A Lovely Harmless Monster

Official blog of 🦝 mattbee.zone

Big new project in the works — January 23, 2026
New reasons to love CX File Explorer; X-Men film re/watch; a new StumbleUpon sighting? — January 16, 2026
Reviewing Every Track on "Freaks of Nature" (Various Artists, 1997) — January 9, 2026
Let's Not Romanticize Cable TV — January 4, 2026
Game Badges update 165➔170: Hook, Super Metroid, Ys 1, etc — November 10, 2025
Splitting your JSON with sed and csplit; a correction regarding slugs — October 25, 2025
Migrating from bearblog to mataroa — October 22, 2025
How much salt to add to the water when you cook pasta/spaghetti — October 21, 2025
How to sort of fix a gamepad — October 20, 2025
A useful batch script; work update — October 18, 2025
SkuDingBo - Bingo meets Sudoku — October 15, 2025
🚧 I have imported my old blog posts 🚧 — October 13, 2025
Burnout, moving the blog, a new creative project — October 12, 2025
Three things I recently learned about myself — August 29, 2025
I would like to stop posting every day but I can't yet — August 28, 2025
Dear Google: I will never see another one of your ads — August 27, 2025
August is a busy month — August 26, 2025
Wow, I've got nothing today — August 25, 2025
The 10 best rock songs of the last 25 years? — August 24, 2025
Hillsfar: not good — August 23, 2025
Small Good Things — August 22, 2025
Books - finishing the Parker trilogy; Antkind — August 21, 2025
Today’s post is a rerun from 2005 — August 20, 2025
I saw Bagfoot; humans are not designed to M; new calendar meta — August 19, 2025
My fire alarm went off at 05h00 — August 18, 2025
Anniversary day, mid-Blaugust check-in — August 18, 2025
Respect to (1) black cats and (2) classic films — August 17, 2025
The forgotten history of the 45box format — August 16, 2025
Water cooler tech nobody needed or asked for — August 14, 2025
Misc. updates - Gauntlet, Parker, Linux, Work — August 13, 2025
Quick suggestion for people who write account recovery questions — August 12, 2025
Mp3s are still good — August 11, 2025
My Sunday shift was okay — August 10, 2025
Had a relaxing day at work for once; what I've been reading — August 9, 2025
Dialing 9 for an "outside line" was a UX disaster — August 8, 2025
Do I like country music? An investigation — August 7, 2025
Today I learned there’s a band called "Diamond Rio" that predates the Mp3 player — August 6, 2025
I need to fix my website — August 5, 2025
Forgot my flash drive today — August 4, 2025
Can Gauntlet II be soloed? — August 3, 2025
I read my first crime novel — August 2, 2025
I think headlamps should be more of a thing — August 1, 2025
Happy Blaugmas Eve — July 31, 2025
Overcoming friction, gearing up for #Blaugust — July 25, 2025
Imgur is dead — July 15, 2025
Mid-July update, slow reading, 5 more game badges — July 12, 2025
I've been having Kafka dreams — July 4, 2025
Really Simple Syndication ain’t so simple — June 30, 2025
My front in the Robot Wars — June 26, 2025
Clearing up my name situation — June 24, 2025
Game Badges update! 155➔160 — June 22, 2025
Someone finally made a good linux terminal editor. It was Microsoft — June 19, 2025
Comments are now open — June 17, 2025
Work is annihilating my soul — June 13, 2025
Got a lot accomplished this laundry day — June 8, 2025
Weird things I want — June 3, 2025
May books - technofeudalism, tuberculosis, polyamory — June 1, 2025
Brain ups and downs — May 27, 2025
Debian is my smoothest Linux experience yet — May 22, 2025
My headphones keep crashing — May 19, 2025
Why my titles are terrible, and what I intend to do about it — May 15, 2025
Sunny Merch Now Available! — May 12, 2025
Ren and Stimpy — May 11, 2025
Blind spots — May 8, 2025
Android browsers are weird — May 6, 2025
Neurodivergence — May 5, 2025
The L.A. Noire Video Didn’t Hit — May 3, 2025
Stop Using Relative Timestamps — May 1, 2025
IP Theater, Congrats to Rabbit, Bloggodynamism — May 1, 2025
Website, kiki, brain — April 29, 2025
Kiki URL Rewrites With Managed Hosting — April 26, 2025
Coding as a craft — April 26, 2025
A foolish blunder — April 25, 2025
There's a new action button video — April 21, 2025
Whirltube — April 19, 2025
New Work Computer — April 17, 2025
Stuff I was wrong about — April 15, 2025
Linux pause — April 14, 2025
I hate the person Linux turns me into — April 13, 2025
