This page was inspired by Derek Sivers and nownownow.com. Last updated 17 July, 2026.
Where am I?
I am based in Northumberland, close to Hadrian’s Wall. You can find upcoming conference travel on Notist.
Current focus
My role at Google as content lead for Chrome Web Developer Relations, working on web.dev and developer.chrome.com.
Running up massive hills and avoiding cows.
Creating a garden from the blank canvas of my new house, and doing various ill-advised DIY tasks.
Being generally annoying to my three cats.
On the Atmosphere
Find my latest posts on Bluesky, Grain, or Sifa.
In a very hot and humid Berlin for the CSS Working Group meeting. I've missed the last couple of meetings as America keeps inventing new ways to put me off visiting, so I'm excited to be in person for this one.
Also Cumberland and Westmorland Wrestling which I have learned is a thing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberl...
Went to a country fair today, there was judging of all kinds of animals, vintage cars, and baked goods.
I made it to 50 and my prescription (I've worn glasses since my mid-20s) had been stable for years. Then my eyes went HAHAHA NOPE OLD LADY, and I now have varifocals, which are great but took a long time to get used to.
I have three cats, but if something chaotic happens during a call, it is ALWAYS the orange one.
But if anyone was wondering if you can backfill all your old blog posts from the WordPress integration, yes you can, surprisingly quickly.
I'm going to be dealing with replies from bots to blog posts from 2001 until the end of my days.
Apologies for Bluesky spam, while debugging my standard.site integration I got it working rather too well, and have now backfilled about 25 years of blog entries.
Snapdragons
I love watching the garden come to life.
Town carnival