Hi, I'm Mat
You can see my curriculum vitae and my operating manual. I also love listening to podcasts so please help me find more. I am also compiling a repository of engineering management too.
- I occassionally blog here about stuff and things. It also auto generates local weather, football fixtures, and latest stock prices as part of my morning routine. Built using github-actions, APIs, and python
- I have been playing with python, recently, and have created some twitter bots, most notably tweeting breaking news
- Cheltenham open data is an organisation that uses open data sources relevant to my hometown. Projects include using and archiving official government statistics of Covid-19, Food bank data, street crimes, where to go for lunch, and more.
Repository naming convention
Repositories, where possible, are lowercase with underscores and follow the naming conventions below.
- Demonstrations or proof of concepts use the format
demo_name. - Boilerplate or templates are named in the format
template_name.- where appropriate these are also published through github pages and will be available at
username.github.io/repo_name.
- where appropriate these are also published through github pages and will be available at
- WordPress related content (mostly plugins) are all prefixed with
wp_. - Twitter bots are prefix with
bot_. - Standard repositories are named as they are, sometimes this might be a domain name e.g
thechels.uk.
Find me around the web
Latest posts
- Math support in Markdown - 2022-05-21
- How we’re continuing to enable all developers to build - 2022-05-20
- Software bill of materials - What it is and why you need one - 2022-05-20
- Gender pay gap at UK unicorns - 2022-05-16
- Agile User Story Estimation - 2022-05-15
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