Matthew Sparks

@sparksm

BS Behavioral Neuroscience: addiction and addiction treatment armchair-expert with a past toxic relationship with opioids. Aspiring terminal degree holder. Lifelong musician, metalhead, tech nerd and PC gamer, and open-mic night standup comic. Accidentally blew up on YouTube for screaming in my car.

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Our debut full length album “Highly Irresponsible” is out October 25th through @sharptonerecs The first single “A White Horse Covered In Blood” is out everywhere tomorrow, July 31st. For early access to pre-orders head to highlyirresponsible.com, sign up and check your email. 1. Lie Between The Lines 2. Your Misplaced Self 3. A White Horse Covered In Blood 4. Future Myopia 5. Deliver Us From Life 6. Drowning In A Burning World 7. Everything Was Put Here For Me 8. Superman Died Paralyzed 9. At All Times 10. Love As An Act of Rebellion Produced by Will Putney at Graphic Nature Audio Additional Engineering by Steve Seid Artwork by Don Phüry

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Music and Metal

YO THIS SHIT IS GONNA BOP SO HARD, WILL PUTNEY IS A GENIUS ONGOD FRFR

You should keep a developer’s journal - Stack Overflow

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Programming

Note to self for maintaining direction and a chronology

If you consider yourself a technologist, here’s your imperative: build things that are unabashedly, beautifully tangled into all else in life — people and relationships, politics, emotion and pain, understanding or the lack thereof, being alone, being together, homesickness, adventure, victory, loss. Build things that come alive, and drag everythin... See more

Create things that come alive

Awesome Quotes and Impactful Writing, Lyrics, etc.

Technology can be art; an application can evoke and represent emotion; I can sound like a wanker waxing poetic about the JavaScript I’m writing right now

Camino Gummies: Tailored Cannabis-Infused Edibles

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UI/UX Inspirations

The design on the tins of these weed gummies is just fantastic. Whoever’s on their design team needs a raise.

“Hillbilly Elegy looks like a lifetime movie that's trying to win an Oscar.” - Indira Aziz

Awesome Quotes

come. The resulting marriage penalty discourages marriage and rewards single parenthood. Combined marriage penalties across federal and state welfare programs can reach tens of thousands of dollars per year for a given family. One component of the marriage penalties comes from state-level free or subsidized preschool programs. In addition

Benjamin Paris • How Welfare Programs Discourage Marriage: The Case of Pre-K Education Subsidies

Politics

This is absolute garbage. If you search “marriage penalties and federal welfare programs”—which is in their Project 2025, this trash is the first result.

There is no more intoxicating fantasy than to feel extraordinary

I make a mentor out of every man that I meet
A lover out of every person I pass in the street

Impactful Writing, Lyrics, etc.

The Pudding

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While going through the showcase of pages made using Svelte/Sveltekit, this one that tells stories through data, presented in beautiful, single-page scrolling fashion, was especially memorable. Enough to warrant it being added here.

Motivation and Humor

1000 IQ crippling self-doubt ENGAGED.

Motivation

The only way to lose is not to act.
The only wrong decision is to not do something.