What I’m doing now

Last updated: 30 March 2026

1. Working from South America

   Having spent much of the past three winters working from Mexico (primarily Merida, Playa del Carmen, and Queretaro), this year was time for a change.

   Rough plan: Cuenca, Ecuador in January; Quito in February; Arequipa, Peru in March and April.

2. Taking photographs

   I mean, I’m always doing that but I’m experimenting with a few things (including a relatively new Fujifilm X-T50) and also working on remigrating rom Lightroom to Darktable since I’ve also largely remigrated from Windows to Linux. Darktable has become quite powerful.

3. Building new websites

   It’s been a while since I was doing this more or less full time.

   I’m mainly working again with Paul Cline at UPLO. He’s a great project manager with top-notch performance tuning and WordPress security skills. He’s also a close mate and we make a good team.

4. Learning Spanish

   I’ve been sort of learning Spanish on and off for nearly 20 years. Aside from a couple of weeks conjugating irregular verbs in La Paz, Mexico in 2008, there’s been no formal learning. This winter I’m taking it more seriously and want to get rise beyond a decade-long plateau.

5. Planning hikes for the year

   I’ve got a couple of weeks in late April for a wander in the US – likely on the west coast or four corners area. Then I’ll have a couple of windows through the summer in Europe. Currently weighing up Kungsleden, a crossing of Lofoten, and Peaks of the Balkans, amongst others.

6. Building the Trail Almanac

   This will be an all-singing, all-dancing directory of long-distance hiking trails, combining my passion for the outdoors and promoting dirtbag inclusivity with my data architecture and web skills. I’m really excited to make this come to fruition.