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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 21/09/2026

I don't like touch screens, especially for typing. But I wonder: Would a phone with the following physical buttons be more usable: Back, Home, Enter, Arrow Keys. You know, a little control pad in a corner. Maybe even a click wheel? Something tactile.

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 12/09/2026

The #Overwatch Battle Pass "Info" screen, which normally shows a Winston plush, shows a different icon - "Out for Blizzcon: BRB"

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 18/07/2026

Today I had the joy of participating in a VERY-short-notice Stargate meetup here in Melbourne, Australia outside Metro Comic Con! Met some very cool people. Existing fans are everywhere! #SaveStargate

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 17/07/2026

Melbourne Stargate fans! See you in 4 hours for the #SaveStargate meetup outside Metro Comic Con! savestargate.com/events

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 04/07/2026

The funniest and most disappointing part about Overwatch's menu overhaul is that they overwhelm the Home tab with 3-6 ads for shop bundles, so I just.. don't spend any time there. I don't need to be advertised to - I'm either on the Heroes or Play tab. I still love the iconic Overwatch 1 main menu.

Current Overwatch main menu as of July 2026.

Legacy Overwatch manu menu, screenshot taken 10th of Feburary 2026.

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 28/06/2026

It took me 6 weeks and almost 30 hours of driving time, but I did it - I've reached Legend Island in Forza Horizon 6. Now to finish all the things on the map. There's so much to do in this game - this may take a while.

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 24/06/2026

The Stargate community is large, global, and varied. There'll be a watch-along in under 7 hours of SG-1's Window of Opportunity (S4E6), a fan favourite. Stream it on your own to bump those concurrent viewers. Details @ savestargate.com/events #SaveStargate

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 08/06/2026

The worst part about this, is that the execs are wrong. An existing, dedicated fanbase is a *godsend* for modern content, as it ensures you have higher reach. And the producers know this, so they were *of course* writing to reach both. #SaveStargate

A Tweet from Joseph Mallozzi.

"Creator Martin Gero developed a new Stargate series over two years, ultimately crafting a show that offered a fresh jumping-on point for new viewers while deeply respecting existing canon. It was a series that avoided the pitfalls of several modern remakes and reboots by fully embracing the core of its predecessors: action, adventure, exploration, wonder, heart, humor, and found family. And based on that creative vision, the new Stargate series was greenlit in November of 2025."

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 25/05/2026

10 years of #Overwatch. I may not have hit 3,000 hours, but it's been a wild ride!

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 13/05/2026

For those curious, the #Overwatch Loot Box pool gained 2 Epic skins in the Season 2 Mid-season update: - Imperial Guard Reaper - Terracotta Medic Baptiste

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 27/01/2026

These days most of the functionality of that plugin is built in.

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 21/01/2026

It's 1:20pm. A story in 3 parts. This is the second time in two weeks I've seen this happen. The first time (Patch Tuesday, day of), it did restart while I was eating lunch. #Windows11

Windows Update Settings page. Restart required (est. 3 min). Notably: "Your device will restart outside of active hours". The update listed is for the Secure Boot Allowed Key Exchange Key Update

The currently set Active Hours setting, configured for 9am to 5pm, with a note "We won't restart your device during these hours"

A dialog that appeared at 1:19pm, stating "We'll restart and install this update at 1:345pm" - which is during active hours.

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 21/12/2025

Likely. With my quick test as a Windows user, I find the existing behaviour confusing & have asked for clarification. Long story short below. I'd personally want looser fallbacks, but I know macOS guidelines say to be strict to avoid accidental capture. App capture more reliably uses app ID only.

macOS Screen Capture (Window):
* Only stores app code (eg `com.apple.Terminal`) and window ID
* If matching window ID is gone, it no longer captures anything from the app
* **BAD** Opening the properties resets the Window dropdown to the first in the list, resulting in it capturing a *different app*

Deprecated Window Capture:
* Stores app owner (eg `Terminal`), window name, owner PID and window ID
* If matching window ID is gone, falls back to window name, and if that's gone too, no longer captures
* **BETTER** Opening the properties leaves the old window in the list and greyed out, and does not blindly reset capture.

