Matthew Lyon @mattly.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Never trust anyone working in tech who wouldn't rather be doing something else instead. 121
Matthew Lyon @mattly.bsky.social · 30/07/2025I'm doing some sound effects design work that calls for an atonal engine-type sound, and many of the sound designers I admire perform their sounds, while I'm generally very anxious about performing music, I can have a lot of fun w/simple things like this thanks to the Linnstrument's expressivity 010
Matthew Lyon @mattly.bsky.social · 15/04/2025I had to remove the app from my phone a year into the pandemic 000
Matthew Lyon @mattly.bsky.social · 07/03/2025My favorite piece these days is "Disconnect in Character", which is more or less about neurodivergent masking — its costs & the negative feedback loops that form when you don't pay them A friend said it's "easily the darkest piece on the album" & it's *after* the one about depressive emptiness 000
Matthew Lyon @mattly.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Today's bandcamp friday, and my album is $1: matthewlyon.bandcamp.com/album/lies-i... It's nine narrative-connected tracks that mix experimental sound design techniques & lyrical melody in a way that defies genre — @triplicate.bsky.social calls it "Leftfield Electronica" & I think that's aptmatthewlyon.bandcamp.comLies in Reach, by Matthew Lyon9 track album 110
Reposted by Matthew Lyonrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/02/2025you can really tell who’s never worked in the service industry based on who romanticizes the concept of the Small Business lol 1426644778
Matthew Lyon @mattly.bsky.social · 26/02/2025I described it to a friend once as “an erector set for business data” and I think that’s apt - a lot of flexibility for middling power, and a whole lotta jank 100
Matthew Lyon @mattly.bsky.social · 26/02/2025I worked there for a bit; they are what Jack Donaghy explains as “business” to Liz Lemon 100
Matthew Lyon @mattly.bsky.social · 26/02/2025I’m actually writing a series of posts & made a bingo card about this: lyonheart.us/login-bingolyonheart.usLogin Bingo 000
Matthew Lyon @mattly.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Pretty sure he looks like return of the Jedi-era palpatine now 000
Reposted by Matthew Lyonstretta @stretta.com · 21/02/2025Instead of AI, I'd like the ability to insert today's date into the name field of any save dialog box on MacOS. 51038
Matthew Lyon @mattly.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Besides the obvious chorusing from detuned oscillators, I had some fun with it in Polymer and the Vowel filter to get different sort of “chorus” 010
Matthew Lyon @mattly.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Glaringly obvious to *us*; a lot of these people were outright lied to and weren’t paying close attention, and were misled by the firehose of disinfo Still, much lower on my sympathy list than people who made the right choice or who are too young to vote 100
Matthew Lyon @mattly.bsky.social · 17/12/2024oh, more recently, I co-created a game with a friend, which won 1st in the Autumn Lisp Game Jam Prism Escape is a chaotic collect-and-dodge "space shooter" type game hugely inspired by the classic Mac game Crystal Quest, w/ a color-shifting mechanic inspired by Ikaruga mattly.itch.io/prism-escapemattly.itch.ioPrism Escape by mattly, technomancychaotic collect and dodge action 010
Matthew Lyon @mattly.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Professionally, I’ve done computer programming work for ~20 years, shifting towards UI design for semantically complex things. I get caremad about giving people tools to understand things, and especially caremad about preventing mistakes 100
Reposted by Matthew Lyonchaircrusher @cornwarning.com · 17/12/2024 "Lessons In Forgetting" recalls Soviet science fiction soundtracks, mixed with a load of chattering sample rushes. @mattly.bsky.social matthewlyon.bandcamp.com/album/lies-i...matthewlyon.bandcamp.comLies in Reach, by Matthew Lyon9 track album 121
Matthew Lyon @mattly.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Most recently, @triplicate.bsky.social published my first full-length album, Lies in Reach, described as "an exciting and delightfully leftfield selection of music to delight, confound and enrich your life" It is the most personal piece of work I've created matthewlyon.bandcamp.com/album/lies-i...matthewlyon.bandcamp.comLies in Reach, by Matthew Lyon9 track album 110
Matthew Lyon @mattly.bsky.social · 17/12/2024I guess now that this place is taking off it’s probably time for an intro: I make a variety of things across various media in the realms of visual art, musical composition, software programs, electronics, and more I am a wildly spatial thinker, & deal with late diagnoses for ADHD & Dysthymia 131
Matthew Lyon @mattly.bsky.social · 16/12/2024eh, making parametric art with processing/p5js probably have the most community resources available and are easy to get going with but like, I did a game jam recently, and am doing some UI programming for an audio plugin, and it all involves a lot of trig 010
Matthew Lyon @mattly.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Try doing some graphics programming sometime and you can do the same thing with trig 110
Matthew Lyon @mattly.bsky.social · 14/05/2023you’re advertising the invite on a place people need it in order to read your message :p 110