Want to get in touch?

Great! However, please make sure you read these guidelines first in order to ensure seamless communication. The following rules and hints will clarify how I prefer to be contacted and if you stick to them, you’re bound to get a fast and meaningful response.

e‑mail

Consider this my preferred means of communication—it’s fast, reliable and enables me to produce most meaningful and useful responses. I’m not an e‑mail junkie though—it may take me less than a few minutes to reply to your messages in some cases, but please consider 24 hours to be my maximum response time. Should you send me a message and get nothing back in 24 hours, make sure to use other means of communication to confirm that I received your e‑mail.

Every single e‑mail message I send is digitally signed with a certificate from Thawte. Should your e‑mail client be unable to support digital signatures, it will likely display it as an attachment named smime.p7s. Therefore, if your software does not support certificate verification, you can safely ignore this attachment.

SMS / Twitter

Text messages are another great way of getting in touch with me quickly. In fact, I consider them the fastest method to get any response, yet it’ll often be inferior in terms of quality compared to e‑mail. Should you only need a word or two back from me, SMS is the way to go.

Twitter is a neat alternative to SMS, and it’s free too. Sending me a direct message on Twitter is virtually analogous to texting me, so feel free to use whichever you fancy more. You may also follow me in order to stay in touch by visiting my Twitter profile and clicking the follow button.

Instant Messenger

IM is a great way to resolve issues that would otherwise take ages to talk over via e‑mail. So, whenever I happen to be online and you have something to discuss, don’t hesitate to IM me. However, please do not IM me when I’m either offline or in do not disturb mode. You’ll be better off sending me an e‑mail.

Phone

Frankly, this is my least preferred means of communication—it’s disruptive, difficult to keep track of and on top of that—highly inefficient. Before you call me, please consider sending an e‑mail or texting me first—the former will yield a profound, meaningful response, whilst the latter will be fast, yet sometimes superficial.

Contact information

Name:
Mateusz Drożdżyński
e‑mail:
Twitter:
matid
IM (Jabber):
matid@matid.net
Mobile (UK):
+447549927859
Mobile (PL):
+48698675069
OpenID:
http://matid.net
i‑name:
=matid

Hints

  • Make it clear.

    Make sure your message has a meaningful subject. Avoid words like “hi”, “urgent” or leaving the subject blank altogether. If you want the message to pass through my filters and get a snappy response, make sure its subject is a relevant summary of the message itself.

  • Context is the key.

    Sending me multiple messages, each containing contextually separate issues is considered superior to dumping everything into one e‑mail. This kind of distinction makes it easier to process—and eventually—respond to your messages.