I have gotten utterly smoked the last two nights playing Marathon and I still can’t stop thinking about it. They’re cooking.

✨ new video ✨ with marathon, bungie has taken its best-in-class gunplay and a frankly unbelievable visual identity and used them to lure players into a subtle shift in the way an extraction shooter can be played: one where extracting gear isn't even the point. my thoughts: youtu.be/RUtvq6BFThI

— brendon bigley 🔜 pax east (@bb.wavelengths.online)

By this, I am haunted

— marissa walmart dog (@meo.bsky.social)

Claudin' Around Pt. 3

Claudin' Around Pt. 3

Hey, why does WGN have a pixelated 9? Like if it’s an accident I’m more just fascinated how that gets rendered

My brain is making grinding noises trying to figure out how you get these incredibly specific numbers

At Raja Krishnamoorthi’s election night party. In case you’re wondering, the senate candidate has spent more than $20 million on succeeding Dick Durbin but the campaign party is cash bar.

— Gregory Pratt (@royalpratt.bsky.social)

*tremulously* I voted in IL-9 and all I got was this sticker

I’m loopy and sentimental but if nothing else the Oscars is a good reminder to go watch stuff that makes you feel and think. (I barely watched anything last year but Sinners was a helluva ride.)

I was skeptical but Marathon is a stone-cold banger. Obviously it’s stunning, but the way it plays with social interaction and suspense is sublime.

Went whole-hog on a project with Opus and multiple agents, and... holy cats. I will happily eat crow for having been skeptical for too long.

Wooooo worked on software until I felt nauseous, I’m back baybeeeee

Wrote this (mattpolicastro.com/2026/03/11/c...) on my old blog framework and was carrying it over to the new WIP framework, to which Claude responded with the following. Strange times.

Claudin' Around Pt. 2

Well that was fast.

Claudin' Around

The website rebuilds will continue until writing improves.

These people are profoundly, send-me-back-to-mass evil.

Lindsey Graham: "If we get in a fight, I want to win it quick. I'm in Miami. You see this hat? 'Free Cuba.' Stay tuned. The liberation of Cuba is upon us. We're marching through the world. We're clearing out the bad guys. Cuba is next."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Setting aside current events: good lord that Piastri crash was BRUTAL

Scales and surprises

Taking stock after a few long years.

Walked half an hour to the PO to ask them what’s up with mail being held without explanation Wait half an hour in line and for them to check the mailroom Clerk comes back up and says “yeah it just got marked as delivered five minutes ago” Walk half an hour back muttering about the public trust

I’m usually pretty skeeved out by LinkedIn but this is a masterpiece, no notes

Accidentally took the devil’s nap (asleep on the couch after dinner) and just caught myself googling “gift guide for cat”

Resurfacing

SoundBlasterBlaster

Well I left the team at Clearhead, so I made a silly toy.

Bad things, good things, all things

Working out my feelings in a difficult period.

Observations on Data Science

Fleshing out some ideas around data, organizations, and roles.

Preferred Super Glue & Other News

Definitely not burying the lede.

The Latest & Greatest

Marginalia VII

Trying to show some signs of life.

Marginalia VI

More updates. Site tweaks (again).

Pikachu Shops at Whole Foods

Trying to write an essay to a less-than-satisfying result.

Snippets

Microblogging rears its handsome head.

Marginalia V

I'm in grad school. Time passes.

Marginalia IV

Errata, etc.

Twitter in 2016

Attempting to eulogize something still very much alive.

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol over Transport Layer Security

I finally got on the HTTPS bandwagon, thanks to Let's Encrypt.

GA-frame

Screwing around in virtual worlds.

Skilful Grammar I

Experiments in iOS and Swift.

Marginalia III

More errata and effluvia, but I smuggled in an announcement.

On Writing

An apology. (Sorry again.)

Expertise

Excerpting Ursula M. Franklin.

Fitness Data: Kicking & Screaming

Poorly-considered experiments in the quantified self.

Marginalia II

Cool Dad Syndrome and acquisitions.

If this, then...

Kludges and digital super glue.

Second Thoughts III

An attempt at microblogging.

Second Thoughts II

Completing my second thoughts.

Second Thoughts

Wrestling with the features of the modern web.

Marginalia I

The first of many.

Adventures in Pi

Blinded by science (and hacking in the real-er world).

Fun

Making the tool is oftentimes more fun than using the tool itself.

Oh.

It's been a while, hasn't it?

Ch-ch-changes

Making site updates and design changes.

Hello, world.

Humble beginnings.