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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 12/08/2026

I live in Stockholm, Sweden. The SL (Stockholms Lokaltrafik) uses a font and colour scheme that is very consistent and quite distinct across the city. No idea how appreciated it is by others, but I really like it.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 31/05/2026

What a scummy, dark pattern-y implementation of a payment window from @musescore.bsky.social. I only spotted this because I thought: - Why am I was getting a discount? - Why is a toggle next to the price? (Just to be clear, I didn't ask for the subscription to be included, it was opt-out)

A screenshot of a payment window from Musescore.com. It shows checkboxes checked for "No commitments", "Secured personal and payment data", "Up to 60% discount on scores, books, and courses" then showing a price of "SEK 23.00 for this score", with a toggle next to it, toggled on.
Underneath the price, in smaller text reads "Get up to 60% discount with PRO+ membership. Charge Today: kr 0. 7-day free then 3 months at kr 639".
Meaning the payment wouldn't just be for the sheet music, but also for signing up for the membership subscription.

A screenshot of a payment window from Musescore.com. It shows checkboxes checked for "No commitments", "Secured personal and payment data", but then a red cross on "Up to 60% discount on scores, books, and courses" then showing a price of "SEK 104.00 for this score", with a toggle next to it, toggled off.
Underneath the price, in smaller text reads "No discount. Turn on to switch to apply your 78% discount".

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 17/12/2024

Bit unfortunate there for the NYT.

A cropped screenshots of New York times puzzle "strands". The clue/theme is "it's lit!". The first guess that is shown as correct is "Crime".

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 10/12/2024

It's -1, feels like -5. It's also 13:00 and the sun is setting. Ah, Stockholm.

A picture of a street in Stockholm. Glorious blue skies and a bright but low sun in the distance.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 07/12/2024

Pretty sure that's a dice tray for D&D dice.

An advert for Christmas gifts from Åhléns. The picture features jewellery in a box that looks suspiciously like a D&D dice tray.
Picture also features a reflection of a man and a woman. The man is taking the picture. The man is me.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 07/12/2024

Excellent Quick Cryptic crossword today from @theguardian.com No Charades or Double Definitions or other weird, difficult stuff. But a new(?) category called "Voice" which was immensely fun ☺️

Screenshot have a quick cryptic crossword in the guardian app. The instructions state that the clues could be anagrams, hidden words, acrostics, or voices. The first clue is "as Sean Connery says, unmarried people getting viral diseases (8)" the answer being "Shingles"

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 26/11/2024

This (pictured) is basically the cause of the my frustration. On Google TV, I don't have Amazon Prime, or Viaplay, or Crunchyroll, or Apple TV (etc.) installed, nor want to receive "recommendations" (advertising) about them. On Google TV, it's not clear why. BUT on the Web, all is revealed:

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 17/11/2024

Nope! All posts are stored in public repositories that anyone can read - it's intrinsic to the design. See the section called "Data Privacy" in the FAQ: bsky.social/about/blog/5... That setting is simply to "discourage" apps from showing your account to logged out users. It doesn't block anything.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 15/11/2024

Arrived in the post! I've been having a lot more architectural & advice conversations, sessions and workshops with teams in the last couple of years. I think they've gone well, but I feel a need to level up. This and @facilitatingswarch.bsky.social should help a bit! 🤞

A picture of a book titled "Collaborative Software Design: How to facilitate domain modelling decisions" by authors: Evelyn van Kelle, Gien Verschatse, and Kenny Baas-Schwegler.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 12/11/2024

No shade on the guy making the videos (I have never watched these, this is just a YouTube algorithm recommendation) but... The combination of: - How to play - Part 5 (implying there are 4 previous parts) - Cycle One (implying future cycles) - it's 35 minutes long is hilariously ridiculous.

