Matt Wilcox

Middle aged white guy trying to become less ignorant over time.

Professional:
I build websites the "traditional" way. I’ve been building them for ~20yrs. Progressive Enhancement, HTML/CSS/JS, and accessible practices will always be core to quality work. Frameworks come and go.

Personal:
If I'm not looking back at my younger self and cringing a little, I stopped growing. I don't want to stop growing, so I've become comfortable with cringing.

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

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2025-05-06 22:51:46 UTC

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More practically and usefully: Why put yourself in the situation of “picking a side” on a clearly controversial issue, where multiple orgs have seen enough to officially cut ties, when there are surely many other people who could enjoy a spotlight and benefit the actual topic - without the risk? Why choose to do this? Pragmatically, does the move make sense?

2025-04-20 14:56:20 UTC

And now I’m getting *email* notifications of replies?! The heck.

2024-11-06 09:49:27 UTC

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Louder, for people not getting it:
Fascism is the inevitable result of a society with large imbalances of personal security. Which in a capitalist society means large imbalances of wealth.
If your society allows some people to be mega secure and untouchable, while also allowing large portions of it to feel very insecure... you will become a fascist society, eventually.
Do not allow this. Do not allow excessive wealth stratification. It. will. Destroy. Your. Civilisation.

2024-11-01 17:12:06 UTC

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Tough one. I mean, they'll end up aware whatever, almost certainly. But I'd consider why you want them aware of it, specifically.
Maybe introduce at the same time as other stories from other religions, and in the context of "these are very old stories some people tell each other"?
Consider not treating christianity as the one event that is "actually done / mentioned" in the house as *that* is what makes it vibe as "oh, this is considered more real and less story".

2024-07-04 07:13:09 UTC

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 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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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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