Matt McManus
@matt.mcmanus.io
Webmaster’n since 2001. Web Developer, designer, manager by day. Small business owner also by day and by night and weekend.
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Small business owner question: When it comes to credit card surcharges, do you prefer that the business includes the fees in the prices or adds a surcharge for customers who use cards?
January 2, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Small business owner question: When it comes to credit card surcharges, do you prefer that the business includes the fees in the prices or adds a surcharge for customers who use cards?
Oh my. @joanwestenberg.com does it again. This essay on thick vs thin desires is fantastic: www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-d...
"Making something for an audience of one is a beautiful heresy."
"Making something for an audience of one is a beautiful heresy."
Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life
The defining experience of our age seems to be hunger.
We're hungry for more, but we have more than we need.
We're hungry for less, while more accumulates and multiplies.
We're hungry and we don't have words to articulate why.
We're hungry, and we're lacking and we're wanting.
We are
www.joanwestenberg.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Oh my. @joanwestenberg.com does it again. This essay on thick vs thin desires is fantastic: www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-d...
"Making something for an audience of one is a beautiful heresy."
"Making something for an audience of one is a beautiful heresy."
#TIL that my Spotify Family subscription bumped it's price to $20 a month to include Audio Book listening. No thanks. Thankfully it's easy to go back to $17/m
November 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
#TIL that my Spotify Family subscription bumped it's price to $20 a month to include Audio Book listening. No thanks. Thankfully it's easy to go back to $17/m
Rumbledore would be the perfect wrestling wizard name
August 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Rumbledore would be the perfect wrestling wizard name
Posted without context, because none is needed.
August 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Posted without context, because none is needed.
There was this group of bros walking around. I told my kids to be careful because a category 4 bro-nado was forming.
My daughter asked "What is they were girls?"
A her-ricane!
My daughter asked "What is they were girls?"
A her-ricane!
August 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
There was this group of bros walking around. I told my kids to be careful because a category 4 bro-nado was forming.
My daughter asked "What is they were girls?"
A her-ricane!
My daughter asked "What is they were girls?"
A her-ricane!
Watching MLS on Apple TV is fine if you watch live, but it is impossible to start a game late or take an extended pause without spoiling the score. I literally give the remote to my kid or wife to load up the match while my back is turned.
July 17, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Watching MLS on Apple TV is fine if you watch live, but it is impossible to start a game late or take an extended pause without spoiling the score. I literally give the remote to my kid or wife to load up the match while my back is turned.
I've been reduced to trying to come up with screen-free "enrichment activities" for my teenager. Parenting in this glowing hellscape feels like a war of attrition.
July 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I've been reduced to trying to come up with screen-free "enrichment activities" for my teenager. Parenting in this glowing hellscape feels like a war of attrition.
I had a whole lot of fun doing some experiments this weekend on my #pkm setup in @obsidian.md. I've got some more to do before I'm certain it'll work for me, but it felt like it was clicking in a way that is hasn't in a while. Their new Bases feature is a game changer.
#obsidian
#obsidian
June 23, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I had a whole lot of fun doing some experiments this weekend on my #pkm setup in @obsidian.md. I've got some more to do before I'm certain it'll work for me, but it felt like it was clicking in a way that is hasn't in a while. Their new Bases feature is a game changer.
#obsidian
#obsidian
I've been thinking about how I'm using #obsidian. I figured I'd trying sharing these thoughts with Claude and I'm embarrassed with how it nailed it: "You're trying to force an "aspirational knowledge worker" system onto a "busy person managing multiple responsibilities" reality"
June 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I've been thinking about how I'm using #obsidian. I figured I'd trying sharing these thoughts with Claude and I'm embarrassed with how it nailed it: "You're trying to force an "aspirational knowledge worker" system onto a "busy person managing multiple responsibilities" reality"
The Philadelphia Union are so much fun to watch right now. I just love it.
May 15, 2025 at 1:48 AM
The Philadelphia Union are so much fun to watch right now. I just love it.
This is by far the most thoughtful and reasoned response to all that's gone in the government in the last 3 weeks. www.wakeuptopolitics.com/p/when-i-wil...
When I Will Call Something a “Constitutional Crisis”
And the two words that Elon Musk will need to learn.
www.wakeuptopolitics.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:11 AM
This is by far the most thoughtful and reasoned response to all that's gone in the government in the last 3 weeks. www.wakeuptopolitics.com/p/when-i-wil...
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I’m not kidding: those who delegate all their writing, thinking and creative expression to machines are going to wake up one day and discover that they can no longer write or think. You need to make your own art. You need to keep your brain working. You need to stay human.
January 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I’m not kidding: those who delegate all their writing, thinking and creative expression to machines are going to wake up one day and discover that they can no longer write or think. You need to make your own art. You need to keep your brain working. You need to stay human.
Desperate times call for desperate levels of self care
January 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Desperate times call for desperate levels of self care
Now seems like a good a time as any to watch the 1959 cartoon of Animal Farm with the kids.
January 25, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Now seems like a good a time as any to watch the 1959 cartoon of Animal Farm with the kids.
It’s a cry in front of a used car salesman kind of day
January 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
It’s a cry in front of a used car salesman kind of day
My wife and I are rewatching Friday Night Lights, and it strikes us that most of that show would just happen over texts today. Maybe I’m just an old guy, but I think that’s sad.
December 20, 2024 at 5:16 PM
My wife and I are rewatching Friday Night Lights, and it strikes us that most of that show would just happen over texts today. Maybe I’m just an old guy, but I think that’s sad.
Alrighty Philly peeps, Giulianos has some new Hoagie Hoodies fresh off the presses. What do you think?
December 19, 2024 at 4:07 AM
Alrighty Philly peeps, Giulianos has some new Hoagie Hoodies fresh off the presses. What do you think?
I’ve really enjoyed our coffee setup recently. It’s a cheap shelf, but it allows for everything to be in its right place. Also, the 1Zpresso J-ultra is glorious.
December 17, 2024 at 2:38 PM
I’ve really enjoyed our coffee setup recently. It’s a cheap shelf, but it allows for everything to be in its right place. Also, the 1Zpresso J-ultra is glorious.
My favorite part of working from home is every day when my son comes home from school. He sprints to the closest bathroom letting out emergency farts with every step.
December 13, 2024 at 8:42 PM
My favorite part of working from home is every day when my son comes home from school. He sprints to the closest bathroom letting out emergency farts with every step.
I want one of those Zen gardens with the sand for my desk. Instead of the rake, though, I want one of those tiny hands giving the middle finger on a stick.
December 12, 2024 at 6:14 PM
I want one of those Zen gardens with the sand for my desk. Instead of the rake, though, I want one of those tiny hands giving the middle finger on a stick.
One of the highlights of this fall is that several of my jades are completely covered in flowers. I've grown three plants for 15 years and nothing like this has ever happened. #bloomscrolling
November 24, 2024 at 5:06 AM
One of the highlights of this fall is that several of my jades are completely covered in flowers. I've grown three plants for 15 years and nothing like this has ever happened. #bloomscrolling
Hey friends, let's not fall into the same trap of binding our community to an infrastructure whose incentives are fundamentally in conflict with protecting these communities. BlueSky has some promising aspirations around decentralization, but I fear they will always be secondary.
November 8, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Hey friends, let's not fall into the same trap of binding our community to an infrastructure whose incentives are fundamentally in conflict with protecting these communities. BlueSky has some promising aspirations around decentralization, but I fear they will always be secondary.