Lord Matt ✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️

A geeky #writer from Kent (UK). I #blog (far too much) and I develop with #PHP for the fun of it (and professionally). I also think I am funny - puns abound (you have been warned).

I'm still pretty new so please recommend interesting people to follow.

I generally follow back, like a good nerdy chat, and enjoy hearing different points of view.

I'm into #WordPress #DnD, #UKPolitics, #humour, #writing, #photography and... Ah, for the rest you must follow me.

Was @lordmatt on Twitter

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NIP-05 Address

lordmatt_at_mastodon.social@mostr.pub

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2024-08-10 23:05:47

Users of #WordPress, what in your opinion, is the most underrated plugin?

2024-07-26 22:07:19

I think of https://openmentions.com as the #IndieWeb equivalent of hashtags for content. Especially #blogs.

2024-07-23 20:44:11

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@npub17vj…g088 email. I want to see what weird crap the universe can come up with to replace email.

2024-07-23 20:39:59

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@npub17vj…g088 My housemates would be very confused. It sounds fun. Let's do it.

2024-07-23 20:37:02

Ask me weird questions.

2024-07-17 17:11:45

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@npub19lt…qfjk Nice

2024-07-17 15:28:27

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@npub1yc8…507h I feel like I might know exactly where you are coming from. After so much adulting, I'd like to hide away for the rest of the day too.

2024-07-17 10:29:45

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@npub1yc8…507h I'm not your boss but you can have my permission anyway.

2024-07-12 10:04:34

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@npub18lj…80hq I wish someone had made me understand that getting by on raw talent only gets you so far. For the rest of the journey, you need to make an effort. Learning to mak an effort is harder the later you leave it.

2024-06-05 18:38:50

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@npub1psa…xhme The sub-directory fix is awesome. I thought I had done something wrong.
Smashing.

2024-05-21 15:58:50

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@npub132h…f594 Ah yes, that same "satanic" teaching of that Jesus bloke.

2024-05-15 16:03:20

Please don't judge me. I just added two #singletons to this project of mine.
#PHP #code

2024-05-06 14:38:56

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 Or, if you are feeling mischievous, get a group of friends together and invent a nonsense programming language and then ask and answer questions about it that sound right but are utter boffo.

2024-04-30 09:01:16

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Thank you @npub1psa…xhme for willingly sharing some of your time to help me with a really rare edge case where "the other site refuses to play nicely" was the one-in-a-million error.

2024-04-30 08:44:45

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@npub1psa…xhme I suspect the problem may be with node.lordmatt.co.uk as other implementations also reply forbidden to it.

2024-04-30 08:37:12

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@npub1psa…xhme It seems to be between the two. Another pinged as normal. I've tried two targets on OpenMentions with two sources from node.lordmatt.co.uk and both gave me a Forbidden which showed up in the access logs.

2024-04-30 07:06:30

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@npub1psa…xhme I can indeed:
Source: https://node.lordmatt.co.uk/2024/04/30/posts/replies/whats-my-take-on-writing-prompts/
Target: https://openmentions.com/news/question-of-the-week/whats-your-take-on-writing-prompts/

2024-04-20 18:11:58

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@npub1yc8…507h That looks like hard work.

2024-04-03 01:35:51

I took a trip to see some salt marshes and took this picture. Can any #bird experts help me learn the name of my happy little subject?
#IWentOutSide for #Photography
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/204/712/006/633/640/original/d37b9ef186f9f43b.jpeg

2024-04-03 01:23:39

It took a lot of tries but I managed to get just one mostly respectable photo of this happy buzzy friend.
#Bee #Photography
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/204/666/464/086/907/original/56f7a34cecdd395d.jpeg

2024-03-09 15:58:02

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@npub1nxu…4hun @npub1dq0…glnl You utter cheeseneedle. Of course, we shall.
#cheeseneedle

2024-01-23 13:37:15

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@npub1t2c…d0pp Let me introduce you to the glorious world of green tea (which is taken without any milk at all)?

2024-01-08 09:53:40

#Designers #WebDevelopers and #UI experts of Mastodon and beyond: I need your advice, please.
This is https://OpenMentions.com - a site I manage. The purpose is to be a hub for discussion and conversation via technologies like #WebMention and #activitypub
The more I look at the #design, the more I feel that it lacks. I can't say what that lack is.
Please offer me your opinions and insights on ways I might raise the bar on UI and clarity of purpose.
(Boosts for reach are most welcome).
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/719/691/638/115/774/original/e3b83e3c060eea38.png

2023-12-25 11:13:52

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@npub1aum…5jx0 @npub1t2t…xu30 Pavlova - very nice. What is on yours?

