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Matt Sayar January 8, 2025

Creating a simple free website in 2025

I've owned mattsayar.com since December 2010. According to archive.org, it appears I started experimenting with Wordpress sometime in May 2011, but then switched to using Tumblr as my host in 2012. For years afterwards, this site was just a simple index.html on AWS S3 that…

Matt Sayar January 4, 2025

Writing Publicly is Nerve Wracking

Years ago while working as a lowly intern for a giant company, I received an email titled MANDATORY IN-PERSON SECURITY TRAINING. They took attendance to ensure everyone participated. On the day of the training, everyone shuffled into the theater and awaited the presentation. The presenter…