Matthew Mayer's tech blog

It’s 2026, you don’t need to deal with git.

Looking back at 2025: Technical and Personal reflections.

Jujutsu (JJ) for my workflow This is how I use JJ.

Looking back at 2024: Technical and Personal reflections.

How to split code changes We’ve all been there: when writing code, we fall victim to “while I’m here, I might as well…” and end up with a collection of code changes instead of a focused set of deltas.

Closed loop development Brace yourself for car analogies.

The tiny guide to Rails (that I wish I had) I’ve found Rails to rely on more convention over configuration than I’m comfortable with - so much so it seemed impenetrable at times.

As the challenging year of 2020 wraps up, here’s what happened in the past twelve months with a focus on my experience in technology.

Rusty von Humboldt is a GitHub Archive data explorer and Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) tool.

This is my perspective of the current state of Rusoto as a semi-retired maintainer and Amazon outsider.

Red/green bugfixes are the best technique for communicating understanding of a bug and its solution, especially for asynchronous code reviews.

TL;DR: I’m not working on Rusoto any more.

Per my tweet: doing Advent of Code 2019 the wrong way. 😁 Today we’re easing into #serverless.

Rust: a Language for the Next 40 Years put a seed of an idea on my head.

Like last year I’m taking a summer break from open source, including Rusoto.

Most software developers will tell you that tests are good.

A hot take on hot patching/fixing.

Rusoto supports asynchronously running commands to AWS.

I’m often involved in hiring.

“Dance like nobody’s watching.

Previously, we defined Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD) and build servers.

Ever hear someone say “CI/CD build pipeline” and weren’t sure that that means, exactly?

After three years maintaining an open source project, it’s time to take a few months of me time.

List of links for topics including: Git Branching strategies Ruby Go Testing Cloud and AWS Git Think like a Git Pro Git Branching strategies GitHub flow Trunk based Development Ruby Learn Ruby the Hard Way Go Effective Go Golang Tripping Hazards Testing P…

Per the call for blog posts, I’ve got thoughts and ideas on where Rust can go in the upcoming year.

Rusoto, an unofficial SDK for Amazon Web Services, had a wonderful year!

Test Driven Development (TDD) encourages better software design.

While a software enginerd/pixie wrangler at heart, I’ve discovered the stereotypical developer path of grabbing a ticket from Jira, working on it, shoving the results to QA and repeat isn’t for me.

My recap of RustConf 2017 in Portland, Oregon.

This is part three of Rusoto code generation.

In the previous post we took a quick tour of the major pieces of Rusoto code generation.

Writing a software development kit (SDK) is a challenge.

Since the publication of Rusoto RDS walkthrough, a new version of Rusoto has been released: 0.25.0.

Let’s tie some great Rust crates together!