Matt’s Blog

Builders once disrupted the tech world, but now they’re the gatekeepers.

We talk to users and subject matter experts to understand what to build.

After a couple years of programming are under your belt, it’s likely you’ll fall into the trap of building for the future.

There’s always been a certain disdain in software circles for management techniques from other industries.

I recently wrote an internal blog post at Truepill intended to make relational databases a little more approachable for folks that are coming from a more document-oriented world.

At LiveRamp, I built a lot of TypeScript services.

I finally took the time to put the rewrite of mash online.

Standardization is one of the hardest things an engineering organization can do, especially when it’s also trying to ship new products.

I decided recently to refactor my homepage, so as to better represent the way a bash shell works.

I started this evening totally set on building my own static website generator, based off a GitHub Repository and some Markdown, then caught up to the rest of the world and realized Github Pages already did all of that for me.