Claude Code at Anthropic,...
AI, Slot Machines, and Other Kinds of Happiness mtift Fri, 05/08/2026 - 08:54 A lot of AI products, when you strip away the hype, are happiness machines. Feed them your mood and they give you something back, such as a great playlist, a...
Caring about Software, Caring about People mtift Wed, 05/06/2026 - 08:36 What if caring about software is one way to care about people?The most thought-provoking talk I attended at Minnebar on Saturday was Paul Cantrell’s “What tech...
Before the Incident Report: How We Are Collaborative mtift Mon, 05/04/2026 - 15:03 (This article was originally published on Drupal.org.)At DrupalCon Chicago, the Driesnote included a visualization with “community” as one of the three...
Living at Ease mtift Tue, 04/14/2026 - 08:31 At the end of my yoga classes, I say a lot of things. Be kind in your thoughts, speech, and actions. Take care of yourself and the people around you. May you find peace.And then I say...
Using AI Without Compromising Our Values Photo by Curt Rochon, DrupalCon Chicago 2026. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 mtift Mon, 04/06/2026 - 06:56 Do my values need to change at the speed of AI?I fully admit that I went into DrupalCon...
The Quiet Room at DrupalCon mtift Sat, 03/28/2026 - 10:05 At DrupalCon Chicago this past week, Dries (the founder of Drupal) borrowed an idea from Fred Rogers. When Rogers received a lifetime achievement award at the Emmys, he stopped...
Noble Friends and Free Software Communities mtift Sat, 03/21/2026 - 08:24 In yoga and meditation communities, there’s a concept called kalyāna-mittatā, or noble friendship. The Buddha considered it so important that he called it the...
Finding Your Dharma or Living the Dharma? mtift Tue, 03/10/2026 - 07:52 The No Kings protest is coming up again. You may have heard about it, and perhaps you feel some pressure to attend. In the past, I organized groups to go, so people...
Finding the Right Meditation Without Getting Lost Along the Way mtift Wed, 02/25/2026 - 08:13 Someone told me recently that he had been going through a difficult period. He said he had probably heard my voice more than his wife’s because...