Angophora
Hello there and welcome to this website. I am already writing in two other places online. I have my main personal website, where I post technical stuff related to my career as a mathematician and software engineer, as well as my technical interests and projects in various long-form posts. I also have Mt Solitary, my “digital garden” where I host a subset of my extensive notes that I keep about all manner of things.
This site though, which I am calling angophora after my favourite tree in the world, the Sydney red gum, will hopefully be a slightly different outlet for me. I intend it to be a collection of small, hopefully meaningful, observations, comments and discussions about things I have thought about, noticed or done in the course of my day-to-day life, and a lot of links to interesting things I have discovered that I hope others can find interest and joy in.
Some context about myself: I am a 36-year old father of three, with the most recent of those three born just this week, in our living room in south east London where I live with my family. As mentioned above, I have a highly technical day job as a programmer, and I trained as a mathematician. I have a huge range of interests but mostly I am interested in beauty, and all the ordinary and sublime places it can be found. Today’s example: my 5-year old son marvelling at a camellia bush which burst into flower this week, precisely on the meterological first day of spring.