I'm Dan, a year old nerd based in Southampton in the UK. I love technology; AI, software development, enterprise infrastructure, and most things with an IP address.
This is my personal blog, the intersection of ambition and procrastination, and the pinnacle of using neon colours on a dark background to produce a design that looks like every AI product, ever. Here you'll find my thoughts on technology, writeups of what I've been working on, and documentation of my journey from "this should be easy" to "why is everything on fire?".
Oh, and that's me over there on the rightdown below. Or, at least, an AI generated avatar courtesy of o4-mini-high. And yes, it did start with a photo.
Current status: Connecting...
Using AI to play BitBurner - Part 1: a swing and a miss.
I thought it might be fun to let a large language model hack around a network and try to steal lots of money from people. Luckily it wasn't a real network, and there was no real money involved.
Read More →The inaugural Group IT Infrastructure Day
Our team met to plan and prioritize 53 potential IT projects for the upcoming year, using a structured scoring methodology. We also had some toasties.
Read More →I made another purchase
I finally took the plunge and bought an Oculus Quest 2 VR headset, failed to read the instructions, and played "Epic Roller Coasters" for my first trip into VR. I nearly unmade another purchase.
Read More →Another blog?
Welcome to my latest attempt at maintaining a blog - this time it's going to be different, I promise!
Read More →Built with:
Astro 
Azure 
Cloudflare 
CSS3 
Docker 
Git 
GitHub 
HTML5 
Node.js 
npm 
Tailwind CSS 
TypeScript 
VS Code