The Hangover

Now that I'm thinking about it I've never even seen the movie.

Replace Twitter references with Bluesky in FAQ

Merged PR in mattpolicastro/mhm.social: "Replace Twitter references with Bluesky in FAQ"

Add Dependabot for npm and GitHub Actions

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Deploy via GitHub Actions

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Migrate from Vue CLI to Vite + Composition API

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So goddamned angry.

Breaking: Trump orders the dismantling of the US Forest Service. All regional offices are being shut down and the research program destroyed.

— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social)

Replace Twitter link with Bluesky

Merged PR in mattpolicastro/soundblasterblaster: "Replace Twitter link with Bluesky"

Add weekly Dependabot version updates for npm and github-actions

Merged PR in mattpolicastro/soundblasterblaster: "Add weekly Dependabot version updates for npm and github-actions"

Deploy to GitHub Pages via Actions workflow

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Add in-browser clip upload and management with IndexedDB

Merged PR in mattpolicastro/soundblasterblaster: "Add in-browser clip upload and management with IndexedDB"

Modernize to Vue 3 + Vite + Composition API

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All I’m saying is that while I am relieved, I am absolutely exhausted of the circumstances which brought about said relief.

Add power calculator, test fixtures, and utility functions

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Generational talent. I’m blown away every time by how heart-warming Mamdani makes efficient, effective governance seem. Stop throwing around nonsense tax cut proposals and just deliver.

Ever wonder how to get rid of a mattress? Or how to find resources for a neighbor in need? Call 311.    311 is contacted 100,000 times every day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. No call is too small.    So on the anniversary of 311 (3/11), I decided to answer some of those calls myself.

— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@mayor.nyc.gov)

Spent entirely too long wondering last night about the social protocols for bringing headphones onto an extended space flight. I’m sorry guys but 8 days in a confined space with three other people, I am going to need some podcast/music time to avoid space madness

I unironically think we need to bring back dumb goofball internet stuff like earth sandwiches or contrived picture days.

If Artemis IV is happening in 2028 then we need to get on top of Planetary Picture Day ASAP. Do we have a hemisphere in mind? The hotel blocks alone are going to be a nightmare

— Matt Policastro (@mattpolicastro.com)

Ate an entirely too-large sandwich for dinner, fell asleep, and am now listening to rain against the skylight.

April Fool’s is always a try-hard holiday but it is ringing particularly hollowly this year.

Fix card width consistency and add sans-serif font for web

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Add light/dark/system theme toggle to web toolbar

Merged PR in mattpolicastro/hipster-pda: "Add light/dark/system theme toggle to web toolbar"

Fix web app styling: dropdown panels, consistent card widths

Merged PR in mattpolicastro/hipster-pda: "Fix web app styling: dropdown panels, consistent card widths"

Add standalone static web app target (dual-target with Obsidian plugin)

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Include full post content in RSS feed via content:encoded

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Hipster PDA

Somehow, an even busier week.

I’m sorry, seals MOLT?

We love a catastrophic molt, don't we, folks

— Blue sky nice ghost (@rajandelman.bsky.social)

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 (@bb.wavelengths.online)

By this, I am haunted

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

Claudin' Around Pt. 3

F'ing A, F'ing O.

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”

@albertburneko.bsky.social so the Dave McKenna ham story tickled something in my brain, but it wasn’t until I was with my family over the holidays that I followed up on it: I grew up in Belgium and we 100% had a ham truck that would travel into France fairly often www.thechickenman.be/en/home

Choosing to descend into mid-winter madness by attempting to generalize my half-dozen turkey roasting practice reps into other poultry

An aggressively normal Saturday of politely disagreeing with my mechanic, wandering along the channel trail taking pictures of ducks, and baking for neighbors before being social and calling it at a reasonable hour? Few said it could be done, and yet

Lost Whamageddon during pre-call music at work today and just burned the bejesus out of my finger pulling a pizza out of the oven, AMA

Made @willsmith.fun’s nog recipe last night and levain-style cookies today, and am bordering on catatonic on the couch with the cat

Tweaked something in my neck a week ago and it’s still killing me, send help

Finally getting around to long-overdue updates to my NAS and wow they really enshittified the heck out of Plex, didn’t they

Resurfacing

Rebuilding, reviewing, and other life updates.

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

Switching to Ghost, finishing grad school, and settling into Chicago.

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.