Matt Steele

I'm really excited for MicroLighter - the new syntax highlighter from Dave Rupert.

We have an orange cat who loves to climb into our basement's drop ceiling and wander around.

A tale told in memes I'm joining the bandwagon and declaring that 2026 will be the Year of the Linux Desktop.

This Halloween I went as Rorschach, the Watchmen 'hero'.

I've been running more this year, and one of the aspects I've been working on is running at a consistently higher cadence.

I gave a lightning talk at NebraskaJS about the complex, decades-long relationship between JavaScript and Java's Date APIs: The first half was a bit of a troll; I used a Java REPL (anonymized to look like Node) to demonstrate some of the more famously une…

Webmentions are a cool, standards-compliant mechanism to let your corner of the Web interact with other sites.

I try not to rebuild my site too frequently, as it's one of the classic blunders, alongside getting involved in a land war in Asia.

Connell McCarthy's post about "overengineering everything at his wedding" was a fun read: https://connellmccarthy.com/article/wedding/ I can relate to “this wedding would be a great opportunity to build everything bespoke”, as I: live-streamed our wedding…

Jessica Codr and I gave a talk at NebraskaJS about StrykerJS: Stryker is a mutation testing tool - it makes a change to your code, then runs your tests.

Inspired by "my favorite mugs" posts from Cassey and Benji, here's a few of my favorite drinkware.

Apple got a lot of positive sentiment earlier this year when they launched betas of iOS 16.4 and announced support for Web Push, along with other features.

As harvest season begins here in the Midwest, I once again celebrate by grinding Nebraska gravel at the Gravel Worlds Long Voyage bike race.

I had a hell of a time getting a Playwright script to successfully run in an AWS Lambda.

I recently bought a new vehicle (the now-discontinued Chevy Bolt), it's great!

I made the sharable OpenGraph images on this site better by generating custom cards contextual to each post: The core concept is to create a sidecar page for each post that looks like an OpenGraph card, then take a snapshot of the page, and set it as the…

So you've got an Owncast server running, and it's part of the Fediverse, so your Mastodon friends can be notified when you start a stream.

Owncast is a self-hosted platform for streaming video, which I've been using for sharing all kinds of events, from Zwift racing to my wedding.

I spoke at NebraskaJS about Vite: Aside from a scratchy voice initially (and having to present remotely due to a Covid recovery), it went well!

I recently participated in the Gravel Worlds Long Voyage bike race.

The Summer Games Done Quick event recently ended, and I'm still thinking about an Ocarina of Time run: It's best if you go in without too much knowledge of the run, but if you grew up playing and reading rumors on Geocities about what was possible, you'll…

As we close out another Advent of Code season, this year the Meta Discourse is less around any of the puzzles, and more around whether you should feel pressured to participate.

I participated in the inaugural Gravel Worlds Long Voyage bike race last weekend.

I put a homemade photo booth together for a wedding reception we postponed for a year, on account of, gestures everywhere: It was a fun project that let me play with new hardware and software.

I've been preparing for a 303-mile endurance gravel bike race.

I got vaccinated today, and my primary side effect was feeling conflicted about it.

As group bike rides are doubly out this pandemic-laden winter, I've been doing more bike racing on Zwift, and playing with livestreaming races.

If you've switched to CenturyLink recently, you might want to hook up your own router directly to the ONT, and bypass the router they provide/rent to you.

So you've decided you want to livestream your event and run the server yourself instead of relying on Twitch?

I got married!

Millhouse voice Remember mashups?

I built a thing that I'm not sure anyone else will find useful, but it was fun and I learned a few things.

I keep buying dumb Bluetooth devices and hooking them up to websites, but there's just enough boilerplate to make integrating them a hassle.

Inspired by Jeremy Keith's post on implementing Dark Mode on the web, I set it up on my blog.

GitHub Actions are sweet!

Or: why would I delete gold like this?

I have a complicated relationship with build tools.

I gave a talk at Barcamp Omaha on Web Components: In it, I tried to first answer the question: why aren't Web Components as popular as React?

Lately, 80% of my YouTube usage has been watching Rube Goldberg machines.

RSS is the most exciting technology of 2018.

The last few years I've been trying my hand at starting a vegetable garden from seed.

I love side projects.

Every year the Omaha cycling community puts on the Bike De'Lights ride: an opportunity to illuminates your bike and tour the city's Christmas lights.

I gave a talk to the Omaha Java Users Group about TypeScript: I think there's a lot of things TypeScript has to offer Java developers, namely: Static Typing - This one's obvious; if you're used to a compiler providing thousands of tiny continuously-running

Weekend illnesses are a great opportunity to work through an Instapaper queue.

One of the side-effects to living that Internet-Of-Things lifestyle is that you end up with a lot of pseudo-smart devices, mostly collecting dust.

So Web Components!

We just wrapped up another sold-out NEJS CONF.

NebraskaJS recently held a lightning talk night, entitled "Present a Blog Post".

I spoke at ng-nebraska on how the ngUpgrade module can help bridge the gap between Angulars 1 and 2.