A screenshot of a YouTube video recommendation. The title is "How to play Aeon Trespass Odyssey - Part 5 - Cycle One" from a YouTube channel called "Gaming Rules!". The video is marked as being 35 minutes and 40 seconds long.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 09/11/2024

Tactical Breach Wizards complete! EXCELLENT game. Well worth 100%ing. Wish I could forget it and play it all over again! Thanks @dan.nerdcubed.co.uk for bringing it to my attention, and @pentadact.bsky.social + team for making it! 😊

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 18/09/2024

Yup, definitely enjoyed that one.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 31/08/2024

On the left (H&M), a crap website layout for finding homeware products. On the right (Clas Ohlson), a neatly laid out website for finding homeware products. UX designs, please take note.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 10/08/2024

Mathem is an online grocery store & delivery company in Sweden. It seems like they deliver via... boat 😅

A small boat travelling at high speed, with a large box in the boat marked "Mathem"

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 20/07/2024

Stockholm is a very pretty city. I'm glad I moved here ☺️

A wide landscape of Stockholm. A waterfront view of the sun setting behind the city hall.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 23/06/2024

It was more "A History of Western Societies, followed by some quite biased essays on political topics, occasionally being offensive, dismissive, or both" The writing-style is inconsistent, but quite smug at times, for instance this final "I illustrated rather than informed" comment:

A snippet from the book: Politics: A Very Short Introduction.
The snippet reads: "This introduction ends, then, with an example of political theory, an argument likely to provoke disagreement, perhaps even a bit of outrage. And if it does do that, it will have succeeded in illustrating one more aspect of the many-sided thing we have been studying. Farewell."

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 08/06/2024

Disgusting. 35GB for Windows. This, the new AI features, the Ads, the classic ol' Windows bullshit has led me to decide: I'm going back to Linux, again. I came back to Linux for gaming before, but Proton & the SteamDeck have helped Linux be good for gaming.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 07/06/2024

Whoa... YouTube "watch" page has just changed to have the description/comments on the right and the recommended videos below, and all the empty space has gone. The side bar has been minimised, even in full screen.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 23/05/2024

Well... screw you, Bosch.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 19/05/2024

Clue: Stack. Answer: Heap. My software engineer brain: THEY ARE NOT THE SAME 👀

A cropped screenshot of a crossword puzzle. The clue reads "Stack (4)" and the answer is "Heap".

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 15/05/2024

Haven't seen you in a while, friend. Been catching up with GitHub notifications and dealing with PRs and Issues for a LONG while now. I'm finally caught up to the "now". I can breathe 🧘

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 11/05/2024

Man, I really despise the arsehole at Google who came up with the idea that these should be Ad "Privacy" features when they are just Ad Enablement features. I don't really understand how this isn't fraud.

A screenshot of an Android setting screen titled "ads privacy". The settings featured are on add topics, app-suggested ads, and Ad measurement which are all features that enable further gathering of your data for advertisement, not less.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 18/04/2024

Been deliberately opting out of the Chrome UI Refresh for a while now. A new update came out and now the tab icons are all screwed up. God damn shitty programmers not testing that things work & look correct with different feature flags enabled/disabled 🙄

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 08/02/2024

Ah yes, because of all the people in the world I want to see "being real" it's... FIFA 🤦‍♂️

A cropped screenshot of a section in my BeReal feed that is encouraging me to discover more accounts to follow, including FIFA and AFC Ajax.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 14/01/2024

Not been so early on the subscription feed where I've seen the age of a video in seconds.

A cropped screenshot of a video in my subscription feed that shows the video age is "20 seconds ago" and has 3 views.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 12/01/2024

Ah, so this is why. A bug in Bluesky means only posts that are less than a few days old show up. So they patched in pulling from other feeds (not a good decision, imo). And then haven't communicated that in-app 🙄

A screenshot of a reddit post explaining the bug with the Bluesky following feed at the moment.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 07/01/2024

Whoa, why is my @bsky.app Following feed suddenly full of Discover stuff and only 1 tweet from Following? 🤔

My Following feed, full of posts marked "from Discover"

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 28/12/2023

Back to snowy, dark Stockholm.

