Matthew McVickar

Highlights

• 📻 Some Wonderful Noise, my radio show on Freeform Portland.
• 💬 @soundcloudsaid, a bot that posts random SoundCloud comments.
• 📖 @obliquestions, a bot that posts questions without context.
• 🐜 Clones of the Queen, old synth-rock trio. We opened for The Cure!
• 🎹 Solo ambient/electronic music under my own name.
• 🍃 Welwing, older solo music.

Elsewhere

• 📨 Email, where you can reach me.
• 🐘 Mastodon, where I post sometimes.
• 🦋 Bluesky, where I post rarely.
• 🎶 Last.fm, where I track my listening.
• 🍿 Letterboxd, where I track movies.
• 📚 Hardcover, where I track my reading.
• 💿 Bandcamp, where I buy a ton of music.
• 👔 LinkedIn, where I’m a professional.

Other Things I’ve Done

• 🎸 I made ‘Steve Miller Band’s ‘The Joker’ but the Wolf Whistle Happens After Every Line’ which is just what it sounds like. It got a lot of likes on Twitter, writeups on blogs, and appeared on a morning TV show.
• ⚽️ For the World Cup in 2022 I made Zero-goal Match Checker which allows you to check games that have finished to see if they ended in a 0–0 score.
• 🍩 From 2018 to 2020 I ran Donut.js, a beloved tech meetup in Portland, OR.
• 🎧 I’ve been tracking my favorite sounds, albums, and songs of the year for a long time: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
• 📝 TaskPaper Month Generator, a calendar generator for TaskPaper.
• 📑 TaskPaper Tiles, an organizational system for TaskPaper.
• 🧮 Alfred Ratio Calculator, ask 2 4 ? 10 and get 5.
• 📷 Cameramail: In 2006 I send a disposable camera through the mail and it got some attention and interviews on blogs.

Work

Selected things I’ve built or worked on:

• 🔬 MIT Technology Review: Managed team of engineers to improve and maintain the complex systems and dense archive of this venerable publication.
• 🐤 Sesame Workshop: Implemented and managed colossal redesign, expanded functionality, and reorganization for the organization behind Sesame Street.
• 🏛️ Punchbowl News: Built custom newsletter-publishing plugin and built website for this thrice-daily political newsletter.
• 🌐 Postlight: Improved performance and refactored company website.
• ☀️ Probable Futures: Built site for this organization focusing on climate change.
• 🌎 Popula: Built site and custom functionality for this news, arts, and culture magazine with global contributions.
• 🪑 Introspective Magazine: One of several publications and micro-sites I built for this antiques marketplace.
• ☸️ Tricycle: Maintained and expanded the functionality of this Buddhist magazine’s expansive website.
• 🏫 Danforth Center: Implemented design and customized CMS for the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics at Washington University in St. Louis.
• 🚗 Fyusion: Implemented design and CMS for this car photography and analysis software.
• 💣 BOMB Magazine: Implemented design and CMS for this venerable culture magazine.
• 🇰🇭 Cambodian Children's Fund: Implemented design and CMS for the organization.
• 🎨 PNCA: Implemented design templates for local college of art.
• ⛺️ Nike Campfire: Built a customized CMS for this internal tool for remote workers.