My name is Matt and I'm a software engineer who likes building stuff for the web. My main passion is JavaScript sweetened up with some tasty TypeScript sugar and building things that users get to see and touch, but I'm well rounded in full stack development with Node.js, Java, Go, C#, and experience in a variety of other languages. I'm also on board the Deno hype train, but it still needs to mature a bit before I'd be comfortable using it for real.
software engineer
My COVID lockdown project has been an open source project called Portaler. Portaler is a collaborative mapping tool and the number one of its kind for the game Albion Online. In about 3 months after I launched, it started receiving about 15,000 monthly active users according to Cloudflare metrics. Which, I believe is a fairly heavy chunk of the game's active players .
The project is written entirely in TypeScript using Node & React.
- The repo can be found here: github.com/Portaler-Zone/portaler-core
- You can find the main site here: Portaler.zone
- But the real action is at either
- On the curated version done by volunteers here: map.portaler.zone
- Or you can demo it by joining my Discord server linked on both of the other links and then going to public.portaler.zone
* Sorry, these apps aren't mobile friendly at this time. It kinda just grew from a personal need into something a lot of people use.
As far as tech goes, it's just a simple crud app, due to rules set by the game's owners all user input is manual. It's run on less than < $30 a month of hardware with plenty of room to grow.
As of this writing, it doesn't use a GraphDB, but it definitely should and that's probably coming soon, ...or websockets (if you couldn't tell by the insane number of requests it runs off a heartbeat).
Here you can see a Twitch stream of me using it & ultimately dying in the process.
I've written a few articles but it's nothing I do regularly. Mostly for SitePoint because I had some friends who freelanced for them.
10 Essential Sublime Text Plugins for JavaScript Developers (2015)
Updated: 2018
#1 on Google for the phrase "Sublime JavaScript" from 2015-2019
I've since found the glory that is Visual Studio Code
- An Introduction to JSX (2017)
Written as part of their "Quick Tip" series and meant to be short and light on technical stuff.
- Then a couple more on my SitePoint profile (2016)
A couple jQuery based articles I updated in 2016 because they had a lot of traffic. I think both were originally written in 2011 by other people.
This page was totally over-engineered using Gatsby.js and then hosted on Netlify, because they're just awesome.
