Matt Gedye

The Coffee Table

(This is a ‘now’ page inspired by Derek Sivers and nownownow).

I’ve called it The Coffee Table because growing up, when my parents had guests around for a catch-up, they would often sit around the coffee table. It was also the place in the house where whatever was most interesting to them in the moment accumulated, such as photo albums. Some of my biggest interests and hobbies include listening to music, sampling craft beer and I love to read.

Updated: 2025-05-02 from Melbourne, Australia

Recent News:

• The three of us moved on the last Saturday of February, 2025. Our new home is a three minute drive from where we were living. Regardless, moving is never fun and all of February felt like it was dedicated to packing boxes, cleaning, and getting organised. So, while I’ve tried to be consistent with training, reading, and writing, it’s been more challenging. Looking forward to getting back to all these things this month.

• Back into birding in a big way. Enjoying being outside observing birds but also using what I’ve been learning in bioinformatics to manage my own birding projects and data.

Current Projects:

• Archiving photos and backing them up for safe long term storage.
• Transcribing handwritten journal entries from eight years of journaling into my plain text journal file.
• Designing my own versions of Goodreads, last.fm, Strava, and eBird to each function as their own independent web pages on my website.
• Getting back into self-hosting my website. I love BearBlog, but I’ve learned a lot since I started using it and I think I’m ready to host on my own again.