🖖 Hello and welcome. I’m a tech lead/enthusiast based in Wales, UK. My main technical interests are indie and open-source projects, web technologies, serverless/Jamstack, and the slow web.
I’m interested in 🏋️♂️ fitness, I love to ✈️ travel and explore new places, and I’m a 🐶 proud dog dad!
💡 Since 2016 I have been Chief Technology Officer at enterprise SaaS company Simply Do Ideas. Before this I was a software engineer at Chaser.
📦 I build and maintain a number of projects - both open-source and commercial. I am a co-founder of Trialflare.
🎓 I completed my PhD at Cardiff University’s School of Computer Science & Informatics in 2015.
🤓 I worked on the IBM-led UK MoD and US Army Research Labs coalition ITA project as a postdoctoral research associate.
👨🏫 I lectured the Advanced Computer Science MSc module Web & Social Computing and the Computer Science BSc module Human-Computer Interaction
📝 I write about technology and things I find interesting on my blog (📥 RSS feeds available).
📔 I maintain a collection of thoughts, links and notes.
🚀 I (occasionally) publish additional content on my geminispace at gemini://wilw.capsule.town (see this post for help with opening this link).
👨💻 Some of my research publications are available here.
🪴 Find out more about this website and its purpose.
You can follow me on Mastodon (📣 @wilw@fosstodon.org) and Pixelfed (🖼️ @wilw@pixelfed.social).
You can also get in touch directly with me on Telegram (@wilw88).
A history of media storage solutions Back in 2021 I blogged about how and why I wanted to switch from Google Photos as a storage solution (and source of truth) for my life’s photo and video libr... (5 minute read)
HTTPS on Tailscale Tailscale’s HTTPS feature is an excellent tool for adding TLS connections to web services exposed over the tailnet. Although traffic over the tailnet is encrypted anyway due t... (4 minute read)
The Bear notes app has been my go-to notes app for Mac, iPhone, and iPad for some time now. It’s got a great UX, a customisable UI, and is one of those apps that feels like a (clichéd) “de... (3 minute read)