Matt Daw
@mattdaw.com
Software developer and consultant, mostly in film/TV. Reader of science fiction & fantasy. Guitar & drums.
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Holy crap -- Automatic Noodle is an instant USA Today and Indie bestseller! Thank you so much, humans and robots, for reading this li'l book and making it soar. Now go eat something! Or get your noodle swag at automaticnoodle.website
November 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Fun read!
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Don't forget about the DRM-free Humble Bundle from Tor (with Murderbot, Witch King, and more), benefiting World Center Kitchen. The donation is now at over 58,000. It would be awesome to get it up to $100,000.
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR
Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.
www.humblebundle.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Don't forget about the DRM-free Humble Bundle from Tor (with Murderbot, Witch King, and more), benefiting World Center Kitchen. The donation is now at over 58,000. It would be awesome to get it up to $100,000.
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
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In case you were looking for a grimsweet fantasy roadtrip, THE WITCH ROADS is available now.
My grimsweet fantasy road trip (on foot) lands today w/ a humble deputy courier forced to guide uppity court officials on a back country route that includes a ravenous fungal ghost plague, court intrigue, & a mysterious haunt.
First of a duology (bk 2 in Nov).
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
First of a duology (bk 2 in Nov).
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
June 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
In case you were looking for a grimsweet fantasy roadtrip, THE WITCH ROADS is available now.
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Fellow film tech nerds, I had the incredible honor and pleasure to be invited back to the Team Deakins podcast. This time we discussed maintaining image authorship throughout the pipeline and how colorspaces work.
teamdeakins.libsyn.com/deliverables...
teamdeakins.libsyn.com/deliverables...
Team Deakins: DELIVERABLES & PRESERVING AUTHORIAL INTENT - with Steve Yedlin
SEASON 2 - EPISODE 145 - Deliverables and Preserving Authorial Intent - with Steve Yedlin In this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast, cinematographer Steve Yedlin (Season 2, Episode 72) returns to ta...
teamdeakins.libsyn.com
June 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Fellow film tech nerds, I had the incredible honor and pleasure to be invited back to the Team Deakins podcast. This time we discussed maintaining image authorship throughout the pipeline and how colorspaces work.
teamdeakins.libsyn.com/deliverables...
teamdeakins.libsyn.com/deliverables...
Wow, the new Spiritbox album is so good! 🇨🇦
March 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Wow, the new Spiritbox album is so good! 🇨🇦
Check out Navigational Entanglements! A great novella from one of my favourite writers.
Quick reminder I've got this book about 4 bickering juniors teaming up (sort of) to solve a murder. Thirsty disaster lesbians in space, with bonus space jellyfish. And one very cute very autistic MC who has to take charge because someone needs to do it. Does she like it? No. But she has the SKILLS.
Well, NAVIGATIONAL ENTANGLEMENTS was just what I needed to read tonight. Thanks @aliettedebodard.com for writing such a sweet space opera
March 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Check out Navigational Entanglements! A great novella from one of my favourite writers.
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If any Hugo Awards voters enjoyed Lower Decks, it would be very cool to get a nod!
Thank you for your consideration.
This is our entire campaign.
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Thank you for your consideration.
This is our entire campaign.
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February 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
If any Hugo Awards voters enjoyed Lower Decks, it would be very cool to get a nod!
Thank you for your consideration.
This is our entire campaign.
🖖
Thank you for your consideration.
This is our entire campaign.
🖖
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Since I am 1 week away from unemployment, if you or someone you know needs a music video this year... please ask me. I enjoy it and I want to do more of it. Also I need to prove to the bluesky libs that I'm not a radical leftist TV writer... I also make films
February 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Since I am 1 week away from unemployment, if you or someone you know needs a music video this year... please ask me. I enjoy it and I want to do more of it. Also I need to prove to the bluesky libs that I'm not a radical leftist TV writer... I also make films
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The Hugos have a *Best Series* category and Between Earth & Sky is eligible this year. (Black Sun, Fevered Star, Mirrored Heavens.) I'd love your nomination if you're into such things. Nominations open today!!
February 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The Hugos have a *Best Series* category and Between Earth & Sky is eligible this year. (Black Sun, Fevered Star, Mirrored Heavens.) I'd love your nomination if you're into such things. Nominations open today!!
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I have a story in this but I’m just getting to read my author copy and it’s a real treat. An absolute smorgasbord of the weird and the fantastical.
ONE WEEK to the release day for OF SHADOWS, STARS, AND SABERS, a cross-genre anthology filled with stories from 29 authors from around the world! Preorder links here: www.starsandsabers.c... #books #comingsoon #SFF #horror #fantasy #scifi
February 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I have a story in this but I’m just getting to read my author copy and it’s a real treat. An absolute smorgasbord of the weird and the fantastical.
