Your statics do not interpolate and never will
Turn separately drawn static weights into one variable font: why interpolation fails, how to fix incompatible glyphs, and the free CLI that does the merge.
Matthew Blode
Blode is Matthew Blode’s site: Melbourne AI product leader at Linktree, two startup exits (Fingertip, VenueSafe), Forbes 30 Under 30, and the tools he ships.
Latest posts
Ship fast or die
You do not win by being right, you win by finding out faster. On team shape, AI feedback loops, and shipping at 80 percent.
Your career compounds
Why the biggest career advantages come from stacking high-learning environments, not individual wins. The decisions behind VenueSafe, Fingertip, and Linktree.
You don't have to make AI slop
What AI slop is and how to avoid it: better fonts, better icons, stolen taste, and relentless editing on your vibe-coded UIs.
Seventy people in a group chat
How VCMC grew from 3 people in a WhatsApp group to 70+ members, and the product thinking behind it: no algorithms, no feeds, just builders talking.
Skills are the new packages
Claude Code skills and plugins are markdown files you install like npm packages: small, focused, composable units of capability, and the ecosystem is forming.
You can sense carelessness
AI raises the floor but flattens the result. Users sense carelessness before they can name it, so taste and editing still decide quality.