Matthew Haughey's personal blog
When I was a teen, my dad had a knack for talking small businesses he frequented into hiring me as their newest lowest rung helper. To be clear, I didn't want these jobs, so I developed a knack for staying at them for three days. I don’
Last week I drove down to Ventura and LA to visit with friends and family. Here are some highlights. Adamson House The Adamson House is known as the "Taj Mahal of Tile" because the owners owned a nearby ceramics factory when it was being built and filled it
For months, I’ve heard rumblings about a cool new game coming out from the people that did the Untitled Goose Game. Last month, I was lucky enough to get to play it in a beta test version with four friends in the same room, working together on screen.
I spent my first 30 years growing up in California, and the state abounded with great architecture, even though California isn't generally that old of a place. There is the Gamble House in Pasadena, the Case Study houses in Palm Springs, and then all the midcentury modern stuff
A couple weeks ago I stumbled upon this woodworking guy's YouTube channel that is generally pretty silly, but he came up with a clever system to use 3D printing in a woodshop, the likes of which I've never seen before. Building a crosscut sled for your
A few weeks ago, I read my friend Michael Pusateri's post on this tiny touchscreen you can buy at Aliexpress , and how he programmed it to become buttons for his Home Assistant setup, letting anyone who walks into his kitchen control the lights with a simple tap. I
Last week, we took a quick trip to Denver to catch the Portland Thorns playing the Denver Summit at their second new stadium of the year (in May I visited their first stadium). We caught up with old friends, dined well, checked out Meow Wolf Denver, and caught the game
Last fall, I started taking Zepbound and wrote about the first couple weeks and touched on it after a few months . While it was a pretty life-changing at first, as I did lose 20lbs quickly, I plateaued for the next six months. During that time, I tried a higher
For the last few years, I’ve tested out the latest Mac and iOS developer beta versions, and I've had mixed experiences. Sometimes it's been rocky and I regretted doing it, other times, it wasn't bad and I enjoyed new features I'
I've long been a big fan of over-the-ear, old-school big headphones for comfort and sound quality reasons. It's also because I generally don't like to stick things inside my ears. Apple's ear buds are mostly ok but I dislike
It's kind of incredible that these days, barely a day goes by that I don't think about AOL Instant Messenger (or AIM, as I'll call it throughout) at some point. That statement doesn't make sense on the face of it even to
I enjoy social media, and one thing I love seeing is when people play in the space and do things the tools weren't necessarily designed for. Back in good old days of Twitter (~2012-2014), people used to do things like change their display names to a "
My woodworking shop is coming together nicely and one benefit of having everything in the right place is that it makes completing new projects faster and easier. Last week, I decided to tackle I project I've been thinking about since January, which was when I first watched a
One of the things 3D printing is good at is helping you organize things. You can print all kinds of custom bins and one of the universal systems is called Gridfinity , which is a system of baseplates with a 42mm x 42mm grid that you print, then you print boxes
Earlier this week we decided to try out a quick camping trip in our VW Buzz EV at Beverly Beach State Park , just outside of Newport, Oregon. It's only 75 miles away from home so with our 230mi battery, we didn't even need to charge, but