beeps NOW!

A “now” page is a conceptual accompaniment to an about page. While an about page can tell you about my background and my identity, it doesn’t tell you about what I’m currently doing or what I currently care about. Thus, this.

Now

💻 I’m working as a frontend developer on the GOV.UK Design System team. I’m also writing WCAG understanding documents for the Guide to WCAG.

🇸🇪 I’m learning to speak Swedish! Jag pratar lite svenska.

🎶 I’ve been listening to a lot of stuff. Currently on heavy rotation are Daði Freyr, Gorillaz’ new album The Mountain, Montaigne, Self Esteem, and Vylet Pony.

📺 I’m currently watching Invincible, The Bear, Jet Lag: The Game, Amazon’s Fallout show, and Formula 1 (as usual).

🎮 I’ve mostly been playing Cities Skylines 2, which is definitely nowhere near as bad as it was at launch. I’ve also been dipping back into Cassette Beasts and Super Animal Royale a bit more lately.

🏥 I continue to undergo a bunch of medical assessments, now mainly trying to figure out why I have such severe hypertension even when I’m so heavily medicated.

Recently

🩵 At work I spent much of 2025 working on the GOV.UK brand refresh (i.e. “it’s blue now”). I wrote a blog post about it that popped off a bit as well.

📣 I’ve been undergoing voice training and laser hair removal so that I can Be More Trans.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I attended Scotiacon in Glasgow in February. It was alright; a bit of a mixed bag.

🌲 I did some volunteering work planting mature trees in a nearby park. Turns out planting trees is more physically laborious than you might think.

Soon

🐕‍🦺 The Year of Service.

🚄 Bit of travel coming up. I’m already booked to be making leisure trips to London in April and September, attending ConFuzzled in Birmingham in May, and heading to Manchester in July and October.

🎵 I’m queued up to see Jazz Emu and Ben Folds live later this year. (Separately, not at the same time.)