Matthew

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Web person.

An enthusiastic believer in the Web and all things HTML and CSS. Web developer/designer/generalist and–sometimes–other kind of person. Perpetually the only employee at Reasonable Company. And an American-Kiwi in Auckland.
Also: accessibility, generative art, non-generative art, parks, photography, physical books, pizza, public libraries, public transit, small and weird video games, tea, trees, and a lot of walking.
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Websitehttps://www.matthewhowell.net
Workhttps://www.reasonable.work
GitHubhttps://github.com/matthewhowell
Matthew5d ago
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"Bon appetit!"
"Why are you using a weird dialect of those barbarians from the big peninsula west of civilization?"

#Monsterdon #JasonAndTheArgonauts1963
MatthewMar 14
Accepting recommendations for a fun, small, well-made, nice-looking, CD player that isn’t super expensive and is robust enough to survive regular use by children. Anything? Transport only is fine, built in speakers are fine.
MatthewMar 6
Anyone running alternative firmware on their Kobo reader? Anything that supports libraries? I use my Kobo exclusively for Overdrive, but it's been so buggy for the last year that it barely functions (can't browse lists, search rarely works, etc).
MatthewFeb 15
Are you an author who sells DRM-free epubs? I’d like to read them, links please.
MatthewFeb 9
Zach LeathermanJan 21, 2023
it’s okay to make an ordinary web site
MatthewJan 19
Nodding and feeling very grateful that we get to have Cory writing so clearly about AI. 👏
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

The Guardian
MatthewJan 11

Cool: built a little Cloudflare worker to generate public domain art for my personal website, uses a little database and bit of JavaScript to generate SVGs

Not cool: site gets hit so hard by bots that Cloudflare's free worker limits are immediately exceeded and the worker shuts down

MatthewJan 7
Hyper-local Auckland news: the flying fox at the playground in Western Park is not operational, cord removed, no signage posted
MatthewJan 1
Working on a new essay built around a single sentence:
The future is already here — it's just being artificially restrained by monopolistic corporations.
MatthewDec 9
Auckland Transport surfacing the most important parts of the website in the navigation