git-vanity-sha
Vanity hex prefixes for Git commit SHAs.
About
Matt Baker is a software engineer in Portland, OR. He is a Principal Software Engineer at Panthalassa, where he has worked since February 2025, and previously worked at New Relic. From 2010 to 2013 he was a Senior Software Engineer at Wealthfront, working full stack and leading the web stack team. He has published open source tools such as ruby-heap-viz and git-vanity-sha.
Currently
Principal Software Engineer at Panthalassa
Available for
Selected work
ruby-heap-viz
An interactive Ruby object graph visualization.
Reactive.js
A library for programming reactively in JavaScript.
Cares about
Functional programmingDeveloper toolsOpen sourceWeb developmentRuby
Writing
Functional CSS (FCSS)
Applies functional programming ideas like immutability and composition to CSS, building styles from small, focused pieces.
jQuery.Deferred is the most important client-side tool you have
Introduces the Deferred pattern in jQuery as a simple, powerful way to manage asynchronous processes.
Arrhythmia.js, a new take on rhythm validation
Introduces Arrhythmia.js, a tool for validating the vertical rhythm of your page.
Work Background