About

I'm Andy. I've been building software professionally for a while now—long enough to have written code in languages that no longer exist, on the dead-fish rubber keyboard of a ZX Spectrum, deployed to servers I actually had to physically touch, and watched several "this changes everything" technologies quietly fade into obscurity.

And I'm writing this as AI coding comes of age with Anthropic Opus 4.5. That's quite a change.

These days I work primarily with PHP (specifically Laravel), as it's safe, structured, and has no bundling headaches that come with whatever JavaScript framework is popular today. Although I've dipped my toes into mobile apps and Elixir, thanks to Opus.

This blog is where I write about the things I learn, the tools I use, and occasionally the mistakes I make. No affiliate links, no sponsored content, no growth hacking. Just observations from someone who's still writing code every day.

If you want to get in touch, you can find me on the sites in the footer of this site.