Hello, I’m Matt!
I was released into public beta in 1991 sometime between the public release of the Web and the fall of the Soviet Union. This is my personal site which I primarily use as a blog and to share bits of my life.
I try to keep the design of the site as lightweight as possible, so don’t have any images of me embedded in any pages. However if you want to see a picture of my beardy mug then you can use the following link:
- A picture of me from 2019 (profile.png, 96Kib)
This page is the index page so contains links to every other page and blog post on the site. Every other page has a link at the top to bring you back here. Hopefully this makes the site easier to navigate!
The pages you’re most likely interested in are:
Pages
Blog Posts
- – Daily Driving a Dumb(ish) Phone in 2025
- – The mrshll.uk templates are now Free/Open Source
- – 2024 Winter Solstice Update
- – Installing GerdaOS on a Nokia 8110 4G in 2024
- – My obligatory 'moving to SourceHut' post
- – I've had to block Keychron via a spam filter
- – 2024 Summer Solstice Update
- – Software I Wish Existed
- – My approach to backups
- – Making Firefox Work Better with my Tiling Window Manager
- – 2023 Winter Solstice Update
- – 2023 Summer Solstice Update
- – I accidentally upgraded my phone
- – Experiences migrating to Hugo
- – I'm done with tablets
- – Keeping it local
- – 2022 Winter Solstice Update
- – Memory Lane: How I used to do my computing
- – 2022 Summer Solstice Update
- – My dream e-reader
- – Goodbye Ubuntu (mostly)
- – My take on the Plain Text Personal Organiser
- – 2021 Winter Solstice Update (belated)
- – Some links for November 2021
- – Some housekeeping for November 2021
- – Some links for October 2021
- – Why your pizza tracker lies to you
- – Some links for September 2021
- – Some links for August 2021
- – Some quick site notes
- – 2021 Summer Solstice Update
- – Migrating (temporarily?) to Jekyll
- – So I'm grieving right now
- – A year of journaling
- – Finding joy in converting a file
- – You should write to your MP, here's a template
- – Writing a thesis in markdown
- – Why The Guardian is utter tripe
- – State of my phone 2020-06
- – Routine is a tool, not the point
- – Review of TURF @ Goodspace in Newcastle upon Tyne
- – Review of the VIP Inn Berna Hotel in Lisbon
- – Capitalism and the Planet - a happy May Day to all
- – (Almost) Off into the sunset; what I've been up to for the last six months
- – 2018 was a Long Year
- – Another List of Stuff I Own (December 2018)
- – Goodbye Twitter
- – Gratitude List Autumn 2018
- – Quick thoughts on Minimalist Design Patterns for Brimstone
- – Initial thoughts on the new laptop
- – Brief reflections on my relationship with photos
- – Brimstone
- – A List of Stuff I Own (May 2018)
- – Accountability Work: Examining the Values, Technologies and Work Practices that Facilitate Transparency in Charities
- – My relationship with self-care
- – A mundane snapshot of stuff on my Phone
- – On Screens
- – Suspicious Emails
- – All about the sleep
- – Going to Ground
- – Flatmates and Housework
- – Dying Light
- – Essentialism
- – A slice of PIE
- – Equinox planting
- – Memento Mori
- – Decluttering Update
- – Every morning
- – Boats and a fear of success
- – Fasting Pt 3: Towards my Media Fasting goals
- – Fasting Pt 2: Towards my new Dietary Fast
- – Strength Training, Fasting, and Emotional Labour
- – GE2017 Reaction: I feel the sun
- – Unpublished ACM Submission
- – Am I a Maker?
- – The Simple Peace of Mending Socks
- – A Collection of Old Journal Entries
- – Pulling away from Big Google
- – Brimstone: Plans and Situated Actions
- – Thoughts on Minimalism, Zero Waste, and Class
- – Year in Strength 2016 - Reflections on Strength Training
- – Week in Review - 20 Dec 2016
- – A bit of DeGoogling
- – Riding Shotgun (or Getting a Grip)
- – Hero's Journey: Call to Adventure, or Road of Trials?
- – Marked for Release (or Letting Go)
- – Thinking about 'Stuff'
- – Quick Evaluation of Brimstone CMS and my Silo Use
- – The Great Reclaim: Where I am with social media
- – Feature Creep, and Doing.
- – Saving on Sushi
- – Reflections on my Facebook use
- – Accountable: Exploring the Inadequacies of Transparent Financial Practice in the Non-Profit Sector
- – The End of the Tunnel (is in sight)
- – Grumbly Review - VidaHost hosting (is bad for devs)
- – Please use PDF
- – I'm going to run to Mordor
- – Jar of Broken Dreams
- – Year In Strength 2015: Reflections on Training
- – Tags vs Categories: All hail tags
- – Fifteen Years Later (A trip down memory lane)
- – Reflections on Notes and Pretty URLs