Matt Hodges

Bongard problems are interesting puzzles; they’re sort of like Spot The Difference meets Raven’s Progressive Matrices.

Issue 001 of The Periodical This week a physical magazine showed up at my door.

Every conversation about AI in campaigns eventually hits the same wall: what about hallucinations?

After 2024, Democrats drew the right immediate lesson: get better at being online.

I previously wrote about how you can use VisiData to quickly scrape HTML tabular data.

Over the past few weeks, something shifted in the AI conversation.

Claude Agent Skills are pretty neat.

I’ve been playing around with Claude Code, and I wanted to see what happens when you give it something genuinely open-ended.

On October 22, 2025 we got the call from Kelsey’s OBGYN that we were going to the hospital that night.

About once a year, I’m reminded of the fact that a lot of marketing SaaS and ad tech dresses up cryptographic hashes as a sort of privacy theater.

This week I hit three small but satisfying milestones: I logged my 1,000th Peloton ride, I achieved my target body weight (again), and I completed five years of tracking my diet and exercise data.

I’ve been loving VisiData for years now.

Two weeks ago, the YouTube algorithmic gods suggested to me The Gist Of Western Philosophy.

This post is also available in video format, created by experiment with NotebookLM: Let’s meet the Crab: He had just bought his first record player, and being somewhat gullible, believed every word the salesman had told him about it-in particular, that it…

Last month OpenAI announced ChatGPT Agent which, among many other things, acts like rubbing LLM onto Selenium.

A common challenge in working with operational or CRM-style data is that you often find yourself dealing with user-entered free text.

Well, they’ve done it.

Over the Summer I wondered whether Austin was having a cooler season than normal.

Heads up: This post has some videos that contain flashing lights.

You constantly see posts among Democratic supporters that look something like this: I’m not donating via ActBlue anymore because they sell my data and I get spam.