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I make stuff at @slack.engineering London-born, Brooklyn now mattbrown.dev

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
baldwin's de niro impression ...never seen anything like it. supernatural.
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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The contagion of fear bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/t...
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The contagion of fear | The Observation Deck
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 05/07/2026
Happy 4th from the other side of the fence
Fireworks frame the World Trade Center, with a man in the foreground standing on his car with kids next to him
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 27/05/2026
New paper in Nature where researchers measured impact of different Bluesky algorithms before & after the November 2024 election.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Have you seen this on the @theguardian.com website? I only ask because as a subscriber I cannot trigger it to see it on the page. It is an ad that I made for them that appears to non-subscribers so I can never make it appear.
This is a cartoon parody of the Guardian Blind Date column, but instead of humans, the characters on the date are a computer arrow cursor, and a big yellow Guardian button with “Support The Guardian” written on it, like you get at the buttom of the ‘Subcribe please” advert popup. Both characters have legs and arms. There is also drawn in the corner, a selfie of them in a restaurant, like they have in the real Blind Date column. 


BLIND DATE

Cursor, 46, a computer cursor, meets Button, 52, a website button 

Cursor on Button:

What were you hoping for?

Looking for someone to click with.

First impressions?

Good font, round ends. Big yellow face.

What did you talk about?

Button talked a lot about her job at the Guardian, where she helps people fund vital independent journalism in a media landscape controlled by billionaires and big tech algorithms. 

Most awkward moment?

When I told her I’d just been in a two-hour click-hole that began “Do dogs have four wrists” and ended in the filmography of Jason Statham. 

What do you think Button made of you?

I think she thought I should be clicking on something more worthwhile.

Did you go on somewhere?

A fun little ’support the Guardian’ page.

And … did you click?

Yes!

Marks out of 10?

9 - would have been 10 if she hadn’t kept asking me for money.

Button on Cursor:

What were you hoping for?

Money to fund my important journalism. 

First impressions?

Pointy head. Bit pixelated.

What did you talk about?

How an independent press is crucial to democracy but is being threatened by economic and authoritarian forces around the globe, and supporting the Guardian on a monthly basis makes a big impact in support of open, independent journalism. And whether dogs have four wrists. 

Most awkward moment?

When he started talking about dog wrists and Jason Statham. 

Did you go on somewhere?

I showed him my favourite Support the Guardian page.

And … did you click?

Yes!

Marks out of 10?