Linux Mint — April 13, 2025
I'm doing technology — April 7, 2025
Overextension extension — April 6, 2025
Massively overdid it yesterday — April 3, 2025
Walking the Archipelago, or: Couch to 1080p — April 1, 2025
Sunday Links 23 — March 30, 2025
Sunny finds the World Shelf — March 24, 2025
Sunday Links 22 — March 23, 2025
The price of eggs, the value of taste — March 20, 2025
Every Day Carry — March 18, 2025
Community, not "engagement" — March 15, 2025
The Samsung A16 — March 13, 2025
Sunny and the Kittens Update! — March 12, 2025
Flow (2024) review and analysis — March 9, 2025
Sunny — March 7, 2025
Bye, The Numbers! — March 6, 2025
Defining Success, Pyramid Schemes, and The Grind — March 5, 2025
the shadow realm — March 3, 2025
Sunday Links 21 — March 2, 2025
Bearblog Better Tags Access — March 1, 2025
How To Distim Your Doshes — February 28, 2025
How To Clean Your Glasses — February 27, 2025
Self-Hosting Again — February 24, 2025
Appetizers — February 14, 2025
bear blog question challenge — January 14, 2025
Happy new year — January 12, 2025
why didn't dreamwidth work? — January 12, 2025
the year of the journal wasn't very successful — January 11, 2025
despair — November 7, 2024
Badge engineering — October 30, 2024
A "career" milestone — October 29, 2024
Game design, game writing, Game Dad, game badges — October 28, 2024
Recertification Day — October 23, 2024
Doctor visit, health numbers, the Taco Bell music scene, Johnny Cash slices salami, big cheez — October 18, 2024
Keyboards and gamepads. Nothing important — October 17, 2024
Home remedies, relatable cartoon cats, staying hydrated, the great Canadian hate-read — October 16, 2024
Teeth — October 15, 2024
It's been a week — October 11, 2024
500 grams of refined blog butter — October 10, 2024
Feeling the funk, good fidget jewelry, Worms is back?! The Mario Party—eSports spectrum — October 9, 2024
Therapy day, S&G2 proof-of-concept, bad UI decisions in Masto 4.3, interesting links — October 8, 2024
Weekend nurse, Slime & Goo 2 brainstorming, why CYOA isn't for me — October 7, 2024
Therapy day, grindset fakes exposed, a Super Mario radio drama, no cake for me please — October 4, 2024
Thoughts on the demise of cohost, from an observer — October 3, 2024
Mushrooms and libraries good, capitalism and big publishers bad. Library apps questionable? — October 2, 2024
Puzzle game weekend — September 30, 2024
Why are hats? home shrine advantage, it's been a week, markup cock-up — September 27, 2024
Gotta scam em all — September 26, 2024
On special inserts, Christian media, medicine quest — September 25, 2024
I've got a brain problem situation on my hands — September 24, 2024
Achieving the proper balance, my top 8 apps, the joy of picross — September 23, 2024
Doing it for the cheeves — July 17, 2024
Another world within a dream — July 14, 2024
A true comedy story (from my life) — July 5, 2024
blog hibernation / year of the journal — January 20, 2024
i like crosswords now — November 18, 2023
i'm in the november issue of indiepocalypse — November 4, 2023
nudes — October 22, 2023
wonder boy: not a classic — October 13, 2023
blogs: good for text — October 12, 2023
revenge sleep procrastination — September 9, 2023
super logical decision theory — August 17, 2023
mid-year book report — July 4, 2023
a smol spelling reform — June 15, 2023
food paranoia — June 13, 2023
the three pillars — June 11, 2023
my favorite LP — June 11, 2023
tag happy — June 9, 2023
have you seen this frog? — June 8, 2023
more Pickles puns please — June 7, 2023
The bluelander guide to enjoying coffee — June 6, 2023
happy palindrome day to those who celebrate — March 2, 2023
skeuography 01 — February 28, 2023
jaguar homebrew: why — February 19, 2023
Q & A & S(uggestion) — February 17, 2023
a few of my favorite things — February 15, 2023
i can name that tune after much soul-searching — February 11, 2023
fire sale — February 10, 2023
i social'd too much today — February 8, 2023
some bullshit from my brain — February 7, 2023
nothing concrete can stay, donkeyboy — February 6, 2023
the merzbox is much less impressive than i imagined — February 4, 2023
i'm getting glasses again — February 1, 2023
worker initiative — January 31, 2023
metaphor — January 30, 2023
simile — January 29, 2023
