I write software and I write about writing software. The two activities feed each other. A bug in a test suite becomes a note about evaluation. A confusing tool becomes a tutorial for the next person who has to open it.
What I write about
My notes travel through software development, competitive coding, machine learning, cybersecurity, and information security awareness. Those are broad rooms, but they share a common question: how do you know that something works, and how do you explain why?
Devstation
I founded Devstation, which operates as a not for profit, and I serve as its lead maintainer. Devstation exists to make open source adoption easier for startups and growing organisations. The work is about making the first step into open source less mysterious, and about helping teams see the long term value of tools they can inspect, change, and share.
Google Summer of Code
In 2020 I took part in Google Summer of Code with Wikimedia Foundation. The project evaluated browser automation frameworks for the foundation's test suites. The work involved comparing tools, reading a large codebase, and writing down the reasoning behind a decision that would outlast the summer.
This site
This is a personal notebook, not a news site. There are no ads, no sponsored posts, and no affiliate links. The pages are written and maintained by hand. The design is a nod to Gatsby, which is the subject of the tutorial, but the site itself is plain HTML, CSS, and a small amount of JavaScript.
If you find an error, a broken link, or a sentence that could be clearer, the contact page is the right place to send it. Corrections are welcome.
Elsewhere
The writing lives here. If you want to follow the journal, the letter form on the home page and the blog index will open your mail app with a subscription message ready to send. If you want to talk about a specific entry, write to me directly.