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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 29/09/2026

What your VPS CPU chart looks like when a Wordpress docker container you've been ignoring gets hacked at 4am and they install bitcoin miner and brute force password kits

CPU chart showing a spike and plateau at 350% CPU utilization for a few hours

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 25/09/2026

A small site that lets you rearrange the list and share: thisismattmiller.github.io/nyt-100-tv/

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 16/09/2026

Art Work Sonification #1: Yayoi Kusama Baby Stroller (at the Cleveland Museum of Art) thisismattmiller.github.io/kusama-strol...

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 15/09/2026

Hah, I was looking at usenet-rewind.com and I found some of my posts where 16yo me is asking for computer help in the 90s. Computers used to be so mysteriously frustrating. microsoft.public.vb.winapi.graphics 1998 I was trying out visual basic I guess www.usenet-rewind.com/thread/MzU0R...

Thread from newgroups:
This has probley been asked befor but, im haveing a hard time makeing a
mask on a image transparent with the Bitblt api call does anybody know a
place where i can see a good example of this with some code,
thanks alot
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Check out Matt Hart's page:

http://www.webczar.com/defcon/mh/vbhelp.html [Wayback]

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

We sucked up every communication sent in afghanistan for years, nsa was grabbing every yahoo and google email by grabbing the replication pushes between their dc’s. This fucking smiley is burned into my brain

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 28/08/2026

And I made this 1 hour paper marble GAN tour video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmSy...

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Paper Marble GAN - 1 Hour Walk

YouTube video by Matt Miller

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 28/08/2026

Browsing the paper marbles in U of Washington Libraries Decorated Paper Collection I was thinking about how latent space could be used to organize and categories. I built a paper marble GAN to try to explore: Blog: thisismattmiller.com/post/paper-m... Explorer: paper-marble.thisismattmiller.cloud

Animated webp of the paper marble explorer interface

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 25/08/2026

I think about what Roger wrote about Dolly Parton in his 9 TO 5 review any time I think of her: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/nine...

“Nine to Five” is a good-hearted, simple-minded comedy that will win a place in film history, I suspect, primarily because it contains the movie debut of Dolly Parton. She is, on the basis of this one film, a natural-born movie star, a performer who holds our attention so easily that it’s hard to believe it’s her first film.

There have been other debuts this unmistakable; you could name Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, John Travolta. And what you’d be talking about in each case would not necessarily be a great dramatic performance in an important movie. You’d be talking about a quality of presence, a personal life force that seems to take over the screen.

“Nine to Five” is only a fairly successful comedy. It has some very funny moments, and then it has some major ingredients that don’t work, including some of its fantasy sequences. But then it also has Dolly Parton. And she contains so much energy, so much life and unstudied natural exuberance that watching her do anything in this movie is a pleasure. Because there have been so many Dolly Parton jokes (and doubtless will be so many more), I had better say that I’m not referring to her sex appeal or chest measurements. Indeed, she hardly seems to exist as a sexual being in this movie. She exists on another plane, as Monroe did: She is a center of life on the screen.

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 24/08/2026

A MacOS app to quickly browse large JSON new line delimited files. github.com/thisismattmi... Making little programs I find useful in my work. I often have ndjson/jsonnl files as part of my workflows I want to search, inspect or pull examples from.

Screen shot of the viewer app with a file loaded

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 18/08/2026

Linked Jazz project is over 10 years old but really an endless space to work in, a new experiment: semlab.io/centennial-2...

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 13/08/2026

Blog post about building bibliographic superwork clusters to help in catalog discovery. An experiment in using a local LLM to help label how books relate to each other: thisismattmiller.com/post/superwo...

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Building Bibliographic Superwork Clusters for Discovery with Local LLMs

Judging work relationships in 88K clusters

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 04/08/2026

A short exploration of the 24K trivia questions found on the Jeopardy! video games of the late 80s and 90s. Including uncovering +50 wrong questions. thisismattmiller.com/post/jeopardy/

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Jeopardy! Video Games of the 80s and 90s

Analysis of 24K questions extracted

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dame @dame.is · 30/06/2026

This might be one of the best pieces of AI literacy content I’ve seen online so far — it’s long, but very nuanced and well researched… and is coming from another leftist! I wish people would listen to people like Dr. Fatima instead of Ed Zitron.

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How to (Anti) AI Better

YouTube video by Dr. Fatima

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 14/06/2026

Happy to not be in DC today. Back in ohio, where in my hometown it's Laila Edwards Day, even had a parade for her.

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 11/06/2026

the New York Times Opinion section endorsing my bluesky bot

screenshot of @jamellebouie.net reposting @siskel-ebert-bot.bsky.social post about the movie King of New York

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 05/06/2026

US Botanical garden staying up late for the dueling blooming corpse plants. Their stink lines were harmonizing all around the greenhouse.