drug logistics (a sad one) — January 28, 2023
presenting: the beatles — January 27, 2023
critter with a newsletter — January 26, 2023
diplomacy monopoly — January 25, 2023
current sleepy status — January 24, 2023
greetz — January 23, 2023
my dream computer — January 22, 2023
wishlist — January 21, 2023
linux reinstall night (no text) — January 20, 2023
franklin, tennessee — January 19, 2023
i don't have time to finish typing the last few letters of this ti — January 18, 2023
knocked out a few Hello Kitty World achievements tonight — January 17, 2023
current battery status — January 16, 2023
ancipdate — January 15, 2023
you must enable DRM to view this post — January 14, 2023
btw i use arch (comma retro) — January 13, 2023
rest day — January 12, 2023
we need a textodon — January 11, 2023
egg strats — January 10, 2023
handshake meme — January 9, 2023
complaint — January 8, 2023
train your brain in however many things per whenever — January 7, 2023
i like bad video games — January 6, 2023
old news and reruns — January 5, 2023
ancipitation — January 4, 2023
Ancipital documentation project — January 3, 2023
audiolog 07 — January 2, 2023
bright futures for walruses — January 1, 2023
should auld gorillas be uncaught and never left confined — December 31, 2022
PDF sucks — December 30, 2022
the doldrums are over but winter's tendrils still grow against my ribs — December 29, 2022
i think france should ask for the statue of liberty back — December 28, 2022
violence against shapes, violence against culture — December 27, 2022
hey mint, whatcha readin? — December 26, 2022
new red shoes, several golden rings and a stocking fulla chili dogs — December 25, 2022
cold comfort — December 24, 2022
captain, it's windsday — December 23, 2022
what was the deal with "Goof Troop"? — December 22, 2022
UI gore: Token Transit — December 21, 2022
the time for getting back on track is now — December 20, 2022
no whammies — December 7, 2022
i'm making a new game — December 5, 2022
fuck CSX, actually — December 1, 2022
latin quisquiliarum — November 29, 2022
no signal — November 25, 2022
quick meta analysis — November 24, 2022
yes hello! — November 23, 2022
thanksgiving break — November 22, 2022
anxiety — November 21, 2022
how today will become tomorrow's yesterday — November 20, 2022
current mood: — November 19, 2022
precious meddling — November 18, 2022
the [elephant noise] discourse — November 17, 2022
a week of sidequesting — November 16, 2022
not pizza — November 13, 2022
convalescence — November 9, 2022
physical health update (negative) — November 8, 2022
i tested positive — November 7, 2022
sunday links 20 — November 6, 2022
plague talk — November 5, 2022
we're naked and alone, and the grave is the loneliest place — November 4, 2022
how did "how did this get made" get made? — November 3, 2022
surviving and dungeon diving — November 2, 2022
thank you — November 1, 2022
sponsorship / donation drive — October 31, 2022
fudging the tetrahedra — October 30, 2022
the ur-slime — October 29, 2022
more uses for chess sets — October 28, 2022
fermat's last paradox — October 27, 2022
animal antix — October 26, 2022
critter comix — October 25, 2022
rest day — October 24, 2022
audiolog 06 — October 23, 2022
project day — October 22, 2022
byzantine medicine quest blues — October 21, 2022
audiolog 05 — October 20, 2022
new game: moon miner 2085 — October 19, 2022
widget tallying — October 18, 2022
peaky beak — October 17, 2022
computer chronicles — October 16, 2022
i broke my computer in an exciting new way — October 15, 2022
sugarcubes — October 14, 2022
correspondence — October 13, 2022
shop talk — October 12, 2022
snappy comebacks — October 11, 2022
comfy questions — October 10, 2022
on being re-sensitized — October 9, 2022
🦝 🔛 🛏️ 🕙 💔 🚫 🖋️ 🙏 😴 — October 8, 2022
audiolog 04 — October 7, 2022
analytics update — October 6, 2022
over analyzing — October 5, 2022
i gotta stop waiting until 23:30 to write these — October 4, 2022
dinner and drinks — October 3, 2022
202210021425 — October 2, 2022
the funny pages — October 1, 2022
you're listening to WRBR, rickety bridge radio 76.2 — September 30, 2022
deleted scenes — September 29, 2022
youtube sweeps week — September 27, 2022
season's greetings — September 26, 2022
i am indisposed — September 25, 2022
notography — September 24, 2022
