I’ve had a weird/hard week and stumbled on ReBoot of all things on YouTube, both in godawful VHS rips with original ad spots and the shockingly pristine restoration they’ve been doing. Nostalgia is a weird, wild thing

I grew up in Albuquerque and there's a great TikTok account that's going around, buying old VHS tapes from thrift stores, and digitizing the commercials from the early 90's potent jolts of nostalgia from this found media, but it's also wild to see a universe of information invisible to the web

— Citizen Platano 🇵🇷 (@daniloc.xyz)

Practicing sight reading and woooof. I’m choosing to blame this ear infection rather than actual, you know… plausible reasons

Glad to have confirmed that rather than some persistent malaise I just have an ear infection after a bad bug. But also. What am I, some sort of large baby man? An ear infection?

WORKLOG: record the history rewrite

Pushed 9 commits to mattpolicastro/alphabeta • Untrack compiled rubric and eval grades; broaden ignore rules • Docs: alphabeta.tools is canonical; record live deployment • graph-canvas: VITE_STATIC build mode for the public demo • Landing site: publish αlphaβeta landing page at alphabeta.tools • WORKLOG: 2026-08-16 → 08-25 — foundations pivot, prototype, grammar, brand v0 • apps/web: allow LAN and tailnet dev origins • Eval harness: local-model replay and rubric-gaming experiments • Shape docs: event grammar v0–v0.3, stress tests, literature review, rubric, surfaces

Graph-canvas prototype: open-field relay, dossier faces, moments, ledger, docket

Pushed 6 commits to mattpolicastro/alphabeta • Brand v0: αlphaβeta wordmark, Instrument system, landing page, design system • Shape docs: event grammar v0–v0.3, stress tests, literature review, rubric, surfaces • Eval harness: local-model replay and rubric-gaming experiments • apps/web: allow LAN and tailnet dev origins • WORKLOG: 2026-08-16 → 08-25 — foundations pivot, prototype, grammar, brand v0

docs: worklog for feed + GrowthBook removal

Pushed 5 commits to mattpolicastro/nuxt-mattpolicastro.com • chore: remove unused GrowthBook A/A stub • feat: surface pushes, new repos, and upstream issues/PRs in GitHub feed • docs: worklog for Mida integration • feat: add Mida.so A/B testing script

Group chart colors and the three panels into one visualization sub-pane

Pushed 6 commits to mattpolicastro/causal-impact-wasm • Move chart colors panel below the stat tiles • Split page theme from chart styling; per-panel PNG/SVG exports • Add theme/palette selection and SVG chart export • Add validation suite: R parity on known datasets, stress harness, recalibrated guards • Add Bayesian spike-and-slab engine (default) and automated sanity checks

Add WORKLOG

Pushed 1 commit to mattpolicastro/causal-impact-wasm

Tests: LLM provider negotiation and null provider

Pushed 4 commits to mattpolicastro/alphabeta • Tests: KM resolved-bet query mapping • Tests: strategy template registry accessors and column invariants • Tests: integrity fallback digest, mechanism classifier, extraction accumulator

The Funk

behold v0.1.0

Released behold v0.1.0 in mattpolicastro/behold

note_create drops frontmatter silently; frontmatter set writes arrays as quoted strings (untyped schema)

Opened issue in lstpsche/obsidian-mcp: "note_create drops frontmatter silently; frontmatter set writes arrays as quoted strings (untyped schema)"

perf: optimize Lighthouse scores with selective Bootstrap, local fonts, and a11y fixes

Merged PR in mattpolicastro/nuxt-mattpolicastro.com: "perf: optimize Lighthouse scores with selective Bootstrap, local fonts, and a11y fixes"

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

Merged PR in mattpolicastro/mhm.social: "Add Dependabot for npm and GitHub Actions"

Deploy via GitHub Actions

Merged PR in mattpolicastro/mhm.social: "Deploy via GitHub Actions"

Migrate from Vue CLI to Vite + Composition API

Merged PR in mattpolicastro/mhm.social: "Migrate from Vue CLI to Vite + Composition API"

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

Merged PR in mattpolicastro/soundblasterblaster: "Deploy to GitHub Pages via Actions workflow"

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

Merged PR in mattpolicastro/soundblasterblaster: "Modernize to Vue 3 + Vite + Composition API"

Add power calculator, test fixtures, and utility functions

Merged PR in mattpolicastro/alphabeta: "Add power calculator, test fixtures, and utility functions"

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

Merged PR in mattpolicastro/hipster-pda: "Fix card width consistency and add sans-serif font for web"

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)

Merged PR in mattpolicastro/hipster-pda: "Add standalone static web app target (dual-target with Obsidian plugin)"

Include full post content in RSS feed via content:encoded

Merged PR in mattpolicastro/nuxt-mattpolicastro.com: "Include full post content in RSS feed via content:encoded"

Hipster PDA

Somehow, an even busier week.

Claudin' Around Pt. 3

F'ing A, F'ing O.

Claudin' Around Pt. 2

Well that was fast.

Claudin' Around

The website rebuilds will continue until writing improves.

Scales and surprises

Taking stock after a few long years.

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.