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I write about things I'm learning, things I'm making, and things I'm thinking about. You can follow along by subscribing to my RSS feed if that is your kind of thing. I also share the posts I've started in Feedbin in a dedicated Feedbin Stars RSS Feed.
The Web
I'm currently (winter 2025) thinking about "The Web" and trying to imgine what tools would make the reality of it feel more like the ideal of it for me.
- page-activity-report-2025-03-20
- web-graph-browser
- feedbin-stars
- feedbin-and-rss
- making-the-internet-the-web-again
Croissants
In Q1 2020 I decided to make croissants one a week for 12 weeks and write about. The crossiants are gone, the writing lives.
- all-i-know-about-making-croissants
- batches-11-12-the-toll-of-uncertainty
- batch-10-sourdough
- batch-9-or-the-great-whittemore-bake-off
- batch-8-and-why-i-started-writing-this-thing-in
- batch-7-its-all-about-the-butter
- batch-6-lets-pretend-these-are-sucky-because-i
- batch-5-its-baking-day
- batch-4-lamination
- batch-3-the-secret-ingredient-is-packaging-tape
- batch-2-what-a-sticky-mess
- batch-1-beautiful-little-failures-or-how-i-made
- 12-batches-of-croissants-an-introduction
Pin Hole Photography
For a bit I played with pin hole photography. Here are my posts on the process of building my own pin hole camera and taking photos with it.
- session-6-mothers-day-flowers
- session-5-the-toddler-camping-chair
- session-3-pizza-boxes-tape-and-bonsai-trees
- session-3-light-terrain
- session-2-so-white
- session-1-moody-photos-for-moody-times
Art
Sometimes I attempt to make art. My favorites have been created by writing software that applies random rules to large image datasets.
Work Me
Hi. My name is Matthew Whittemore. I'm a business and engineering leader living in Maine. Currently I'm work at Best Egg empowering renters to pay, stay and thrive in their homes by reimagining how rent gets paid. Before that I spent a year building a tool used to fight neglected tropical disease at crosscut.io . The largest (so far) stint of my career was spent at Mapbox. There I built mapbox-gl-draw, brought offline routing to market, helped created Mapbox Studio and architected a series of changes to the Mapbox authentication layer. I got my start in engineering managmenet and leadership at Social Tables and worked for a defunct pro-audio ecommerce company called Unique Squared.