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What am I up to now? (Late 2024)

Work wise I’m at Dstny a couple of days a week, then spend the rest of the time on a new venture Haptap, with some web development projects as part of Goldbyte in the mix for good measure.

Haptap is working on a product to make the setup and management of calling in Microsoft Teams easy for anyone. I’d previously written that I thought there was lot of untapped potential in Microsoft Teams and working on Haptap is the next part of exploring that.

Currently I’m based in Chippenham (Wiltshire, UK) after a strategic move to downsize a little and to live closer to people and places last year. I’m still very much enjoying being able to walk to the town centre, train station, swimming pool, countryside etc. London is just over an hour away as well, so that has become an occasional destination for near-limitless events and culture.

I’ve been playing more drums again of late. After many years of consideration (not an exaggeration!) I’ve got hold of some electronic Roland V-Drums. Practising regularly has become much easier. This has worked out well as I’ve been playing with an 11-piece funk/disco/soul group which has been tremendous fun.

Background

I’ve been fiddling with technology for as long as I can remember. My first computer was a Psion Organiser II, originally belonging to my Dad who used it for some on-site insurance quoting program. I don’t program in Psion’s OPL these days. Instead the languages are a mix from JS, C# to PHP or Perl. The software I build continues to be an eclectic set of projects, ranging from WordPress plugins to SIP proxies to complex middleware components bridging two previously incompatible systems. A few years back I also spent quite a large chunk of time working on wireless sensor networks for underground mines, but that’s a whole other story altogether.

Whilst this blog focuses mostly on tech, outside of coding I’m keen on running, wood working and drumming.