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 …
#Twenty Five
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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 …
LLMs and Cryptic Crosswords
At the time of writing, one way to demonstrate the illusory nature of LLM intelligence is to get one to try and answer a cryptic crossword …
The Birds and then the Bees
“I’ve never had one fail” says my Dad brandishing his drill on Boxing Day 2022, before heading out into the garden and …
Personal Development Environment
I’ve been trying to settle on a text editor, IDE, and terminal for a long time now. Partly I’m limited by what I can use at work …
Tree Shopping
As part of getting the garden done, we’ve been out and about looking for trees. It’s quite exciting seeing in person all the …
Bill Drummond, 45
45 is Bill Drummond’s sort of memoir, albeit one with a hazy memory of the events most readers (myself included) are likely to be …
Wilco, A Ghost Is Born (Superdeluxe edition)
In 2022, I invested in the big superdeluxe box for Wilco’s most successful album “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot”. Across 11 pieces …
In Praise of Pulling Everything out of the Shed...
Yesterday I pulled everything out of our shed and we took the stuff we didn’t need down to the dump. No one likes going to the dump, …
Post Statistics, Part 2
Here are some more stats about the blog after I ran out of time yesterday due to data cleaning! This time I’ve taken the date of each …
Post Statistics
Here’s of graph of how the number of posts and the total word count on mattischrome has evolved over the years:
Only Spring Indoors So Far
It’s still quite wintry outside, especially in the wind. We’re having to make do with daffodils indoors to brighten our day. …