Matt Abrams

Developer advocate. Open-source maintainer. Community builder.

I help developers build better products — through advocacy, tooling, and community. Three companies, one thread: make the developer experience less painful. Currently also building DING — a streaming alert engine for ephemeral compute.

By the numbers

1 million
npm downloads / week
remove-markdown · since 2015
408★
github stars
across 6 oss projects
10y
shipping product
dev advocacy · community

Open source

remove-markdown

Strip Markdown from text. The little npm package that quietly powers a lot of pipelines.

1m+/wk·371★·js
ding

Streaming alert engine that ships with your workload, not next to it.

go·apache-2.0·site
obsidian-readability

Score Obsidian docs with the Flesch Reading Ease formula. Plugin-store published.

22★·ts·mit
pegs

Peg solitaire — written in C by my father in 1991. Plays in browser via js-dos.

c·1991·▸ play
About PEGS: the original MS-DOS binary, untouched, running in your browser via js-dos. A 1991 family heirloom rendered as a 2026 web page.

Recent writing

2026-05-06 The site is the message essay