Matt Gregg — Software Engineer — Journal

We’ve been living inside this for years.

Me: Why is it that management in companies fear those who give a fuck?

Build Mode Seven things I shipped (and a couple I quietly made) Lately I’ve been in that particular kind of flow where ideas don’t wait for permission (you can check out my other post about that here).

The Self-Hosted Journey: What I Learned Building My Home NAS TL;DR: I backed the Zettlab 4-bay NAS and, while I’m a huge fan of their hardware and mission, I’ve found my stride using Docker containers for most tasks.

You know that feeling when you're lying in bed and an idea pops into your head?

Understanding Walgreens’ Adderall Refill Policy Ah, the intricacies of modern healthcare!

Implementing Dark Mode in GatsbyJS 4.7 With the release of GatsbyJS 4.7, developers now have more tools and features at their disposal to create dynamic and responsive websites.

When you think of car servicing, you might conjure up images of cumbersome paperwork, long waiting times, and a general sense of inconvenience.

It is so difficult for people to comprehend chronic illness.

Say you want to set up a simple password protected page (or a bunch of pages), just for yourself, in your NextJS application.

Gonna give a quick how to for connecting to and getting your sqlite database from your production app on fly.io.

Recently I needed to sort one array I had no control of to show specific categories in a specific order.

This is a quick demo of one way you can accomplish dynamic page titles in the html head tags with Angular.

This is a relatively simple problem to solve but didn't see it posted elsewhere.

Sometimes you have a function with an optional Object argument that you want to destructure in the function.

I haven’t been around as long as some, but I’ve been around web development to remember the days where everyone had a cpanel and managed their own personal site on super cheap shared hosting.

I know we usually reference "imposter syndrome" when we talk about jobs and the fear that you might be exposed as a fraud who fooled their way into the position but I've been feeling a different kind of imposter syndrome these last 7 months.

UPDATE 01/21/21: Using the firebase init command you can now automatically set up deployment from Github through the CLI and you shouldn't have to follow any of this tutorial.

I'm sure this is posted in a ton of places already but I thought I would share a method I sometimes use to generate random strings of (numbers + letters) with javascript.

Update: A weekend pathologist made a mistake and what they thought were leukemia blasts were really just new white blood cells.

Three weeks ago I found myself lying in a hospital bed after a full day in the ER, a blood transfusion dripping into one of my IVs, listening to a doctor tell me I have Acute Myeloid Leukemia.

Recently I built a Vue app for a client that existed inside an existing Wordpress site.

Sometimes you have to make a custom webpack config.

prep time: 20min / cooking time: 10min This amazingly delicious pasta sauce is perfect for baked pasta dishes with shrimp or chicken or pretty much any other pasta dish.

You've probably heard about Netlify, the amazing static host that literally makes everything about static website hosting feel like a walk on the beach.

Have you ever been in a meeting with a stakeholder and you or someone else suggests interviewing users or looking at user feedback in order to guide the roadmap and been shot down?

prep time: 5min / cooking time: 30-40min Been really loving how easy and delicious this recipe is from cookinglsl Ingredients 2 lb boneless skinless chicken thighs 1/4 cup Dijon mustard 1/4 cup honey 1 tbsp olive oil 1/2 tsp salt 1/4 tsp black pepper 1/2…

Hey there, my name is Matt.

Title ideas: success, research, data, user The Problem Companies create roadmaps of features quarters in advance.