I'm Andy. You can find me primarily on Mastodon (but I am also in other places in the #Fediverse). I am Head of Communications at Mastodon.
I'm a maker at Forge & Craft, and I attend and help out with the HackWimbledon pop-up hackspace meetup.
📑 Glitch in Bio (it's like "Link in Bio" via Linktree etc, but free, and yours to improve!)
- 🖋 That purple feeling - 2025-06-23
- 🖋 Part of the Rebel Alliance - 2025-06-14
- 🖋 Some lessons from building communities - 2025-05-16
- 🖋 Revisiting the clouds - 2025-05-15
- 🖋 FediForum Advisory Board - 2025-05-07
💖 OMG
- I'm one of the co-hosts of the weekly technology podcast 🎙️ Games at Work dot biz - you can find us on all of the major podcast directories. Let us know what you think!
- I sometimes write longer things on DEV, Medium, or on my own website. My most recent blog posts are listed above.
- I have a newsletter 📮 which gets sent to subscribers on an occasional basis. I haven't sent one out for ages. I should get on that.
- I use Glitch and Replit as platforms for quick apps and demos.
- 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: M1 Pro MacBook Pro, MNT Pocket Reform, Framework 13"
