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.
Our little station is so cute. When you arrive in town by train it's like you arrived in the 1950s.
The sunrise under the clouds this morning was pretty. I've had to get my running torch and hi-vis out of the winter box though.
Some museums/tourist attractions seem to have started selling collections of interesting things from genuine local makers, which I'm all for. Seems to be the smaller places though.
My town had a music festival this weekend, which was lovely. Less lovely is that I got bitten on the eyelid by a midge while waiting outside the church to go into a gig and now look like I've been in a fight.
Constantly, but then I find it hard to switch my brain off from "I need to edit this".
I'm relaunching CSS Layout News on Offprint.
Today has involved DNS wrangling and wasps. It's a bit like death and taxes I guess, can always count on there being DNS problems and wasps to deal with.
I really like Semble, and they keep adding new useful things.
I've been trying for a while. Ended up barefoot in a very muddy flowerbed this morning to finally get it!
I had one do that directly outside my office window in Bristol, saw it swoop and catch the small bird.