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Matthew Brown edited the blog post July 2026 Divestment in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 08:40:36 +0100

July 2026 Divestment From time to time, I have to admit that I just have too many tabs open. Which means I am not likely to get back to them any time soon. When that happens, I […]

Matthew Brown commented on the post, The email, social media, and IndieWeb Node I need (that will probably never exist), that I think authors would love, on the groupblog The Fantastic Site of Lord Matt

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:17:52 +0100

I’ve started work on this. It may take a very long time.

Matthew Brown edited the blog post You web writers have taught AI some truly terrible writing habits in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:50:38 +0100

You web writers have taught AI some truly terrible writing habits Web writers, the AI has been trained on your public work, and it shows. You all have taught AI some truly terrible writing habits HFY writers have […]

Matthew Brown edited the blog post How to add a no-fuss "thoughts" custom paragraph style to LibreOffice in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:08:34 +0100

How to add a no-fuss "thoughts" custom paragraph style to LibreOffice This quick and easy guide is mostly for my fellow writers and anyone else who occasionally needs special paragraphs in their document. Imagine this. […]

Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post Please, dear HFY writers, no more stories starting with "Bob sat on the bridge of the Earth Ship Big Birtha" in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0100

Please, dear HFY writers, no more stories starting with "Bob sat on the bridge of the Earth Ship Big Birtha" Why do so many HFY stories start with the OC standing somewhere waiting for the opening thing to happen? I’ve lost track of the stories I’ve listened to or […]

Matthew Brown edited the blog post Fixing my ActivityPub and WebMention comments to make them play nicely. in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:39:32 +0100

Fixing my ActivityPub and WebMention comments to make them play nicely. I was struggling to get both comments and replies to post while only showing “facepile” for likes and boosts. I had no one to blame but myself as I coded […]

Matthew Brown edited the blog post The email, social media, and IndieWeb Node I need (that will probably never exist), that I think authors would love in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:40:30 +0100

The email, social media, and IndieWeb Node I need (that will probably never exist), that I think authors would love I need a special blend of stuff that might never exist. This is my attempt to dream out loud in the hope that this is the idea someone steals and runs […]

Matthew Brown edited the blog post Jukka's blog and email list journey in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:36:40 +0100

Jukka's blog and email list journey Every now and then, I like to share the love by focusing on a blog I have found and enjoyed. Today I’d like to share Jukka’s blog. Jukka is a business […]

Matthew Brown edited the blog post 7 fun posts to reply to (espeically if you use WebMention) in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Sat, 16 May 2026 22:11:06 +0100

7 fun posts to reply to (espeically if you use WebMention) Sometimes you want to write a blog or a social media update, but draw a blank on what to say. Other times, you may crave interaction and a good chat. In […]

Matthew Brown edited the blog post Artisanal hand crafted coding, writing, blogging, talking, and so forth in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:15:17 +0000

Artisanal hand crafted coding, writing, blogging, talking, and so forth 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 […]

Matthew Brown edited the blog post Emoji things code: thisCall() in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:54:54 +0000

Emoji things code: thisCall() So, I recently made a little toy I call Today In Emoji. It shows you some emojis that relate to the day. If you mouse over them, you get some text […]

Matthew Brown commented on the post, Discovery on the small web, on the groupblog The Fantastic Site of Lord Matt

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:30:51 +0000

Just took a quick look. Nice blog. I shall give it the proper attention it deserves soonish.

Matthew Brown commented on the post, Sorting arrays with PHP, on the groupblog The Fantastic Site of Lord Matt

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 02:09:12 +0000

I just googled how to do a particular type of sort and found my own page. My most sincere thanks to past me.

Matthew Brown commented on the post, Considerations for adding an AMA feature, on the groupblog The Fantastic Site of Lord Matt

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:24:14 +0000

All this time later, and I still don’t love any of my options. Whatever I do will require some hackish fixes somewhere.

