About me
Oh gosh, don't make me write about myself, I'm terrible at that. Who even put this link in the navigation?
At the moment my main creative focus is on comic writing, and comic art, which I'm in the process of learning, so that I can draw some of my own comics too! I often credit myself as "kapellosaur". I've had my scripts drawn for a couple of fan convention official comics now and if you ask nicely I'll probably do it again! (Give me a shout!) You can find those and some of my favourite written comics online on my writing page. I also organise STC: Reillustrated, a community fanzine for the UK's 1990s Sonic the Comic (yes, in the 2020s!)
My other interests include travelling, playing escape rooms (though less since the pandemic; I have a reviews blog for that), plus reading and cooking and the like. My age is in the region of 40.
My main career to date has been as a Python developer, and I have written a bunch of things that can be found on my GitHub account. I'll also happily write C if the need arises (I used to be paid to do so, even), for instance when submitting patches to BitlBee. Sometimes I speak at conferences; for example, I've done a lightning talk about NaNoGenMo, a talk at PyCon UK on Cython, and slots at BarCamp London on search engines and democracy.
More recently I've been enjoying enabling and co-ordinating teams as line manager. I try to be the sort of leader that solves the team's current problems rather than introducing new ones!
This site was written in Python using Flask, ported from the previous iteration which ran on Python 2 and TurboGears 1 (ah, so that's why it looks like it was designed in the mid-2000s).
