The Fantastic Site of Lord Matt

Webmention is a great idea.

So, I saw a weird headline on social media today: “How having a disability became cool“.

From time to time, I have to admit that I just have too many tabs open.

Web writers, the AI has been trained on your public work, and it shows.

This quick and easy guide is mostly for my fellow writers and anyone else who occasionally needs special paragraphs in their document.

Why do so many HFY stories start with the OC standing somewhere waiting for the opening thing to happen?

I was struggling to get both comments and replies to post while only showing “facepile” for likes and boosts.

I need a special blend of stuff that might never exist.

Every now and then, I like to share the love by focusing on a blog I have found and enjoyed.

Sometimes you want to write a blog or a social media update, but draw a blank on what to say.

If you want something a bit more special than mass-produced (AI-generated) code and storytelling, I am available to hire at a moment’s notice at the highly artistic and rarefied rate of £10,000 p/hour.

So, I recently made a little toy I call Today In Emoji.

Today, I took some time out of processing the loss of my dad to do some nerdy tech stuff with OpenMentions and WebMention sources.

I had a project idea in my head that seemed too complex to work on until I tried diagramming it.

My blog runs a handmade custom WordPress theme called LordMatt7 as it is the seventh complete rebuild since all the way back in 2005 when I first made a Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia mashup looking blog.

I am a contributor to the Muse of Last Resort blog.

My initial question was “What is the best way to add some AMA (ask me anything) feature (like on Tumblr) to one or more of my websites?”

For my visual novel project, I wanted things that have images and tags, but can mutate or change as they gain more.

If you are one of the five or so people who read my weight loss and pain management blog, you may know I added charts.

I recently made the case that Make what you need might be all wrong for the IndieWeb’s future and then theAdhocracy and made some strong counterpoints.

I’m a huge fan of WebMention.

This post is an example of “blog your homework”, the idea that when you research something, you should write about it.

IndieWeb has this idea of “scratch your own itch” or “make what you need“.

I can be one of the hardest human beings to make contact with on the planet (for a chronically online guy).

I was in the middle of previewing a post when I got annoyed at the line length and readability of my blog.

I was searching for a very specific set of features in a WordPress plugin.

As most WordPress users know, there is a great ActivityPub plugin that makes your blog part of the fediverse.

I’ve been pondering the weird collection of sets I cooked up in this post.

Bury me with some weird shit If/when I pass, I want everyone who attends the service to bring things to fill my coffin with.

So, you’ve written a blog post and want feedback from the rest of the team?

No, it is not just you, the terribly built Universal Credit website appears to have unalived itself.

There was a recent story in the local online news about a council using AI to stop fly-tipping.

My go to IDE of choice is Netbeans, but today I tried out Zed.

So, last night I slept for a very long time.

The banners are for my Pixel Wall project.

I’d like to propose an extension of the OpenGraph protocol for easy wishlist creation.

Today, I learned that gov.uk websites use Mark Down – a system for marking up text that can safely be turned into HTML.

The UK Online Safety Act 2023 makes it the responsibility of site owners to carry out a laundry list of protection behaviours.

I’ve been posting here from time to time about my visual novel plans.

I am professionally embarrassed for whoever created the Universal Credit Website (UCW).

The BBC is reporting that the UK government is asking for something dumb – access to encrypted data – but that is not how any of this works.

I put out a request for comments on what professionals see as the most significant developments in web development for professionals.