Architect at Microsoft · Manchester, UK
I write about the apps I build, the AI I wire up, the smart-home projects I tinker with, the food I cook, and the photographs I take.
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UniFi Protect 7.1.55 added webhook shortcuts to the camera live view. I wired four to a single Home Assistant automation the same evening — one webhook, one query parameter, the room is sorted.
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A stress-free Wednesday meze at Kallos Cafe & Wine Bar in Salford, with a sleeping toddler on my shoulder, a dome of blistered pita I now have to reverse-engineer, and a chickpea stew I'll be cooking for weeks.
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L's first proper trip away — two nights in a Yorkshire cabin, off-grid, with Poppy, a fire pit facing the valley, and an unexpected film crew on the hillside.
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A Baby Yoda mural on a crumbling exterior wall, then inside: every surface covered in colour. Two images from a derelict find.
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Poppy, a pint of Hawkstone, and a farm gate with Cotswolds hills rolling out behind it. A visit to Jeremy Clarkson's pub near Burford.
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Fixing a solenoid fault on my Sage Oracle Touch and the memories it preserves.
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Building a kiosk Power App for event entry. External barcode scanners feed a hidden text input — fast, contact-free pass scanning for 500+ attendees.
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Six places I write about the most. Each topic page collects every post in that area, newest first.
Twenty years of patterns I’d recommend, and a few I wouldn’t. SharePoint, Power Platform, React, Astro, Azure.
ExploreHome Assistant, ESPHome, soldering iron in one hand, schematic in the other.
ExploreFuji, GoPro, phone snaps. Photo stories about place, people and light — not gear.
ExploreCooking is how I switch off. The dishes I keep coming back to and the kitchen science behind why they work.
ExploreTravel, family, opinions, the odd #mtblife ride log, and whatever else doesn’t fit cleanly elsewhere.
ExploreWhat I’m building with Copilot, agents and LLMs every day. Less hype, more wiring diagrams.
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