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Hello, I'm Matthew

My background is in software engineering, which I still pursue as a hobby. I currently work at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. This site is where I share personal projects and occasional thoughts on what I'm working on.

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Classic Mac 6 April 2026

BomberTalk Alpha

I played a networked Bomberman game across a Mac SE, a Performa 6200, and a Performa 6400. Three machines spanning 1987 to 1995, all talking to each other over TCP and UDP.

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Case Study - Developer Tooling 5 April 2026

My Virtual Pentest and DevOps Team

If you're building apps with AI and putting them live, you have to at least try to secure them. Here's how I did it with bash, open source tools, and Claude Code.

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Case Study - Developer Tooling 3 April 2026

Pentesting with Rook

Anthropic added a companion to Claude Code called Buddy. Mine's an axolotl named Rook. I've been running a pentest suite against Cookie and its infrastructure over the past few evenings, and Rook kept catching things I was missing.

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