Matt Vestengen-Cox

A designer at heart, Matt currently shapes the future of AI at Microsoft as part of the core Microsoft 365 Copilot team. Beyond the screen, Matt is a proud immigrant to Norway, a devoted husband, and a doting father. He’s the brain behind oslo.town!

Updates

  • Bookshops on the fediverse

    It’s said that finding accounts to follow on Mastodon and across the fediverse is hard, but if you’ve found this post via a search engine, then it’s not that hard. You’re almost there! Back in November 2025, I asked the fediverse to link me up to their favourite independent bookstores that are using decentralised social

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  • oslo.town (November 2025)

    It’s been a month. Really. Let’s get into some of the details around oslo.town, for those that are interested. New members During November, we welcomed nine (9) new members. I’m sure Mark Zuckerberg is quaking in his overly-priced sneakers: Thank you to each of these people for being curious enough try Mastodon – make sure

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  • oslo.town (October 2025)

    Damn, November is moving fast – but lets take a look back in time at October 2005 on oslo.town. New signups Despite Open Registration still being closed due to excessive spam sign-ups, we did have a bunch of legitimate registrations, including a bunch of people who decided to update their profile information: Go and give

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  • oslo.town (September 2025)

    We’ve officially entered October, and so it’s about time to give you a monthly update on oslo.town — the social network for the people of Oslo, Norway. Spam We’ve had a lot of spam recently. Most of these are accounts that look to boost the SEO of a company by creating “inlinks” back to their website.

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  • I don’t know what to title this blog post.

    This week I am mostly at home (on sick leave) and trying not to sit still too long because I channeled that old-man-energy and managed to pull a muscle in my back lifting an air conditioning unit to the basement. It was too heavy and I should have known better. Ah well. Alas, some updates:

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  • Modular Film Festival

    Over on the fediverse, @[email protected] has a reputation for hosting fun interactive movie-based activities and one of those things was a Modular Film Festival. Now @[email protected] has picked up the mantle for the Modular Film Festival 2025. The concept seems fairly simple: 30 prompts to help guide you to a movie across the 30 days

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  • Reclaiming the web: Mastodon and the decentralised social movement

    This week I took my first step into public speaking and stood in front of a crowd of people at Rebel Oslo and streaming online, invited by the trade union Tekna and Attac Norge. Part of their ‘Exit Strategy’ series, the subject was ‘Social media – what are the alternatives?’ and as someone that runs

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  • Welcome to my TED Talk

    What a week, huh? And it’s only Tuesday! But spring has sprung, the mornings are fresh, and the Easter holidays are barely days away. In fact, here in Norway we get a half-day off work on Wednesday and full-days Thursday and Friday, Saturday and Sunday (of course)… and Monday. So Easter is here very soon

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