How programmers and actors are alike
Our surpising common ground, and shared solution to an old problem, and a few new ones.
Matt Irwin
Building products that work for everyone.
I’m a senior product engineer with extensive experience building web applications end to end, and a specialism in accessibility. I'm most interesed in what happens before the code: deciding what is actually worth building, it's cost and eventual outcome.
Right now I’m building an application for networking and job searches. It's called Observatory and I'm writing about the decisions as I go.
Recent writing
All writingWhy a spreadsheet stops working
Job searching starts as a list and turns into relational data. Spreadsheets handle the first part well and the second part badly, which is why I started building Observatory.