Hi, I’m Alex. Welcome to my website!

I’m a software developer, writer, and a hand crafter, and I live in the UK. In my day job I build software for digital preservation, and I think a lot about archiving and long-term systems.

This website is where I share stuff I find interesting or fun. That includes notes on technical problems I’ve solved, personal reflections or thoughts, and fun toys that I’ve built.

I’m queer and trans, and my pronouns are “they” or “she”.

I hope you like it!

Favourite articles

Here are some of my favourite things that I’ve written:

Here are some of the topics I write about:

• aws
• blogging about blogging
• bookmarking
• books
• code crimes
• colour
• cross-stitch
• css
• digital preservation
• drawing things
• fun stuff
• generative art
• images
• javascript
• maths
• my tools
• personal
• photography
• python
• ruby
• rust
• swift
• talks
• web development
• wellcome collection

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