Hi, I'm Matt

Welcome! I'm a software developer who likes building clean tools, tinkering with web infrastructure, and breaking things down to see how they work. This is my digital scratchpad where I log projects, share what I'm learning, and write about software engineering.

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AWTea, Part 2: Graphic Design is My Passion
Aug 29, 2026
The first cut of AWTea's renderer used the Canvas 2D API - and it worked, until it didn't.
AWTea, Part 1: A Peer Problem
Aug 28, 2026
AWT was built on native OS peers that don't exist in a browser. Here's why that's a problem, and why I decided to solve it anyway.