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In today's post, I talk about one of my favorite shows to air in the last 20 years... the show that my own daughter asks to see the most... and convey why you (yes you!) should watch #StarTrekLowerDecks
Why you should watch... Star Trek: Lower Decks #YouShouldWatch
youshouldwatch.substack.com/p/why-you-sh...
youshouldwatch.substack.com/p/why-you-sh...
Why you should watch... Star Trek: Lower Decks
A beloved sci-fi franchise, a show-runner who produced and wrote on Rick & Morty, and the nephew of the man that screamed at aliens while flying an F-18 into their spaceship... a recipe for gold...
youshouldwatch.substack.com
January 31, 2025 at 10:03 PM
In today's post, I talk about one of my favorite shows to air in the last 20 years... the show that my own daughter asks to see the most... and convey why you (yes you!) should watch #StarTrekLowerDecks
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Rhys is the #1 hype person for this series and it always makes me so happy. They both came out in the pandemic and so they were challenging releases, but I love our angry, stabby queers in space. They deserved more flowers. I wish more people knew about them.
I want to start posting single book (or series) recommendation posts with trans main characters here on #booksky and obviously my favourite series of all time is first! I’m a simp for Kyla, and her POV chapters in Seven Mercies are god tier. She’s a prominent side character in book 1 but a MC in 2!
January 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Rhys is the #1 hype person for this series and it always makes me so happy. They both came out in the pandemic and so they were challenging releases, but I love our angry, stabby queers in space. They deserved more flowers. I wish more people knew about them.
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Elder Race by @aptshadow.bsky.social is on Prime Reading at the moment, so I borrowed it on a whim, and it was lovely. A great blend of epic fantasy and sci-fi, and a great story about language (including a great little segment of direct "translation"). torpublishinggroup.com/elder-race/ #booksky
Elder Race
torpublishinggroup.com
January 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Elder Race by @aptshadow.bsky.social is on Prime Reading at the moment, so I borrowed it on a whim, and it was lovely. A great blend of epic fantasy and sci-fi, and a great story about language (including a great little segment of direct "translation"). torpublishinggroup.com/elder-race/ #booksky
Very much enjoyed In The Shadow of The Ship, a new novella by @aliettedebodard.com
subterraneanpress.com/in-the-shado...
subterraneanpress.com/in-the-shado...
In the Shadow of the Ship eBook
Subterranean Press creates readable art, publishing limited editions and groundbreaking original works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
subterraneanpress.com
January 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Very much enjoyed In The Shadow of The Ship, a new novella by @aliettedebodard.com
subterraneanpress.com/in-the-shado...
subterraneanpress.com/in-the-shado...
Read all of Stormlight Archive for the first time last year. Enjoyed the series but it took up a _lot_ of reading time.
Looking forward to reading more widely this year. Next up is @aliettedebodard.com’s “In the Shadow of the Ship” from the great Xuya universe.
Looking forward to reading more widely this year. Next up is @aliettedebodard.com’s “In the Shadow of the Ship” from the great Xuya universe.
January 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Read all of Stormlight Archive for the first time last year. Enjoyed the series but it took up a _lot_ of reading time.
Looking forward to reading more widely this year. Next up is @aliettedebodard.com’s “In the Shadow of the Ship” from the great Xuya universe.
Looking forward to reading more widely this year. Next up is @aliettedebodard.com’s “In the Shadow of the Ship” from the great Xuya universe.
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A girls trio commission that I did for @puppylaurah.bsky.social 🥰
January 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
A girls trio commission that I did for @puppylaurah.bsky.social 🥰
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Haven’t seen enough talk about Alien Clay by @aptshadow.bsky.social so, let’s talk.
✔️ Limits of academic dissent
✔️ Trademark themes re: empathy as a biological imperative
✔️ Nuanced ecological speculation in a thoroughly alien biome
✔️ Superb audiobook performance
✔️ A 2024 fave
#booksky
✔️ Limits of academic dissent
✔️ Trademark themes re: empathy as a biological imperative
✔️ Nuanced ecological speculation in a thoroughly alien biome
✔️ Superb audiobook performance
✔️ A 2024 fave
#booksky
December 15, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Haven’t seen enough talk about Alien Clay by @aptshadow.bsky.social so, let’s talk.
✔️ Limits of academic dissent
✔️ Trademark themes re: empathy as a biological imperative
✔️ Nuanced ecological speculation in a thoroughly alien biome
✔️ Superb audiobook performance
✔️ A 2024 fave
#booksky
✔️ Limits of academic dissent
✔️ Trademark themes re: empathy as a biological imperative
✔️ Nuanced ecological speculation in a thoroughly alien biome
✔️ Superb audiobook performance
✔️ A 2024 fave
#booksky
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“Wrap your tool in a game, make it fun to play with, and shield players from the kind of people who enjoy holding others to strict standards of Excellence. Present your creation as an Excellence-Free Zone, a safe space for glorious trainwrecks.” mkremins.github.io/blog/creativ...
