Matt McKeon

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Goth, punk, metalhead, too old & tired to dress like it. Love bikes, nature, kids, comics, games, all things spooky. Software engineer & manager, formerly of IBM and Google, with CS/UX degrees. I like making things for people; mobile and datavis are my jam

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Completed the dog-day cicadas before the dog-days of summer, named for the 1st day Sirius can be seen to rise above the horizon at dawn. The Tibicen canicularis, also known as dog-day cicada, is common in North America and its power-saw like buzzing song is taken as a sign of summer. 🧪🐡

Well this is embarrassing. conduition.io/coding/ticke... Ticketmaster could have used an OS wallet and gotten rotating barcodes without exposing their secrets to hackers (e.g. developers.google.com/wallet/ticke...) but they had to force people to install their app I guess. #mobile #android #dev

Reverse Engineering TicketMaster's Rotating Barcodes (SafeTix)conduition.io “Screenshots won’t get you in”, but Chrome DevTools will. Click here to skip the rant and go straight to the nerdy stuff. I recently purchased tickets to a concert from TicketMaster. If they had issue

🍄📷 Green russala, Baxter State Park, Maine I didn't think to sniff it to see if it was a parsley-scented russala, but it could have been based on the appearance and location.

Saying "Of course I'll review your self-published Kindle nonfiction" and sending you finicky copyediting redlines is my love language.

🍄📷 Salmon pinkgill, Baxter State Park, Maine

Check out this great zoology-themed colorbook I picked up at Topo Paper & Post in Camden, ME. 450 palettes, each inspired by a different species, with RGB and CMYK values. I really like the organic shapes they use on each facing page to help you see how different elements work together. #SciArt

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#SciArt and #Invertebrates

This huge Arthropleura plush is all finished and ready to head home to her owner! Over three feet in length and meticulously handmade with soft minky.

🍄📷 Lovely Northern Tooth found in the woods in midcoast Maine.

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This beautiful parrot mushroom, Gliophorus psittacinus, was in a great spot to soak up some bright, diffused sunlight, making the colors on it and everything surrounding it the perfect amount of highlighted and vibrant 🟢💛💚🍄📷📸🎞

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Completed a detailed drawing of a northern giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia), also known as the murder hornet, with Pentel pencils (0.2, 0.3, 0.5 mm), a blender, and Blu Tack. 🐝 #sciart

More 🍄📷s on this foggy day in coastal Maine. Ivory coral, also taken in Baxter State Park.

Posting some beautiful scarlet hood 🍄 that I captured in Baxter State Park a few years ago. Because I'm in Maine and it's wet and I wish I was in Baxter. Maybe later this summer.

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