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From the 23rd June 2025 to 23rd June 2026. I’ve been spending less time in England during the summers as of late, so I went back to my roots and spent more time in and around London, with the occasional camping trip. I love England in the summer and would rather spend time escaping it during the winters!
2025 book reviews
Strap in and buckle up, it’s (maybe) about to get dicey in the economy…
Lessons learnt from a whole year of house renovations
A deep dive into my personal tax burden in the UK for 2025, and concerns about the future of taxation for average UK taxpayers.
In May 2025 I joined the AI team here at incident.io , in search of new and exciting engineering challenges.
From the 23rd June 2024 to 23rd June 2025. Iβm already in China when I kick this year off, finishing off another grand tour of new cities with Feiyang and her parents.
This is the story of how I built (and how you can build) a cute little display that shows you a new famous quote every day.
2024 I read a bit less
What is ‘Authorisation’, and how to implement a working solution with Permit.io
I have a bit of a confession to make. I am horribly, frustratingly, embarrassingly… indecisive .
From 23rd June 2023 to 23rd June 2024. The year I went to Asia.
My last 12 days in Asia
Vietnam by Train
On the way out of China
Travelling West to tick off bucket lists
Embarking on my mini-sabbatical, I must first enter China
What I learned from my time working and living in the city-state of Singapore
Money ain’t what it used to be
Preparing for 117 days living, working and travelling in South East Asia
2023 was a year of reading
Owning my place on the internet, like the good old days
From 23rd June 2022 to 23rd June 2023. This year has been an unfortunate reset.
From 23rd June 2021 to 23rd June 2022. As the world slowly started to shake off the pandemic I decided to move to London with Konrad. Then I immediately got COVID facepalm .
From 23rd June 2020 to 23rd June 2021. First year in full time work (at a smol company called ThoughtMachine) and first year I missed a few days filming!
Links on links on links with a UI, man
Where did he come from, where did he go?
Links on links on links, man
Well, that was underwhelming…
From 23rd June 2019 to 23rd June 2020. Waved goodbye to Cali, met the fam in Florida. Quick catch ups with the friends and family I havenβt seen for a year then straight into the final part of my degree. Joined Kayaking this time, got to know some lovely people and even travel to Wales with them! Kept working part time with my Cisco team throughout uni, and tinkering in my free time. Took mum toβ¦
Fun little rarely updating dashboard.
Watching plants grow
I thought IPFS was supposed to be permament…
Online playground for a useless programming language
Learning about pandas
Finally, a bank people don’t hate
How to check if your broadband provider is lying to you
Finding out better lectures than the ones I was paying for
From 23rd June 2018 to 23rd June 2019. I moved to California for a year to pursue my dreams of Silicon Valley. Travelled by car more than I have ever before, became a much better developer, became somewhat American and much more independant.
Commit stuff, with style
I wanted a personal website, I made a personal website.
How I was kinda developer-famous for 5 minutes
From 23rd June 2017 to 23rd June 2018. My second year of university, I was on the committee of both sailing and travel societies, I got some exciting job offers, ended a relationship and I said some sad goodbyes before my year in California!
From 23rd June 2016 to 23rd June 2017. I didn’t manage to film every day, but I’m so glad I started this, and I don’t plan on stopping any time soon.