Hey, I'm Matt
I write about faith, technology, and whatever side quest I'm currently on. Sometimes I build things too.
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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.
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.
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,...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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 —...
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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...
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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,...
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