Photograph of two crosses plants. Looming side by side

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 19/05/2026

Huntley Meadows a park I go birding at in VA had a pair of Great Horned Owlets that finally fledged last week. I used eBird's APIs to make a timeline: thisismattmiller.github.io/huntley-mead... Image Joey Fry (macaulaylibrary.org/asset/656061...) Here are some big chungus baby highlights...

Two Owlets peering over a nest / basket in a tree.
Photo by Joey Fry (https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/656061417)

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 28/04/2026

AI deathbots only weakness: justifying text on sign layouts

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 10/03/2026

Busy day on the national mall with the annual colorectal cancer awareness toilet seat data visualizations and new epstein titanic sculpture

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Josh Hadro @hadro.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

A lot of great posts recently on this topic of "vibe coding as enabler," including the two linked here. For me it's manifested as a way to scratch a digital project itch I've had for a decade, a data explorer for a set of Brewery directories from 1899 - 1918: hadro.github.io/brewery-guid...

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tovey s official brewers and maltsters d 2c38a390 — Explorer

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 10/03/2026

oh shit is "mario day"? let me fire up the emulator... "Super Mario Sister (Asia) (En) (Pirate).nes"

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Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

We presented on our tool for enriching and clustering book data at Code4Lib today. Check it out, and let us know what you think! data.post45.org/our-tools.html Huge thanks to @thisismattmiller.com for leading development on this project. #code4lib #c4l26

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Our Tools – Post45 Data Collective

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 26/02/2026

Roy Lichtenstein Catalogue Raisonné site got a serious terms and conditions, complete with auto scroll button before you can use it. Though at least its online + free

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 25/02/2026

I wrote a little Chrome extension to make animated WebP (“weppy”) files from a region of a webpage: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/weppy... I use it when writing documentation and I want to show a short animation (in Github README for example). Simpler than a WebM video and more modern than GIF.

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WeppySnap - Chrome Web Store

Capture a region of any browser tab as an animated WebP

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 25/02/2026

...state of the union? 👎 , look at this bluesky quote post network explorer I just made. I added 6 networks so far: thisismattmiller.github.io/bsky-quote-m...

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 07/01/2026

Building my HathiTrust 1930 public domain survey and coming across interesting volumes... like the tree shaming "Freak trees of the State of New York." babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=co...

Title page of book:
FREAK TREES OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK The New York State College of Forestry Syracuse University NELSON C. BROWN Acting Dean 1930 Second Edition New York (State) (allege of Forestry, Syracuse.

Shows a strange tree:
PRIZE WINNERS First Prize. G. W. Gotham, 89 River Street, Cortland, N. Y. Two elms, the larger tree appears to have absorbed the growth of the smaller tree. Trunk of large tree is bigger above the graft. 3

Shows two strange trees:
PRIZE WINNERS Second Prize. C. B. Cox, Adams Center, N. Y. Elm, trunk runs along surface of earth in half circle 45 feet near Adams Center on North Harbor Road. Third Prize. A. Wilson Insley, 30 Eagle Street, Mt. Morris, N. Y. Elm, one mile south of Conesus Lake. 4

Shows two strange trees:
PRIZE WINNERS Fourth Prize. George J. Wiedmaier, 222 King Street, Dunkirk, N. Y. Maple, 14 inches in diameter arched 7 feet and anchored in birch tree near Ark- wright, N. Y. Fifth Prize. H. L. Tayntor, McGraw, N. Y. Double beech, near Homer, N. Y. Graft 18 feet in length and 8 inches in diameter. 5

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 19/12/2025

Some of these Epstein file redactions are very aesthetic. Reminds me of updates.timsherratt.org/2021/04/21/s...

Image from Epstine files yellow postit note on green background black redaction bars

Pink postit note with green background black redaction bars

Green postit note on white background black redaction bars

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Very happy to introduce a new tool, BookReconciler! You can take spreadsheets with book data and add subject headings, descriptions, ISBNs, HathiTrust IDs, & more. You can also cluster editions & variations of the same "Work." Led by @thisismattmiller.com and supported by @post45data.bsky.social.

Diagram illustrating the BookReconciler workflow. On the left, a book cover of The Book of Salt by Monique Truong appears alongside “Minimal Metadata,” listing Author: Truong, Monique and Title: The Book of Salt. An arrow points to a box labeled “BookReconciler” with book and diamond icons. A downward arrow leads to “Enriched + Clustered Metadata,” showing multiple editions of the book cover and expanded metadata, including several ISBNs, subject headings (e.g., Vietnamese–France fiction, women authors, household employees, gay men, cooking), and an author VIAF identifier.

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

A hard problem with literary data is navigating btwn editions of books and what the "work," or the theoretical text that unites all editions. I've been lucky to work with @thisismattmiller.com and @mellymeldubs.bsky.social, who built a tool to address this + do much more arxiv.org/abs/2512.10165

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BookReconciler: An Open-Source Tool for Metadata Enrichment and Work-Level Clustering

We present BookReconciler, an open-source tool for enhancing and clustering book data. BookReconciler allows users to take spreadsheets with minimal metadata, such as book title and author, and automa...

