Hi, I'm Stuart, although people who've known me for any length of time tend to call me Denyer. It's my surname and I often use it as an online handle.

Welcome to another "these things matter" miscellany website with a vanity domain.

I say 'another' but here's been around since I was a kid, when personal homepages went from niche to popular fad with free-to-use webhosts. Those, newsgroups, forums and even blogs largely gave way to social media, and even though that's become awful enshittified torment nexuses plastered in ads and billionaire agendas, even with low barriers to entry it's fair to say homepages never really rebounded.

I write mainly for myself. The site used to include commenting, but with CAPTCHA reliability and PHP changes it didn't seem worth it. So I've gone back to Web 1.0, feel free to get in touch via the mail form or links below.

If you don't know me, some basics: Born in the 80s. Grew up in the West Midlands. Studied in Wales. Have travelled and worked (mostly TEFL) in Europe. A lot of what I do at the moment involves databases, risk assessment and control environments. Easily stereotyped as a geek but I see myself more as a perkygoff /s.

Things that interest me include, in no particular order and with no guarantee you'll find them here: technology, full stack development, the last ~40yrs of computing, speculative fiction, rock/punk/metal, twentieth century cultural history, modern interpretations of 80s and adjacent toylines, custom action figures, animals.

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