Matthew Lyon
about me
I work in technology, designing and building tools for sense-making and taking actions of consequence.
For fun, I make art and music which explore the interplay beteween inadvertent pattern-making and decay.
elsewhere
Recently: Feb 7, 2023
I’m finally updating this web page to include (verifiable) links to Mastodon/the Fediverse, instead of Twitter. Blame Javascript and baroque build systems. I also have a page with some archived tweets.
Music
Singles
Compilations
Writings
Understanding Time Zones
You think you want worldwide UTC -- I think you're entitled
Consuming GraphQL Simply
A curl-based introduction with a focus on the basics
Dreaming of Jobs
A philisophical musing about the idea of a dream job
Regretting the Golden Handcuffs
My story of the long tail of startup success
Mistrusting Email Addresses
Communication mediums are not authentication mediums
Refining Software
A polemic advocating for a more measured approach in building software
Making Time For Quality
A polemic about creativity in the age of instant gratification
Talks
Making Music With Math
Exploring the relationship between music theory and math
Working with GraphQL for Client & Server
An introduction to GraphQL, with a focus on patterns for creating APIs
Computing Visual Art
Demonstrations of the relationships between visual art, math, and code
Minimum Viable Documentation
I presented some ideas about the role of documentation in lean development
Poetry
Et Cetera
Tweeting, archived
What's left of 15 years of @mattly@twitter.com
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