Matthew McVickar
Hi! I’m a web engineer and music fiend living in Portland, Oregon. I love music, petting dogs, cycling, and reading sci-fi.
Lately I’m…
- 📻 Hosting Some Wonderful Noise, a radio show on Freeform Portland every other Friday from 4–6pm PT.
- 🤟 Learning American Sign Language.
- 🇯🇵 Brushing up on Japanese.
- 🧑🏻💻 Working as a full-stack engineer at CalMatters.
last updated 2026-03-18
Highlights
- 📻 Some Wonderful Noise, my radio show on Freeform Portland.
- 💬 @soundcloudsaid, a bot that posts random SoundCloud comments.
- 📖 @obliquestions, a bot that posts questions without context.
- 🐜 Clones of the Queen, old synth-rock trio. We opened for The Cure!
- 🎹 Solo ambient/electronic music under my own name.
- 🍃 Welwing, older solo music.
Elsewhere
Other Things I’ve Done
- 🎸 I made ‘Steve Miller Band’s ‘The Joker’ but the Wolf Whistle Happens After Every Line’ which is just what it sounds like. It got a lot of likes on Twitter, writeups on blogs, and appeared on a morning TV show.
- ⚽️ For the World Cup in 2022 I made Zero-goal Match Checker which allows you to check games that have finished to see if they ended in a 0–0 score.
- 🍩 From 2018 to 2020 I ran Donut.js, a beloved tech meetup in Portland, OR.
- 🎶 I’ve tracked my favorite sounds, albums, and songs of the year: 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, and 2011.
- 📝 TaskPaper Month Generator, a calendar generator for TaskPaper.
- 📑 TaskPaper Tiles, an organizational system for TaskPaper.
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2 4 ? 10and get5. - 📷 Cameramail: In 2006 I send a disposable camera through the mail and it got some attention and interviews on blogs.