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If you live in the Tampa Bay area, which has been my home for the past dozen years, you already know we’re a weird, beautiful, heat-soaked paradise of chicken-walking Ybor streets, Cuban sandwiches, unapologetic swagger, and no small...
Still no perch. Perhaps I should just concentrate on the carp until the weather changes, see if I can get 20 doubles before pike-time? Double #16 above at 12lb 0oz - four more to go...
You could say one of my practicals in BRM is a bit rubbish - well I was asked to take a modern dustcart, and work it into a diorama. The good news is that as well as the modelling, I've written a little history of wheelie bins!As a...
Wellington in Winter
Introversion Software is quite known for its, "Prison Architect," where you attempt to design and run a successful prison (with things often going wrong). They've been hard at work on, "The Last Starship," for some time now, and have...
I’m trying out this thing, it’s trained on my blog posts and public talks, that you can chat with as me on Telegram. Behold: AutoMattBot.
Clint (who among other things, does all sorts of OpenZiti development and co-hosts Ziti TV with me) recently posted a video, OpenZiti 2.0: A Management API With No Open Port. It’s a quick but deep dive prompted by a great question over...
It’s a completely counterintuitive concept, but that’s the thesis of API Gateway Security: A Zero Trust Approach, an article we just refreshed on the NetFoundry blog. Read the article here:...
Nobody likes bedtimes. Nope, nothing’s worse than lying under the covers in hot, flannel PJs with wide, unblinking eyes while the late autumn sun slowly droops outside your window. As the sky fades to a burning orange the streetlights...
This made-for-the-modern office version of The Odyssey will make you both and laugh and weep, especially if you’ve suffered through a long Zoom/Teams call today. The post You “Odyssey” this modern version of The Odyssey! appeared first...
Asian Board Games Festival - Malaysia 2026 is happening Fri 7 Aug 2026 to Sun 9 Aug 2026 in Penang. By the time you read this, I'm probably on the way to Penang, or I am already in Penang running my booth. This is my third time...
It's my oldest brother's birthday today. He lives outside of the city now, but for a while he lived in Toronto's Corso Italia, which is about a half hour walk from where I live now. In a lot of ways, I live where I live now —— where I...
Last month, some of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies signed an open letter supporting open-weights AI.Open weights AI is like open-source software, where the creator makes the raw code publicly available for free download. It’s good...
🎙️ For all the complaints I had about ASCO’s oncology podcasts, I must admit not all professional societies are as bad. Hemetalks from ASH has much more fluid dialogue and more interesting topics. They even had a patient come in to talk...
What’s going on, Internet? Last night I joined the first Asia Pacific Homebrew Website Club, which was also my first HWC. These meetups have been running for years, just never at an hour that worked for me. Naty has started one in this...