Matt Hamilton

Matt Hamilton @hammertoe

About: Independent Developer Prev: GovTech Barbados, @ASIMOV_Protocol, @arbitrum, @protocollabs, @bittensor_, @Ripple, @IBMDeveloper. Interested in cryptocurrencies / blockchain / AI/ML.

Location:
Barbados
Joined:
May 14, 2020

Matt Hamilton
articles - 41 total

Why Semantic Search Matters... especially in Barbados!

How Semantic Search Finds Products That Keywords Miss I've been building this product...

Learn More 5 0Dec 2 '25

Making Services Discoverable with ERC-8004: Trustless Agent Registration with Filecoin Pin

Making Services Discoverable with ERC-8004: Trustless Agent Registration with Filecoin Pin I've been...

Learn More 1 1Nov 4 '25

Building "Yuh Hear Dem": A Parliamentary AI with Google's ADK and a Lesson in Agentic Design

Democracy thrives on transparency, but the raw data of governance—hours of parliamentary video, dense...

Learn More 0 0Jun 19 '25

Lift as You Climb

It was Sunday the 7th of June 2020. The first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic had hit and everywhere...

Learn More 7 0Jul 26 '22

XRPL Grants Wave 3 Theme: Contributing to Open Source

Applications for Wave 3 are now open! The official theme for this wave is “Contributing to...

Learn More 12 0Mar 4 '22

Debunking the Myths — What Is XRPL

Facts & Fiction: Debunking XRP Ledger Misconceptions As someone who’s been deeply...

Learn More 10 0Sep 16 '21

A Vision for Federated Sidechains on the XRP Ledger

Today, RippleX is rolling out a community page on DEV aimed at engaging the growing XRP Ledger Commun...

Learn More 42 24Jun 7 '21

My Setup for Streaming Livecoding

This is a video showcasing the setup I have for streaming live-coding sessions. A 1080p version of...

Learn More 27 0Dec 18 '20

Issuing Assets on the XRP Ledger for Ethereum Developers

For many people, when they think of issuing tokens on a cryptocurrency blockchain, or representing a...

Learn More 14 4Dec 8 '20

Why I Stream Live Coding on Twitch

I was recently asked to present a talk at the IBM Technical Consulting Group (aka the Totally Cool Ge...

Learn More 18 4Nov 17 '20

What Role do You see Developer Advocacy having in Developer Happiness?

A colleague of mine, Naiyarah, just pointed me towards a report was just published about the happines...

Learn More 6 1Nov 11 '20

Exploring Bias in Crime Data

I was joined this week by my colleague Margriet Groenendijk to look through some crime data to do a b...

Learn More 5 1Oct 23 '20

Intro to Machine Learning - The Titanic Dataset

https://cinnamon.video/watch?v=428675699415450900 This is a live coding session on Twitch in which w...

Learn More 28 1Oct 22 '20

Monetizing Code Test Coverage - PayID BlockSprint Hackathon Submission

One of the hardest things in Open Source software is encouraging testing and documentation. So I've...

Learn More 2 0Oct 10 '20

Intro to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)

A 1080p version of this video is available on Cinnamon In this workshop we will be learning what a G...

Learn More 8 1Sep 25 '20

New, More Robust Sync Algorithm for Choirless

One of the main features of Choirless, is that is automatically synchronizes uploaded parts. That is...

Learn More 5 0Sep 20 '20

Automatically Paying Code Contributors with XRP - DEV: Github Actions Hackathon

A 1080p version of this video is available on Cinnamon This is the recording of a live coding sessio...

Learn More 7 0Sep 18 '20

Lord of the Pythons!!

My Workflow So, you like Lord of the Rings, right? Every developer likes LotR, right? Don'...

Learn More 1 0Sep 18 '20

Automatically Pay Contributors in XRP via PayId

My Workflow payid_xrp_action is an action that allows a repo owner to set up automatic pay...

Learn More 5 0Sep 18 '20

Using Machine Learning to Catalog Modular Synthesizers - Part I

A 1080p version of the video is available on Cinnamon This is a video taken from my weekly show "ML...

Learn More 7 0Sep 16 '20

Using Machine Learning to Catalog Modular Synthesizers - Idea

TL;DR: Join me tomorrow at 1pm UK time on Twitch to start building a cool app to recognise modular sy...

Learn More 5 0Sep 14 '20

Using Duplicity to Back up to IBM Cloud Object Storage

I run a small personal mail server. It is an OpenBSD server running on a VM. It is a small thing with...

Learn More 1 0Aug 21 '20

Further Scaling the Choirless Render Pipeline

I have previously done a bit of investigation into scaling the Choirless rendering backend:...

Learn More 4 0Aug 9 '20

Stress Testing Choirless Render Pipeline

I've been working on a Call for Code project, called Choirless. I've written a number of posts on her...

Learn More 8 0Jul 25 '20

Processing File Uploads with IBM Cloud Functions

I've been doing a lot with IBM Cloud Functions recently. So far I've always been passing up simple qu...

Learn More 2 1Jul 18 '20

TQDM: Adding a Progress Bar to smiler

This week on my twitch live stream, I extended my tool/library smiler to use use a neural network to...

Learn More 4 0Jul 18 '20

Using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to Detect Smiling Faces

What is a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)? How can they be used to detect features in images? This...

Learn More 12 1Jul 17 '20

Writing an Algorithmic Trading Bot

So, this is an idea I've had for a while... doing a video and blog series on writing algorithmic trad...

Learn More 60 1Jul 12 '20

Smile Detector - using OpenCV to detect smiling faces in a video

Have you every tried to take a snapshot of a video and yet you get an image where everyone is looking...

Learn More 13 0Jul 8 '20

Using IBM Cloud Functions for Github Hooks

So you want to get Github to "do something" on a commit? Well, serverless technologies like IBM Cloud...

Learn More 6 0Jul 6 '20