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◳ 003 / STUDIO / ONE-PERSON BAND

Hi, I'm the
whole studio.

I'm a Systems Engineer specialising in Infrastructure, working in the aviation industry. Servers, networking, the unglamorous bits that everything else depends on. Born in Kent. Based in Staffordshire.

Coding is a hobby that got out of hand. I built my first website at twelve and have been at it since 2011, starting with hand-coded HTML and CSS, back before HTML5 was even a thing. The habit stuck. Theem is what happens when the habit becomes a small business.

On the side, I build my own apps, including ClipSearch and FlightBuddy, and act as Technical Consultant for Gamity CIC, a UK gaming Community Interest Company.

When I'm not in front of a terminal, I make content. A Nerd Fails is gaming on YouTube and Twitch. A Nerd Travels is everywhere else. I drink coffee with conviction, regard tea with suspicion, and occasionally string words together until they resemble a sentence. Like potato. Or antidisestablishmentarianism.

Euan
SELF/SPEC.TXT ● HUMAN
born Kent, England
based Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs
day job Lead Developer / Sole Proprietor
speciality Infrastructure · Servers · Networking
since 2011 (age 12)
first site hand-coded · pre-HTML5
languages JS · TS · Python · Bash · SQL
fuel coffee (with conviction)
anti-fuel tea (with suspicion)
◳ 004 / THINGS I BUILD

Apart from clients' sites.

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Personal projects keep the muscle warm. Some of them turn into actual products, some stay forever in beta, but all of them teach me something I bring back to client work.

Own product visit ↗
ClipSearch
A search engine for Twitch clips. Built because I wanted one and couldn't find one.
Own product visit ↗
FlightBuddy
An aviation companion app . Find Direct Trains to UK Airports.
Technical Consultant visit ↗
Gamity CIC
UK gaming-focused Community Interest Company. I look after the platform that holds it all up.
Sister studio visit ↗
Nerd Media Group
Where the mobile work lives. Same hands, different brand, different invoice.
◳ 005 / ELSEWHERE ON THE INTERNET

Other places I exist.

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A Nerd Fails
Gaming on YouTube & Twitch
I play games. Sometimes badly. On purpose. There's a whole subscriber base for it.
visit ↗
A Nerd Travels
Everywhere else
When I leave the terminal, I leave the country. Travel content + photography.
visit ↗
@theemstudio
Studio elsewhere
Work-in-progress and the occasional opinion. Posting is sporadic. Effort isn't.
coming soon ·
◳ 006 / SOME OPINIONS

Loud, mildly held.

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// On WordPress
Fine for blogs. Wrong for everything else most people use it for.
// On meetings
If it could've been a Loom, it should've been a Loom.
// On AI in this craft
Brilliant copilot, terrible architect. I use it. I don't ship its first draft.
// On retainers
Better than feast-or-famine, worse than honest work. I keep mine small.
// On deadlines
I hit them. If I won't, you hear it weeks in advance, not the morning of.
// On scope creep
I'll happily do more. I won't quietly do more.
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Even a bad one.

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