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Today, I want to introduce a stunning artwork that sadly no longer exists. I hope you had the opportunity to experience it if you attended the Setouchi Triennale 2025 during the autumn session last year.As the title suggests, it was...
Lisa Shearin’s The Grendel Affair is a relatively typical urban fantasy sort of set-up, with much of the world unaware of magic and monsters, and others secretly working to keep that […]
In case you were wondering if I like the new season of Diablo IV, this is my current character: I am following this guide. It is the first time since release that I touched the game, and back then I didn't even get through the story....
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Judge Parker,...
I'm still living in Dublin, Ireland. I love my space here. I can see the sea from my living room and I'm surrounded by my records and books. I started an email newsletter four years ago called "Stuff that MattR's", it has
Claire Saffitz’s Black Sesame Paris-Brest turns classic pâte à choux into a showstopping birthday dessert filled with nutty black sesame pastry cream and whipped cream. Homemade black tahini adds toasted, slightly bitter balance, while...
UpdatesAnother week sitting with the uncertainty of layoffs at work. It's a strange headspace to operate in. You can't fully commit to long-term projects. But I also can't just stop. So we show up and do the work in front of us.On
Well made software products and well run product companies will make it through the AI hype cycle, no problem. Pull up any vibe coded project that’s “70% done” or “something that took me 10 minutes to build”. Then have that person do the...
It has been two years since my mom passed away. In honor of my mother, Fay Marie, I wanted to share the eulogy I wrote for her funeral.A song I wrote for my mom after she passed awayThank you all for coming.It's moving to see