Hi There!

My name is Matt, I’ve been lurking around the internet since the late ’90s doing stuff. This is just a little blog to write down the random things I’m working on, the problems I’ve had, my day-to-day and whatever else comes to mind. It may be senseless babbling into the void, but hopefully it can be interesting or reach someone who might want to see it.

I grew up in the PNW before setting off to the Midwest to be with the love of my life. I went to school for computer science, but have always been enthralled by technology in it’s various forms. From the early days of playing DOS, Atari, and NES games, into playing Neopets and starting my journey by learning about HTML and CSS.

I aspired to be the an amazing game developer from a young age, creating game design documents mashing up all of my favorite concepts from whatever I was playing at the moment. After picking up a book on C++ and game development, I started learning more and more. Once I started collage, the curriculum was a larger mixture that included C#, Javascript, some various other CS topics. Due to many life circumstances, I didn’t end up completing my degree, but I learned a ton along the way and still use the knowledge I obtained throughout.

These days, I work for a hardware retailer doing inventory analytics, process development, and some basic IT tasks. Far from the dreams yore, but I realized that a job can be a job, and you can enjoy your proclivities on your own time. I still strive to find a job that caters more towards that dream, because as a person I quite enjoy the creativity, problem solving, and building that comes with software development, but for now I am content in my situation.

There have been a few main projects I’ve been working on, which include some Neopets automation and my Homelab. Links to those and random ramblings can be found over on the projects page, and of course they’ll pop up on the home page as I post them. Other than that, I like to take old technology and repurpose it where I can, not all tech has to be new, fancy, and shiny, and most of it isn’t.

I encourage anyone reading to reach out and we can talk about anything!

– Matt