360 Degrees of Awesome

Hi! My name is Matt, or other people may know me as Mattie or spyn. Currently I'm working at HBF as a Sitecore Developer, while working on my React skills. I was working at RAC as a .NET Developer, working on their Sitecore platform supporting their main website. Before then I was at iiNet as a developer, working on customer servicing tools, such as Toolbox and the Signup forms. I'm interested in home automation, technology, programming, design, music, board games, skating and running. I'm also a Dad!

    Sitecore - Migrating from TDS to SCS

    Migrating to SCS from TDS! This is a cheeky lil command line interface tool to convert TDS projects to CSC modules When looking at the…

    2022, Apr 18  — 1 minute read

    WLED LED Floor Lamp

    Making a WLED based standing lamp List of the hardware used I have tried to do this on the cheap, and get the most basic hardware. Basically…

    2021, Jun 05  — 3 minute read

    Yeelight and Hyperion tinkering

    Over the last week I've been looking into creating a basic web-service to easily interact with my lights around my flat. Currently, I have…

    2017, Feb 10  — 5 minute read

    boblightd and SteamOS

    Having some spare time, I thought I would see if it is possible to setup boblightd with SteamOS. It looks like it's possible, with X11 at…

    2014, Nov 01  — 4 minute read

    Setting up SteamOS

    On Tuesday, I took the plunge and setup SteamOS beta on my HTPC - dual booting into Windows I had to use the ISO, as my mainboard doesn’t…

    2014, Oct 25  — 2 minute read

    Hello 2014

    Hello 2014, As people know, I’m not too keen on new year resolutions, so I’ve decided on a few things I would like to do this year. Learn…

    2014, Jan 20  — 1 minute read

    Playing around with Net::Twitter in PERL

    Here are some perl recipes that I’ve written that helps interface with Twitter and run some basic tasks. You will need to create a Twitter…

    2012, Jul 07  — 3 minute read

    Automate my everythings

    I spent some of the day, between tasks, to take a look at “if this then that” or otherwise known as ifttt. ifttt allows you to essentially…

    2012, Jun 13  — 1 minute read

    Rad internet tools

    Here’s a few things I’ve found useful on the internet this week; Audio Tool – Create music with your web browser. Javascript Piano – A piano…

    2012, May 20  — 3 minute read

    Commodore 64 phone tones

    Last night I compiled a list of tones I would like to use on my phone. Most of them are based from classic Commodore 64 games. I spent…

    2012, Feb 04  — 1 minute read