I'm Andy. I'm the Senior Developer Relations Engineer at The Matrix.org Foundation.

You can find me primarily on Mastodon (but I am also in other places in the #Fediverse).

I'm a maker at Forge & Craft, and I co-run the HackWimbledon "pop-up hackspace" meetup. I'm a Hopeful Technologist.

• 🖋 Tech is failing older people - 2026-05-26
• 🖋 Choose the Fediverse - 2026-01-09
• 🖋 Highs and lows in 2025 - 2026-01-02
• 🖋 Retro-tastic! - 2025-08-25
• 🖋 Talks and travels: FrOSCon, Germany - 2025-08-22

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• I'm one of the co-hosts of the weekly technology podcast 🎙️ Games at Work dot biz - you can find us on all the major podcast directories. Let us know what you think!
• My website is where I post blog updates, and the most recent posts are listed above.
• I have a newsletter 📮 which gets sent to subscribers on an occasional basis.

• I'm on Codeberg.
• I'm on GitLab.
• I have a RoutineHub profile for Apple Shortcuts.

• 🌱 I’m spending time learning 🐍 MicroPython, and 🌐 Fediverse (Social Web) APIs like ActivityPub
• 📝 Most-used editors: VS Code (GUI), neovim (CLI)
• 💻 First computer: Acorn Electron (and, I still have an Acorn Risc PC that I need to dig out from cobwebs sometime soon)
• 💻 Current systems: Framework 13 (Fedora), Chuwi Minibook X (Fedora), StarLabs Starlite Mk V (Fedora), MNT Pocket Reform (Debian), MacBook Pro M1 Pro (macOS Tahoe), Homelab (Proxmox w/ Debian LXC, VM etc)