A blog by Matthew Hendricks. Zines, internet, and other musings.
# Building front.js: A Secure-by-Default Islands Framework
React Server Components surfaced real security concerns around server closures and opaque data flow. I wanted a small framework that keeps...
# Building a Universal Time-Travel Engine for Real-Time Event Streams
Visualizing real-time systems — order books, logs, infrastructure events — is still weirdly hard. Most tools are tied to a...
# Building FieldTest: A Framework-Agnostic Content Validation Toolkit
I was building content-heavy sites (documentation, blogs, marketing sites) and kept hitting runtime errors from invalid...
# Designing a Canonical Normalization Pipeline for Financial Data
Financial data arrives from exchanges, brokers, and vendors in dozens of formats. Field names collide, units differ, and...
Understanding grief as a neural process and why this perspective helps with healing.