Matt Feret ยท StoriesSide projects, and the bugs, fixes and design decisions behind them.https://mferet.com/projects.html2026-10-31T12:00:00ZMatthew FeretHow a forecast becomes a songhttps://mferet.com/stories/forecast-to-song.html2026-10-31T12:00:00Z2026-10-31T12:00:00ZHow WeatherTunes maps an hourly forecast onto scale, key, tempo and instruments, and keeps it all in tune.The song my phone couldn't playhttps://mferet.com/stories/phone-crackle.html2026-10-27T12:00:00Z2026-10-27T12:00:00ZWeatherTunes crackled on my phone. Two fixes went after symptoms; the third stopped running the synths live at all.Touchdown flashes vs. the Zigbee meshhttps://mferet.com/stories/touchdown-flashes.html2026-10-23T12:00:00Z2026-10-23T12:00:00ZCelebrating an Eagles touchdown on twelve Zigbee bulbs without flooding the mesh: hold the color, move only the brightness.The projector you must not unplughttps://mferet.com/stories/projector-interlock.html2026-10-23T12:00:00Z2026-10-31T12:00:00ZWhy my projector now goes to sleep instead of losing power, and the guard that catches it waking up alone.My slowest trip up the stairs took 18.76 secondshttps://mferet.com/stories/slow-stairs.html2026-10-23T12:00:00Z2026-10-23T12:00:00ZTuning which-way-are-you-going lighting on the basement stairs against real sensor history.A missing notification reads as "all good"https://mferet.com/stories/missing-notification.html2026-10-23T12:00:00Z2026-10-23T12:00:00ZSEPTA's API quirks, planning a two-line trip, and the rule that silence is never the answer.