Matt Keeter
@mattkeeter.com
✨ Weird CAD and graphics research
⚙️ Embedded software and Rust
🌎 Cambridge, MA
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⚙️ Embedded software and Rust
🌎 Cambridge, MA
🏠 mattkeeter.com
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Matt Keeter
@mattkeeter.com
· Mar 12
Implicit Surfaces & Independent Research
YouTube video by Matt Keeter
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hello my talk is online now and you can watch it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxGx...
(it's pretty good IMHO)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxGx...
(it's pretty good IMHO)
oh my god
(With apologies to Tim O'Brien)
"The things they carried were necessary because a faceless monster had come from another dimension and had murdered Barbara Holland. So they carried Realistic TRC-214 supercoms, bear traps, and a baseball bat with nails in it."
"The things they carried were necessary because a faceless monster had come from another dimension and had murdered Barbara Holland. So they carried Realistic TRC-214 supercoms, bear traps, and a baseball bat with nails in it."
The Stranger Things They Carried
Mike carried Eggo waffles for a girl named Eleven. They were not love waffles, but Mike Sheets was hoping, so he carried the box of Eggos down the ...
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
oh my god
please enjoy my alternate cover image for this week's podcast
November 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
please enjoy my alternate cover image for this week's podcast
Declare (Tim Powers, 2000)
Nothing else is quite like the feeling of running into a gonzo paragraph like this one.
![A screenshot which reads:
"Inspired by Theosophical lore and several visiting Mongol lamas, Gleb Bokii, the chief Bolshevik cryptographer and one of the bosses of the Soviet secret police, along with his writer friend Alexander Barchenko, embarked on a quest for Shambhala, in an attempt to merge Kalachakra-tantra and ideas of Communism in the 1920s. Among other things, in a secret laboratory affiliated with the secret police, Bokii and Barchenko experimented with Buddhist spiritual techniques to try to find a key for engineering perfect communist human beings.[17] They contemplated a special expedition to Inner Asia to retrieve the wisdom of Shambhala – the project fell through as a result of intrigues within the Soviet intelligence service, as well as rival efforts of the Soviet Foreign Commissariat that sent its own expedition to Tibet in 1924."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ekew4wtc2m4ctroumek7kr4l/bafkreidabk6ljvos3wdgnum2ao7enwzc46kdkcxc2afw5ahfchncacn5tm@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Declare (Tim Powers, 2000)
“yeah, the thing about working at oxide is that if you write a really bad show stopping bug you get punished by having to go on a podcast”
- @elizas.website
- @elizas.website
November 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
“yeah, the thing about working at oxide is that if you write a really bad show stopping bug you get punished by having to go on a podcast”
- @elizas.website
- @elizas.website
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures:
Special Containment Procedures:
Do not click links and if you do DO NOT READ THE POETRY
November 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures:
Special Containment Procedures:
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Oxide is hiring in the embedded space. If you enjoy baffling choices by hardware vendors and debugging performance issues come join me.
oxide.computer/careers/sw-e...
oxide.computer/careers/sw-e...
Embedded Systems Engineer / Oxide
oxide.computer
November 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Oxide is hiring in the embedded space. If you enjoy baffling choices by hardware vendors and debugging performance issues come join me.
oxide.computer/careers/sw-e...
oxide.computer/careers/sw-e...
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incredible table of contents here
November 19, 2025 at 10:26 PM
incredible table of contents here
this is a personal attack
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
this is a personal attack
Google Maps: "Okay, now jaywalk across the road and cut through the bank parking lot – hopefully it's not locked for the night!"
November 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Google Maps: "Okay, now jaywalk across the road and cut through the bank parking lot – hopefully it's not locked for the night!"
currently trying to convince my wife to read "There Is No Antimemetics Division" by telling her it's a love story.
she is skeptical (but I stand by it)
she is skeptical (but I stand by it)
and now, the review for @qntm.org's new edition of TINAD alice.bsky.sh/leaflet/3m5r...
November 16, 2025 at 9:48 PM
currently trying to convince my wife to read "There Is No Antimemetics Division" by telling her it's a love story.
she is skeptical (but I stand by it)
she is skeptical (but I stand by it)
Snow Crash (1992)
Stealth tech startup affiliated with a Pentecostal megachurch using their recordings of holy glossolalia to train an LLM that speaks the language of angels, as derived from a sea of ecstatic parishioners speaking in tongues.
