Publishing on the IndieWeb Level 2
1. Mark up your content with microformats2
Humans can already understand the things you post on your site. By adding a few short class names to your HTML, other people’s software can understand it and use it for things like reply contexts, cross-site comments, event RSVPs, and more.
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Matt Lee
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I'm "Dr." Matt Lee but you may just know me as mattl. I'm not a real doctor, just a real worm. I've been working on this site on-and-off since 1993. There's not much to see here these days, but I have had a blog on-and-off for over twenty years too. I've been working professionally with software and the web since 1998, initially writing Visual Basic 3.0 applications before switching to making websites and applications. Since the 1990s, I've been using and writing open source software (sometimes called free software) often as part of my job and have a lot of experience with Linux and software licensing. I grew up in England, but moved to the US about twenty years ago to work on open source related things. As part of my move, I made a short film about free software/open source starring Stephen Fry. It's called Happy Birthday to GNU and you can watch it on my YouTube channel amongst other places. After making that, I worked at the Free Software Foundation for a number of years, before leaving in 2012. In 2009, I co-founded Libre.fm, a music community site. These days I'm mostly keeping the lights on but it has over 380,000 users and a rich history with over 320 million songs listened to by users of the site. It's entirely open source. In 2010, I co-founded the GNU social project. You may have heard of Mastodon, the Fediverse or the social web. Those are basically later iterations on what GNU social was. From 2014-2016, I was the Technical Lead at Creative Commons, where I worked on CCID, The List, infrastructure and more. In 2015, I went on a speaking tour across the UK and co-wrote and directed a feature length live action movie, edited using only open source software. I think it's the first of its kind. It's called Orang-U: An Ape Goes To College. It was released in 2017. In 2018 I worked on the W3C's wpt.fyi as part of the Google Chrome team under contract. From 2018-2024 I worked doing a mixture of system administration, IT, security and working on PCI auditing for a small business in Boston, before switching in 2024 to a new role focused on accessibility after the company merged with a private equity company. Sadly this didn't last long and the company suffered a number of layoffs in early 2025, myself included. In 2024, I wrote this page. In 2025, we started production on the four Orang-U sequels. Around the same time, Libre.fm was no longer accepting new sign ups and I started working on 1800www.com. Right now, I'm looking for a job.
Nickname
- mattl
Email address
- mailto:mattl@hey.com
Unique identifier
- https://mat.tl
City/town/village
- Boston, MA