Bradley Matera

I build real working systems with AI support, AWS knowledge, and repetition. I’m not a theory-heavy engineer. I learn through debugging, deployments, and shipping things people can actually click on.

Davis, Illinois Joined on Nov 14, 2025 https://bradleymatera.dev/

Education

B.S. Web Development — Full Sail University

Pronouns

man

Work

Web development for small projects and demos

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Bradley Matera

Nov 20 '25

Job hunting is poopie

#hiring #career #whoishiring #leadership

6 min read

Bradley Matera

Nov 14 '25

How to Launch AWS Stacks for Free — And What Happens When the Free Tier Ends

#aws #cloud

4 min read

Bradley Matera

Nov 14 '25

How I Actually Build Full End To End Projects Using AI

#webdev #javascript #productivity #career

9 min read

Bradley Matera

Nov 14 '25

The Day My Gatsby Nav Bar Made Me Question Reality

#gatsby #css #tailwindcss #webdev

4 min read

Bradley Matera

Nov 14 '25

The Day a Service Worker Held My Entire Site Hostage

#webdev #devops #devbugsmash #cloud

4 min read

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Bradley Matera

May 10

The Developer Pay Paradox: Are Junior Devs, Staff Engineers and Most Developers Over- or Under-paid?

#career #careerdevelopment #ai #development

30 min read

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Bradley Matera

Apr 29

Why I’m Cautious About AI Gateways After My Bifrost Collaboration

#ai #security #mcp #programming

7 min read

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Bradley Matera

Apr 29

Research: Bifrost (Maxim AI / H3 Labs Inc.) – Why Its “Governance” Architecture Is a Single Point of Failure for Solo American Web Devs

#ai #security #apigateway #mcp

3 min read

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Bradley Matera

Apr 29

Protect Your API Keys: Evaluating AI Tools Like Bifrost and Caveman

#ai #opensource #mcp #security

9 min read

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Bradley Matera

Apr 29

Research: Why Bifrost (Maxim AI / H3 Labs Inc.) Fits the Exact Pattern of API Key Harvesting Services Targeting American Indie Devs

#ai #mcp #opensource #devtools

3 min read

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Bradley Matera

Apr 29

Warning: Bifrost from Maxim AI Is a Real API Key Harvesting Service Targeting American Web Devs (My Exact Experience)

#ai #security #apigateway #mcp

3 min read

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Bradley Matera

Apr 29

AI Policy Is Becoming the New Entry-Level Gatekeeping

#career #careerdevelopment #hiring #leadership

6 min read

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Bradley Matera

Apr 29

Review the Logic, Not Whether the Junior Used AI

#ai #sql #hiring #career

5 min read

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Bradley Matera

Apr 29

Stop Hiring One Junior to Be the Whole Engineering Department

#productivity #career #careerdevelopment #hiring

5 min read

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Bradley Matera

Apr 29

Senior Engineers Complaining About Juniors Are Missing the Point

#ai #hiring #career #mentorship

5 min read

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Bradley Matera

Apr 29

Entry-Level Job Descriptions Are Becoming Broken Product Specs

#javascript #ai #hiring #career

7 min read

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Bradley Matera

Apr 29

AI Did Not Make Junior Developers Risky. Unreviewed Work Did.

#security #auth #ai #review

5 min read

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Bradley Matera

Apr 29

Companies Say There Are No Good Juniors. They Mean They Stopped Training Them"

#javascript #hiring #bestofdev #career

7 min read

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Bradley Matera

Apr 28

The Orphaned ID Bug from My First Job (And What It Taught Me About Being a Junior Dev)

#jquery #php #ajax #webdev

8 min read

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Bradley Matera

Jan 29

Testing That I Actually Run: A Small Pyramid

#testing #devops #webdev #programming

5 min read

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Bradley Matera

Jan 29

AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud: The Ultimate Free Tier Battle & Survival Guide

#aws #cloud #azure #googlecloud

5 min read

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Bradley Matera

Dec 13 '25

Designing Systems That Actually Ship

#frontend #a11y #css #ui

8 min read

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Bradley Matera

Dec 7 '25

Full Sail University: How Formal Training Shaped My Approach

#career #careerdevelopment

5 min read

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Bradley Matera

Nov 20 '25

How to Sell Your Skills with a Small Project

#portfolio #tutorial #beginners #career

3 min read

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Bradley Matera

Nov 14 '25

My Real AI Development Setup

#webdev #ai #javascript #productivity

4 min read

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Bradley Matera

Nov 14 '25

The Day I Learned How Confusing GitHub Pages Deployments Can Get

#webdev #devops #github #githubactions

3 min read

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Bradley Matera

Nov 14 '25

Why I Rebuilt My WebGPU Triangle Demo From Scratch

#webgpu #webdev #learning #webgl

2 min read

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Bradley Matera

Nov 14 '25

Making My Triangle WebGPU Demo Match What It Actually Is

#learning #webdev #nextjs #webgpu

3 min read

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Bradley Matera

Nov 14 '25

What I Learned Building Three Simple Projects: AnimalSounds, CheeseMath, and a Node.js Secrets Tutorial

#webdev #javascript #testing #security

2 min read

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