quick media update — September 23, 2022
forgiveness narrative expectations can hurt victims — September 22, 2022
audiolog 03 — September 21, 2022
i recommend crying — September 20, 2022
pasta garbioli — September 19, 2022
squeaky wheels and broken seals — September 18, 2022
okay, i'm burnt out — September 17, 2022
wouldn't you know it, it's another sleep emergency — September 16, 2022
audiolog 02 — September 15, 2022
writin' about talkin' — September 14, 2022
audiolog — September 13, 2022
Notability: The Game — September 12, 2022
sunday links 19: nightmares edition — September 11, 2022
m· reviews: malls — September 10, 2022
Dream log: Children of Wax — September 9, 2022
critical cartoon critter clog cascade — September 8, 2022
this one gets a little sad, sorry — September 7, 2022
breath of fire one, two — September 6, 2022
breath of fire one — September 5, 2022
sunday links 18: bronze oldies — September 4, 2022
Quest for the Radiant Cake *starring Slime & Goo!* 0.20 — September 3, 2022
just a little garblet — September 2, 2022
mental health day+ (literal) — September 1, 2022
having a sleep emergency — August 31, 2022
wanna feel old? — August 30, 2022
practical statistics — August 29, 2022
sunday links 17: hold out yr hands and take these links i've been given — August 28, 2022
my computer won't boot — August 27, 2022
ingredience — August 26, 2022
markdown test — August 25, 2022
the animal algorithm — August 25, 2022
expectation #6 — August 24, 2022
four things — August 23, 2022
nevada — August 22, 2022
expectations — August 21, 2022
this sucks — August 20, 2022
the well's still dry — August 19, 2022
recovery day — August 18, 2022
battleship puzzles — August 17, 2022
novelty halloween t-shirt clinic — August 16, 2022
get to know me better — August 15, 2022
sunday links 16 — August 14, 2022
video game log — August 13, 2022
the scale — August 12, 2022
it's a three-trashpost kind of thursday — August 11, 2022
read the room — August 10, 2022
prompt fic: Frost Fiend Dreams — August 9, 2022
critique corner — August 8, 2022
mental health break — August 7, 2022
tales from the wiki — August 6, 2022
discourse, dancing and dribbling — August 5, 2022
be weird. don't explain or apologize — August 4, 2022
the trimps experiment — August 3, 2022
today i made a bunch of posts on fedi instead of saving them for the blog — August 2, 2022
in which i publicly fail to understand how shoes work — August 1, 2022
sunday links 15: serfs on fire acceptable — July 31, 2022
i've been tagged! how fun — July 30, 2022
Legally Mandated Blog Post — July 29, 2022
around the web — July 28, 2022
in which i publicly fail to understand how music works — July 27, 2022
blogging 101 — July 26, 2022
just another normal day — July 25, 2022
sunday links 14: i'd follow that freak through a portal to hell, and his country agrees — July 24, 2022
video games. oh no — July 23, 2022
photodump phriday — July 22, 2022
12+5 = seventeen puzzles — July 21, 2022
ranking animal body part metaphors — July 20, 2022
i've got an idea for a start-up — July 19, 2022
90 minutes to midnight — July 18, 2022
sunday links 13: my uncle Drew from the youtube just don't know where he should go; gonna get his tickets ready and try again tomorrow — July 17, 2022
fridge, friends, and fun — July 16, 2022
promptly practicing prose — July 15, 2022
personal log, stardate... uh, july 14th — July 14, 2022
i think i'm done with a.i. — July 13, 2022
everything, despite my desperate pleas for a moment of respite, continues to keep happening — July 12, 2022
when play isn't fun — July 11, 2022
sunday links 12: PUZZLEMANIA — July 10, 2022
four *more* slime puzzles — July 9, 2022
unboxing video idea — July 8, 2022
four new slime puzzles — July 7, 2022
I Wish There Was A Magazine For Dogs — July 6, 2022
Soupernauts — July 5, 2022
i made a towlr (sort of) — July 4, 2022
sunday links 11: getting it wrong about cake and romance — July 3, 2022
feeding frenzy — July 2, 2022
positive nihilism — July 2, 2022
the power of juries — July 1, 2022
there's a new host on the block — June 30, 2022
sucks to your aspar — June 29, 2022
no thoughts head empty — June 28, 2022
everyone's free to wear carbon fiber wings — June 27, 2022
sunday links 10: drop drop five slimes in the CD-ROM — June 26, 2022
