Hi, I’m Alex.

I’ve put a bunch of things on the Internet, including:

• My personal blog, which covers a range of topics, from programming to photography, from colour theory to Chinese dictionaries.

• Everything I do for Wellcome Collection, a museum and library where I’m part of a team working on digital preservation, the website, and the online catalogue.

• A bunch of open-source tools and utilities, including for managing my scanned files, finding the dominant colours in an image, and web scraping for AO3.

• Silly art projects, like measuring data in floppy disks, or controlling a rocket with the <marquee> tag.

• My Twitter feed, where I share work-in-progress and think out loud about new ideas.

This site is a one-stop shop for everything I’ve made – it’s either here, or linked to from here. If you’re new, you might want to start with my blog or my list of projects.

I’m trans, genderfluid, and my pronouns vary. If we’re strangers, “they/them” is a safe default.

I hope you enjoy the site.

Blog posts

I write about anything I find interesting or fun – there’s plenty of programming, but lots of other stuff too. Here are some posts I’ve written recently:

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  Redacting sensitive query parameters with koa and koa-logger

  Using a custom transporter to modify the log message and remove secret information.

  29 November 2022

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  A day out at the Bure Valley Railway

  My photos from a delightful day on a steam railway with smol trains.

  28 November 2022

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  Changing the macOS accent colour without System Preferences

  Updating the accent colour everywhere, with immediate effect, using a script written in Swift.

  17 November 2022

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  Ten years of blogging

  A decade ago, I registered a domain and started writing.

  12 November 2022

You can see more of my blog posts, or subscribe to the RSS feed.

Contact

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

If you enjoy what I’ve made, perhaps say thanks? I always love hearing from readers! ☺️