Systems, Documents, and Design¶
I work with infrastructure, buildings, publishing systems, and practical computing.
Most of my professional work is concerned with keeping complex places working: technology, buildings, services, safety, systems, and the quiet operational layer that allows people to get on with their real work. My public Oxford profile covers the formal version of that role. This site is the more personal version: a place for notes on tools, documents, private infrastructure, static publishing, terminal workflows, and the long-term care of information.
I am interested in systems that are simple enough to understand, robust enough to keep, and pleasant enough to use every day. That usually means plain text, static sites, good typography, version-controlled documents, and tools that do not demand constant attention.
This site is deliberately low-key. It is not a portfolio in the modern sense, and it is not a feed. It is closer to a working notebook: partly public record, partly technical reference, partly colophon for the systems I use to write, publish, and organise things.