... is a web developer working in London, England. He doesn’t often speak in the third person, but if he did, he’d tell you that he tinkers with web stuff all day long, listens to lots of music and drinks lots of variable-quality coffee. He’s a recovering sysadmin, lapsed photographer, occasional surfer, near-constant source of japery and excessive Foursquare user. He has positive karma on Slashdot and 246 followers on Twitter, which is surprising given that all he usually tweets about is food, stupidity and funny YouTube videos.
Some things that have sailed forth from his keyboard:
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tweetvaultHQ — a hosted Twitter archiving and stats service recently launched into public beta (use the code THQBETA to get a free month's subscription)
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Fear and Loathing on the Learning Curve — an occasional blog about life, discovery and vitriol
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A portfolio of freelance work under the imprint of ibis design
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Trends of Annie Mac — a facetious project to graph the mundanity of a somehow popular radio show
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He is a regular attendee and previous speaker at London's Twitter Devnest
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A gallery and shop for his photos, infrequently updated
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This one time he was lucky enough to get cover photos in a few local newspapers, BBC News TV and the BBC News website after covering a local barn arson attack
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A showcase of his bizarre and incongruent videos, even more infrequently updated
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pys3sb — Python-powered Amazon S3 backup tool for simple websites
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boilerplate — HTML5 site skeleton, not entirely unlike HTML5 Boilerplate
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rxtk — a PHP-based regular expression testing toolkit
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A while back, he made a Rails app for managing retail stock returns under the imprint of Caffeine Labs
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He currently works at Poke where he builds exciting sites for all sort of cool people.
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While working at Newspress, he built press sites for McLaren, Bentley, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen and others
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While working at thrudigital, he built a honking great social web app for O2 UK
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He got so excited during Christmas 2010 that he ordered an Arduino and built an Arduino-based Christmas tree
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There's a few assorted Arduino sketches to go with that — mainly making lights blink in pretty patterns and doing useful things like reading out the current temperature in binary...