About

I’m a dad, developer, designer, and consultant living in Redditch, England with my wife Jules, our daughter Isla, and our labrador Nessie.

I run a solo consultancy called 16by9 and a small web studio called Noise & Grain.

Writing as thinking

Writing is how I think and make sense of the world. This is where I do that in public — sharing what I’m working on, what I’m reading, what I’m thinking about. There's something about getting ideas out into the open and seeing what comes back.

What I'm thinking about

My work has shifted over the years from being a developer, to managing larger projects, to consulting. Each step has been about making a bigger impact. I’m thinking a lot about what that actually means: how trust gets built, how decisions get made, how teams communicate, and why ideas stall before they go anywhere.

A few things you might not know about me

• I love to travel and take photos
• I’m a foodie and love good food and cooking
• I occasionally enjoy a dram of whisky (my favourite is Lagavulin 16)
• I’ve been following Formula One since I was a youngster (although I have never attended a Grand Prix)
• There's nothing I enjoy more than getting lost in a good book (what I've been reading recently)

Colophon

This site is built with Eleventy, a static site generator, and hosted on Cloudflare Pages.

The theme is custom-built, using eleventy-base-blog as a starter theme.

Body text is set in Tiempos Text by Klim Type Foundry.

Headings and supplementary elements use Suisse by Swiss Typefaces.

Blog stats

• The first post was published on 17th Dec, 2011
• The lastest post was published on 25th February, 2026
• That's 159 posts and 93,894 words in total
• 12 posts have been published in the past 12 months
• Code was last deployed on 5th March, 2026

2026

7

2025

5

2024

7

2023

4

2022

3

2021

1

2020

15

2019

3

2018

4

2017

11

2016

38

2015

16

2014

25

2013

8

2012

10

2011

2

Where to go next

• What am I doing now? See my /now page
• Interested in the tools I use? See my /uses page
• Fancy a chat? See my Unoffice Hours
• Have more questions? Ask me anything