About

Matthew Howell is an American web generalist and–sometimes–other kind of person. He lives in beautiful Auckland, New Zealand and works on the beautiful World Wide Web.

Hello 👋 from Delaware Philadelphia Manhattan Queens Bangkok Minnesota Philadelphia (again) New Jersey —checks notes—Auckland, New Zealand.

My name is Matthew and you are reading the /about page of my personal website, on the beautiful, miraculous, indefatigable World Wide Web.

About Matthew

Since 2005 or so, it has been my great professional privilege to work on and around the Web. That work has shaped my career, as well as my worldview: I am a true believer in the Web and everything that it could be.

I am web generalist: a developer and designer primarily interested in the Web and its core technologies.

I am here, trying my best, to make nice websites for everyone.

Today, I do that work at Reasonable Company, my small, values-led design and creative practice.

More About Matthew

Like most humans, I'm interested in a diverse heap of things outside of my work. Some favorites includes: tea, coffee, trees, public libraries, public transportation, cameras, walking, gardens, parks, baking bread, language, reading, writing, physical books, design, illustration, open-source software, small video games, weird video games, old video games, and pizza.

I also keep a public reading log, which might be of note.

Photograph

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A man, wearing a blue vest and a blue hat, holding a camera, standing in front of small trees and plants, taking a photograph of his own reflection in a glass door. A man, wearing a blue shirt and a brown hat, holding a camera, standing on the deck of a ship, the ocean behind him, taking a photograph of his own reflection in a window.

Contact

For questions, proposals, and hellos, send an email to [email protected].

I'm pretty well out on for-profit social media, but I'm quite happily on Mastodon and you're warmly invited to walk over there and say hello. It's nice.

And for now, subject to change, I'm also on Bluesky. Let's all hope it can eventually decentralize itself in a meaningful way. 🤷

Feedback

👍 Feedback is okay. Especially accessibility feedback.

This website is meant to be accessible to everyone. If something is broken or causing a problem, it's almost certainly a mistake. I will always appreciate someone taking the time to make me aware of my mistakes.

About this website

This is a static website (a collection of HTML and CSS files), generated by Eleventy, hosted by Netlify. Read more at /colophon.

Why

And why does this website exist? You can read its official stated purpose, but a simple answer is that making websites is fun. So, why not make websites? The Web is for everyone, even for me and even for you.