~mattyblog
~mattyblog
Matty
Hi! I'm Matty. I am the author of this thing. I am a thoroughly-midwestern mid-30s fella. I live in Chicago with my dog Donut and I am trying to spend less time in the toxic glow of the computer. ~mattyblog is a static site built with the 11ty static site engine. It is hosted on the Digital Ocean application platform. Every word on the site was typed inside of the Gnu Emacs text editor. Any images were very likely edited in the GNU Image Manipulation Program. ~mattyblog was built for, and tested exclusively in the free and open Firefox web browser.
Latest Posts
David Lynch has died today. That feels like such a strange sentence to write. It is unreal to read. David Lynch has been such a constant presence in my mind, and such a large influence on how I view and experience art and film that it is...
Today is the final day of an arduous year. I'm looking forward to a fresh one. For a lot of 2024 I was in survival mode and living every day in a very reactive way and without much focus on the important things in my life. It's been...
I write this blog under the name 'matty' and not my full name because I want to be slightly anonymous. Running a website and especially what could be called a "personal" blog under a real name that could come up in search results would...
It's Christmas eve and I just got home after taking a late night bike ride around my neighborhood. I haven't taken the bike out much over the last year. I let myself get psyched out by the cars I was sharing the road with, started to...
As I start typing, it is eleven minutes after midnight on December the 16th. I am in bed with a computer in my lap and music in my ears. This is well past the bedtime of any reasonable person for whom Monday morning requires them being...
Small meta update: I create a links archive that I hope to grow into a large collection of cool and interesting web pages as well as a blogroll that indexes all the blogs I'm subscribed to. The links archive can be accessed here. I've...
I like surfing the web. I'm sure that isn't very surprising given that I run a blog; looking around and reading other people's blogs is kind of the fun at the core of the whole thing, right? I haven't been using my feed aggregator to...
I joined Bluesky when it was still an invite-only network. I was one of the first one million users on the site! I was wildly apprehensive about the platform when I joined. The only concrete thing I knew about it was that it was supposed...
I recently wrote about how I started using an old refurbished iPod nano. It is such a throwback! I've been loading it up with some digital purchases that I've gotten through bandcamp over the last couple years. I've only got four...
Services like Spotify have wildly changed my relationship with music. I used to have to work really hard to find things to listen to. I read blogs, I followed actual labels that published things I liked. I put things on my mp3 player and...
Summer is over, and Fall is happening. It's been a strange year for me. I've felt tired and worn out for the whole of it. Not very much happened over the summer, it seems like I sleptwalk through it. I find myself wondering if the cold...
Matty Note: I am backdating this post, but the contents come from the date in question and are indeed authentic. Today I am 35! Feeling ethereal.
Over the last few months I have been slowly building out a little workshop for myself in a spare bedroom. I wanted to create a space to work on art projects, do some small scale woodworking, and play around with my typewriter. I've never...
Matty Note: Hello there reader! If you want to skip the background about how sad I was feeling pre-dog and get straight to the dog pics, click here to meet my dog Donut. Don't worry about it! Before Donut In the begginning of 2023 I was...
How would you introduce yourself to a stranger? Let your subconscious mull that over for a minute. Recently I bought a brand-new old typewriter. I bought it with the purpose of sending letters and post cards to friends. So far I've sent...