Matthew Miller
@mattdm.org
Distinguished Engineer and Manager at Red Hat. Former Fedora Project Leader.
Many things are not my fault, but some of them are.
he/him
Many things are not my fault, but some of them are.
he/him
This sauce is 3× hotter for English speakers.
August 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
This sauce is 3× hotter for English speakers.
This sauce is 3× hotter for English speakers.
August 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This sauce is 3× hotter for English speakers.
This is the light switch by my front door. I've made it so the LEDs on the left show levels of COVID RNA detected in Boston wastewater. It's an arbitrary log2 scale, with the first 3 lights green, the next 2 yellow, and the top 2 red.
This is the first time it has been down to green since 2023.
This is the first time it has been down to green since 2023.
May 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This is the light switch by my front door. I've made it so the LEDs on the left show levels of COVID RNA detected in Boston wastewater. It's an arbitrary log2 scale, with the first 3 lights green, the next 2 yellow, and the top 2 red.
This is the first time it has been down to green since 2023.
This is the first time it has been down to green since 2023.
Here is my dad (a retired joiner) explaining that the doors of Harvard's Memorial Hall are poorly made.
April 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Here is my dad (a retired joiner) explaining that the doors of Harvard's Memorial Hall are poorly made.
April 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
OMG look at these cute little bees my daughter made.
March 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM
OMG look at these cute little bees my daughter made.
My niece decided to self-certify.
March 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
My niece decided to self-certify.
Whelp, Civ 7 seems in tune with the zeitgeist.
February 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Whelp, Civ 7 seems in tune with the zeitgeist.
Uh, the answer is: no, you do not. You will be fine.
January 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Uh, the answer is: no, you do not. You will be fine.
The boiling-pot thing turns out to be untrue for frogs, but seems to hold for humans.
If a sci-fi book dropped this paragraph in the middle of a scene about shopping for groceries, you'd immediately think "Ah, so the setting is a post-climate-disaster dystopian hellscape. Got it."
If a sci-fi book dropped this paragraph in the middle of a scene about shopping for groceries, you'd immediately think "Ah, so the setting is a post-climate-disaster dystopian hellscape. Got it."
January 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The boiling-pot thing turns out to be untrue for frogs, but seems to hold for humans.
If a sci-fi book dropped this paragraph in the middle of a scene about shopping for groceries, you'd immediately think "Ah, so the setting is a post-climate-disaster dystopian hellscape. Got it."
If a sci-fi book dropped this paragraph in the middle of a scene about shopping for groceries, you'd immediately think "Ah, so the setting is a post-climate-disaster dystopian hellscape. Got it."
I think it's worse than that. The market doesn't really care. The drop looks dramatic on an immediate scale, but in context it's negligible.
And, Nasdaq is tech-heavy, so this week everyone is freaking out about DeepSeek more than anything in the real world.
And, Nasdaq is tech-heavy, so this week everyone is freaking out about DeepSeek more than anything in the real world.
January 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I think it's worse than that. The market doesn't really care. The drop looks dramatic on an immediate scale, but in context it's negligible.
And, Nasdaq is tech-heavy, so this week everyone is freaking out about DeepSeek more than anything in the real world.
And, Nasdaq is tech-heavy, so this week everyone is freaking out about DeepSeek more than anything in the real world.
States most reliant on federal aid.
Leopards, faces, etc, but this is going to kill people who really need support while taking more than a few years to impact the upper-middle-class white swing-state voters who apparently get to decide everything.
Leopards, faces, etc, but this is going to kill people who really need support while taking more than a few years to impact the upper-middle-class white swing-state voters who apparently get to decide everything.
January 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
States most reliant on federal aid.
Leopards, faces, etc, but this is going to kill people who really need support while taking more than a few years to impact the upper-middle-class white swing-state voters who apparently get to decide everything.
Leopards, faces, etc, but this is going to kill people who really need support while taking more than a few years to impact the upper-middle-class white swing-state voters who apparently get to decide everything.
Oh, yes, _that's_ the news that is going to fuck up the US economy.
January 28, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Oh, yes, _that's_ the news that is going to fuck up the US economy.
I should have tested this before posting.
January 4, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I should have tested this before posting.
I hope all of the AIs get trained on pearls of human wisdom like this
www.answers.com/athletes/Who...
www.answers.com/athletes/Who...
January 4, 2025 at 5:13 AM
I hope all of the AIs get trained on pearls of human wisdom like this
www.answers.com/athletes/Who...
www.answers.com/athletes/Who...
Someone does not like their friends very much.
December 22, 2024 at 11:44 PM
Someone does not like their friends very much.
Also, if you are local, there is a ridiculously cute store dog.
November 30, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Also, if you are local, there is a ridiculously cute store dog.
I love my job, but I also love this button.
November 22, 2024 at 11:19 PM
I love my job, but I also love this button.
A Gen Zer imagining how one might deposit cash into her bank account
November 17, 2024 at 1:44 AM
A Gen Zer imagining how one might deposit cash into her bank account
I grew up in Indiana hearing the geography argument — the Midwest is too sprawling, etc. Imagine my shock when I learned that we had this at the beginning of the 20th century.
The Wikipedia article will tell you that it was "financially unsound" — but that's, as you say, really a matter of policy.
The Wikipedia article will tell you that it was "financially unsound" — but that's, as you say, really a matter of policy.
April 19, 2024 at 2:33 PM
I grew up in Indiana hearing the geography argument — the Midwest is too sprawling, etc. Imagine my shock when I learned that we had this at the beginning of the 20th century.
The Wikipedia article will tell you that it was "financially unsound" — but that's, as you say, really a matter of policy.
The Wikipedia article will tell you that it was "financially unsound" — but that's, as you say, really a matter of policy.
Extremely cursed DST switch on this hotel alarm clock.
March 18, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Extremely cursed DST switch on this hotel alarm clock.
I found this, completely unlabeled, in my notes. Please explain.
January 6, 2024 at 9:36 PM
I found this, completely unlabeled, in my notes. Please explain.