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name
Matt Ruggio
role
Software engineer
languages
Ruby, Go, JavaScript, C#
experience
24+ years across developer tools, payroll, print, and medical software

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  • NBA Live 2005 in 2026

    ~9 min read

    Getting a 2004 basketball game running on Windows 11: a security fix that broke copy protection, a controller that was never missing, a flicker that took five wrong guesses, and a graphics stack built for Linux.

    games retro-computing debugging

  • How to Draw Software Cartoons

    ~8 min read

    A start-to-finish playbook for drawing a software diagram: pick the audience, narrow it to one message, choose a notation, label everything, and write the catalog underneath.

    architecture documentation diagrams

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projects

  • RetroLive: 2004-05 NBA Manager Sim

    RetroLive

    A multiplayer, retro-styled NBA manager sim. Like Oregon Trail for basketball fans.

    ruby rails simulation multiplayer