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What I'm up to right now

Updated: 17th December 2025

Life

My wife, Lorna, and I got married in late 2023.

Where

We recently travelled the world for 8 months whilst working remotely, visiting over a dozen countries across Africa, Asia, Australasia and South America. We arrived back in our flat in London in April 2025.

Work

Recently finished up my role as Founding Engineer at Lex, now exploring new ideas whilst doing some contract work.

Have a contract role or project you think I might be a good fit for? Feel free to get in touch.

Exploring

📮 Automating communication cruft

One primary idea I'm exploring is how we automate the cruft around building product. A major area of cruft is communicating with your users what's changed. There's a lot of heavy lifting and manual process that goes into keeping users up to date, when really you just want to let them know what's changed.

Two ideas I'm exploring in that area are log.limo (automating git log → changelog) and flowlane (automated custom user onboarding flows).

If you've any thoughts or want to chat about either, feel free to reach out.

🏠 Your digital home

The digital world has so much to explore, from images, to articles, to books and films. Organising this coherently can be overwhelming, but AI now makes it easy to auto analyse and organise these for us.

I've huge respect for the variety of existing solutions in this space, but none have ever felt quite right for me. What I want:

Self organising, no requirement to structure, find what I want as I need it
Auto analysis in the background, image colors / content / OCR, book page count etc.
Allow for grouping and sharing some content automatically, e.g. Photos from Sydney 2025, so I can share some of my world
Ability to own your data — most folks won't want to self host, but if you're building your digital home somewhere you shouldn't be locked into paying someone to access it in perpetuity, the option to eject onto your own setup is key.

I've had the urge to build this for years, even started on it a couple years back, but it never felt doable to the level I wanted or worth the lift. The state of AI tools (engineering and auto analysis) have changed that, so I've finally given in and started work on abode.

This is a now page. It’s a snapshot of what life looks like for me right now, for those who are curious. It is updated periodically, but not on any fixed schedule.