Mattie B's blog

I've been poking at this one for a good while.

I discovered one weird trick the other day for fixing GnuPG.

Impact Certain dye template expressions would result in execution of arbitrary code.

I have not been writing much lately, it's true.

I discovered something really cool while prepping for the 4-e demo that I'm planning to do at the office this week, and it has totally derailed me from prepping for said demo.

Is my last post seriously also about 4-e.

I have been working some more on 4-e, my Game Boy Advance homebrew program that takes the place of an e-Reader (and printing cards for an e-Reader) for Super Mario Advance 4. 4-e last saw three rapid releases in the middle of 2024, and since then it hasn't

I just read another post about someone who's slowly slipping into losing their passion and mourning it and the whole bit.

Been dusting off 4-e, my Game Boy Advance homebrew program to emulate a Nintendo e-Reader specifically for Super Mario Advance 4 (a.k.a. the GBA version of Super Mario 3), because I want to give some of the programmers I work with a tour through it at lun…

Of course I'm following the discourse about agents generating software and how it's suddenly really good and programmers are doomed and what not now.

When you set up Fastmail on macOS Mail (colloquially known as "Mail.app"), you can go two ways: Download a configuration profile.

I mean, sort of.

I know better than to announce a date for this, but like I talked about last week, I have decided to move from Listed to 11ty.

Like many people in my circles, I recently read Nolan Lawson's We mourn our craft.

Lucky you.

I cleaned off a (large) space and moved my Sony PS-LX310BT turntable to my desk yesterday.

Have you ever been on Amazon and read a review that said "Amazon Vine Customer Review of Free Product"?

I've learned a lot of tricks since the first time I took my Nintendo Switch Pro Controller apart and taped it up to improve its shitty d-pad.

I dragged my feet until the last day to download all my purchased Kindle books, but I did do it, and validated that yep, with the serial number from my Paperwhite Signature, I can decrypt them in Calibre with DeDRM_tools.

Since my last post on the subject, I have received confirmation from Apple Accessibility Support that iOS 18.1 has indeed removed the feature to use your audiogram with Headphone Accommodations with not just the AirPods Pro 1 and Lightning AirPods Max that

iOS 18.1, and the "clinical grade hearing aid" transformation of AirPods Pro 2, are just around the corner, but as of today, not yet officially released.

In light of how AirPods Pro 2 (I guess they're "2" now, now "2nd Generation") are about to be "clinical grade hearing aids", it's worth digging a little bit into the history of the thing.

I think it was 2022. 2021?

gbfs-web has been fixed (and updated a little!).

Back in June, I wrote a little bit about how I use an old Nintendo DS to dump GBA ROMs as well as dump and restore the save files.

Content warning: grief.

It (currently) says right on my "about me" page that I'm a Muppets nerd, and that is accurate.

The Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS homebrew scenes are amazing.

Super Mario Advance 4 is more than Super Mario Bros. 3.

I try not to think too hard about how old the Game Boy Advance is.

In this post: My experience with the d-pad How I save time and risk opening up my Pocket, including how to avoid having to detach the infamous display cable The solution I used and why it works for me And, as usual, plenty of story time But first!

This post is spoiler-free, as best I can make it.

With Nintendo shutting down online play for Wii U and 3DS in about a month, and given that I had just finished the absolutely fantastic Xenoblade: Definitive Edition on my Switch, I recently dusted off the ol' Wii U and unsealed (!)

Every year around this time, my ability to enjoy the arrival of spring is severely impacted by the fact that I'm struggling to adjust my circadian rhythm to what we all know is the worst idea we've ever had as a society—daylight saving time, or DST.

I got super interested in colorimeters a year or so ago.

Do you really qualify as "trans"?

📢 Update!

I recently wrote a new shell library called portable-color.

It's been a good while since "HD" was acceptable for computer monitors.

I had been tracking the macOS public beta on my M2 MacBook Pro for a little while in the hopes they were fixing a particularly painful issue with Linux Rosetta support.

I've been working on a little project for a few evenings now: folding my old domain and old blog into this one.

I recently upgraded my nearly-five-year-old MacBook Pro with one of the shiny new M2-based ones.

One of my essential macOS apps is George Brocklehurst's Choosy.

While hunting for white elephant gifts, I came across something really neat.

Last August, I wrote a post over at Atomic Spin on calling macOS APIs in Automator workflows.

I realized that I have been using the figcaption HTML element incorrectly, when I originally added the photo of a Nazi book burning to my post about Twitter and the pink lists.

That was an interesting journey.

I went smart garage door shopping a little while ago.

We live under capitalism, so of course there are eleventy billion ways to play a song, many of which are hoping to get you to commit to subscription fees.

Content warning: religious hate of queer people, queer self-hatred.