~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 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...
This is my distraction log for May of 2026. I outline some things that I've been distracted by during the month of May. This post is part of the Distraction Log series. Personal Archiving [2026-05-01 Fri] I was reading about the idea of...
Personal websites are living things and are never really finished. There is always something to tweak, to optimize, or to experiment with. Over the last several months on ersatz.website I've made some changes to the site's stylesheet to...
I use a Makefile to move my emacs configuration from its git repo in my home directory to the emacs config directory. There are a variety of better ways a person could move files from one place to another and a Makefile probably wouldn't...
May really crept up on me this year. I'm always surprised when the seasons change. The beginning of a season has me makes feeling like it will last the whole year. They always seem to change faster than I'm ready for. It's May now, and...