matt17r.com is where I muse on things I am interested in. My full name is Matthew Lindfield Seager but matt17r is much easier to type and remember.
I am a disciple and follower of Jesus Christ. The Bible is wholly inspired by God and therefore trustworthy. I am saved only by faith in God, not by anything I have done or can do. Faith is a gift from God that I did not and do not deserve. That gift is free to me but cost God dearly.
I have been married to my beautiful and amazingly supportive wife Melissa since 2004 and we have two wonderful kids who sometimes tolerate my dad jokes. I love being a husband and father even though I’ve still got a lot to learn on both fronts.
I enjoy running but often struggle for the motivation to get started. I show up at parkrun every week and I missed it so much when I was living in Cambodia that I helped start a Parkrun-style run called NW5k.
I used to try and deny my geekiness but now I’ve come to accept it.
I grew up with and love the Mac where I noodled around in HyperCard, FileMaker Pro and REALBasic in the ‘90s and ‘00s.
When the web came along I built Geocities sites, learned a bit of early CSS, learned some Python while maintaining a CMS built using Zope, built 80% of a World Cup 2002 tipping site in PHP and even got paid to build a couple of small business websites in the early ‘00s.
These days my go to language and framework on the web is Ruby on Rails. It’s a great combo to enable a solo dev (even one developing on nights and weekends) to build and maintain entire web apps.