Matt Marshall's Personal Site (en)

As part of my ’leaving behind Google’ process, combined with my minimalism journey, I recently exported and curated an entire archive of photographs I’ve collected.

Update: Brimstone is now retired and archived, and this website is currently generated by a static site generator.

I recently decided to do an inventory of all my things that I have in my flat.

This is the paper we submitted and had accepted into CHI 2018.

I’m genuinely unsure what I want to write about right now.

I’ve been absent from writing longform posts lately (or shortform for that matter tbh) for a number of reasons.

Ramble alert; a lot of these thoughts are stream-of-consciousness and unrefined.

Note: Looking back on this post, it was clear that I was experiencing a standard type of SPAM email address designed to get people linking to alternative web pages for common resources.

This week I’ve modified my training routine from circuit repeated on Tuesdays and Fridays to a Mon-Wed-Fri routine outlined in ‘Good Behaviour’ in Convict Conditioning.

I blather on about Strength Training a lot, because it means a lot to me.

I’ve lived in the same flat, with the same flatmate, for a little over 6 years now.

It’s always a bittersweet time of year for me.

Last night I just finished a book on ‘Essentialism’.

Maybe because I’m sentimental, and maybe because I’m a nerd, I’ve been exploring the ancient world of Proto-Indo-European (PIE) culture lately.

It’s Autumn soon, (on the 22nd September).

Remember that you will die.

This year I’ve really been on a decluttering journey.

It still amazes me what happens when the sun rises.

I should buy a boat cat.jpg So, I bought a boat.

This is the third and final post describing my future plans for fasting on two fronts.

Earlier this week I outlined my need to fast on two fronts.

It’s that time of year when I get really reflective around my strength training.

Note: This was written on the Friday morning (9th Jun) following the result of the UK General election As I write these words I have been awake for 28 hours.

In Open Lab we go through what I call the CHI Cycle, in that we’re expected to submit work to the ACM SIGCHI Conference CHI.

Recently, I was in the kitchen at work enjoying my calories and chatting with a friend/colleague whose PhD is in Making and portable Making.

This piece was originally going to be about bone carving and my love/hate relationship with the material.

It’s currently 2023 and I’m trying to tidy up the archives of my blog a little bit.

This is designed to be a living article, and will be edited as time progresses.

I’ve grown a bit restless with Brimstone (the software that’s running this site) at the moment.

Over the last few weeks I’ve been going through something of change as I become determined to declutter everything and regain some of the peace of mind that I’ve lost as I’ve accumulated half a decade’s worth of stuff in my flat.

Exactly one year on from my previous reflection, it’s time to do it again.

I’m going to start doing little weekly posts for personal reflection.

As I grow increasingly concerned with my reliance on Cloud Services, and the exposure of my data to the corporate overlords, I’ve been “taking back control” bit by bit.

I’m a massive fan of bodyweight training, and got into it just as it became the training method du jour.

I’m a bit of a poetic shithead when it comes to thinking about my life, challenges, and achievements.

Earlier this month I wrote about how I felt about stuff.

I’ve been thinking about stuff and my relationship with it.

I have a bit of a weird relationship with the Indieweb.

A little while ago I reflected on my Facebook use, discussing what I used it for and how I felt about it.

I have always had a problem with the dreaded Feature Creep.

Ever since I discovered it, I’ve been an enormous fan of sushi.

It’s long been a goal of mine to stop using Facebook for the majority of my social interaction on the web.

This is a copy of the paper we submitted and had published at CHI 2016.

I’ve been strength training since October 2012 with Starting Strength and the Power Lifts.

Warning: I’m going to have a bitch here, although I think I make some good points; the purpose of this piece is pretty much just as therapy for my coder-rage.

Update 2021-04-18: Please don’t use PDF.

For a while now I’ve thought about my overall fitness goals, as opposed to just my strength goals.

I wrote this a little while back in 2013, when I desperately wanted to eat some peanut butter out of the jar but there was none in the house.

Another year of strength training is under my belt, and since it’s in every strength enthusiast’s best interests to look back and reflect on their training every so often I thought I’d take this opportunity to do so.

I’ve just recently completed most of the CMS portion of the site, allowing me to publish a few of the posts I’ve been working on over the Winter-break.