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
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Sticky rubber, new Tubelord, and EU-alternatives
I’ve been back at work after taking two weeks off (for a funeral, not a holiday) and that two weeks served as a reminder about why I need to schedule more vacation days. It’s a busy time in the office and everything feels urgent. A very different vibe from my two weeks of not-thinking-about-work. Whilst
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Two Point Hospital
It’s super rare that I get to play video games these days, but after taking a few days off work, I had a few hours every morning between dropping the kid off at kindergarten and lunchtime where I could just sit down with a coffee and some breakfast and have some much-needed “me time”. I
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Alternative to…
Sometimes I struggle to know what topics I should be covering on my blog; I’m way more cautious of sharing personal information online than I used to be because the internet felt like it went from a fun place to communicate with people to a dream world for capitalistic vultures to swoop down and feast
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oslo.town blocks threads.net
Since Meta (the company that owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp) launched Threads as a rival to X/Twitter, there has been a healthy dose of scepticism from the fediverse community about Meta’s intentions, the company’s values and whether Threads joining the fediverse is a good thing or bad thing. oslo.town is based on Mastodon, so it’s
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Most-listened to albums during 2024
In a time where everyone shares their year-in-music as a Spotify Wrapped screenshot on Instagram Stories, only to be glanced through because nobody is really interested, I’ve written this blog post. Besides, I’m not active on Spotify or Instagram. I’m going to presume you are more interested in discovering album recommendations and that will be
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I bought a Playdate.
On the Eve of Valentines Day, I was sat scrolling Mastodon and a post from the @playdate account popped up on my Home Timeline to announce they had just shipped over 70,000 pre-orders of the console, followed with the news that they expanded the list of countries they ship to by another 20 – including
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How to read thousands of newspapers and magazines for free
Over recent months, I’ve not spent too much time reading ‘the news’. There’s a lot going on in the world and have found that on a day-to-day basis, ignorance is bliss, but I do want to dip my toe in the water every now and again. I especially have no mental space right now for