~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.
August 2026
September 2026
All posts (7)
I recently replatformed the site from the Digital Ocean app engine to a Hetzner VPS. I wrote about why I migrated off of Digital Ocean here. I decided to use Caddy as the web server because it made getting up and running with TLS nice and easy. During the migration, my domain's A and AAAA records were still pointed...
Remember bookmarklets? I remember getting online as a young person and being really amazed by the power of these. I hardly even knew what Javascript was back around the year 2000, but I knew these things were cool. As I got older and started to work on the web I remember using some very powerful bookmarklets like...
I recently wrote about Digital Ocean deciding to donate $3 million dollars to a racist's pet linux project. In that post, I said that I would be migrating off of Digital Ocean as soon as possible, because I did not want to support a company that chose to prop up a racist. I completed the migration to a Hetzner VPS...
I recently discovered that Digital Ocean - the platform this website is hosted on - has promised to donate $3 million dollars over the next three years to Omarchy. They have joined the project as a "founding corporate patron" according to Omarchy's press release. I will not be linking to their website here, but this...
This is the second installment of Internet Adventures. In the previous episode I highlighted a few fantastic blogs. An internet astronaut such as yourself (my reader) knows that blogs aren't the only cool things happening on the internet. For the this episode of internet adventures, I wanted to highlight some...
Version 31.1 of Emacs was just released. I decided to use this 31.1 release as an excuse to clear out the config cobwebs and start over. Restarting a big config isn't something I want to do all the time, but I wanted to try and make emacs more comfortable to use, and address some difficulties I was having with...
I started sending postcards to people again recently. A while back when I got my typewriter, I signed up for TypePals.com and started snail mailing folks. It was a lot of fun; I wrote a bit about it here. Recently I decided to sign up for a postcrossing.com. Postcrossing is a postcard exchange site with a huge...
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