matthurley.dev
I design, build, and maintain practical systems for schools, hardware makers, and small teams — under real constraints, with privacy built in from the first line, not bolted on before launch.
New Project
A free, original, Australian-inspired tactical multiplayer FPS built on Unreal Engine 5.8 and the Lyra Starter Game — slow, deliberate, team-first shooting where every rank is earned.
What I Do
Every engagement starts from the same question: what does this system actually need to survive contact with real users and real constraints?
Full-stack builds from spec to shipped software — web, desktop, and mobile — with architecture decisions documented as you go, not reverse-engineered later.
Field-driven maintenance and hardening for software already in production, where the next release is judged by what it fixes, not what it demos.
Governance-aware systems with explicit access boundaries and audit trails, built for environments — schools, small operators — where trust is the product.
Desktop applications that talk to real hardware and telemetry honestly — a missing sensor reads as unavailable, never faked as zero.
Selected Work
A school platform trusted with real student wellbeing data, a hardware utility with an active community, and a client-facing desktop product built to tell the truth about what it measures.
01 / Client Delivery
Student Tracking and Recording System
A pastoral care platform built for school operations with role-based access, automated workflows, and complete audit visibility — replacing disconnected spreadsheets with one governed source of truth.
"STARS has made our processes significantly more streamlined and the immediacy of information for pastoral leaders has been exceptional."
Mr N, Pastoral Leader
Field-driven releases — 80 and counting, the latest v4.4.1 among them — carrying a full automation rules engine, a Windows CLI, and safety fixes traced to real field reports.
03 / Client Product
Local-first Windows telemetry and maintenance companion
A premium desktop companion built for a real PC-building business — live thermal telemetry, maintenance tools, and a hard rule: a missing sensor is reported as missing, never fabricated as zero.
From GitHub
Star counts and languages are pulled from the GitHub API at build time — so what you see here is what the repositories actually hold today.
OmenCore is an Advanced Performance Control for HP Omen Laptops Take full control of your gaming laptop with precision fan tuning, RGB management, hardware monitoring, and performance optimization.
Automatically shrink your Plex library — find smaller, better-compressed releases on Usenet and replace bloated files overnight
A Windows 11 optimization script for Gamers on non-touch devices that want the best performance from their systems for gaming and other general tasks
Auto-launch GTA V Enhanced through Rockstar Games Launcher when added as a Steam non-Steam game (Big Picture / Steam Link friendly, no clicking required)
A modernized, actively-improved fork of xteve (M3U/EPG proxy for Plex DVR & Emby Live TV), started from xteve-project/xteve
How I Work
01
Requirements are the easy part. Governance, staffing reality, and who actually has to operate this at 4pm on a Friday matter more than the feature list.
02
Narrow, frequent releases beat big rare ones. Every change should be small enough that you — or I — can actually explain why it works.
03
Software is judged on release two through twenty, not release one. Reliability, honest telemetry, and support are part of the build, not an afterthought.
About
I split my time between senior leadership at a school in South East Queensland and building the software that leadership actually needs. That dual seat — user and builder — is why the systems here are designed around real operational pressure instead of a clean-room spec.