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 01/12/2025

Example and analysis of how AI web scrapers are breaking small and medium cultural heritage sites.

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 25/11/2025

Blog: Visualizing 14,000 Released Epstein Emails. I built a viz of the emails released as part of the 20K House Oversight Committee docs. thisismattmiller.com/post/email-v... - A clustered high level view of the emails by contact across time - Zoom into individual emails and open the sources

A screen shot of the viz showing clustered email graphed across time by contact

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 12/11/2025

LCNAF & Trie – Storing +11M unique names in 50MB data structure in the browser thisismattmiller.com/post/lcnaf-t... - Optimizing LCNAF authorized headings into a trie data structure - In browser MARC file name reconciliation + search tool - OpenRefine / Command line tools for reconciliation

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LCNAF & Trie

Storing +11M unique LCNAF names in 50MB Trie data structure

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 31/10/2025

Halloween blog post: Italian Giallo Horror Films thisismattmiller.com/post/giallo/ - Using vision language model to analyze a 70 film corpus (🧟) / 80,000 frames - Build and plot “trope clusters” across movies Probably the longest eye acting supercut you've seen: youtu.be/cGrmkOwut6k

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Giallo

Using a vision language model to analyze Italian Giallo films

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 17/10/2025

New Post: PEN America Banned Books 2025 dataset thisismattmiller.com/post/book-ba... Looking at school district book bans - Interactive Map interface to the books banned in 2024-2025 - A faceted browse interface to the 3700 books - Subject heading analysis

Shows a county map of the united states the counties with school districts with banned books are highlighted red.

A screenshot of a the banned book browser interface showing rows of book covers.

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 07/10/2025

New Blog Post. Library of Congress & Flickr Commons: Analysis of user interactions on 40,000 images thisismattmiller.com/post/lc-flic... - Organizing 95K photo comments. - Viewer to explore user georectified images - Folksonomy tagging vs LCSH Vocabulary - Placing into the Wiki* knowledge graph

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LC & Flickr Commons

Library of Congress & Flickr Commons: Analysis of user interactions on 40,000 images.

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 30/07/2025

One output, 1 hour 40mins of Siskel and Ebert summaries: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFLM...

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Siskel & Ebert -- 2000 Review Summaries

YouTube video by Matt Miller

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 30/07/2025

Trying out workflows that use multimodal LLMs for validating and QA. In this blog I walk through a test using 1000 Siskel and Ebert videos to extract key video frames and other data. thisismattmiller.com/post/buildin...

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Building datasets from video collections using local & cloud LLMs

Using Qwen2.5-VL, Gemini 2.5 and Whisper to build a Siskel and Ebert dataset

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WoodBlockShop @woodblockshop.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

maintenance

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Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

New dataset on bestsellers from 40+ countries, with consistent coverage for France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the U.S. Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉 🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...

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Siskel and Ebert Bot @siskel-ebert-bot.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) Director: Joe Dante Cast: Phoebe Cates-Kline, Sylvester Stallone, Hulk Hogan, Zach Galligan, Christopher Lee Watch Review wp / wd

A screen capture from the Siskel and Ebert Show reviewing the movie Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Ebert gave it a thumbs down.
Siskel gave it a thumbs down.

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 23/07/2025

thisismattmiller.com/post/glitch/ New blog post about @glitch.com shutdown, how I migrated my apps, and how I used glitch for teaching and creative projects.

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 30/06/2025

The Library of Congress BIBFRAME Update is online today at 1PM EDT. Talks about: - Hubs (BF ontology) - BF Cataloging at Penn Libraries - BF Validation Tooling listserv.loc.gov/cgi-bin/wa?A...

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 17/06/2025

Yeah we have bots endlessly flooding id.loc.gov stressing servers to the limit trying to scrape millions of html pages even though we offer pretty much all of it as bulk downloads: id.loc.gov/download/

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AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums

"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”

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FernBot🌿 @fernbot.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

ideal

A collage of fern illustrations over a color gradient. Images from:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/108032#page/168/mode/2up
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/107961#page/240/mode/2up
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/108042#page/116/mode/2up
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/108040#page/92/mode/2up
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/107961#page/260/mode/2up
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/108510#page/206/mode/2up
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/108787#page/118/mode/2up

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 15/05/2025

A new very chill bot, for these very un-chill times. Posts FERNS from "Ferns: British and exotic..." by E. J. Lowe. 8 vols 1856-1860. Makes a new collage every 8 hours.

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Interesting! Because they just terminated their grant for the Post45 Data Collective, which preserves and establishes access to collections of literary and cultural data!

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 14/04/2025

If you need me I’ll be in…

Photograph of kraftwerk performing at Coachella the screen reads COMPUTERWORLD

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WoodBlockShop @woodblockshop.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

waiting for the dead bodies to arrive, but they're not doing me any favors

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