Matt Trask

Matt Trask

@matthewtrask.com

Software developer (php mostly) | reluctant engineering manager | photographer | cyclist | history nerd | certified short king 👑 | Nashville, TN

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A few weeks ago I wrote about the dumb condition I have and the sweet study I got myself in so I didn't have to pay for an Oura Ring. Now that some time has passed, here are some thoughts about my little adventure to the Mayo Clinic. #writing #life #cah www.matthewtrask.com/blog/a-few-w...

matthewtrask.comA few weeks with the Oura Ring and my visit to the Mayo Clinic | Matthew TraskIt's been a few weeks with the Oura Ring so here are some thoughts on the wearble, the clinic, and whats next.

I am starting to think we will be talking about the Dead Coworker Theory within a year. just like the dead internet theory, we will be wondering is the person we are replying to in slack our human coworker or their AI bot doing it for them.

It hasn’t even been 12 hours of colder weather and the Seasonal Affected Depression hit like a ton of bricks to the stomach already.

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And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

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All three Yandex AI supercomputers are reportedly offline: Galushkin in Vladimir, Chervonenkis and Lyapunov in Sasovo, whose data center shut down after the Oct 8 strike. Yandex Cloud outages also threaten thousands of Russian firms relying on it for websites, databases and payments 👏

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Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

I may hate this city with the passion of 100000 burning suns. And then I see the lead singer from Mae at the Copeland show at the Blue Room and I think “this city sucks a little less”

As the Red Sox probably crash out tonight we are gonna drink some malort and feel the pope and the holy spirit course through our veins with this White Sox team.

someone on r/nashville is trying to organize a boycott of Gabby’s because they have a new paid parking lot situation. we can’t even sustain a protest against this administration but sure let’s protest a local business.

Looks like a car or something took out the bus sign and electronic bus route screen at trinity and gallatin By 7Brew or whatever it’s called.

Going from a place where people are nice, and seem to actually obey traffic laws to whatever we are doing in Nashville is a huge whiplash. Anyways I'm lucky my dog decided to smell something and made me stop so an asshole could run through a 4 way stop on our walk.

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and I mean the police. lol "Nashville guardians" more like "Nashville's tourist guardians" maybe. If we were a serious city, we'd just start installing speed cushions. Stop with this "get 4 neighbors to ask nicely". Just do it.

but we aren't a serious city. We are an illusion of a serious city. And the illusion pops the minute you go to cities where they actually do things.

Going from a place where people are nice, and seem to actually obey traffic laws to whatever we are doing in Nashville is a huge whiplash. Anyways I'm lucky my dog decided to smell something and made me stop so an asshole could run through a 4 way stop on our walk.

basically why have stop signs? or police at this point? its not like stop signs do anything. Most people are doing the "if I slow down enough, it looks like I stopped" before pushing the gas pedal through the floor just to get to the next stop sign. And this is right by a school zone.

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Justin Verlander says goodbye to his teammates And then holds his daughter’s hand as he leaves the mound 🥹

so this was kind of a joke. I’ve been married but I destroyed my ring because I used it as a fidget toy. This is the Oura ring I got for being in the CAH study at Mayo. It just fits best on my ring finger.

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I guess I am officially married again.

Dude next to me at a bar in Rochester, MN: “driving in Nashville sucks. They don’t fill any potholes!” #nashville

It took 6 hours to get this plane fixed and home boy sat down and immediately restarted his Fox News diet.

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The dude in front of me has Fox News on his little headrest tv. I hope thins plane has ludicrous speed.

I blame this dude for us having to be deplaned. Clearly the airplane didnt want to show Fox News either.

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The dude in front of me has Fox News on his little headrest tv. I hope thins plane has ludicrous speed.

So I started book 1 of Dungeon Crawler Carl on 9/7/2026. I finished book 4 last night. 4 books in 13 days is just wild. I started 5 today too. I wish 5 was a soft cover so I could take it with me on this trip.

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Forecast high of 100° would break the daily record high of 99° set in 1896. Heat Advisory continues until Saturday for heat index values near 105°. Our hot weather continues underneath this incredibly strong ridge/"heat dome."