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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
Another Luke Skywalker today – this time the Operative version from 1st Edition Legion cast in PVC, as opposed to the recently released HIPS newer version. As with a surprisingly large number of these PVC figures, the actor’s likeness is...
Sunday Asides #94 Man, I have been working this week. Two part-time jobs, a new gig job I started back on May 1, and I’m still applying to places so I can land a full-time role at a company somewhere. I’m running off caffeine and vibes,...
After Perseus killed Medusa by cutting off her head, he carried her head around for a while, using it as a weapon. Apparently the head worked as well to turn people to stone as she had while alive, which seems odd. He eventually gave her...
How I simplified my macOS shell setup with Ghostty, Homebrew, Oh My Posh, Atuin and a leaner zsh configuration.
Before we left Germany, I stocked up on aviation-related books, including the depicted one. The plan was to read them during dreary autumn and winter days when I'm unable to go out and photograph airplanes. While Danish spring leaves a...
In my first post of 2026, I set myself a goal: downgrading my iCloud Plan. Here is the translated extract from that post, which was initially written in French: Another goal I would like to achieve is to downgrade my iCloud plan. I am...
Did you know that there are only three surviving Roman lighthouses in the world? One, the Tower of Hercules in Spain has been featured on Kuriositas back in 2011. The UK is also home to one of them – the Dover Pharos. Now, it could be...
This edition covers how output (generated by AI) isn't design, AI fatigue in engineering, and skills for sustainable accessibility programs. Also: beautiful illustrations exploring the human psyche, a distraction-free writing tool, and...