/now

day job

The European proxy voting season for 2026 is done, the work is not. We are re-examining everything to identify what went well and what went less well.

My team has little involvement with proxy voting, and what little involvement we have worked without a hitch, so we’re free to focus on other things. The near freeze on new projects/features means we get to reduce our tech debt, something I am strongly in favour of and thanks to my stellar engineering lead and team, means I don’t have a huge amount of work to do to keep the sprints going.

Instead, I put my focus, improving our project management practices and overall Jira process. We’ve been drifting slowly from a deliberate flow to a reactive, haphazard, bloated heap of booby-traps and loaded footguns, and in a blameless culture it seems a lot of the blame falls on me and my fellow delivery managers any time one of those is set off.

rest of the time

I want to revive this blog, I’ve added recipes and a few things I had in the draft section forever.

I am needlessly optimising a Luhn check implementation in rust, with the plan to build a library of similarly optimised standardised number/identifier validators. I plan to write about it soon, rust is fun, I know so very little still it’s staggering.

When I find the time and will I keep working on my 6502 computer. This too I plan to share on here, but it is a little to abstract for now, having only recentlyish completed the memory decoding I really wanted. As practice, I have been transcribing that optimised Luhn check to 6502 assembly even though I doubt I will ever actually use it on the physical computer.

I am also recently engaged and there is a good bit of wedding planning happening.

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