About
The man
Born thirty years ago I’m Matt Riggott, an Englishman in exile in Reykjavík, Iceland. I’ve been there since May 2010 after moving from Scotland, the place I’d called home for over seven years. I live in Reykjavík with my lovely lady, Alison. Some interesting things I’ve done are:
- As a wee man I lived in Kuwait.
- A couple of years ago I ran the marathon here in Reykjavík.
- I learned Spanish for years, to the point I could describe myself as utterly mediocre at the language.
- I lived in St Louis, Missouri for a couple of months.
- I wandered around South America and Patagonia for a little while.
- Bizarrely, I was the cover model for the 2007 Edinburgh International Film Festival.
The site
Made on a Mac using Textmate and Pixelmator, Flother runs on lovingly hand-crafted Python code built using the Django web framework. This is version 3.1.2 beta. The code is available on Github. The site is hosted on Slicehost, and I thoroughly recommend them.
The icons that appear in the ‘Elsewhere’ section of the footer are based on Glyphish, and are available under a Creative Commons licence. The Twitter icon found on the contact page was drawn by Function.
I regularly add new functionality to the site — and to prove it, you can see how many commits I've made to the Git repository over the last year:
Find me elsewhere
- Ripped Records Find out first about upcoming gigs in Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland
- North Atlantic Radio A podcast I present, along with Brian Suda, that’s mostly about the web
- MPs’ expenses Facts and figures from the 2009 MPs’ expenses affair
- Using Google App Engine as a CDN An article from the 2008 edition of 24ways
- Enhance usability by highlighting search terms My appearance on A List Apart in 2004