About This Site
Colophon
Development
This site was originally painstakingly hand-coded over a period of five-to-six weeks working in the evenings and weekends in the Autumn of 2017, and regularly maintained since to keep it up-to-date.
Hardware & Software
When I started building the initial version of this site (back in 2017), I was using a mid-2015 15-inch 2.8GHz Intel Core i7 MacBook Pro with Retina Display, loaded with 16Gb of RAM and 1TB Flash Storage running macOS Sierra.
My current set-up (as of Spring 2025) is a 2024 15-inch MacBook Air M3 with 24Gb of RAM and 1TB Flash storage, running macOS Sequoia 15.4.1.
I use the excellent Sublime Text as my text editor, which is a popular choice amongst developers and also use MAMP Pro as a self-contained server environment for testing.
For graphics work, I have replaced Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, (part of the Adobe Creative Cloud subscription) with Affinty Photo & Designer (now owned by Apple).
Responsive Design
This responsive website will adjust its layout and formatting to render appropriately according to your device's screen size. Try resizing your browser window or view this site across different devices. It's almost like magic!
Future Plans
I am currently planning to re-write this website in Bootstrap 5 or Tailwind CSS. Hopefully work on this should start sometime in late 2025.