Matthew Brown edited the blog post Exploring WebMention sources in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:03:16 +0000

Exploring WebMention sources 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 was interested in […]

Matthew Brown edited the blog post The time I used diagramming for success in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:41:52 +0000

The time I used diagramming for success I had a project idea in my head that seemed too complex to work on until I tried diagramming it. The idea was a multipurpose CRM-like action/account […]

Matthew Brown edited the blog post I upgraded my blog in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 18:15:52 +0000

I upgraded my blog 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 […]

Matthew Brown edited the blog post 5 writing prompts from the muse that I love in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Sun, 02 Nov 2025 13:51:22 +0000

5 writing prompts from the muse that I love I am a contributor to the Muse of Last Resort blog. Not gonna lie, there are many prompts there that I love and desperately want to see some stories based […]

Matthew Brown edited the blog post Considerations for adding an AMA feature in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:05:58 +0100

Considerations for adding an AMA feature 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?” I’d thought about […]

Jason Latnar commented on the post, Python: Objects that change (for story reasons), on the groupblog The Fantastic Site of Lord Matt

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:02:18 +0100

Stand back! Matt’s doing coding again.

Matthew Brown edited the blog post Python: Objects that change (for story reasons) in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 19:51:05 +0100

Python: Objects that change (for story reasons) For my visual novel project, I wanted things that have images and tags, but can mutate or change as they gain more. This is the code I wrote: […]

Matthew Brown edited the blog post How I charted pain over time on my WordPress blog in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 08:36:48 +0100

How I charted pain over time on my WordPress blog 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. This is how I did that. FYI: […]

Matthew Brown commented on the post, Okay, "make what you need" might be good for the IndieWeb’s future after all, on the groupblog The Fantastic Site of Lord Matt

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 01:36:21 +0100

That’s odd. I too see the error.

Matthew Brown edited the blog post Okay, "make what you need" might be good for the IndieWeb’s future after all in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 10:40:08 +0100

Okay, "make what you need" might be good for the IndieWeb’s future after all 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 […]

Matthew Brown commented on the post, Make what you need might be all wrong for the IndieWeb's future, on the groupblog The Fantastic Site of Lord Matt

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 09:26:12 +0100

@theadhocracy@indieweb.social That’s a fantastic counterpoint and rebuttal. You present a very convincing argument. I may have to change my views somewhat. Thank you.

Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post All the WebMention libraries and plugins I could find in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 10:00:00 +0100

All the WebMention libraries and plugins I could find I’m a huge fan of WebMention. You might have noticed how often I go on and on and on about it. WebMEntion is the future of interactive communication. Or, […]

Matthew Brown edited the blog post Everything I have learned about good typsetting on websites and blogs in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Sat, 09 Aug 2025 10:06:37 +0100

Everything I have learned about good typsetting on websites and blogs This post is an example of “blog your homework”, the idea that when you research something, you should write about it. I’ve been looking at making blogs […]

Matthew Brown edited the blog post Make what you need might be all wrong for the IndieWeb's future in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 14:20:56 +0100

Make what you need might be all wrong for the IndieWeb's future IndieWeb has this idea of “scratch your own itch” or “make what you need”. It’s okay in as far as it goes, but I (and I said this at great length before) […]

Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post How to actually get ahold of me (it's not easy) in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Sun, 03 Aug 2025 08:00:00 +0100

How to actually get ahold of me (it's not easy)I can be one of the hardest human beings to make contact with on the planet (for a chronically online guy). I am part hermit, part geek. Also, I get lost […]

Matthew Brown edited the blog post Updating for readability in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Sat, 02 Aug 2025 21:20:15 +0100

Updating for readability I was in the middle of previewing a post when I got annoyed at the line length and readability of my blog. This is what it looked like […]

Matthew Brown edited the blog post Code review with me: WP-multicomment-threads in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Sat, 26 Jul 2025 20:37:41 +0100

Code review with me: WP-multicomment-threads I was searching for a very specific set of features in a WordPress plugin. As searching on search engines was not helping, I asked ChatGPT to interactively […]

Matthew Brown edited the blog post A basic guide to getting your ActivityPub blog federated better in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Sat, 26 Jul 2025 18:43:39 +0100

A basic guide to getting your ActivityPub blog federated better As most WordPress users know, there is a great ActivityPub plugin that makes your blog part of the fediverse. It pairs well with the WebMention plugin to […]

Matthew Brown edited the blog post A brain dump from Matrix Dreams: A better-defined series of sets in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 09:00:00 +0100

A brain dump from Matrix Dreams: A better-defined series of sets I’ve been pondering the weird collection of sets I cooked up in this post. In this post, I’d like to take a crack at defining the sets. I’m going to bo […]

Matthew Brown edited the blog post From my social node: Bury me with some weird shit in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 14:51:55 +0100

From my social node: Bury me with some weird shit 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. These must be unique or […]

