My name's Matt. Here are some places you can reach me:

• On X @EatsIndigo
• On LinkedIn @matthew-bridges

You can read my CV @Itsindigo/CV

• How to write really effective Go
• What's possible with LLM's

• Prototyping is the best way to share and validate ideas
• Agile is dead 💀 - empower high-agency engineers in low-process environments
• Healthy, open communication is essential, bonus points if it's asynchronous with a heavy slant towards written communication
• Great engineering culture is bottom-up, not top-down

• Directly Responsible Individuals!
• Stacked PRs!
• Review your own code before anyone else does!
• Cloud Native Environments
• Distributed Task Processors
• The Ports and Adapters Pattern (Hexagonal Architectures!)
• Low Abstraction SQL ORMS

• Nifty little tools that simplify every day tasks
• Seeing a project through the full life-cycle, from "Is this even possible?" though to a production service, scaled to many users, supported with real-time monitoring and observability.

• Fostering a healthy level of self-esteem, and prioritising good sleep will take you farther than anything else you're doing.
• I try to remember to enjoy the journey and not to be overly focussed the goal. And broadly aim to follow other taoist ideas.

• I ran my first marathon this last year! Yeesh, I should really get to work on something else.