alexwlchan

Hi, I’m Alex.

I’m a software developer at Wellcome Collection, a museum and library exploring health and human experience. I’m helping to build a platform for searching and storing the collections, with a particular interest in digital preservation.

I have a fairly active online presence – I tweet a lot, and my blog is where I share ideas that don’t fit into a tweet. You can read my posts on the web, or subscribe to them as an RSS feed.

I write about anything I find interesting or fun – there’s plenty of programming, but a lot of other stuff as well. Past topics include accessibility, braille, Chinese dictionaries, and Welsh waterfalls.

Sometimes I give talks at meetups or conferences, and I have a list of slides/videos from my past talks. I’ve also written about my ideas for running inclusive and accessible events.

If you’d like to see everything I’ve been up to, my projects page is a good starting point.

I’m trans, genderfluid, and my pronouns vary. If you’re not sure, “they/them” is a safe default.

I hope you enjoy the site.

Recent posts

1 Dec		A tale of two path separators
30 Nov		dominant_colours, a CLI tool for finding dominant colours in an image
19 Oct		Programatically finding the original filename of a photo in the macOS Photos Library
16 Oct		The Oboe of Optozorax, and Other Objects
14 Oct		Prevent accidentally copying the prompt character in console code snippets

Contact

You can email me at alex@alexwlchan.net, or I’m @alexwlchan on Twitter.

For anything related to Wellcome, email a.chan@wellcome.org.

If you enjoy what I write, perhaps say thanks?