The Junkpile
I’ve been collecting (sometimes referred to as “hoarding” by those who don’t appreciate it) old technology since the late 1990s. My particular niche is mobile technology (especially products that didn’t do well in the market) and forgotten storage formats.
I tend to find an interesting but obscure topic — interesting to me at least — and compile information on it (like the Newton Messaging Card). I also make lists. Lots of Lists.
I manage this data with Obsidian and publish it with Quartz.
Me
I’m Matt N., aka xunker on most systems. I’m a nerd, in a past life I created the web site Quizilla.com (later sold to MTV/Viacom, a move I still have regrets about).
Contact
The best ways to talk to me are:
| Thing | Name | Unsolicited Opinion |
|---|---|---|
| Bluesky | @xunker.bsky.social | This is my current “shout in to the void” place. |
| Formerly-Twitter | @xunker | I used to be very active here, but I’ve migrated. I refuse to call it X: I’m old enough to remember the first time Elon bought x.com. It was a stupid name then, and its stupid’er this time. |
| GitHub | xunker | Recommend repos: - Array::Subindex: Are you tired of The Man getting you down by only letting you use whole integers as array indexes? - Worst. Keyboard. Ever.: It is the worst, it says-so in the name. - vexillogram: Flag nerds untie! |
| YouTube | matthewnielsen2549 | |
 | Presented in GifText™️ to fight spammers! Yes, I know it’s $(date +%Y) and obscuring your email address doesn’t help, but it makes me feel better, okay? |
Almost anywhere with xunker is probably me (except Youtube and Friendster, for some reason). I picked the name so no one would ever take it and, of course, someone did…
License
Unless otherwise specified, all content on this site is under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 where applicable.