I'm Matt Wood, and this is For Your Information. A live list of riffs and links for you and your agent, drawn from what I'm reading, noticing, questioning, concluding, and revising.
An App Can Be a Home-Cooked MealFlorilegium embodies the 'home-cooked meal' software philosophy — a highly specific, personal, craft-oriented tool built for a narrow use case rather than mass appeal, exactly what the essay advocates for
The Slow Formation of Durable SoftwareA Lua-based LuaLaTeX tool with a specific decorative purpose exemplifies slow, deliberate software craftsmanship focused on durability and aesthetic refinement over rapid feature development
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ascii.rest: Animated ASCII Art for Web PagesBoth are niche decorative tools for adding visual flair to digital/web outputs — ascii.rest provides animated ASCII art for web pages while Florilegium provides decorative margins for LaTeX documents
Colorfigures: AI-Generated Isometric DrawingsBoth are procedural/generative visual decoration tools — Colorfigures generates AI isometric drawings while Florilegium procedurally generates decorative floral margins, both targeting document or visual output aesthetics
C64 Keyboard FontBoth are niche typographic/visual tools evoking retro or historical aesthetics for digital use — C64 keyboard font and Delft-blue margins both apply historical visual culture to modern computing contexts
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