Matthew Boyens
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Reflections on faith, technology, and everyday life.

  • Making Sugarcoated: How Building a T1D Game Made Me Excited for My Pump

    I built a Type 1 Diabetes simulation game to explain my condition to friends. In making it realistic, I discovered just how hard manual management is - and why the pump I'm getting next month might change everything.

    3 Jan 2026 8 min #Health#Type 1 Diabetes#Game Development#Programming
  • Summer Reflections: Stars, Eclipses, and Relearning Physics

    A grab-bag of connected ideas over the summer break - reading Project Hail Mary, making eclipses in Blender, witnessing totality at Niagara Falls, and rediscovering the math I thought I knew.

    3 Jan 2026 12 min #Science#Physics#Travel#Books
  • Measuring Video Stability: What Your Video Encoder Already Knows

    I have 6,000 travel video clips sitting on a hard drive. To turn them into video essays, I need to know what's actually usable - which clips are tripod-steady,...

    31 Dec 2025 36 min #Technology#Video#Programming
  • The Constant in the Variable

    Link to Sugarcoated, Letting God work in me, and 3. Blessing in the unexpected — this is the fourth in a series of reflections. Something feels different...

    28 Dec 2025 3 min #Sugarcoated
  • The Case for Rewatching, Revisiting, Repeating

    At 28, I don’t encounter novelty the way I once did. In my early twenties, everything seemed new — ideas, places, adventures. Now the stream feels thinner....

    7 Sept 2025 5 min #personal-growth#culture#film
  • Food, Friends & Growing Up

    Sugarcoated series part 3 Food isn’t simple for me. Type 1 diabetes and celiac disease mean every meal comes with calculations and limits. When I catch up with...

    29 Aug 2025 7 min #Sugarcoated
  • Blessing in the unexpected

    When I first got diagnosed with coeliac disease, it came off the back of years of chronic health issues. Since I was 18, I'd struggled with psoriasis —...

    18 July 2025 4 min #Sugarcoated
  • Letting God work in me

    Friction gives you the traction to run, and the grip to stop. Without it, you spin in place or drift off course. I’ve come to see that friction isn’t just...

    18 July 2025 4 min #Sugarcoated
  • Sugarcoated

    Living with chronic illness isn’t always what people imagine. It’s not always constant pain or obvious disability. Sometimes, it’s just… friction. Quiet,...

    17 July 2025 2 min #Sugarcoated

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