Matthew Brown commented on the post, How to add speech bubbles to images with GIMP, on the groupblog The Fantastic Site of Lord Matt

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 14:45:18 +0100

@Error_Conditioner Happy to help. Thank you for the kind words

Matthew Brown edited the blog post How to set a draft WordPress post to Pending in three easy steps in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Thu, 29 May 2025 10:45:14 +0100

How to set a draft WordPress post to Pending in three easy steps So, you’ve written a blog post and want feedback from the rest of the team? Great to hear. I guess you will now want to set it to Pending. Here’s […]

Matthew Brown edited the blog post To no one's surprise, the Universal Credit website is down again in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Mon, 19 May 2025 21:38:00 +0100

To no one's surprise, the Universal Credit website is down again No, it is not just you, the terribly built Universal Credit website appears to have unalived itself. As of now (2210 on Monday, 19th May 2025), the site is […]

Matthew Brown edited the blog post I'm not entirely sure Dartford council knows how this tech stuff works in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Sat, 17 May 2025 10:23:14 +0100

I'm not entirely sure Dartford council knows how this tech stuff works There was a recent story in the local online news about a council using AI to stop fly-tipping. The article talks a good game about how WasteWatch […]

Matthew Brown commented on the post, How to add speech bubbles to images with GIMP, on the groupblog The Fantastic Site of Lord Matt

Sat, 17 May 2025 10:06:17 +0100

Happy to have helped.

Matthew Brown edited the blog post IDE Review: Zed in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Mon, 05 May 2025 08:16:17 +0100

IDE Review: Zed My go to IDE of choice is Netbeans, but today I tried out Zed. This is because Snap has managed to break Netbeans, and I’m blown if I can figure out what […]

Matthew Brown commented on the post, Have I invented perfect random number generation computer chips?, on the groupblog The Fantastic Site of Lord Matt

Thu, 01 May 2025 16:10:08 +0100

@kassner 😀

Matthew Brown commented on the post, Have I invented perfect random number generation computer chips?, on the groupblog The Fantastic Site of Lord Matt

Thu, 01 May 2025 16:09:43 +0100

@radu_ionicioiu It seems I was beaten to it. (Or my mind was pulling from half-remembered facts).

Matthew Brown commented on the post, Have I invented perfect random number generation computer chips?, on the groupblog The Fantastic Site of Lord Matt

Thu, 01 May 2025 16:04:09 +0100

It would make sense that someone thought of this already.

Matthew Brown edited the blog post Have I invented perfect random number generation computer chips? in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 15:36:12 +0100

Have I invented perfect random number generation computer chips? So, last night I slept for a very long time. While I slept, I dreamed that I was explaining to a scientist how to do real random number generation with a […]

Matthew Brown edited the blog post I made little animated badges for Password Game and Pasword Game 2 (both games by me) in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Sat, 19 Apr 2025 16:43:40 +0100

I made little animated badges for Password Game and Pasword Game 2 (both games by me) The banners are for my Pixel Wall project. Password Game is the original (web-only) evil password validator game. More polished versions came later, but […]

Matthew Brown commented on the post, How to add speech bubbles to images with GIMP, on the groupblog The Fantastic Site of Lord Matt

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 09:57:09 +0100

I am happy to have helped. Also, yes, I, too, have a low opinion of Boris.

Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post WishList: A proposed extension of OpenGraph in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Sun, 23 Mar 2025 09:00:00 +0000

WishList: A proposed extension of OpenGraph I’d like to propose an extension of the OpenGraph protocol for easy wishlist creation. A select few might be aware that I maintain a wishlist. Currently, I […]

Matthew Brown edited the blog post I found another (markdown) bug with the Universal Credit website in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek

Sun, 16 Mar 2025 15:24:33 +0000

I found another (markdown) bug with the Universal Credit website Today, I learned that gov.uk websites use Mark Down – a system for marking up text that can safely be turned into HTML. So too does the Universal Credit […]

Matthew Brown commented on the post, The unclear UK Online Safety Act cannot possibly hope to process all the bloggers, on the groupblog The Fantastic Site of Lord Matt

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 17:45:54 +0000

That makes it easier. Let’s not and say we did.

Danny H commented on the post, The unclear UK Online Safety Act cannot possibly hope to process all the bloggers, on the groupblog The Fantastic Site of Lord Matt

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 16:53:59 +0000

The risk assessment isn’t supposed to be sent anywhere, but it is supposed to be available if they ask for it