A portrait of the blog author
Pictured with the WITCH computer at the National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park.

I'm a self-taught software engineer based in West Sussex, UK.

Currently I work for ITV as a backend software engineer. Before that, I worked as a full-stack engineer at the BBC and as a frontend engineer at Arria NLG and in several web developer roles. Before software, I was a teacher.

I am licenced amateur radio operator. My callsign is M7SYO.

Some things I like:

  • 🐶Staffies and other bull-breeds
  • 🎼Classical music (Haydn, Mozart, JSB)
  • 🛸Science fiction
  • 🐦‍⬛Bird watching

Some things I'm interested in:

  • 🧑‍💻Self-hosting and digital resilience
  • 🖥️The history of computing and networks
  • ☸️Buddhism
  • 📡Amateur radio
  • 👽SETI