He signed up, so a full 10.
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 23/02/2026
Snow pic!
A photo of the entrance Clinton Washington subway station, covered in snow. A man descends downstairs.
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 20/02/2026
Slack now supports video unfurls cc @jimray.bsky.team
Screenshot of Bluesky post in Slack with video playing. Text reads "Megan Keller with a dirty drag move and a gold medal winning goal"
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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
My dentist can do it all, from a simple cleaning to identifying my charred remains
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 29/11/2025
Great stories here. youtu.be/VSrQK6bSHko?...
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EYES WIDE SHUT: Recreating New York with Stanley Kubrick
YouTube video by CRITERION
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 07/11/2025
Also @catherine-vaughan.bsky.social took this v good Zohran pic yesterday
A photo of Zohran Mamdani with palm trees in the background. Mamdani is holding a microphone and smiling.
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 07/11/2025
Hey it’s mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
A photo of Zohran Mamdani standing beneath a coconut tree giving a speechA photo of Zohran Mamdani giving an evening speech outside, smiling and holding a microphone
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 12/09/2025
Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 01/09/2025
One of these men is gonna be mayor (photos by me)
Zohran Mamdani, smiling, posing with three women at the West Indian ParadeAndrew Cuomo looking grumpy at the West Indian Day parade
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 11/08/2025
Ok funny story: there's a very old divine being — name is under NDA, but you have definitely heard of Him — who’s one of our biggest customers, and he wanted to have his actual birthday on there.
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 31/07/2025
TIL: Bernstein repurposed a scrapped West Side Story opening number — "Make a mess of them" — an anthem composed for Chichester Cathedral www.chichestercathedral.org.uk/news/creatio...
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 19/07/2025
New York baby
A pic of the New York skyline at dusk
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 05/07/2025
A colourful firework explodes near the World Trade CenterA woman struggles during a hot dog eating contestA woman is crowned the winner of Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest
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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
New: Kristi Noem secretly took a cut of political donations. A dark money group routed the funds to Noem's Delaware LLC, tax records show. The original source of the money remains unknown. www.propublica.org/article/kris...
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Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 29/06/2025
look what he posted about JFK SMDH
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 28/06/2025
Coney Island
A large firework explodes in the distance watched by a family in the foregroundA couple holding a human-sized stuff banana watch fireworks
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 26/06/2025
Toronto is an extremely violent city. I just witnessed this guy beat up three guys and nobody around him did ANYTHING. People seemed numb to it. And then he did it AGAIN.
Pic of Jack Reacher standing under umbrellas
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 21/06/2025
Love some dive bar salsa dancing
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
That twist towards the end where you go from “oh no” to “oh no no no no no no god oh no”
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
For the absolute last time: I *never* said I thought E.T. dressed in the wig and the dress was sexy, I said *I could see why people would think that*
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 16/06/2025
v good blog
Screenshot of an article that reads, in part, "There is very little that aggravates me more than watching people who are either evil or stupid poorly manipulate holy texts for their own gain. I was raised in the evangelical church in Texas. My father is a minister. I have read the Bible more than probably any other book I will ever read. And I have watched, for my entire life, people who want power and glory for themselves rip out the pages and make origami swans with them in order to get the words to line up just how they want them to be, so they can justify their own actions."
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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Gentle reminder to choose your words carefully when discussing the end of a bromance between two increasingly erratic billionaires.
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Ariadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Thank you for that, Slackbot.
A Slackbot message reading, “Welcome to #politics! People in this channel tend to join #drinking and #insomnia, too.”
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Some of you have never seen all the angry panda commercials (actually a brilliant campaign for Egypt's Panda Cheese) and honestly especially these days there's no downside in getting you better educated on this particular matter
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Top 7 Panda Cheese Commercials
YouTube video by Chingate esta... 😎🤪
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The only meaningful problem with 23andMe going into bankruptcy is that they are the only way for people to obtain information about certain SNPs there *is no commercially available alternate test for* and your doctor cannot order and the specific genetic variant you carry can have treatment effects
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 23/03/2025
Market day in Delhi
A man holds a handbag in front of a market stall filled with handbagsA monkey clambering over power cables is silhouetted against the skyMen walk through a market covered by tarpaulinsA narrow street filled with motorbikes and pedestrians and pedicabs
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lillian @toomanymouths.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
thinking about when siskel and ebert were dicking off and riffing in-between takes and decided to roast the shit out of the protestants
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 08/03/2025
Pro-Palestinian protest on Westminster Bridge
Firemen on a crane talk to a man clutching a Palestinian flagA man clutching a Palestinian flag pumps his fist in the air A crane is seen in silhouette with Big Ben off to one sideA policeman stands on Westminster Bridge with Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament in the background
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 05/03/2025
London commute
Photo taken from London Bridge, commuters looking at their phones in the foreground and a dusk sky in the backgroundA photo of an old-style London double-decker bus with the driver in silhouette  A photo of two commuters looking out a train windowA sunset with leafless trees and houses in the foreground
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
my dog when I ask what’s in his mouth
Marco Rubio trying to disappear into the couch
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 24/02/2025
@caseynewton.bsky.social was delighted that you followed me, a verified idiot, but it turned out to be an imposter: bsky.app/profile/case...
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David Bisset @davidbisset.com · 21/02/2025
What an interesting #software #development story. "20 years working on the same software product". 😮 successfulsoftware.net/2025/02/21/2... Old timers like me will appreciate the mention of software on CDs. :-) 💿 #programming
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20 years working on the same software product
I released version 1 of my table seating planning software, PerfectTablePlan, in February 2005. 20 years ago this month. It was a different world. A world of Windows, shareware and CDs. A lot has c…
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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
When I was 8 I bricked my family’s computer by deleting all the .dll etc files because I 1) wanted extra disk space for games and 2) couldn’t figure out how to open them so figured they were useless This is DOGE’s exact energy, but with much higher stakes than one Compaq PC 🫠
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 10/02/2025
Mr. Marathon Is a 26-Mile Tribute to Cheap Produce
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Mr. Marathon Is a 26-Mile Tribute to Cheap Produce
Mr. Marathon involves visiting all 13 stores in the Mr. Fruit chain, and buying (and consuming) a thematically appropriate product at each one.
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 10/02/2025
Birds went
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
At the Deathbed, by Edvard Munch, 1895
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martin @trustworthym.bsky.social · 26/07/2023
Hey Film Bluesky. How many of you have dated a 🎥 guy like this?
"Toxic Film Bro Bingo Card" that reads:
Master & Commander
The Irishman
The Big Lebowski
Apocalypse Now
Jackie Brown
Starship Troopers
Taxi Driver
Okay Now
I Have Gotten
Your Attention
I Need You To Buy A Shovel & A Pickaxe
I Have Been Buried
FREE SPACE
Beneath Blackfriars Bridge
On The North Side
With A Thrice-Engraved Stake Through My Heart
Since 1869
If You Free Me
I Can Offer You
Untold Impossible Indefinite Pleasures
Beyond Your Wildest Imagination
Go In The Night
Tell No-one
I Have Slept 150 Years And Now I Must Rise
Elf
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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 02/02/2025
These are unprecedented times, and they’ve been hard on all of us. In the face of global uncertainty, it’s easy for the smaller things to slip through the cracks. Thats’s why we were so concerned when we noticed you left an item in your cart but didn’t finish checking out
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 21/01/2025
What I did yesterday ft @gillian.bsky.social @ekbergmann.bsky.social
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 21/01/2025
What I did yesterday ft @gillian.bsky.social @ekbergmann.bsky.social
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 19/01/2025
before tiktok, before bluesky, before twitter, before meta, before it all, there were sewers. after all, there will be sewers.
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They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Hey OKGO dropped this new video! youtu.be/MOEULOSVNK4?...
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OK Go - A Stone Only Rolls Downhill (Official Video)
YouTube video by OK Go
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
According to White House insiders Biden is still tirelessly working towards a ceasefire in Gaza despite aides telling the president that “that already happened” and “that’s not a phone you’re talking to it’s a rotting banana”
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