by James Matthews | Aug 21, 2025 | Blog
Single & Unemployed: The parallels We Love to Hate Let’s start with the obvious question: why on Earth would anyone write this article, and for the love of God, why should anyone read it? Well, if you happen to find yourself single and unemployed, you’ll...
by James Matthews | Oct 7, 2023 | Project
How I Taught a Plant to Email Me (and Water Itself) A humorous adventure: ESP8266 + ServiceNow + a very thirsty ficusGitHub Repository: https://github.com/JBMatthews/self-watering-system Introduction My plant was silently judging me. Instead of just watering it like a...
by James Matthews | Oct 7, 2023 | Blog
How Regular People Can Profit From Oil Predictions (Without Turning Into Gordon Gekko) Quick disclaimer: I’m not a financial advisor; this is not financial advice; markets are risky; you can lose money, faster than you can say “margin call.” Why I’m writing this There...
by James Matthews | Jun 9, 2022 | Project
How to Keep Your ServiceNow PDI From Flatlining Remember the heartbreak of losing a Personal Developer Instance (PDI) because you forgot to log in for a few days? Yeah, me too. It’s like ServiceNow saying, “you had one job.” So I built this: a tiny Bash script and a...
