Matt Policastro
@mattpolicastro
Distinguished fellow of Some Such Nonsense Studies. Data science and experimentation. Keep it wavy. mattpolicastro.com
*staring into the sense memory of my grandparents’ swampy garage fridge* RETVRN
Finally got back on the bike to run to the grocery store after getting the all-clear from my orthopedist, the weather is finally feeling appropriate for Chicago in June, and the cat is annihilating my couch cushions. Life is pretty good
But have you considered this unholy promotion running at Jewel right now
I love the future because my dishwasher gets to take a tone with me when I forget to unload it after 12 hours
Hey, why does WGN have a pixelated 9? Like if it’s an accident I’m more just fascinated how that gets rendered
Wrote this (mattpolicastro.com/2026/03/11/c...) on my old blog framework and was carrying it over to the new WIP framework, to which Claude responded with the following. Strange times.
I’m usually pretty skeeved out by LinkedIn but this is a masterpiece, no notes
@albertburneko.bsky.social so the Dave McKenna ham story tickled something in my brain, but it wasn’t until I was with my family over the holidays that I followed up on it: I grew up in Belgium and we 100% had a ham truck that would travel into France fairly often www.thechickenman.be/en/home
I don’t think I’m particularly good but I’m having a lot of fun screwing around with some of these silly lens kits for my phone
I listen to a lot of ambient and these are low-key hilarious It’s miserable to switch browser tab groups but I have four different Pandora stations at a button press, so who could say if it’s good or bad
I am humbled beyond belief that Mr Daniel FedEx Support is on the case (and began being on the case a short half hour ago) Truly, the promise of the internet has been fulfilled
I made a shandy from equal parts raspberry lemonade crystal light and pils as a ride recovery treat and actually it tastes pretty good
Yeah, that dust storm was not a joke to get caught on a bike in
Quote post with a picture of the plane you’d expect as a bribe. (To the tune of the Simpsons’ “Monorail”: EKRANOPLAN)
We’ve been through too much together to let it end without a fight.
Ok, the new photo mode they added is actually pretty great. Forgive me
I have only a vague notion of what I’m trying to accomplish here (15 modular engines per minute) but here, have the ~500m ring I spent an unreasonable amount of time on
You can’t make this shit up—he’s the corrupt evil technocrat who ran a Neo Business Plot from Splinter Cell: Conviction