About Me

Matthew Dickson

I build automation that verifies things at a scale people can't check by hand. Most recently that meant helping audit 13,000+ article URLs across five publications after a Drupal-to-Arc XP migration β€” as part of that effort I built tooling that found the pages that returned 200 with an empty body, the images whose src didn't survive, and the URL slugs that quietly 500'd on an unencoded ampersand.

I work in Node.js, React, Python, and Playwright, with a B.S. in Information Technology and an AWS Certified Developer β€“ Associate credential. Before software I was a lead technician at a $5 million pharmacy, which is where I learned that a checklist only counts if something actually runs it.

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My Projects

site-migration-auditor

Post-migration URL verification: reads a CSV of expected URLs, runs a fixed set of checks against every page, and writes a severity-ranked defect report a content team can filter in Excel. Zero-dependency CLI, a Playwright regression suite, CI that proves the checks fire against a deliberately broken fixture site, scheduled AWS Lambda packaging, and a live React report viewer.

vcamp-launcher

A single-file Windows desktop launcher styled like a 90s skinned media player β€” the same aesthetic you are looking at right now. Scans a folder, reads the READMEs it finds, and makes a button for every program it can run. 2,300 lines of Python, standard library only, on purpose.

web-scraping-toolkit

Standalone Python scrapers and data-cleaning scripts, each written for a real job: college athletics data, PDF and OCR extraction, publisher logo discovery, spreadsheet enrichment.

mini-projects

Wordle in the terminal, Conway's Game of Life on a canvas, and a Diceware passphrase generator. No packages, no build step β€” each one still runs in five years with whatever Node is current then.

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