Developer, dad, and chaos merchant. 12+ years writing code, now going fully indie and doing it all in public.
I've been writing code professionally for over a decade. Started with PHP, eCommerce sites held together with string and optimism. Then React came along and I fell in love with building interfaces.
Over the years I've shipped platforms for eCommerce companies, property management businesses, and temperature monitoring systems. Full-stack, all of it.
The ADHD thing. I got diagnosed later than I'd like to admit. It explained a lot — the hyperfocus rabbit holes, the context-switching hell, the way I could spend eight hours on something nobody asked for and then struggle to reply to an email. I'm open about it because it's real, and a lot of devs recognise themselves in that description.
Now I'm going indie. Freelancing properly, building my own products, and documenting the whole thing publicly so other developers thinking about the same can watch what works and what absolutely doesn't.
The why. My wife and daughter. That's it. She's nine months old, she has no idea what I do all day, and I want to build something worthy of the answer when she eventually asks. I want to be present. I want to do work that matters.
I'm based in the East Midlands — either the most underrated part of England or genuinely the middle of nowhere, depending on who you ask. I think it's both.