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I work on programming and philosophy that contributes to the public good. I have much to learn, and I celebrate playful creation over alienated wage labour. I think that being kind is important, and I love cats and birds.
I'm currently building, as of Oct 2024:
- Peony Software, a one-person software development studio in lovely Edinburgh, Scotland, where I work on next-generation spreadsheet software.
- The Open Source Pledge, which is creating a new social norm of companies paying open source maintainers they depend on.
- thanks.dev, which helps companies figure out which maintainers they depend on, and to pay those maintainers.
- The Hare programming language, a cosier alternative to C, useful for operating systems and video games.
- The Peony Game Engine, my experiment in building a game engine from complete scratch, because I was fascinated with game engines as a kid.
- clumsy computer, where I try to teach others to appreciate programming things from scratch.
I'm currently a researcher at:
- The University of Edinburgh, doing a PhD in Philosophy about why social conventions make us put up with exploitation, and about work.
- Low Carbon Software, a not-quite-yet collective thinking about how to reduce carbon emissions caused by software.
I previously built:
- Saffron, a studio I spent 10 years running. We made data visualisation tools for places like the University of Oxford and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
- Submodule, a company that made a Game Boy cartridge reader, allowing you to preserve your Pokémon save files.
Otherwise, I sometimes attempt, with mixed success, to make music, take photos, and think about languages.
Note
- This profile contains mirrors of my Sourcehut repositories.
- My contributions never include Generative AI content.