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Scribe: Architecture Overview

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Scribe: Architecture Overview

This is a quick & dirty architecture breakdown of Scribe, a transcription application I built that could be used to transcribe any audio file & provide accurate speaker identification.

Burn It Down

As the year comes to a close, I am drawing the curtains on my Ship It experiment. I wrote up a small write up of everything, you can read it here. This article will try to summarize my feelings about the experiment as whole & outline where I am going to go from here.

One Year of Shipping It: A Retrospective

One Year of Shipping It: A Retrospective

In January of this year I started an experiment to ship one new thing every month for one year. As December comes to a close I would like to reflect on the past year to evaluate how the experiment went. Here is a breakdown of what I worked on this year & some quick thoughts about each project.

Knowing When to Quit

Knowing When to Quit

For the past few months I have had pet project. I know, huge surprise. This was the one I thought, "When this is finished it will be a game changer". I stayed up late writing code, designing the perfect architecture, creating flawless CI/CD pipelines; It was truly

Ship it: Six Months In

Ship it: Six Months In

I am a little more than six months into a year long challenge to deliver something new each month [https://www.matthensley.io/ship-it/]. Forcing myself to make something new every month is proving to be pretty challenging, but also fun. I went into this experiment with the expectation that

Monetize Your Side Project: Ways To Get Paid

Monetize Your Side Project: Ways To Get Paid

When you start building a side project, it is hard to resist daydreaming of one day gaining millions of users and, as a result, earning millions of dollars. Unfortunately, most developers don't know where to begin when thinking about charging for their app & some are even deterred

Ship It. Even If It Sucks.

Ship It. Even If It Sucks.

I love starting things. Right now I have 13 unpublished drafts for blog articles on various topics. I am the proud owner of thirty-nine domains. Six of them are in use. Ideas are great. I've got hundreds of them. Working products are better. Starting a new blog, app,