Matt Gemmell
Typer Of Words at Writer
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Gemmell is a novelist and full-time writer based in Edinburgh who brings 17 years of software engineering experience to his prose. A University of Glasgow computing science graduate, he transitioned from building practical developer tools—such as contributing core functionality and iPhone support to the widely used MGTwitterEngine Objective-C library—to publishing novels, magazine and newspaper articles, and maintaining a long-running blog. His technical background informs clear, disciplined writing and an eye for systems and detail that surfaces even in narrative work. That blend of engineering rigor and creative craft makes him adept at explaining complex ideas accessibly while producing polished long-form storytelling.
18 years of coding experience
The High School of GlasgowBSc, Computing Science, BSc, Computing Science at University of Glasgow
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
objective-c10
lib10
api-design10
twitter-api10
osdev9
macos9
ios9
user-experience6
cocoa6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mattgemmell/MGTwitterEngine
Aug 2008 - Oct 2008
Objective-C Twitter integration library for Mac OS X and iPhone. Official repository.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Matt primarily worked on the core functionality of the MGTwitterEngine library. Their contributions included fixing syntax issues, adding credential handling, implementing the correct "in reply to" parameter for tweets, correcting parameter types, and updating links to the Twitter API documentation. Furthermore, the user bumped the version number and updated the code to support iPhone deployment alongside Mac OS X.
iphonemacosobjective-ctwitter
mattgemmell/pandoc-publish
May 2025 - Apr 2026
Novel export configuration for pandoc (Markdown to ePub and PDF)
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 137 pushes in 11 months
epubmarkdownpandocpdfebook
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