iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

And here’s a selection of the logo sketches; I loved some of the more organic designs but knew I wouldn’t be able to carry that look through into all the projects & so went for something simpler & geometric

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 29/09/2026

Soon the misery of being unable to find crisp sandwich sound effects will be over

ButtyStock screenshot showing in-development sound effects section; “Crisp, crunchy sound effects, browse now"

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 28/09/2026

It’s the "politicians only care about jobs you see in kids’ picture books” thing all over again, isn’t it?

Chancellor to promise ‘new age of industrialisation’ for UK

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 23/09/2026

On high alert for squirrels

Fluffy light-coloured dog looking intently into the woods

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 20/09/2026

Might as well really go for it & get one of these too for cooked breakfast in bed

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 19/09/2026

Still can’t get over how much of a glow-down this house has gone through over the years

House in Bangor painted with Ed Povey mural showing Snowdonia and a jester figure by the door

Same house today, painted white with white uPVC windows & fence instead of hedge

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 17/09/2026

I think it was a QV-10, even back then it was too low-res to be worth spending money on the batteries it rapidly chewed through

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 12/09/2026

I fucking hate these AI-generated, AI-promoted, utterly charmless cash grabs that are sprouting up like weeds

Hi Matt,
I saw Widthipedia on VOLE — showing a
different Wikipedia page at each browser
width is a fun way to turn a familiar page into
something unexpected.
I built Take The Wall: one public page with
one featured owner. Your project replaces
the current content and stays until somebody
else takes over.
Would you be interested in trying it with
VOLE.wtf? Browsing and previewing are free;
publishing a takeover costs $3.99. It's an
early experiment, with no guaranteed
audience or duration.

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 12/09/2026

I liked Rose of Nevada more than Bait & Enys Men even though it just kind of drifts towards the end. As with all unusual films, ideally go in knowing nothing

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 12/09/2026

The most important button on my browser's toolbar

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 12/09/2026

Got an image onto the front page just once

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 11/09/2026

In case anyone’s still thinking “it’s just a Linux distro, how sinister could it be?”

@dhh
The Omarchy Doctrine
Unite the nerds
Hold the line
Have some fun
Beauty is truth
Heritage is duty
Command is service
Welcome the agents
Perfect the computer
Own the machine
You're somebody now

@dhh
I know I can sound harsh when talking about the crazy clown posse that's taken over all these little Linux towns, but I just want the nonsense to end, I don't carry a grudge, and I will forgive anyone who earnestly want to return to the hacker creed.
[a weird AI-generated pic depicting him as some kind of Linux Jesus]

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 08/09/2026

As with the Schrader thing, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that they’re revelling in controlling black actors

@Grummz tweet:
Okay, this is the best way to explain why Al Slop is not what you think. By using Al Denzel Washington to explain it all. This is actually really good. Well written, directed and generated.
It's about you not needing the studios anymore.
@kensdreger reply:
Denzel would beat the shit out of you for using him for this

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 06/09/2026

The sugars & fats all trying to get into your system at once

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 06/09/2026

Been watching a lot of Silo, so the rich neighbours’ landscaping is now looking ominous

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 05/09/2026

Only recently got round to starting watching Dark Matter as I was wary of a drawn-out impostor-life-swap thing. Yes, it’s got all the stuff you expect from the premise, but also fun weirdness & characters trying to think their way through things, much better than I expected so far

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 30/08/2026

This would surely be the highlight

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 24/08/2026

Surprisingly, the perfect domain name for the times we live in is still available

Good news! This domain is available!
slop.ninja

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 23/08/2026

“this is a RURAL road for RURAL people"

Tubbs & Edward from The League of Gentlemen

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 23/08/2026

The most annoying & baffling road signs I see round here

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 22/08/2026

First time I’ve seen this in a restaurant

Container of glasses cases labelled with
Forgotten
your glasses?
No problem!

