I'm a software developer living in Moshi, Tanzania, on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. (How I got here is a wonderful story about a girl! My wife Valerie directs Amani Children's Home.)

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Would you be interested in taking a month-ish long trip to East Africa and programming with me for Amani? So far two guys, Jared and Xavier, have made the trip, and we've had a blast!

Drop me a line at matthew.todd@gmail.com or @matthewtodd.

• HeadsUp, a simpler GeekTool
• shoe, kind of like hoe and jeweler
• captain, a custom Ubuntu installation CD builder
• hideabed, a bare-bones clone of CouchDB in Rails, for those times when you can't use Erlang
• Swahili translations for Rails
• doh, just a little bit silly

• GitHub
• Twitter
• Working with Rails
• Dopplr
• DailyMile