Nacka station, Stockholm at 8pm in December 2023.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 27/12/2023

Farewell Barcelona. You were very sunny, pretty, but smelly and dry. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 🎊

A table for 4, ladened with mussels, asparagus and Spanish "bomba"

An ice-cream cone with two flavours of ice-cream: After Eight and Vanilla Tonka

A landscape of the Barceloneta waterside at sunset

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 24/12/2023

Christmas Eve Hike 🥾☀️🎄😎 From: Vilanova i la Geltrú To: Sitges Now for a train back to Barcelona.

A monolith statue with a face carved into it, in Vilanova i la Geltrú.

View of the Mediterranean with beach and promenade.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 23/12/2023

Jupiter was next to the moon last night. Pictures doesn't quite do it justice, but it was quite bright!

A picture of the moon with a little white dot next to it, which is Jupiter.

A zoomed in picture of the moon (waxing gibbous) with a little white dot next to it, which is Jupiter.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 22/12/2023

Barcelona in December ☀️

Ruins of old buildings on display, found under a market building in Barcelona

A view of blue sky peeking through the curtains, Barcelona.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 18/12/2023

Spotted on JD Sports' site. lol, classic 👌

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 11/11/2023

Made a couple of small changes to pictures and colours on my website, and now I'm back to high performance and "perfect" Accessibility/Best Practice/SEO scores. Fun 😊

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 02/11/2023

For those who are interested in software/platform engineering, I have this on my TODO list for my personal infra as code:

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 29/10/2023

I cross this bridge every weekday to go to work, and there's been this sign for Matthew Perry's memoir up for a little while. I had wondered if he'd come to Stockholm for a book signing. And now...he's gone. Rest well, Matthew Perry.

A bridge with a lamp post with a sign on it, the sign is of an advertisement for Matthew Perry's memoir.

An advertisement for Matthew Perry's memoir

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 23/10/2023

New Profile Pic for everywhere 😊

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 21/10/2023

Ah, they made a hover thing, and that makes the text vertically central. Still, ew.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 21/10/2023

Why is everything so small and high up in the new Chrome styling? Ew.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 19/10/2023

Hello friend, haven't seen you in a while... 🥱

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 13/10/2023

Because OF COURSE Momentum needs an Ask AI feature... 🙄

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 09/10/2023

As part of the fixing, I created this monster 😅

A picture of two phones connected together, and to a power source, with various cables.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 08/10/2023

BeReal are running a competition thing where you need to pick some BeReal posts you've made and submit them as part of the completion. Where do you share them? ...on a different social media app 🤦‍♂️

A screenshot of an online form asking a user to share their BeReal posts on Instagram Stories or Twitter for BeReal staff to be able to view them.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 02/10/2023

Still just a silly, performative man wearing black jumpers and jeans.

Matt Smith, posing and laid down on a flat, poofy sofa.

Matt Smith, drunkenly singing songs in a theatrical/performative way.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 23/09/2023

25 favourite games, no particular order. Using topsters.org

A screenshot of 25 video games. Specifically: Super Mario Galaxy, Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine, Halo, Fable 2, Baldur's Gate 3, The Secret of Monkey Island, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, Minecraft, Colin McRae Rally 2.0, Grow Home, Just Cause 3, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Portal 2, The Witness, Dustforce DX, God of War, Watch Dogs 2, Worms Armageddon, LEGO Star Wars 2: The Original Trilogy, Red Faction: Guerilla, Outer Wilds, Psychonauts 2, Return of the Obra Dinn, and Doom.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 21/09/2023

Tried logging into Twitter via the app. I have 2FA set-up with a security key and got "Cancelled" immediately (see below) It instead gives me an option of Security key or Backup key. Well, I picked the security key, and it shows "Cancelled" again.

A error message from the Twitter app stating something was cancelled, presumably the 2FA.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 21/09/2023

What the...? Since when did Google get to decide what I install on my laptop? Fucking Chrome apps...

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