Now

What I’m focused on at the moment. (This is a now page.)

Last updated: July 2026

Revamping this website and moving off WordPress!

Life & Work

• I’m living near Bristol, UK with my wonderful family.
• Working as an iOS and Mac developer at DuckDuckGo, working on their native web browsers for those platforms. It’s such a fantastic company, with privacy at the core of everything we do.
• Reducing my phone usage, and reading more. A lot more!

Hobbies

• Rehearsing for a production of Wyrd Sisters (based on the Discworld book) with Sodbury Players.
• Building an app to help actors learn their lines. Hoping to bring in some testers soon.
• Still 3D printing. Recently, a lot of it has been for props for Sodbury Players shows. I love making props! The group did a production of Cluedo back in May and I made a bunch of the murder weapons, which was fun.
• I love the idea of photography and like collecting cameras, but I’m not taking many photos right now that aren’t on a phone. Trying to get better at carrying a proper camera with me.

Media

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about owning my own content. I’m getting fed up with having many many subscriptions and yet not owning anything, as well as restrictions on content I do ‘own’ such as Kindle books. To this end:

• I’ve been exploring regular local music playing apps, as alternatives to Spotify and Apple Music
• I’m trying out Immich, a self-hosted photo management tool. I’ve been really impressed so far.
• I’m now buying my ebooks from Kobo instead of Amazon¹, I’ve cancelled my Audible account, and back in May, I picked up a Kobo Clara BW e-reader to replace my Kindle – I love it, and it’s given my reading a huge boost. From reading maybe one or two books last year, I’m now on my 13th book in ~2.5 months!

Top recent reads:

• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke – this has instantly become one of my favourite books of all time.
• I discovered the Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone / Ernest Cunningham series by Benjamin Stevenson. Really great ‘fair play’ murder mysteries. I’ve read two of them and have another two to go.
• Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree – I’m really loving the Legends and Lattes series, and I think I even preferred this to the first book. Trying to pace myself before picking up the next.
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid – I’d heard lots of people raving about this one, and now I totally see why. Fantastic book.

Games

• I haven’t actually been playing many games recently. I just finished 007: First Light, which was excellent. I love IOI’s Hitman series, and they’ve really knocked it out of the park with this one.
• Also just picked up Star Fox for the Switch 2. I spent so much time as a kid playing Lylat Wars on the N64, so seeing it reimagined with modern graphics is wild.
• Waiting to hear more about the Ocarina of Time remake!
• Was hoping to pick up a Steam Machine, but sadly didn’t make the list.