Creative tools for non-creators
I keep coming back to the idea of tools that unlock creativity in people who don’t ordinarily think of themselves as creative. Yesterday, some of my scattered thoughts on the subject spontaneously cry...
mkremins.github.io
November 16, 2024 at 7:31 AM
“Wrap your tool in a game, make it fun to play with, and shield players from the kind of people who enjoy holding others to strict standards of Excellence. Present your creation as an Excellence-Free Zone, a safe space for glorious trainwrecks.” mkremins.github.io/blog/creativ...
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Oh hey here's a reminder I have a book out
-autistic MC
-space jellyfish
-mismatched crew trying not to kill each other
-sapphic shenanigans
-found family
-martial arts in space
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
-autistic MC
-space jellyfish
-mismatched crew trying not to kill each other
-sapphic shenanigans
-found family
-martial arts in space
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Navigational Entanglements
A "Best of" Pick by Lit Hub | Amazon | New Scientist!Award-winning author of The Red Scholar’s Wake Aliette de Bodard comes for your heart with a compellin...
us.macmillan.com
October 29, 2024 at 10:49 AM
Oh hey here's a reminder I have a book out
-autistic MC
-space jellyfish
-mismatched crew trying not to kill each other
-sapphic shenanigans
-found family
-martial arts in space
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
-autistic MC
-space jellyfish
-mismatched crew trying not to kill each other
-sapphic shenanigans
-found family
-martial arts in space
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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Over on Tumblr, another post about recent books that deserve more attention. This time I'm going on about how much I like @kateelliottsff.bsky.social's Unconquerable Sun and Furious Heaven: www.tumblr.com/crudely-draw...
The Sun Chronicles
Following from my post about Mike Brooks' God King series, it's time to talk about another recent series that I have loved.
This trilogy is not yet complete but it begins with Unconquerable Sun (whi�...
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August 26, 2023 at 2:27 PM
Over on Tumblr, another post about recent books that deserve more attention. This time I'm going on about how much I like @kateelliottsff.bsky.social's Unconquerable Sun and Furious Heaven: www.tumblr.com/crudely-draw...
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I work in visual effects. We work crazy hours under difficult conditions for movies that make billions and yet we are “ruining movies” with our work. I went on a YouTube show to illustrate the human side of our work, that computers don’t create visual effects. People do.
youtu.be/QbkTu7ejJ-o?...
youtu.be/QbkTu7ejJ-o?...
tell me what u are doing
be proud of your work and share it here with us
( my same thread about this last month is kind of borked still i can not even open it lol so lets see how this one goes)
be proud of your work and share it here with us
( my same thread about this last month is kind of borked still i can not even open it lol so lets see how this one goes)
August 25, 2023 at 3:01 PM
I work in visual effects. We work crazy hours under difficult conditions for movies that make billions and yet we are “ruining movies” with our work. I went on a YouTube show to illustrate the human side of our work, that computers don’t create visual effects. People do.
youtu.be/QbkTu7ejJ-o?...
youtu.be/QbkTu7ejJ-o?...
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Bluesky hasn’t seen this yet! Lovely words from Martha Wells. Publication date for The Blue, Beautiful World is 29 August for the US edition, 31 August for the UK edition. Busy fortnight ahead!
August 14, 2023 at 12:14 AM
Bluesky hasn’t seen this yet! Lovely words from Martha Wells. Publication date for The Blue, Beautiful World is 29 August for the US edition, 31 August for the UK edition. Busy fortnight ahead!
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Sorcerer is fucking insane do NOT watch this movie on weed you will die and go to truck hell
Oh, man... THE EXORCIST and THE FRENCH CONNECTION are stone cold classics, but I also really love TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA, SORCERER and BUG. He tweeted favorably about HUSH when it first came out and that just about knocked the wind out of me. He was a visionary, bold filmmaker. Rest in peace
William Friedkin, ‘The Exorcist’ Director, Dies at 87
William Friedkin, director of 'The Exorcist' and 'The French Connection,' died Monday at 87.
variety.com
August 7, 2023 at 5:47 PM
Sorcerer is fucking insane do NOT watch this movie on weed you will die and go to truck hell
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A slightly meandering but fun WIRED article on local-first software and CRDTs, also featuring Strange Loop and the St. Louis City Museum, Marc Shapiro, PvH, @expede.wtf, and others https://www.wired.com/story/the-cloud-is-a-prison-can-the-local-first-software-movement-set-us-free/
The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free?
Tired of relying on Big Tech to enable collaboration, peer-to-peer enthusiasts are creating a new model that cuts out the middleman. (That’s you, Google.)
www.wired.com
August 3, 2023 at 12:09 PM
A slightly meandering but fun WIRED article on local-first software and CRDTs, also featuring Strange Loop and the St. Louis City Museum, Marc Shapiro, PvH, @expede.wtf, and others https://www.wired.com/story/the-cloud-is-a-prison-can-the-local-first-software-movement-set-us-free/