About Me

👋🏻 Hi, I’m Chris.

Nice to meet you! I’m from London, UK – which is where I presently live. I work for Media Molecule.

• I’m a photographer, and have published a series of zines about phone boxes.

• I code for a living.

• I sometimes build electronics for fun.

• I hold a UK Amateur Radio Operator License, callsign M7NXF.

• I’m the owner of both a beard, and a ponytail.

• You’d ordinarily frequently find me at An Evening of Unnecessary Detail. Because I don’t get enough of unnecessary detail during the day, apparently.

• I once helped (at least, mostly helped) Matt Parker build a computer out of Dominos (you can see me at 3:14)

• I’ve been a contributor to Helen Zaltzman’s podcast The Allusionist, and was briefly in Episode 75 of No Such Thing as a Fish.

• I was one of the founders of the University of Kent Tinkering Society (tinkersoc)

• I’m an advocate of digital rights, privacy and free speech online, and am a member of the Open Rights Group

• My site icon is a modified emoji 1f40b (🐋)

• I prefer decentralised social media

• I enjoy a good list (evidently)

• I believe in

  • Ethical, appropriate and sensible application of big data and ML.
  • Taking a pragmatic approach to automated testing (test coverage isn’t everything).
  • Designing systems that minimise carbon emissions and energy usage during their operational life.
  • Being accountable for the products you build.
  • Empowering users to achieve their goals, rather than mollycoddling them and making decisions for them.
  • Harnessing creative chaos where it’s useful, but limiting it when it’s not.

• This ‘blog’ catalogues my various personal analyses and opinions of things that I find interesting, or projects I’ve undertaken.