Mastodawn

User of the web site: our IP is 192.168…
Me: that's your local network address, we'll need to know the external address our web site sees.
Them: our IT department assure me that's the right address, can you help?
Me: I can't help them since they don't know the basics of Internet networking, but maybe I can help you…

Michael Matute Mar 10

Knut 🏳️‍🌈 🇳🇴🧸Mar 7

I've been laying here snuggling kitty, and I realized nobody working for #trump has a pet. And he and Vance often disparage pet owners. Nearly every president has had a companion. I mean, the Whitehouse website under #obama had a special site for his dogs, and when #biden dog died, it was a day of national mourning. Clinton and Sox the Cat, Bush had a ton of dogs, Jackie Kennedy's little dog that was a gift from the Russians. #noem shot hers. Sick bitch. It takes empathy to be a good #pet owner.

Michael Matute Mar 1

#silentsunday reading Michael Chriton’s Airframe, listening to Moby’s new album quietly in the background, while waiting for a brief snow shower to come and go.

Michael Matute Feb 28

Marge吴静玫 Feb 28

Derry Girls has taught me that I really just want to hear folks with Irish accents swearing.

Michael Matute Feb 24

Jan Wildeboer 😷

Feb 24

I am so old, I actually learned how to program software agents in JAVA back in 1994 as part of my computer science studies. At the time it was supposed to be the future of IT. Software agents would roam the internet for the best deals and report back to me with "job done".

So forgive my "deja vu" reaction when I now hear the same story again, with the main difference being that a deterministic computer language has been replaced with a non-deterministic autocorrect ;)

#SarcasmButOnlyHalf

Michael Matute Feb 24

JA Westenberg Feb 24

Becoming increasingly convinced that LinkedIn is just Willy Wonka's factory except the chocolate river is bullshit and every Oompa Loompa has a podcast

Michael Matute Feb 24

Open source deserves better.
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/02/ai-floods-close-projects/

AI "Vibe Coding" Threatens Open Source as Maintainers Face Crisis

Daniel Stenberg shut down cURL's bug bounty after AI submissions hit 20%. Mitchell Hashimoto banned AI code from Ghostty. Steve Ruiz closed all external PRs to tldraw. Economic research shows "vibe coding" weakens the user engagement that sustains open source. As developers delegate to AI agents, documentation visits and bug reports collapse—threatening the ecosystem's viability.

InfoQ

Michael Matute Feb 20