Hi there 👋

About me

Hobby-coder since 1982. Started with BASIC on a ZX81, now predominantly using Python 3 on Raspberry Pi and macOS. In real life I'm a chemical engineer with a wide range of experience in extrusion & gravure coating, photographic emulsion making (O/W & silver halide), power plant monitoring and emissions monitoring (using OSIsoft PIMS), fine chemicals manufacturing, process batch control (acc. ISA-88; using CENTUM CS3000 & Foxboro DCS), manufacturing execution (acc. ISA-95), the list goes on...
Currently, my focus is on process automation and batch control acc. ISA-88 and manufacturing execution system applications (MES acc. ISA-95).

Languages

Recently:

• Python
• bash
• VBA
• PlantUML

Long ago, in a previous life:

• BASIC
• MSX BASIC
• Visual Basic
• BBC Basic
• C++

Computers / OSes

Recently:

• Raspberry Pi
  • Debian Linux
  • Arch Linux
• Apple Macbook Air / Pro
  • macOS
• Lenovo T40
  • Windows 10

Long ago:

• ZX81 / ZX Spectrum
• Exidy Sorcerer
• PLC (Ladder & SFC); various brands/models
• MSX / MSX-2
• BBC (Acorn) Archimedes
• Acorn RiscPC
• Linux
  • Linux 2.2.x - home-made
  • Ubuntu
  • Suse
  • Debian
• FreeBSD

🔥 Flame bait 🔥

• spaces not tabs, four of them!
• nano rather than vi/vim or emacs