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mattischrome is the personal blog of Matthew Dorey, an analyst and data scientist from the UK. (more)
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Back in the Saddle
I did that thing I sometimes do and that is really think about what I’d like my blog to look like instead of actually getting on and writing some posts.
Nevertheless, I’ve got a plan to get back into the saddle and start writing some posts again. Part of it will involve redesigning the site so there will be some visual changes (mostly to enable more posts that are just an image or two) and some additional features added.
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Best Albums 2025
Faced with writing about the best albums of 2025 a bit late, I figured an extra six months of perspective might help me make some decisions about which albums truly were the best of last year.
Truth be told, it didn’t feel like the best of years for albums last year, but that just might be me getting much more in to the various mixes on Apple Music. While I am passionate about the album format where you get to listen to a set of songs by one artist, I do find that I am also very appreciative of mixes these days that blend together sometimes surprising choices of songs.
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Panini Stickers 2026
Ten years ago, ahead of the 2016 European Championship, I wrote a few posts about the Panini sticker album for the tournament and my efforts to fill it up. It was a nice subject to investigate with Excel and R as a little data science exercise. This post is a little update.
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Darkmans
About eighteen years ago, I got a copy of Nicola Barker’s “Darkmans” for Christmas. It’s a hefty novel, one of those small runs where the ‘hardback’ is actually a paperback. I have the first edition and it’s ginormous. I read it at home because I couldn’t really take it anywhere.
But I got through it with the help of the following hack.
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New Year Twenty Six
This is a quick blog post to say Happy New Year. I’ve got lots of things to write about, including my favourite albums of last year and a whole month in Australia. Obviously you don’t spend a whole month in Australia and blog about it while you’re there because someone will come and rob your house.
So anyway, there’s a whole load of posts I need to write about: some books, all sorts of things really.
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Some more thoughts on Civ 7
It’s been about 5 months now since the release of Civilisation VII and it’s starting to become a playable game. This is partly due to me getting used to it and partly the effect of quality of life patches and additional features.
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