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Matt Maldre

@spudart.bsky.social

Artist & designer Museum wanderer. Noticer of small things. Open web advocate. Chicago / Glen Ellyn, Illinois 🎨 spudart.org 🏠 mattmaldre.com 🏢 tribunecontentagency.com

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Matt Maldre@spudart.bsky.social · 6h ago

I'm excited that one of my favorite baseball players is getting a USPS stamp—Willie Mays! And they're even using a photo of him wearing the New York Giants hat (instead of the San Francisco). I'm more of a fan of the NY Willie Mays.

• Milestone: It is the 50th stamp in the USPS Black Heritage series. • Design: Created by USPS art director Antonio Alcalá using archival photos from Getty Images, styled as an homage to classic baseball cards. • Imagery: Features a portrait of Mays in a New York Giants cap alongside an action shot of his famous over-the-shoulder catch ("The Catch") from Game 1 of the 1954 World Series. • Color Scheme: The prominent orange background honors the team colors associated with Mays across his career with the New York/San Francisco Giants and the New York Mets. • Release: Announced by the USPS as part of the 2027 lineup, though an exact first-day-of-issue release date has not yet been finalized.
Matt Maldre@spudart.bsky.social · 4d ago

I’m curious about those retro cheap lenses. There’s one for $36 that works with Nikon F-mount. retro-pia.com/products/ret... Not sure I'd want to pay $36 for it. More like $20 or less.

Retropia® Repurposed Disposable Film Camera Lens

The Retropia® Repurposed Disposable Film Camera Lens takes a real disposable camera lens and gives it a second life on your digital body. The result is soft focus, dreamy vignettes, and the kind of chromatic imperfections that make a photo feel like a memory — not a file. This isn’t about sharpness. It’s about characte

retro-pia.com

Matt Maldre@spudart.bsky.social · 4d ago

Today I learned the newer hard drive format, APFS, is known to be slow at scanning folders on spinning hard drives. The Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format usually scans noticeably faster than APFS for spinning drives. Apparently, APFS is better for solid-state drives.

Matt Maldre@spudart.bsky.social · 6d ago

The 318th place on my "to visit" list is Clan McDonald Comics in Naperville, IL. There's a fun thread in r/comicbooks about Chicago comic book stores. www.reddit.com/r/comicbooks... Background on my to-visit list www.spudart.org/blog/keeping...

Keeping track of where you'd like to visit - Spudart

Curating the ultimate adventure catalog! My Google Sheet holds 279 must-visit spots, from art museums to bicycle collections. Stay tuned for more categories like sculpture parks and famous trees!

spudart.org

Matt Maldre@spudart.bsky.social · last wk.

You know how in the past 5-10 years, music has gotten this sort of ethereal, echoey sound? Some might call it Dream Pop, Shoegaze, Chillwave, or Ambient Pop. I'm not a huge fan. I have a theory for its emergence...

Matt Maldre@spudart.bsky.social · last wk.

All trading card packs seem to cost at least $10 to $20 each. Baseball, trading card games, non-sports cards. Whatever. It's all expensive just to have some random fun. I want someone to make packs that cost $1 each. With at least ten cards in a pack. The cards could feature anything.

Matt Maldre@spudart.bsky.social · 2w ago

While doing line commands in Ubuntu, I went to type "exit" to get out. But I accidentally typed an "s" making it "exist". As if Ubuntu would be like, "yes, let's discuss the existential meaning of existence."

Matt Maldre@spudart.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm moving hosts from Siteground to AWS' Lightsail. I found a setting that absolutely must be changed on Lightsail accounts. Their default PHP setting is 250 PHP workers FOR EACH SITE! (pm.max_children = 250). Talk about exhausting your memory! 10-15 per site would be more reasonable.

Matt Maldre@spudart.bsky.social · 3w ago

Looking up hole punches that are cloud shapes, when I read the description: "Blade can be sharpened by punching through aluminum foil or lubricated by punching through waxed paper" Like, what? What if you continually punch aluminum foil? Would you have a hole punch as sharp as a Ginsu knife?

Cloud Small Punch .4375" https://link.amazon/B07YDIxBF
Matt Maldre@spudart.bsky.social · 3w ago

I have a long-standing goal: "Whenever you see a Xerox machine in public, xerox your face." I recently discovered Staples still has self-service Xerox machines. This is my first true Xerox selfie in over six years, maybe more.

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