This is a website that mostly documents my programming-related endeavours. (I might, on occasion, add posts concerning other topics.)

I’ve got programming languages to learn and use, projects to work on, the polars dataframe library to get acquainted with, potentially some data to visualise, and some natural language to process. And types! Lots and lots of sum and product types to create (hopefully) – I’m looking forward to that. 😃

As of 2025 I work as a data manager, which confuses others because they tend to think that I manage people who work with data when that isn’t the case.

My role is very broadly defined, in the same way that the concept of data is broadly defined, and therefore the management of it correspondingly has a broad scope. This is somewhat apt:

def managing_data(x: anything) -> bool:
    return True

while managing_data(whatever_that_entails):
    ians_professional_life()

All of which is to say that I’m still figuring out my role. My manager, who manages actual human beings for a living (and not data), might be mildly unhappy to hear this, so shush. 🤫

Thus, I write code as a distraction from my vague-yet-potentially-important profession. My hope is that code becomes a smaller part of my life one day. (Make of that what you will.) Thanks for visiting my site and I hope you’ll find it useful in one way or another.

Ian