Matt's posts

Crowdsourcing product development

The next era of software engineering will be to create an environment that allows anyone to contribute to your product without compromising on quality.

Bootload.app failed, but it wasn't a waste

A post-mortem on Bootload, what a "magic moment" is and why a product needs one, and where I'm taking the idea instead.

We May Soon Have a Digital War with AI on Our Hands

As AI agents get autonomy, tool access, and persistence, “cybersecurity” starts to look like a continuous machine-vs-machine conflict. We should prepare for that now.

AI Has Reached an Inflection Point in Software Development

We've crossed a threshold where AI isn't just helping developers—it's changing what it means to build software.

Ralph Loops and Multi-Week AI Coding

A simple loop lets AI keep building software for weeks at a time.

Autonomous AI Coding with the Ralph Loop

How a simple bash loop and a todo folder can turn AI agents into autonomous software builders.

The Glorification of Software Complexity

In some ways the software industry has glorified complexity

Healthy Doubt of Your Code

One of the valuable skills of a senior software developer is to have an accurate amount of confidence in your code.

Choosing New Dev Tools

Auto-Increment IDs are not Strictly Monotonic, here's some Solutions

How to generate sequence numbers that don't commit out of order.

Solving High Data Contention Problems with a Typical Web Stack

Using command sourcing and ledgers to solve serial execution type problems.

Oracle v Google

What does the result of Oracle v Google mean to the rest of us?

Building Better APIs: Lessons from a Decade of REST

After ten years of building APIs, here are the patterns that actually matter—and the ones that are just cargo cult.