Ever since I put my website together, it's been humming along by publishing content with Publii. Overall I really like it, but I'm not a seasoned expert on the pros and cons of all the different static site generators (SSGs). It looks like Publii isn't…| mattsayar.com
When I was a kid, my family had an encyclopedia span an entire shelf in the living room's bookshelf. The shelf sagged under the weight, and the indexes overflowed onto the next shelf. One day, my father was at a friend's house and he saw…| mattsayar.com
I wrote a whole post about setting up free newsletters for your website but it was all a lie. Sure, after your free trial runs out, you can still technically send newsletters for free. Manually. Painfully. All these newsletter-management companies paywall the one vital feature I…| mattsayar.com
One of Anthropic's quieter releases recently was their "Security Review," where Claude Code can identify and fix security issues in your code. But how good is it really? In my case, will it find issues with code it helped me write for my newsletter service…| mattsayar.com
“... even if [FORTRAN] did work, no respectable programmer would use it -- it was only for sissies!” Richard Hamming, on programming before the invention of one of the first mid-level programming languages History is repeating itself. So many words have been spilled about LLMs…| mattsayar.com
Now that Anthropic has more support for connectors, I want to show you how I've been creating my own Model Context Protocol servers for months now. This lets you use LLMs to interact with just about any tool you have API access to, and it's…| mattsayar.com
I recently purchased a Kindle book from Amazon called Operationalizing Threat Intelligence. The book itself isn't important (well it is to me, but that's not the point of this post). It's a hefty book at 600+ pages, and I don't love reading textbooks on my…| mattsayar.com
Have you ever been reading a Wikipedia article and tapped out because it's just too dense and difficult to read? Simple English Wikipedia exists to help make articles easier to read and understand. I sometimes find myself drifting to it for technical concepts, but sometimes…| mattsayar.com
Does my website load fast enough? Publii, which I use to build this site, has a 'Responsive Images' option which will load smaller images if you're on mobile, and larger images if you're on a bigger screen. That's faster for you, but it comes at…| mattsayar.com
I woke up one morning and thought, 'No one should have to walk more than X minutes to get to a park.' I literally rolled over in bed, grabbed my phone, and wrote down that exact phrase in my notes app. I'm not sure why…| mattsayar.com
When I wrote my own newsletter email service, I used SendGrid to handle the nitty gritty details of actually sending the emails. If I tried to roll my own email server, I would have to deal with so much nuance around security, spam, and other…| mattsayar.com
Recently, my wife was visiting Canada when she pulled out Ye Olde Facebook for a quick doome scrolle and happened upon some blocked content. Obviously, my wife respected the censorship, didn't give it any further attention, and moved on with her day. Just kidding! She…| mattsayar.com
For the second annual Battle of the Food Trucks on June 1st, 37 vehicles descended upon the Meanwhile Block in downtown Colorado Springs to feed 1.5k people. Our intrepid foodie entrepreneur Matt Schniper was asked to help judge and rank the best of best. Instead,…| mattsayar.com
When I posted about building a custom math game in ten minutes, one of my favorite comments was This is so awesome. Personalized software really is coming. Recently, Anthropic released their version of an agent that can integrate with your codebase and make changes for…| mattsayar.com
I received a ticket from my product manager (my wife) to add a new feature for our largest customer (my kindergartner). The requirements doc included a worksheet from school that looked like this. I took that exact screenshot (blurriness, bad lighting, scribbles, and all) and…| mattsayar.com
