Matthew Pritchett

Writing

Notes on software, nonprofits and running a small business.

Written from 19 years of building software, mostly for people who have to make technology decisions without a technology team.

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Nov 21 2023
Building a business

Transactional Email: You’re Leaving Money On The Table

The talk I gave at WordCamp Atlanta, written down: why the receipts, resets and notifications nobody looks at are the most valuable email your business sends.

Oct 12 2023
Personal

CaboPress 2023

Why the best conference I go to has no stage, no slides and no schedule to speak of — and what that does to the conversations.

Oct 12 2022
Personal

Finding Your People

I went to a great conference in 2016 and wasted most of it. Here is what I did differently the second time, and what changed after.

Oct 6 2020
Software development

Setting up Jest with Laravel 8.x, Jetstream, and Inertia

A working Jest configuration for a Laravel, Jetstream and Inertia stack — the pieces that fought me, and the config that finally ran green.

May 11 2020
Nonprofit software

Where To Host Your Church’s Podcast

You know the message. Let's sort out the plumbing: what a church actually needs from a podcast host, and what it can safely ignore.

Apr 20 2020
Nonprofit software

Easily Build a Fundraising Website in 6 Steps

Hosted platforms take a cut and hold the data. If you build your own fundraising site on WordPress, you keep both.

Feb 24 2020
Nonprofit software

How To Find The Right Fundraising Plugin

Every donation plugin claims the same things. Here is the shortlist of questions that separate them.

Feb 18 2020
Nonprofit software

How Do I Start a Church Podcast?

Equipment, hosting, workflow — the whole path from "we should record this" to a published first episode.

Feb 3 2020
Personal

2019 in Review

A year of transition: Florida to Tennessee, a first house, and the root growth that came with it.

Jan 27 2020
Personal

2020 Goals

What I want out of the next twelve months, for my family and for the business.

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I take on a small number of projects each year — mostly enterprise applications and systems for nonprofits who need them to last.

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