Dave Cross
Hi, I’m @davorg on most social media, where my bio describes me as:
Geek, Fintech, SEO, Lefty. Feminist, Atheist. Skeptic. Rationalist. Secularist. Humanist. Republican (UK Meaning!). Londoner. Music lover. Writer. Genealogist.
… which probably about covers it.
Mostly, I make things from software. I’ve been a freelancer developer since 1995, but I recently gave that up to concentrate on my own projects.
I’ve made things like Apollo 11 at 50 (which tweeted the Apollo 11 mission status in real time, fifty years after the mission), Line of Succession (which shows a snapshot of the line of succession to the British throne on any date since 1820) and TwittElection (which automatically constructed Twitter lists for the candidates in each constituency in UK general elections - until Elon Musk’s changes to the Twitter API made it too expensive to run). If you’re interested, you can read more about those projects and others.
My programming language of choice is Perl and I blog about it at Perl Hacks. I’m a frequent speaker at conferences about Perl and other open source technologies.
Recently, I wrote a guide to getting a website that’s useful for your business. It’s aimed at small business owners and shows them the kinds of questions they should be asking website companies in order to avoid paying too much for a website that doesn’t work for them.
I’ve written a few books.
Outside of work (and if I’m not working on one of my personal projects), I’ll be at a gig, watching a film or researching my family tree.