Welcome to my little corner of the internet. This site serves mainly as a hub to bring together my various ventures and links from across the web. It also gives me a space to blog on a more personal level. First, a few self-indulgent paragraphs about myself.
I was born in the mid ’90s with a genetic condition known as LCA (Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis), which renders me totally blind in both eyes. I grew up in the South West of the UK as any ordinary child would, though with an uncommon passion for electronics and music that remains with me to this day. From a very young age I would disassemble surplus electronic devices, mainly stereo equipment. Circuit boards stuffed with components were fascinating to a young mind, and I eventually learned how they worked and ultimately how to repair them.
Around this time I became interested in computing. Technology plays a huge role in any disabled person’s life and I am no different. I was lucky enough to get my hands on a computer of my very own in around 2002, and it opened up a new world of entertainment and access to knowledge, not to mention the web – which at that point was still fresh and exciting. Naturally it wasn’t long before I became interested in the hardware behind the computer, ultimately learning to build custom PCs and work with embedded microelectronics.
I also learned software development. It started with the most basic HTML, the backbone of all websites, and progressed to PHP (with multiple database languages), Python, Java, C++ and even a bit of assembly language.
Musically I was inspired by my late grandfather to pick up the guitar from a young age, and my parents invested in a piano, not to mention a drum kit – a decision they may have come to regret. Thanks to many influences as I was growing up I enjoy music from every era in every style, and as a child I would spend hours making mix tapes, or scrolling up and down the radio dial to discover new music, and new DJs. Radio has always been a huge passion, and for a time in the 2010s I even ran a podcast – before podcasting was ‘cool’!