Matt Stein

Tech workers attempt to wield power responsibly when management will not.

Collection of George Saunders essays.

It’s a secret to everyone!

French girl and German boy find their way through World War II.

Short review of a small desktop macro device.

Mars low-society underdog ascends.

A much-improved Kobo setup.

Unwitting astronaut works out plot and solves problems.

Examination of storytelling via classic Russian short stories.

Replacing MinIO with RustFS.

It’s a secret to everyone!

Improving my self-hosted Laravel deployments.

I made a completely unnecessary font of my own handwriting.

Fun with stylized maps.

It’s a secret to everyone!

Protagonist straddles mirrored worlds of authoritarianism and anarchy.

Great read on the history of American comedy.

I love drawing these dumb little things.

Touching memoir from an author that studied and loved many animals.

A healthy, harmonious life is one that involves your whole brain.

Amazingly-detailed account of a company we should all be watching closely.

Interview with myself about a mechanical keyboard.

Succinct advice for the present gleaned from historic fascist movements.

I folded my Kirby and Astro sites into a new Eleventy build.

Autobiographical essays from a hilarious nerd.

Man takes up surfing with discordant in-law and it’s a pretty good life metaphor.

I replaced Logi Options+ with BetterMouse.

A look at the year we just finished.

Swapping Duplicati with Zerobyte for local filesystem backups.

Mother holds on to her family in a cautionary, near-future dystopia.

Apps I used regularly in 2025.

Self-hosting spree continues.

Goodbye, gaming PC.

A simple, desperate workflow I can’t recommend.

Open yourself to an audience and work hard to refine material that’s uniquely yours.

Thoughts on AI-assisted coding.

How to send Laravel email using Unsend.

Rude uncle writes incompetent nephew about their work in hell.

A collection of powerful tiny thoughts.

I migrated my Masto.host instance to Coolify.

Walking a lump of earth.

Magic-wielding teen coming-of-age mystery/adventure.

Let us gather and weep.

How I got Unsend and its SMTP relay running.

Please continue to hold.

Now it’s your turn to share 7 random facts with us all.

A Docker setup for running Craft CMS on Coolify.

The wanderer is happiest in motion and must always choose a path.

Our experience with error is vital to our humanity.

Boundaries, self-control, and initiative can be transformative.