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Matthew McClure

Matthew McClure

Co-Founder and VP of Developer Experience
Creator of Demuxed and wrangler of meetup speakers. Used to write a lot of React and Elixir code. Still do sometimes, but used to, too.
Written by Matthew:
A very classy looking anthropomorphic video tape recorder with tape coming out.
05/17/22May 17, 2022(11 months ago)
4 min read

We're getting Mux folks together for a soiree. Some might even call it a user conference.

Matthew McClure
by Matthew McClure
Company4 min read
We're doing the conference thing: The Mux Informational is coming to a screen near you for free on May 24. Here's why we're doing it, and why you should join.
An illustration of Steve Ballmer saying "developers, developersl, developers"
12/14/21December 14, 2021(over 1 year ago)
6 min read

Being a great developer product company is more than building products for developers

Steve Heffernan
Matthew McClure
Jon Dahl
Adam Brown
by Steve and 3 more
Company6 min read
Developer product companies, despite massive success in some cases, are still early, and the playbooks aren’t as developed.
A screenshot of a terminal using the CLI
08/13/20August 13, 2020(over 2 years ago)
2 min read

Hey look, a Mux CLI

Matthew McClure
by Matthew McClure
Engineering2 min read
We released an early version of a CLI that we've been using internally. It makes it easier to upload local assets, along with some signing utilities, and more. We'd love to hear what you think!
That's gonna be a (mostly) no
04/14/20April 14, 2020(almost 3 years ago)
10 min read

The state of going live from a browser

Matthew McClure
by Matthew McClure
Engineering10 min read
You can watch live TV, record yourself, video chat with peers, screenshare...of course you can broadcast live RTMP streams, right? Weeelll...No, but kinda sorta with some server-side help.
An interview with DatoCMS
02/03/20February 3, 2020(about 3 years ago)
4 min read

An interview with DatoCMS

Matthew McClure
Dylan Jhaveri
by Matthew and Dylan
Customers4 min read
See how DatoCMS uses Mux to power video for customers using their headless CMS product.
The New Video.js Themes
11/14/19November 14, 2019(over 3 years ago)
5 min read

The New Video.js Themes

Matthew McClure
by Matthew McClure
Video news5 min read
Explore four themes for Video.js, learn how to use them in your projects, and discover how you can build your own video.js themes.
Why we speak
09/24/19September 24, 2019(over 3 years ago)
3 min read

Why we speak

Matthew McClure
by Matthew McClure
Company3 min read
At Mux, we encourage everyone across all teams to participate in speaking opportunities. Read about why we feel so strongly about its value.
Canvas: Do cool stuff with video in the browser
07/25/19July 25, 2019(over 3 years ago)
7 min read

Canvas: Do cool stuff with video in the browser

Matthew McClure
by Matthew McClure
Video education7 min read
The `video` element is a thing of beauty except that beauty crumbles like dust through our fingers when you need to modify the content in any way.
Abstracting Our Redux Confirmation Modal Pattern
06/24/19June 24, 2019(almost 4 years ago)
3 min read

Abstracting Our Redux Confirmation Modal Pattern

Matthew McClure
by Matthew McClure
Engineering3 min read
Our Redux store was getting littered with confirmation-modal specific actions. Enter the first Redux Sagas pattern that felt like it was helping to simplify a difficult problem in our application.
Building your own video platform: Personal CMS using Airtable and ZEIT Now
04/16/19April 16, 2019(almost 4 years ago)
7 min read

Building your own video platform: Personal CMS using Airtable and ZEIT Now

Matthew McClure
by Matthew McClure
Video education7 min read
With ZEIT’s Now, we can easily build applications that interact with our Airtable database's API. We can wire them all together and build our own video CMS.
02/01/19February 1, 2019(about 4 years ago)
2 min read

Node & Elixir SDK Updates: Signed URL JWT Helpers and more!

Matthew McClure
by Matthew McClure
Product2 min read
We spend a lot of time thinking about how we can make our products easy and fun to work with. Our public API is something we hope people find intuitive and reasonable, but the last thing you want to d ...
Introducing Direct Uploads
12/17/18December 17, 2018(over 4 years ago)
2 min read

Introducing Direct Uploads

Matthew McClure
by Matthew McClure
Product2 min read
We’re thrilled to announce that getting your videos into Mux just got a little easier. 🙂 Starting today, you can now push content directly to Mux. 🎉 Up until now, if you wanted to create a new Mux a ...
Instant GIFs! For animated video thumbnails and...whatever
08/16/18August 16, 2018(over 4 years ago)
4 min read

Instant GIFs! For animated video thumbnails and...whatever

Matthew McClure
by Matthew McClure
Product4 min read
Our nifty new feature can instantly create a GIF from video. Just GET a URL and you can create a 5-10 second animated GIF from any part of a video.
08/14/18August 14, 2018(over 4 years ago)
18 min read

Per-title encoding @ Scale

Matthew McClure
by Matthew McClure
Video news18 min read
Updated 9/14/21: We hit pause on audience-adaptive and per-title encoding. Read the details on why in this post: Instant Per-Title Encoding. The venerable Nick Chadwick spoke at Facebook's Video @Sca ...
It's your data, build things with it: Announcing public beta access to our API
07/26/17July 26, 2017(over 5 years ago)
3 min read

It's your data, build things with it: Announcing public beta access to our API

Matthew McClure
by Matthew McClure
Product3 min read
We're proud to call ourselves a developer-focused company. We want developers to want to use our products and actually enjoy it when they do. When we build new features or tools, we want the person th ...
So we redid our charts... (Part II: Graphing, React-ing, and maybe a little crying)
06/30/17June 30, 2017(almost 6 years ago)
13 min read

So we redid our charts... (Part II: Graphing, React-ing, and maybe a little crying)

Matthew McClure
by Matthew McClure
Product13 min read
Part 2/2 in a series on how we revamped the charts in our video analytics product. We'll explore a few charting libraries and talk about how we picked ours.
01/20/17January 20, 2017(about 6 years ago)
3 min read

Announcing Alerting

Matthew McClure
by Matthew McClure
Product3 min read
One of the core beliefs we have at Mux is that everything we do should help customers improve their platform and viewer experience. We help them understand the overall health of their video delivery p ...