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 21/08/2026

Found a photo of one of his descendants

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 15/08/2026

She growls at the ball while chasing it if it bounces awkwardly

Fluffy near-white dog lying in grass with a ball

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 14/08/2026

Surely a severe alert would be “there’s a fire near you, you might need to evacuate”, not “be a bit careful about burning stuff”

Severe Alert
Issued by the UK Government
There is a very high risk of
wildfires nationally. Residents,
landowners and visitors should not
undertake any activity that could
start a fire, including disposable
barbecues, firepits, garden
incinerators or fireworks. Even a
small flame can rapidly develop
into a major wildfire placing lives,
homes, businesses and
emergency responders at risk.
Follow official updates and report
signs of fire immediately by calling
999. Search gov.uk/alerts for more
information.

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 11/08/2026

The house now looks like this, what a glow-down

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 11/08/2026

The fishermen one still seems to be clinging on, the house & shop were painted over within a decade

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 11/08/2026

Ed Povey’s murals were the most prominent art of my childhood One was just up the road, another round the corner, another on the side of the chippy near my gran’s house, etc edwardpovey.com/selected-ear...

House painted with mural of mountains and a jester

Shop painted with close-up images of food products

Side of a building showing fishermen bringing in the net while surrounded by seagulls

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 10/08/2026

Needed a logo, already had Libertinus installed so it didn’t take long to do the text then add a bit of decoration & make preview image

Widthipedia in Wikipedia font in black on white

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 07/08/2026

S2 finale of Sugar is a clunky bolt-on to set up future stuff, but somehow this ridiculous show has worked, even with the genre mix & too much money thrown at it

Colin Farrell & Laura Donnelly sitting on the beach in shades looking pensive

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 04/08/2026

We’re very open about our vampires round here

Stone inscribed with:
Our grateful thanks to
LUCY PRICE
for 200 years of
support for the young
people of Baginton
1814 - 2014

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 28/07/2026

Westworld TV series covered this - they try to accurately recreate humans but the results are always unstable, until they simplify to 10,247 lines of code

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 26/07/2026

I still think Sugar doesn’t make great use of its Big Weird Twist, but Colin Farrell puts in great work to keep it moving, especially with all the voiceover bits that could’ve easily felt a bit flat

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 26/07/2026

Decided to take Jojo to the farm shop where I used to get my lunch every day

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 18/07/2026

That sense of the country feeling stuck is the whole reason the UK has gone through a succession of PMs but each time the focus is still on pandering to xenophobes

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 17/07/2026

Imagine trusting GROK with all your data, FFS

A Green Being
Okay, grok has uploaded my entire user directory to xAl's servers. It contains my SSH keys, my password manager database, my documents, photos, videos, everything...

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 16/07/2026

Love the way everyone simultaneously posted the same meme last night, a nation united in backseat managing

“Well, did it work for those people?” meme

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 12/07/2026

Say hello to Jolene (informally “Jojo”, which luckily avoids terrible Dolly Parton impersonations when calling her), who came home with us last week She’s had to cope with a bit more than we’d have liked (the heat, fireworks, etc) but is settling in really well

Close-up of dog with short, white coat, looks like a cockapoo but isn't

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 12/07/2026

We looked up the breed, and… WTF

Google Images results showing dogs with ‘dreadlocks’

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 25/06/2026

No more worrying about RAM & Mac prices, this is going to save me a FORTUNE

Boxed software Ram Doubler for Macintosh and Power Macintosh, “Double your RAM with just one click”

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 19/06/2026

Can’t believe no one’s selling bottles of it as souvenirs

ebay search for “reflecting pool algae water” with 0 results

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 04/06/2026

Ha, this should definitely be in every laptop comparison table www.theverge.com/tech/908328/...

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 03/06/2026

So here’s what happens, textarea is still wrapping the word I’ve set a 200ms idle timer and it’s running only for Safari, seems solid so far & performance hit seems insignificant relative to processing & displaying a long doc

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 03/06/2026

Safari has an annoying glitch where it doesn’t always properly update textarea wrapping, breaking things like editors where you’re lining up invisible editable text over a styled copy Found a simple, synchronous workaround to prod it

textarea.style.letterSpacing = '-0.001px';
void textarea.offsetHeight;
textarea.style.letterSpacing = '';

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 01/06/2026

This morning the lovely cocker spaniel we adopted 6 weeks ago suddenly went weak & listless, we rushed him to the vet where he died. He had internal bleeding from a large tumour We’re stunned by how abruptly we’ve lost him

Black & white cocker spaniel sat on grass in sunshine

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