Matt Wilcox / is on Nostr

Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time. I build websites the "traditional" way.

I’ve been building websites for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go.

Pronouns: He/Him
Website: https://mattwilcox.net
GitHub: https://github.com/mattwilcox

Last Notes

2025-04-27 08:43:00

We hear so much bad in media. Remember that we often don’t hear about the good. Humans are out there doing so much good. It’s the loud (and impactful) assholes we hear; but there are less of those people than there are of good people. That’s just a fact. And we need reminding of it.
Find good people; celebrate good people. It’s a matter of mental health to keep perspective.
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2024-09-19 11:01:33

CSS peeps... what's the new "not yet supported" property that'll fix the typographic issue where the "box" results in vertically "off centre" text?
To stop this kind of thing requiring fudged numbers to make the text optically centred.
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2024-09-07 14:42:52

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Seems like a thing that voice control should fix.

2024-09-05 11:20:50

"Alexa, is Puerto Rico ahead or behind my time?"
I can't help you.
"Alexa, is Puerto Rico ahead or behind GMT?"
Puerto Rico is 4hrs ahead of EST.
I really don't know why these audio devices haven't caught on!

2024-07-06 14:06:49

AI scraping is not fair use. Regardless of whether it spits out content verbatim. Fair use is aimed at legitamising *singular instances*. An article. A report. A video.
AI uses your work in perpetuity. It can profit off it forever. It’s part of the model. A model that would have *no value* without its training material.
That’s not fair use.

2024-07-04 07:13:09

Ok Americans, it’s your day, have a good one - but wish us Brits luck as we too attempt to yeet the out-of-touch, abusive, idiotic, destructive, thieving upper-class British Imperialists out of power.
It’s general election day.

2024-07-01 15:08:12

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Huh... sure would be interested in how to configure UFW / Fail2Ban (or whatever else) for when you need to SSH into servers from places that don't have static IPs etc
Thanks for the heads up tho... many updates and reboots happening... "yay" for my day off.

2024-06-24 19:09:43

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Negativity budgets is a great idea. For me, if too much of “my posting” is re-toots… it’s a sign I’ve become negative and irritable without noticing before hand. There’s always more “agh, the injustice!” To react to than “Oo, this is nice!”.

2024-06-20 16:20:03

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The problem is that LLMs are an untrustworthy-data-generator, not just data retreval. In the past *humans* wrote things, and most of the time those humans actually checked things before writing them. It was their job. The search just brought source material to you.
LLMs will generate 1000 made up ones at the drop of a hat.
It's the *saturation* that's the danger. Especially when they feed on thier own output. It becomes ever less trustworthy.
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