All About Me

My name is Meredith, and I’m a freelance web developer in Buffalo, NY. For the past five years, I’ve been coding websites. I mean, I could say I’ve been making websites since I was 17, which is true, but it’s a little disingenuous to say I’ve been doing this for 13 years. I’m sticking with five.

When I’m not coding, I’m working in audio. I podcast, I compose, I do sound design, and I’m available for audio editing and podcast consultation. Check the Audio page to see what I can do for your, and your customers, ears.

I have other hobbies too: I like to cook and bake bread, I collect fountain pens, I’m totally into traditional hookah smoking, and I sometimes make jewelry.

If you want to get in touch with me, you can email me, follow me on Twitter, catch up with me on Facebook, check out my linkedin profile, or hit the contact page.

So, what’s the deal with the name Braindouche Development?

In 2005, my partner Dani and I decided to take a vacation, a week-long road trip, to see what we could see. We were inspired by the book The Bad Girl’s Guide to the Open Road(amazon), and a line from the book says “A roadtrip is the ultimate brain douche.” We liked that, and we were big nerds, so we went and grabbed the domain braindouche.net so we could build a travelogue.

And it went precisely nowhere, but we built it nonetheless, and had the domain.

At the beginning of 2007, I started podcasting. After fussing around with trying to find services with which I could podcast, I realized I could just build the site myself. We had that extra domain sitting around not doing anything, and thus, the podcast Braindouche! was born.

Since then I’ve started my own company, released products and done all sorts of stuff, but that online identity as Braindouche, as the producer of the podcast, is what really stuck. More people know me as Braindouche the podcaster than know me by my real name, probably ever, mostly thanks to Twitter. Why fight it? I am Meredith Matthews, aka Braindouche, and I develop websites.