Matt Round

mattround@crispsandwi.ch

Trying to make web more fun with vole.wtf <a href="https://crispsandwi.ch/@VOLEwtf" class="u-url mention">@VOLEwtf</a> and other online nonsense. You can also hire me to devise 💡IDEAS💡 and turn them into proper plans & lovely web things.

Posts

Post #4491758
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 https://edwardpovey.com/selected-early-murals
Post #4161502
oof https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/police-missed-one-underscore-and-sent-the-wrong-man-to-prison/
Post #4059688
Random internet content is now almost worthless for training LLMs, which is why they’re spending millions on buying/scanning/destroying LLM-free physical books What happens when hardly anyone’s writing new, uncontaminated non-fiction? I suppose we’re going to find out
Post #3892951
Imagine trusting GROK with all your data, FFS
Post #3624765
Didn’t stay up for the football but I’m a big fan of anything that temporarily harms productivity, there’s not enough slacking off nowadays
Post #2489274
Already had someone complain that this is “promoting AI”, fucking hell https://datacenter.fm
Post #2381047
Get warmed up before heading to the polling station https://mattround.hatch.one/uk-voting
Post #1992562
When worlds collide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD52OK8HEGA
Post #1951261
It’s hugely important that people understand how these things actually work, we’re facing a potential epidemic of AI-provoked mental illness, but instead of public health campaigns &amp; classes in schools we have a govt that’s eagerly promoting the tech https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c242pzr1zp2o
Post #1854160
Bizarre thing for a premium brand to do, an artist wouldn’t have been expensive (especially for this kind of style) and would’ve also given them a name, a story, someone to help push the products, etc https://cjleo.com/blog/moleskine-ai-lord-of-the-rings-collection-can-only-mock/
Post #1789657
Argos in town has become a church, hope they make people write prayer/hymn requests on slips of paper using tiny pencils then show their numbers queued up on a screen
Post #1783253
Thanks to Ruffle, so much Flash stuff has been resurrected, eg the huge collection at Orisinal https://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/ (what&#39;s Ferry Halim up to nowadays..?)
Post #1496746
Love this. Yes, post is a huge faff, but it can make an impact https://www.gamefile.news/p/panic-mail-arco-despelote-time-flies-thank-goodness-teeth
Post #1336155
This is clever https://rowan441.github.io/1dchess/chess.html
Post #1336154
oof that was hard work 🧱 #DayBrix for Top-Heavy Tuesday, 14 Apr 2026: 🌟100% in 109.7 seconds https://vole.wtf/daybrix/
Post #1336153
25 million visitors already, blimey https://www.npr.org/2026/04/14/nx-s1-5776842/ai-chatbot-comedy-ben-palmer-chatgpt
Post #1336152
OK, who’s great at low(ish)-poly 3D modelling? Just lining up possible candidates for a chunk of work that should arrive in next month or two, going to have a polished, fairly minimalist style with restrained texturing (rather than messy, organic, etc)
Post #1336151
Looks like Apple’s loosened its requirements for using account age to verify you’re an adult (didn’t work for me previously, possibly because I’d never used a credit card with Apple)
Post #1336150
Today’s coding has mostly consisted of deleting code, which is always the best coding (realised a whole load of temporary variables weren’t actually needed)
Post #1336148
Hmm is that good..?
Post #1336147
Something I’m doing for the first time with current project &amp; liking a lot: there’s a ‘changelog’ Google Doc where I put a date subheading then list what I’ve done/discovered, including occasional demo links. Client can dip in when feeling curious
Post #1061377
Just made part of current project render 500-1000 times faster, hoping to do the same for two other areas but the maths/coding is going to be brutal
Post #1061370
Just checked on sales numbers for this (Lulu doesn’t do anything helpful like showing you graphs/stats, have to download a CSV), it’s at 456 copies sold https://vole.wtf/doctype/ There won’t be a second issue, but there may be something related, and I’ve got another print project planned for autumn
Post #1061369
Decent campaign idea &amp; pretty lucrative for the winner (10-day Iceland trip + $50K) https://www.icelandair.com/flights/campaign/really-bad-photographer/
Post #1035049
April Fools from The Phoenix and Warhammer show how it’s done - you don’t just lie about doing a silly thing, you actually do a silly thing https://bsky.app/profile/willardfoxton.bsky.social/post/3mig64n6tes2q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59NORGNnWlQ
Post #964828
My views on WordPress summarised: - Gutenberg had good aims but is terrible to use - Making a new theme is now a ludicrous slog - Should’ve fixed file structure &amp; DB long ago (full URLs &amp; file paths should only be in config!) - Popular plugins should’ve been replaced with built-in features
Post #964827
Noticed Reign of Fire is on TV, underrated film that features an absolutely wonderful bit of post-apocalyptic culture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCBA1wii70o
Post #906963
OK, that’s a decent topical game idea https://sweepthestrait.com
Post #820868
slooowwww games https://pippinbarr.com/as-slow-as-possible/
Post #820866
Working on something with multiple coordinate systems, multiple representations of points and multiple projections of coordinates, and it’s completely melting my brain