about

Hi, I'm Fred. I build things and occasionally write about it here. This site is mainly a mechanism for me to think. I strongly believe that to talk, write, do, is, to think. And for reasons I cannot fully explain, I derive great meaning from thinking.

I've run a technical consultancy, spun out two product-led businesses, and spent a long time working on systems where getting things wrong is expensive. And often getting things wrong anyway and learning from the process after fixing it. I care about software that lasts, that is readable, maintainable, and built with a clear sense of why it exists. The more I work the more clear it is to me that building with purpose is the real challenge of engineering.

stack

I work primarily in Go and Zig. I've used Python and Typescript frameworks heavily in the past but now favour simpler, more explicit languages. I'm interested in building things that outlast me.

work

contact

Find me on GitHub or Codeberg.