I expect you’re wondering what I’ve been up to. I don’t blame you, I’ve been wondering too.

In order that we can all sleep easy at night, I think I’m going to blog a bit of a developer diary.

I’m not sure I’ll manage a post every day, but I’ll try to keep a regular commentary.

In all seriousness I don’t expect it to be of great interest to anyone else, but in the past I’ve found it a useful discipline to keep a log of what I’ve been doing each day, and I may as well do it here.

Since finishing with Sketch I’ve been playing with a few very small new projects, but I’ve also spent a lot of time catching up on a large backlog of boring admin tasks.

I’ve no doubt that I’ll talk about some of my own projects in the future, but actually the thing I’ve been working on most over the last couple of weeks is the open source project Safari-FIDO-U2F.

For the first time in a long while - possibly ever - I have the time, the space, and the funds to work exclusively on my own software.

It may not last forever, but whilst it does it is fantastic, and I’m really relishing the chance to start with as much of a blank slate as I can manage.

As part of this process, I’ve recently been examining some basic assumptions, and thinking the unthinkable: maybe I shouldn’t be working in the Apple ecosystem?

When I originally created this site, it had a “news” section, which over time mutated into a blog.

At a later date I realised that personal things and work things were getting a bit muddled up, so I split off the personal stuff to Born Sleepy. In doing so, I envisaged this blog going back to essentially just being a “news” service, and most of the posts were just announcements about software releases.

At the moment there aren’t really any software releases, however. In addition, Born Sleepy, which was supposed to be my personal blog, still ended up carrying a lot of technical posts, as well as completely non-technical ones.

So I’ve decided to re-organise things once again. It’ll keep you all on your toes, if nothing else.

As a result I’ve moved back most of the technical posts to this blog, and henceforth decree this as the place I’ll write about the technical things I’m doing. Born Sleepy will very much remain active, but will be restricted to non-technical things.

I expect I’ll end up changing it all again in a while, but let’s see how long this plan remains in force!

It’s been pretty quiet around here recently.

Much as I wish it was because I’d been lounging on a beach somewhere, sipping cocktails and generally chilling out, it’s actually because I’ve been spending most of my time contracting on Sketch, and it hasn’t really left any space for other projects.

That’s all coming to an end in a few days, as I’ve decided that it’s time to move on.

So with a bit of luck you will see the sleeping ~giant~, erm, minnow that is Elegant Chaos slowly come back to life.

I have a large number of potential apps in mind, but at this stage I’m in no particular hurry to settle on one of them, and in fact I may take a little time out before doing anything much. I might even lounge on a beach or two, but I live in the Outer Hebrides so I will be well wrapped up if I do.

That said, if you have a project that you think I’d be interested in, don’t hesitate to get in touch.

I’ve finally got round to moving my blog Born Sleepy over to Jekyll as well.

As part of this, I’ve been rationalising which posts live where. Originally both this and Born Sleepy were part of the same site, and when they forked, I retained all the old posts in both places for the sake of any old links.

Now though I’ve decided to retrospectively tidy things up a bit. I’ll attempt to add enough redirections that old article links still work, but the indexes for both sites should now reflect just the content that is relevant for them.