About

My name is Matt Johnson. Right now, I'm a principal software engineer for Slate. Up until mid-2009, I was lead developer for the New York Observer. I've been programming since I was 12...it's kind of my thing. I spend most of my programming time these days with Drupal and PHP, but I dabble in Django and Python a bit too.

I spent a lot of time as an undergrad at Wesleyan University doing research in astronomy, which I majored in. In the recent past I wrote a big hunk of data processing software called ELSA that I still on-again off-again maintain. If you're really hurting for something to do, here's my undergrad thesis.

If you found any of that relevant, you might also be interested in my resume or my academic CV.

I live in the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. I'm actually a Brooklyn native, but my family moved to Portland, Maine when I was 2, so I mostly grew up there.

This blog is pretty much about an assortment of random things I think about, including but not limited to: biking, programming, science, transportation and urban planning, the Internet and media, Judaism, and life in New York.

Broad Latitude is actually a lyric from a Soul Coughing song, but I suppose it's also an oblique reference to the fact that I blog about whatever, whenever I feel like it.

The site runs on Drupal and is hosted by Voxel. The theme is a modified version of Zen Classic.

Yes, I do Drupal and general web development for hire. If you're interested in discussing a project, let me know.