Welcome
I'm David Llewellyn-Jones, a Research Data Scientist for The Alan Turing Institute at the British Library in London. I occasionally crave adventure and a good thunderstorm.
I'm interested in programming, privacy, maths and graphics. I'm a proponent of open source, open research, and end-users' right to privacy and control. I strive to contribute to a circular economy.
This site has been capturing my thoughts and outputs on these topics since 1998, including my software, research and random musings.
Want to know more about me? Here's a personality sketch written by a psychologist when I was in school.
“David is of high intelligence, although lacking in true creativity. He has a need for order and clarity, and for neat and tidy systems in which every detail finds its appropriate place. His writing is rather dull and mechanical, occasionally enlivened by somewhat corny puns and by flashes of imagination of the sci-fi type. He has a strong drive for competence. He seems to have little feel and little sympathy for other people and does not enjoy interacting with others. Self-centered, he nonetheless has a deep moral sense.”
Wow. Harsh. But disturbingly accurate.
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News
9 Oct 2024 : Adding fediverse author links to the site #
I've not yet decided whether Mastadon's new feature to add a fediverse link to content cards is a great way to tie together different accounts, or just a clever trick to prevent users from leaving Mastadon, but I've decided to add the tag to my site and see how I feel about it. Thanks to Bastian for highlighting the feature. I suspect it's all a matter of perspective: as an oldskool Website enthusiast I consider my Website to be the focus where my other content links out to, whereas others (including, of course, Mastadon) see social networks as the central point of focus. I'll see how it goes.
8 Oct 2024 : JADE Day 2024 #
I've added the slides from my presentation at JADE Day 2024 to the Presentations page.
6 Oct 2024 : My Browser History #
Working on a presentation for work has given me an opportunity to read up about the history of the Web Browser. Turns out to be not such a simple thing to unravel, but I've given it a go.
23 Sep 2024 : Gecko retrospective #
Now that I'm no longer writing a daily Gecko Dev Diary I've had the time to reflect on my experiences upgrading the Sailfish browser to Gecko ESR 91.9,1 over the last year. Check out my Gecko Retrospective to read about what I think went well, what went badly and where things might go in the future.