MatthewOden

Ooh, “Animal Cross-Country”

Grabbed bot nine for my five year old son, and the day it arrived he read it 6 times cover to cover. He’s obsessed.

A young Red-tailed Hawk keeps an eye on a Blue Jay that kept bopping the hawk on the noggin.

Prediction: Companies will dump money into trying to solve tough problems with AI agents. Some solutions will work. Then, when the bill hits, they'll realize "we could use an API/much cheaper algorithms." Many engineers will get their promotions refactoring AI flows to "dumb" integrations

The new vet hadn't met her before and asked "Kabuj? Lovely name, is it Arabic?" and I had to tell her no we just thought it would be funny to misspell Cabbage

centipede with a gun oooohhh oh oh its a centipede with a gun

HE'S GOT A GUN

Thinking a lot about overlap between number blocks and severance.

Trust me, bro.

Nuck Fazis by matthewoden | Redbubble Nuck Fazis

Unsurprisingly, my Nuck Fazis design is getting some traction right now.

www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1566...

thinking of this incredible series of Jan 6 tweets from Kevin Sorbo on this third anniversary of that day

Batman wearing a Santa hat. The hat has holes for the ears of his cowl to poke through.

Batman wearing two tiny Santa hats, each on the tip of one of the ears of his cowl.

If Batman was a Santa, would he wear his hat like this, or like this

… So he could give him a pre-packaged thankgiving meal.

And it was absolutely the most stress I’ve ever felt around witnessing a single act of kindness.

At a red light, a police car pulled up behind me. The lights flashed on, and the officer stepped out and approached the driver’s side of my car.

And then past me, towards the homeless man begging on the corner of the highway on-ramp. The officer raised a hand, signaling to the man to stay there.

Allowing people to pay search engines for increased visibility was a mistake.

Ugh. This covid booster is kicking my ass in record time.

One of the things I’ve noticed more and more as a developer, is the difference between:

- “You are not allowed to do X”
- “You should not do X”
- “It is impossible to do X”

Because the tenacious developer is only stopped by one of these three.

I worked in advertising for a while (for my sins), and one day I was having a conversation with a fellow writer about Bentleys. I said “it’s weird that Bentleys don’t advertise.”

He said, “oh, they do. Just not in any place you’ll ever see.”

And that was the poorest I’d felt in a while.

“Don’t worry”, my toddler says, out of nowhere.

Immediately, I do the opposite.

I think the things I want most from the blue sky app right now are:
- lists, separate from follows.
- when I enter a view from a card (so, I’ve swiped up to enter), I want to be able to “close” that view.

Either by swiping it back down from a handle at the top, or hitting a close button.

Getting paid took forever.

So when I finally went to go buy the thing I had made, it ended up being the very last pair available, and was four sizes too small.

Apparently it was a limited run!

The official D&D tennis shoe.

I designed them in a contest, and won first place for a $1000 prize.

They were sold at $120. I was unemployed and early in my career then, so I needed that prize money to even buy them.

Just used the flashlight feature on my watch, and it was surprisingly effective.

Very much a 50’s vision of the future moment.

Welp, here’s one more app to explore.