Matt Mohan

I’m Matt, a software engineer based just outside of Toronto, Canada. This blog is mostly an excuse to (re)build sites with different web tooling and compare their relative merits

Hello!

This site contains some technical articles, quick reference notes, and random musings. It's being rebuilt in several different technology stacks to experiment with emerging technologies. The current iteration is using SvelteKit's Static Site Generation combined with Cloudflare Pages.

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June 16, 2026 5 min read

The Lottery Ticket Metric: A Better Way to Measure Team Health

How a retrospective question about winning the lottery transformed subjective happiness tracking into a tangible, actionable indicator for burnout.

Tags:

#agile
#culture
#retrospective
#metrics

May 12, 2026 2 min read

My Coffee Setup

From espresso to pour-over, here's the gear I use to brew my perfect daily cup.

Tags:

#my_setup

May 12, 2026 1 min read

My Homelab Setup

Take a tour of my four-node Proxmox cluster and Docker Swarm setup for learning and self-hosting.

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#my_setup

May 6, 2026 3 min read

Local Development with 127.0.1.X and Wildcard SSL

Stop juggling ports! Use loopback addresses and wildcard SSL to mirror production locally.

Tags:

#networking
#linux
#ssl
#development

November 24, 2025 3 min read

Using Tailscale Services with Traefik and Docker Swarm

Distribute traffic across your homelab with ease using Tailscale Services and Traefik on Docker Swarm.

Tags:

#homelab
#docker_swarm
#traefik
#tailscale