~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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
Using an airplane galley cart as workshop storage
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...
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...
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...
Simple Advice for Building Habits
All credit for this advice goes to the YouTube channel of Christopher Budnick, and specifically the video they made called "How to read every book you own". I really love this...
I recently bought a Smith-Corona Galaxie. It is a fully manual portable typewriter manufactured in 1960. It's an impressive machine. Typewriters have always been fascinating to...
A blog seems to come into being from nothing, doesn't it? Conjured from the aether of the net by would-be sorcerers, they are truly fragile things when born. A blog often will...