movie night in hell — June 25, 2022
202206241715 — June 24, 2022
The Riff That Conjures Snakes — June 23, 2022
; the movies — June 22, 2022
When Pizza's On The Ceiling, Golly, Ain't That Something? I'm Taking Five Photos Of That — June 21, 2022
we wanted to go to the store together — June 20, 2022
sunday links 09: the following signal was recorded equally on both channels, but is out of phase — June 19, 2022
transreality and parafiction — June 18, 2022
cautionary tales of storms — June 17, 2022
Don't Grease Hedgehogs With WD-40 And More Advice For The Small Business Owner — June 16, 2022
neural networks?! i sure *hope* it does! — June 15, 2022
when i ended my relationship with stuff — June 14, 2022
any sufficiently advanced technology — June 13, 2022
sunday links 08: a long frost, a slow burn — June 12, 2022
the last time i called someone "sir" — June 11, 2022
sponsorship drive — June 10, 2022
You can fly too, little fishy; up and atom! — June 9, 2022
developing story — June 8, 2022
The Horse Armor Retraction — June 7, 2022
museums are landlords of art — June 6, 2022
sunday links 07: towels and glue, here in heaven with you — June 5, 2022
send the curry cart at once — June 4, 2022
I should be allowed to think — June 4, 2022
what's a little status update between friends? — June 3, 2022
sell me your strongest potions — June 2, 2022
start your day the hyphy way — June 1, 2022
Niagara Falls Dries Up! Plankton Disappear! Carbon Emissons Blamed! A Cursory Look Within! — May 31, 2022
heartthrob 101 [image-heavy] — May 30, 2022
sunday links 06: even from the edge of mimiga island, i gaze into the abyss — May 29, 2022
Linux app "a basket of bullshit", declares Soap Pope — May 28, 2022
death to the auteur — May 27, 2022
struggling — May 26, 2022
You approach the microwave. It's a mimic! It fires a nuclear hotdog at you. You take 21 damage — May 25, 2022
minor important feed update — May 24, 2022
webmentions & reply buttons; what's the right amount of interactivity? — May 23, 2022
sunday links 05: please don't let your memes be dreams. i can make your wish come true. as long as you like numbers, as long as you like blue — May 22, 2022
vampire league bowling — May 21, 2022
the judas iscariot of handing a dude his ass — May 20, 2022
Molten taffy jackpot winner hospitalized after botched photo op; "AHHHH!!!", reports eyewitness — May 19, 2022
Always Bet on Dwayne — May 18, 2022
america's only blog — May 17, 2022
the blood moon foretold this deceit — May 16, 2022
i've got hacker credentials (and i sorta know how to use them?) — May 16, 2022
sunday links 04: hack man fever — May 15, 2022
gratuitous cat content — May 14, 2022
Yeah, I get my colors from wikipedia. Sosumi. You want a slice of me, Dracula?! — May 13, 2022
a little breaky for me — May 12, 2022
rabbit holes and rabbit trails — May 11, 2022
sunday links 03: the future can't be real, i barely know how long a moment is — May 8, 2022
meta:title — May 7, 2022
okay fine, smartphones can be cyberpunk — May 6, 2022
I am thou, thou art I... Thou hast forged a new connection with thine arse — May 5, 2022
i think i'm interested in stuff wrong — May 4, 2022
pride & persecution — May 3, 2022
mobile data banditry — May 2, 2022
sunday links 02: lie flat, tune in, float down the corridors and get bread — May 1, 2022
mawkish — April 30, 2022
We've detected a glitch in the facetrix. Output is wordle salad. Please check cereal connection and try again — April 29, 2022
Dream log: Mr. Schwarzenegger's Old TVs — April 28, 2022
Happy hello to all recovering glass-touchers. Hug a jelly and help yourself to the zussenips — April 27, 2022
Garbage Digest: Wilhelm's Wordle Makes My Heart Go Tokimeki 😱 — April 26, 2022
an american adjective — April 25, 2022
sunday links 01: retro future pepsi robotic funk judgment — April 24, 2022
meta analysis — April 23, 2022
edit wars — April 22, 2022
goodbye, 2015 — April 21, 2022
flotsam 01: Tokimeki Jones bankrupt; all fanfic assets seized, reports Obama — April 20, 2022
shitty blogs are back (and this time they're scribble.nu again) — April 19, 2022
are we done with "movie stars"? — April 17, 2022
a sad poem :( — April 17, 2022
community (not the show) — April 16, 2022
reality distortion fields, dumb and very dumb — April 16, 2022
bearblog is cool — April 16, 2022