mattwood.fyi

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.

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Before Pixels: Modular Industrial Dashboards

A running theme in Matt Wood’s FYI — 9 items spanning 2026-09-14 – 2026-10-07. This page compounds: new items on this theme are added as they’re posted. Tracked since 2026-10-07.

Tensions

Amiga Unix Desktop Revival Project vs What Even Is An OS Now? — The Amiga Unix revival project represents the opposing impulse — preserving and celebrating traditional OS/computing paradigms — implicitly challenged by the thesis that those paradigms are being superseded by AI-native computing

Lines of development

Muse Gadgets: Open Source Hardware → Muse Connector Platform — Muse Gadgets Open Source Hardware is the DIY hardware extension of the Muse Connector Platform — enabling custom ESP32/Raspberry Pi devices to connect into the same Muse SDK ecosystem

Items

ascii.rest: Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages

A collection of animated ASCII art scenes and components for web pages, featuring art scenes, UI elements, data visualizations, text effects, logos, and generative patterns all created with ASCII characters.

permalink · ascii.rest →
C64 Keyboard Font

A photo-based reconstruction of Commodore 64 keycap lettering available as desktop fonts, webfonts, and editable outlines with specimen sheets.

How can I not post to this? Wonderful.

permalink · github.com →

Graphical - Visual Theme Builder with AI

A design tool for creating custom visual themes and interfaces with support for colors, typography, components, and spacing, integrable with AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude.

permalink · www.graphicalui.com →

Muse Gadgets: Open Source Hardware

Build custom IoT devices using ESP32 or Raspberry Pi with Muse SDKs to connect displays, buttons, sensors, and actuators for DIY projects.

Via Deepak

permalink · gadgets.muse.ai →

Before Pixels: Modular Industrial Dashboards

Explores physical modular dashboard systems found in German and Polish museums—used for air traffic control and transit monitoring—as historical design and interaction systems that preceded modern digital interfaces.

Fun.

permalink · unsung.aresluna.org →

Amiga Unix Desktop Revival Project

A community effort to revive Amiga Unix (Amix), Commodore's 1990s System V operating system, with modern support for 68040/68060 hardware, a package manager, and contemporary GNU/BSD tools.

Year of the Amiga Unix Desktop 2026

permalink · amigaux.org →

AI Setup Community & Sharing Platform

A community platform where builders and engineers share their AI tools, workflows, and setups to learn from each other and discover how others work with AI technologies.

permalink · mysetup.ai →

Vercel Labs

Vercel's experimental projects and cutting-edge tools, including AI capabilities, infrastructure innovations, and platform features for building modern web applications.

permalink · vercel.com →

Distributed Systems Classics

An interactive visualization exploring foundational papers and concepts in distributed systems, with controls to explore different parameters and system behaviors.

permalink · nvartolomei.com →