mattjcowan

Software EngineerQuant HobbyistLover of LifeRooted in Christ, devoted to family, free by God's design
Currently: Building things I believe in.

Passion Projects

Personal projects I'm working on in my spare time.

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Swingsei

Personal Swing-Trading Platform

A personal platform for managing trades and portfolio positions, allocating capital, building and backtesting strategies, and generating trade signals.

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Teach Classical

Classical Christian Education Platform

A platform to help parents manage their childrens' K–12 education using the Classical Christian Education (CCE) system — home-school, hybrid, and in-person.

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SuperSimpleWeb

AI-Native Web Builder

An AI-native WYSIWYG web application builder targetting hobbyists and small businesses.

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Col 2:8

Biblical Studies Reference

Resources for Christians wanting to go deeper in the Word — inspired by Colossians 2:8 to not be deceived by empty philosophies and instead be firmly rooted in Christ.

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Recent Posts

Dev Log

Migrating content from Wordpress to Strapi

In this post I'll discuss the process of moving the content and the files from my wife's WordPress site to the Strapi system I setup in the previous post(/funcoding/2020/05/04/installing-strapi-on-ubu

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Installing strapi on Ubuntu 18.04 (with MySQL, Nginx, S3 file uploads and database backups)

In this post, I document my step by step install of strapi on an Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine, using MySQL, Nginx, Amazon S3 file uploads, S3 database backups, and touch-free au

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T4 with LLBLGen

In this post, we look at leveraging T4 templates to extend the power of LLBLGen inside of Visual Studio .NET. Writing T4 templates to auto-generate code is almost a norm at this point it seems, it's b

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Theming ServiceStack Razor Views

In this post, we look at adding theming capabilities to the ServiceStack Razor View engine. Source and live demo are included. This post is third in a series investigating ways to leverage ServiceStac

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RESTful Api and UI for Typed Views and Typed Lists with LLBLGen and ServiceStack

In this post, we extend the implementation described in the prior post to include generating an HTML UI and RESTful Api on top of LLBLGen Typed Views and Typed Lists, leveraging the ServiceStack web s

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Generating a fully RESTful Api and UI from a database with LLBLGen and ServiceStack (templates on Github and Demo)

In this post, we're going to explore building a generic RESTful api on top of a database with custom CRUD and query conventions, using the LLBLGen ORM and code generator, a ServiceStack service layer,

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