My blog covers technical topics, but I promise I’m a well-rounded human with varied interests. I really like cooking. I’m married, with two young children and a cat. Lived in London until just a few years ago, now I live in Winchester and come to London from time to time.

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

	IRCCloud – an in-browser IRC bouncer/client and mobile app. Backend in Erlang. SaaS. I'm taking a backseat at the moment, but remains in excellent hands: James, Russ & Sam.
C1M	In 2008-2009 I wrote about building a 1 million user "comet" (ie http streaming, pre-websockets) system, in Erlang. Although a fairly niche topic, I enjoyed hearing how it inspired people to learn Erlang for years afterwards.
	Music and media should be accessed by means of content resolution: matching metadata to local or remote sources. Embodied by Playdar. I built working implementations in both Erlang and C++.
	The Social Music Revolution ✊🏼 Billions of data-points about what people are listening to in realtime. Recommendations, personalised radio, stats galore. Great fun, great team. Audioscrobbler, upon which Last.fm was built, started life as my university dissertation.
/etc	IRCCat remains useful to this day. libketama (consistent hashing lib) is probably still in production in various places. I do a fair bit of poking Home Assistant. I've done some talks and presentations, but mostly back before talk videos were routinely made and uploaded. Also I guess, a whole bunch of temporary or nasty hacks. Here's a more recent one that fixes a DNS resolution bug in Doorbird.