About

The Website

This is my personal website and technical guinea pig, mostly a repository of book notes and sporadic thoughts I feel like publishing. I’d rather own my words than shove them off into Facebook, Twitter X, or those other things. Keeps me weird.

It’s built with Astro, using Markdown, Markdoc, and Tailwind CSS. Generated and hosted on Cloudflare Pages.

Type is set in Basic Sans by Daniel Hernández and Latinotype and DM Mono by Colophon Foundry.

I hope the site’s fast and accessible for you, and I’d love to hear from you if it isn’t! There’s no cookie notice because I don’t use any.

I’m trying out Umami for analytics, but it’d be way more fun if you registered your visit by sending me a long email about something that matters to you and/or makes you laugh. I’ll write back.

Last built March 26, 2025.

The Person

I’m Matt, a design-educated developer, writer, and tinkerer wandering through his middle years. I’ve lived in six U.S. states and I’m married with a single child that’s actually just a small dog. I’m always puttering with something because I love learning new things and finding connections between random adventures.

I care a lot about listening, humor, storytelling, intention, attention to detail, and leaving things better than I found them. I’m an outgoing introvert and a highly sensitive person, which explains a lot of my perspective and existence.

I’ve spent the majority of my career running my own business designing and building websites, as a long-running experiment that kept providing income and endless opportunities to learn and evolve. I spent some time working with the lovely Craft CMS people, satisfied with bigger challenges and daily teamwork but missing the freedom and responsibility I enjoyed running my own thing.

I’m looking for an ideal intersection between what I’m good at, what I wake up eager to do, and what’s financially stable and supportive. I’m available for hire if you could use my help with something you’re doing.