Matt Godbolt

@matt.godbolt.org

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Sometime verb, real person, lover of 8-bit computers, husband & father, trying to be a kind person. #blacklivesmatter; trans rights are human rights. he/him

Notification: "Congrats your channel is 11 today!" from YouTube
A cleaner capture of Wonderboy 3 without flickering! Yay
Around 11s of slightly flickery blurry Wonderboy 3, captured just now with my naff code
Photograph of a helmet on a stand. The placard beneath reads "Norman nasal helmet"
A picture of Matt standing inside a Cray computer. He's wearing a black Firefox hoodie and is laughing
Terrible selfie showing a bit of my head, and a few of the speakers from accu on sea. Nevin Liber is front and centre in a vivid orange t shirt. Guy Davison is behind, Sherry Sontag to the right, Jason Turner to the left
Laurie on stage in front of her "whoami" slide
Some people sitting around in a bar area: Matt Godbolt, Bjarne Stroustrup, Eric Lubin and LB Manzolilo
A broken black and white decided screen image of Alex Kidd in Miracle World
Me standing at a podium with slides saying "Performance Tuning" behind me. I have one hand on my hip trying to project confidence
Me at the lectern in front of my slides reading "Interlude: GCC inline asm syntax"
Screenshot of the site theme selector. Well, photo of the laptop screen showing it
A pencil sketch of a shaded apple, a strange organic maze doodle, some random words taken down from a meeting, and a half-remembered sketch of a CMOS inverter
Me in the garden. Sun!
Selfie of Matt in a blue Adrian's Digital Basement t shirt with a bunch of tables with old computers on them behind him
Screenshot telling me I can get 6 months of Max! Yay!
A screen showing me watching YouTube on a TV in a room. There's a black dog in the background.
A TidByt (small ticker-type display) showing current YouTube subscriptions. It says "Matt Godbolt" / "20k subs" / "790k views"
Close up of a monitor showing a video editor crashing with me making a pained face as the frame on displays
Photo of a screen saying "your device ran into a problem and needs to restart'
Me grinning like a berk holding a BBC Micro outside in the snow against a snow-filled back garden in Chicago
Hockey stick graph of new subscribers to my YT channel. 221 in the last 28d, more than usual by a margin
Robbie, the NES robot!
A BBC Master on a table. The screen it's connected to shows a lot of interference
Shelving with an acron RISC PC and acorn A3010 on it in a messy basement
A 3.5" floppy disc with no label. The metal protector has the Argonaut logo and "Argonaut" written underneath
A desktop with a mouse, headphones, and various electronic junk. The PC is running video software and has a timeline on it.
Handwritten mind map on plain paper with interconnected bubbles and boxes exploring C++ ecosystem topics. Clearly readable elements include: Top area: "Build community", "IKEA doc", "Committee", "Know how stuff really works" Left side: "Circle", "Ranges", "Reflection" Central node: "C++" connecting to "Compile", "STL", "Stepanov" Right side: "Welsh", "School", "Local meetup", "conferences" "Eco system" (boxed) connects to: Build tools: "make", "OSS" Compiler infrastructure: "libclang", "Sanitizers", "clang", "LLVM" "CE" (Compiler Explorer) "libraries", "boost", "FMT" "tooling" "AI?" Throughout the map are numerous connecting arrows and lines showing relationships between concepts. Several bubbles contain handwriting that's too unclear to confidently transcribe, along with various time notations and red/pink annotations.
Suffering in a war zone...not. me sat outside my house with my dog in beautiful sunshine and peace and quiet
Close up of a positive COVID test
Me in an InversePhase "Pretty 8 Machine" t shirt standing at a lectern. My laptop is festooned with stickers but prominent top left is Adrian's Digital Basement. On the screen behind me is a slide with "6502 Computers" including Atari 2600, BBC Micro, C64...and The Terminator and Bender from Futurama
Me on stage. There's a purple light behind me, a table with compiler explorer mugs on. I'm standing mid sentence with my arms outreached in a kind of "magic trick" hocus pocus stance
Me standing at the podium with CiPPi, Rainer Grimm's avatar. #als
Selfie in a hotel mirror of me trying to look posh. Wearing a navy blue button shirt which if you zoom in is actually dotted with millennium falcons
A selfie of Matt and LaurieWired. Matt is grinning like a Cheshire Cat
Photo of a website showing dark green mug for sale
Manic miner on the ZX Spectrum, seconds after me dying on the third level
A car with the registration "MOS 6502"
A black Labrador retriever looks balefully up from a sofa
Me holding "Programming Puzzles Big Book" by Jason Turner. Monty, my black Labrador has decided to get in on the photo and is sat across my lap
Four CE mugs showing a variety of designs
A photo of me holding up the Compiler Explorer system V ABI mug. It has a green handle and green inside. On the mug is the ABI for system V (Linux etc)
Torso of a teenager wearing a Compiler Explorer hoodie (in a kitchen)
86 x86 63 ARM 44 windows 12 Risc V (And 7 t shirts!)
A green-handled mug filled with tea. on the side of the mug is the x86-64 System V ABI
An android notification from Brilliant that has been truncated. It says: "be smarter. Go fart..."
A booted windows! Yay
"diagnosing your PC"
Dos box showing data is there but H:\ has no useful recovery logs unlike the messages suggestion
A blue screen saying automatic repair couldn't repair my PC
The sign in screen for YouTube saying "enter the code" : "Loading..."
Me crouching on a path with my dog, Monty. He's a black Labrador. I'm looking a bit disheveled and I'm in my glasses, wearing an old Redpanda t shirt
Cropped screenshot of a discord quoting the article and saying "he's about average he's been on holiday and tends to be in a different time zone anyway"
Me in a pool with a beer in a plastic glass. It's sunny and there's thick green foliage behind me
A slightly dishevelled Matt wearing a bright green VI (I just can't quite you) t shirt, sat on a sofa with a garden visible behind him
Close up of a hand playing a short bass line on an electronic 3/4 size keyboard. The "G" key doesn't work properly.
A box of "Aluminum foil" on a counter. Next to it is a Sharpie. The Sharpie has been used to insert an "I" making it say "Aluminium Foil"
8-bit glory Frak! Showing protagonist caveman with his deadly yoyo extending off to the right.
Monty getting a treat from Tina