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 12/10/2025

I have manually opted into Extended Security Updates. I should not be getting an alert asking me to install Windows 11. (see the right side of the first screenshot) #Windows

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 03/09/2025

It's bad all the way down. Generally I try to use 60Hz/fps wherever I can, but it's not always possible. :(.

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 28/08/2025

Also, fun UI bug, if you select "Role Queue" and select a previous season, it shows Hero SR (which wasn't yet supported) instead of Most Played.

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 28/07/2025

Well, this weekend was educational! Learned Gradle, Yarn, Fabric, Minecraft's world rendering pipeline (order of operations), Mixins, and that injection points *matter*. I got the mod fully updated and working how it used to, but my favourite mistake was using camera position data.. oops.

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 30/05/2025

And when we say "we recommend updating, as new releases have bug fixes" - we mean it! It's also why it's imperative that if you experience bugs in your favourite open-source software, you report it to the developers! That's the only way it'll get fixed!

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 13/02/2025

I don't explicitly remember, but I haven't rewatched Blizzcon 2017-2019 in a while. The last time in OW2 they did a roadmap like this was for Season 5, which is way too long ago.

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 12/02/2025

This is a crazy take from someone at Fedora. OBS 30.1.0 & above use a runtime last updated in Oct-2024 and marked EOL prior to our Jan-2025 release. Newer versions of it have critical bugs that we didn't want to pass to our users - we instead reported them upstream. Apparently that's bad?

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 22/01/2025

Apparently the Overwatch executive team believe a main menu link to Match History isn't important enough (it currently takes 2 clicks to get to), but a *second* shop tab, labelled "Maximilien's Vault," is important enough. Even the 6v6 experiment didn't get this priority treatment.

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 17/01/2025

Giving my PC time to boot is... fun. Quite sure this is somehow caused by WSL. No idea how to debug it.

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 24/11/2024

Being a JavaScript developer by day, I love being able to carry over knoweldge and skills to personal projects. So this weekend I successfully enabled hot reload in Java for Minecraft plugins in VS Code.

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 13/11/2024

With Overwatch Classic out, I revisited a few of my own Highlights & POTG clips from OW1. Because of this, I figured out why the Overwatch 2 HUD still feels out of place for me: *opacity*. Overwatch 1 had a more transparent HUD, and it felt MUCH better to me. Here's an edit I made, with reference.

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 10/11/2024

When your hands get home row wrong (and you weren't looking) but Spotify still correctly guesses what you meant. How on earth?!

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 09/11/2024

Finally rebuilt my voice satellite for Home Assistant after the SD card corrupted itself a while back. I got lucky because the more useful configuration files were intact, but I did actually spot one file that *did* get corrupted - the simpler config. *phew*

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 25/10/2024

Now more than ever, I wish I had the budget for this domain. Would make for a wicked Bluesky handle.

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 19/10/2024

I spent an hour last night troubleshooting a crash-on-shutdown on Linux in OBS when the user has opened the "What's New" dialog any time during the session. Continued troubleshooting today. My luck continues to fail. I fear fixing this requires a refactor to match other usages.. :(

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 15/10/2024

Decided to finally put a 2nd SSD into my gaming PC as my poor C drive was always on the brink. Moved most games successfully, except Forza Horizon 5 (Xbox app). It was failing at the 10% mark. Verifying files didn't fix it. The cause? One audio asset file, in Italian.

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 07/10/2024

Took me 44 tank matches and at least 12 non-placement DPS matches across 3 days. But I did it. Should not require that many. @PlayOverwatch

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 27/09/2024

After a two-season loss streak, finally had a win streak.. and then a 3 hour tease. Now I'm finally back in Gold 3. Only three more divisions to be back in platinum again.

