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Hi. I'm Matt.
I'm a software developer by trade, with special attention given toward mobile apps. I'm also a music enthusiast and news junkie. Please take a look around this website to get to know me!
Recent Blog Posts
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Outsourcing Requests - Retaining Control of Application Stability
Feb 8, 2019
As applications grow more and more complex, they may have to call an increasing number of external web APIs. As we build more features, we may depend on servies that we do not control, for the sake of gaining functionality we wouldn't be able to implement ourselves. That's great! What's not so great is when one of those services goes down, or has a major breaking change, or goes away altogether. Then, if we have not planned correctly, we may completely break our app with no immediate fix available. This is why I propose that to retain complete control over user experience, it is important that we maintain complete control over every external web call that goes in and out of our app.
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Curiosity and the Value of Diving Deeper - A Personal Testimony
Apr 11, 2017
When I was in elementary school, my father showed me the original Star Wars film trilogy. As a little kid, I was in awe of the films' direction and special effects and wanted to learn how to make films like these. A little later I received a toy video camera and a green screen for my birthday, and I was introduced to the “inner workings” of basic video production and editing. I began making many rudimentary videos with some of my friends, which helped me to bond with them as well as practice a skill that I was very interested in learning...