They're YC funded, as part of their 'forbidden experiments' class of '26
They're YC funded, as part of their 'forbidden experiments' class of '26
November 15, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Snow Crash (1992)
Important local news:
The small alligator, spotted along the Charles River in Boston multiple times this week, has been rescued and delivered to safety, wildlife officials in Massachusetts said Thursday.
Small alligator rescued in Boston after slithering into the city's heart on social media
The small alligator, spotted along the Charles River in Boston multiple times this week, has been rescued and delivered to safety, wildlife officials in Massachusetts said Thursday.
www.wbur.org
November 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Important local news:
ah yes, the well-known "branch on [incoherent sputtering noise]" instruction
November 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
ah yes, the well-known "branch on [incoherent sputtering noise]" instruction
shout-out to the 55-year-old woman in Southern California who has joined "the #1 dating site for single parents" using my email address
November 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
shout-out to the 55-year-old woman in Southern California who has joined "the #1 dating site for single parents" using my email address
what
just learned python typing invented a new kind of voldemort type, one which when named doesn't actually name it
`float` and `int` are two distinct types
but if you write `x: float` that actually means `x: float | int`. but if you write `x: float | int` that means `x: float | int | int`...
`float` and `int` are two distinct types
but if you write `x: float` that actually means `x: float | int`. but if you write `x: float | int` that means `x: float | int | int`...
November 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
what
"The R290 ATW Heat Pump features Fairland's built-in AIoT service for self-managed performance."
ah yes, the Artificial Intelligence of Things
ah yes, the Artificial Intelligence of Things
Holy shit. This company claims it has developed an air-source heat pump with a COP of *7* (3-5 is considered good). For you non-nerds, that basically means it produces 7 units of heat for every unit of electricity it consumes. How are they doing it? You're not gonna like this answer, but: it's AI.
Fairland COP7 R290 ATW HeatPump - The Future of AI HeatPump
/PRNewswire/ -- As gentle heat wraps around you, you walk barefoot to bathroom and enjoy an instant hot shower—no waiting, no cold shock. Every corner indoors...
www.prnewswire.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
"The R290 ATW Heat Pump features Fairland's built-in AIoT service for self-managed performance."
ah yes, the Artificial Intelligence of Things
ah yes, the Artificial Intelligence of Things
Reposted by Matt Keeter
I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point
November 8, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point
Due to an unfortunate typo, I am participating in a “Get Out The Goat” program on this Election Day.
November 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Due to an unfortunate typo, I am participating in a “Get Out The Goat” program on this Election Day.
action shot from this weekend’s climbing competition
November 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
action shot from this weekend’s climbing competition
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tired of databases?
try 100,000 tiny json files in a directory
you will certainly not regret 100,000 tiny json files in a directory
try 100,000 tiny json files in a directory
you will certainly not regret 100,000 tiny json files in a directory
October 31, 2025 at 5:15 PM
tired of databases?
try 100,000 tiny json files in a directory
you will certainly not regret 100,000 tiny json files in a directory
try 100,000 tiny json files in a directory
you will certainly not regret 100,000 tiny json files in a directory
after years of painstaking research, scientists have constructed the Worst Possible Slate for Cambridge City Council elections
October 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
after years of painstaking research, scientists have constructed the Worst Possible Slate for Cambridge City Council elections
jumpscared by my own research paper appearing halfway down this blog post
A blog post from last year, which I never posted here —
Bytecode VMs in surprising places
→ dubroy.com/blog/bytecod...
Bytecode VMs in surprising places
→ dubroy.com/blog/bytecod...
October 29, 2025 at 11:47 PM
jumpscared by my own research paper appearing halfway down this blog post
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My "All postmortems are blameless, but this one is especially so" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
October 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM
My "All postmortems are blameless, but this one is especially so" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
![Screenshot of a Reddit post with the title "How do people pronounce Dorchester?"
The text of the post reads
I was traveling to Boston and wondered how the locals refer to the area of Dorchester.
I've heard Worcester is pronounced "wuh-ster" so I was wondering if there was something similar like "Dooh-ster"
Please forgive my ignorance.
[there are 377 comments]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sgqw2zixdcjtjjhrm4bw64ny/bafkreiadugbchbagfdb6gdxqedo7hwp6x4ujkaaqhhfenwtpjmfqcjiru4@jpeg)