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 30/08/2024

That moment when one of your temperature sensors just randomly stops working for 12 hours, and then fixes itself. Straight up just didn't report any values. Then continued as if nothing went wrong. The other 3 sensors, one of which is further away, had no issues. Smart home shenanigans.

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 31/05/2024

I'm terrible at creative building games, but #tinyglade is so intuitive and has such a great vibe, I expect I'll be playing it a lot on release. Here are my 2 favourite builds of mine so far. Free demo (and wishlist): store.steampowered.com/app/2198150/…

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 04/03/2024

I have verified that this works with OBS Studio @OBSProject in case anyone is curious. Very low latency, and only requires Android 9+ twitter.com/windowsinsider/status/1…

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 15/01/2024

Unsurprisingly, @PlayOverwatch "Quicker Play" caused the opposite problem. My team went on the offensive at the start of the round, and nobody bothered to capture the objective, so it just sat there uncaptured until I, as Tracer, went back for it. 1min20 into the match.

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 10/01/2024

I was like "oh neat, @ifixit Australia has a sale!" In order, $2.33 off (1.5% off) $6 off (3% off) $1.33 off (1.3% off) That's not a sale, that's a troll. (and that's not including the $19 shipping)

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 30/12/2023

I was doing other things today, so I wanted to see just how long I would actually queue for @PlayOverwatch Open Queue. I was Gold 1 in Season 5, & this season I have not yet been able to play an Open Queue match. @SrslyPaladin I hope this padded a stat internally somewhere. 😂

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 21/12/2023

It took me 70 wins across the past 2 seasons, but I'm finally back to Platinum 5 support in @PlayOverwatch. This is after a loss streak in Season 6 that dragged me from Plat 5 to Gold 5, and kept me in Gold 4 for most of Season 7. Now to sleep through Christmas.

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 13/12/2023

Well, that's one way to accidentally inflate your @XboxANZ #XboxYearInReview numbers.

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 21/11/2023

The @PlayOverwatch competitive matchmaker makes less sense each season. I'm a gold 4 support at the moment. Yet my match had two players with "Master Role Challenger" who were bronze 5 and gold 1 respectively. Soldier definitely had >plat aim.

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 29/09/2023

Imagine you have limited time to play games & every game you enjoy has a min. required win count/time investment for rewards. In this case, @PlayOverwatch requires 15 wins in each competitive mode (Role Queue, Open Queue, Mystery Heroes). ~15min per game. 50% win rate. 90 games?

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 21/09/2023

Blizzard, I just need 1 more win. This is what happens when you require 15 wins for players to acquire their seasonal rewards. I'd much rather be *playing* the game. I can't even queue for alternate modes outside of Custom while in this queue. Not doing this next season.

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 19/09/2023

Blizzard: "Our goal is low queue times." Australians: And are the low queue times in the room with us right now?

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 13/09/2023

I get this notification daily and I have no idea what it means. :( The Xbox app on PC has interesting quirks.

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 12/09/2023

And this is why "complete x games, wins grant double progress" is much better than "win x games" - I still completed my weeklies. Now please do the same for the competitive challenges, thanks @OhReallyJared

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 26/08/2023

Look, I love racing games.. but an additional $50 for "25 additional vehicles (Year 1 Pass)" and an additional $20 for "original content designed by an artist (Ultimate Pack)"? Who on earth makes a battle-pass riddled game and thinks asking for $170 is OK?!

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 26/08/2023

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 17/08/2023

Nah, I turned it off for a reason, Windows.

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Matt Gajownik @wizardcm.com · 08/08/2023

Can anyone recommend a Windows app that can track per-application network usage over time? Trying to figure out what's uploading multiple GB per day without my knowledge. Microsoft Power Automate was uploading about ~1GB a day (not even logged in), but there's 2GB more unaccounted for.

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