2023-12-23 19:44:46

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@npub1lrv…tth9 this is exactly the good news I needed to see today

2023-12-05 05:31:28

#Facebook Accused of Pressuring #Harvard to Fire a #Disinformation Expert
https://futurism.com/facebook-accused-pressuring-harvard

2023-11-17 22:42:24

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@npub1psd…9sr7 My first question here is why is a baby skydiving in the first place? Where are the parents? Also, it is a baby - what's stopping me from just pulling its rip cord and then going to the pub to tell people about the really weird day I just had?
Not to mention, how on Earth did I end up skydiving to begin with?

2023-11-16 12:25:22

Today I would especially like to #thank @npub1vt6…w2mw @npub1zv8…7mzz @npub1yp3…9syc @npub1e2u…gz5y and @npub1cvd…hz7h for sharing or boosting images of #nature onto my timeline.

2023-10-17 12:10:28

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@npub19lt…qfjk Thank you. I appreciate the timely heads-up. And the useful-looking link. I'm going to view that right now.

2023-10-17 12:07:48

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@npub19lt…qfjk @npub1t2t…xu30 That's weird. I've purged the cache. Is it still doing it?

2023-09-05 11:48:28

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@npub1psa…xhme Fantastic. I approve. We all need more indie blogs in our lives.

2023-08-08 11:35:02

For four years we have had record-breaking heat waves so I googled the climate change situation and am left with one question - why are we not shitting our collective pants over this?
#climate #climatecrisis #climatechange #danger

2023-05-11 17:49:46

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@npub1psa…xhme I stumbled upon that. It showed me my JSON was not getting the author's info. That tool is a stroke of genius - it might not have gotten me to the end of the problem but it did get me in the ballpark. The getting lost part at the end was my fault from which you saved me.

2023-05-10 17:56:13

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@npub1psa…xhme It is so obvious now that it has been pointed out to me. Thank you for being willing to spend your free time helping me learn.

2023-05-09 19:50:42

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@npub1psa…xhme Just looking over my first message. God, I really failed to give any context at all. Thank you for being patient with me.

2023-05-09 19:39:52

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@npub1psa…xhme Sure. The page I am trying to ping is: https://openmentions.com/topics/technology/ai/ you can see on the screenshot that the first commenter is being credited.
The source page (the one I am pinging from) is:https://matrixdreams.com/blog/random/asking-chatgpt-stupid-questions/i-asked-chatgpt-to-imagine-it-ruled-the-world-i-was-not-expecting-its-answer/
An example post without any comments: https://matrixdreams.com/blog/random/asking-chatgpt-stupid-questions/i-asked-chatgpt-if-socks-are-like-apples/
I'm happy to get down and dirty with some coding but I do not yet understand where the data is coming from and (thus) how to hook in and fix things.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/340/409/056/413/624/original/f69a7ee208ce95d9.jpg

2023-05-09 19:16:23

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@npub1psa…xhme I'm trying to get one of my sites to take a ping from another. It returns "not enough information" and using the tool, I can see that it gives this: "author":{"type":"card"} (unless there is a comment and then it finds the first comment as the author). I'm trying to work out where the JSON response is getting its info so I can supply a proper author card.

2023-05-09 17:54:53

@npub1psa…xhme can you point me at some resources that will let me work out why the first comment is given as the author in the JSON when I ping another site?

2023-04-19 02:59:43

Why is it that #[0] uses paper straws but has cups made with plastic?

2023-04-18 20:50:46

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#[0] #[1] #[2] This is why #[3] is the future.

2023-03-29 23:09:20

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#[0] I'm pretty sure The US First Amendment is just a law that the government cannot stop you free speaking. None of us is bound to enable it and none of us is required to listen either. Blocking people is free speech, I say.

2023-03-25 14:57:31

So I missed #[0] but as time is an illusion (lunchtime doubly so) here are some great follow ideas.
#[1], #[2], #[3], #[4], #[5], #[6] #[7], #[8], #[9], and #[10]

2023-03-18 17:47:42

I now view the anti-vaccine movement as a sort of cult, where any sort of questioning gets you kicked out, your crunchy card revoked. I was even told I couldn’t call myself a natural mother anymore, because vaccines are too unnatural. That’s fine. I just want to be the best parent I know how to be, and that means always being open to new information and admitting when I’m wrong.
--Leaving the Anti-Vaccine Movement, 2014
https://www.voicesforvaccines.org/leaving-the-anti-vaccine-movement/