About

I am a child of the 80s, with a young family living in a sleepy village in Gloucestershire.

My first line of code was on a Commodore 64 when I was in primary school, and I have had the bug ever since, although I took the scenic route to doing it for a living. I was a chef for a few years, then spent fifteen years at a company making the metal labels that get fixed to aircraft landing gear, where I started as a sales assistant and finished as General Manager. Somewhere in the middle of that we needed a new piece of software, the off the shelf options all came in expensive, and I thought ‘how hard can it be’. What came out of it was a stripped down MRP written in PHP, and a few years after that I went and did it properly.

These days I am a Software Developer Technical Lead in telecoms, working mostly in c# and .NET. In the evenings it is Go, at the moment a game engine I am writing from scratch, no engine and no framework, largely because I wanted to find out what all the things c# does for me every day actually cost. Most of what I write here comes out of that.

The blog is for the long stuff, the things I hit while building and had to go and understand properly. The devlog is a paragraph or two on whatever is in front of me.

When I am not doing any of that I am a husband and father of two, and whatever is left over goes on Lego or the Xbox.