Bringing Web 2.0 Back in a Web 3.0 World

Welcome to my personal Internet weblog!

My name is James, and I look forward to sporadically remembering that I have a blog and using it to share my unsolicited thoughts, ideas, and opinions on the World Wide Web.

James and Jasmine on top of the High Line in New York City.
My wife Jasmine and I were on the High Line in the City of New York in August of 2023. Also, image uploads appear to work!

A personal guarantee is that everything you read on this blog is 100% organic, free-range human-generated content (for better or worse!) No Generative AI was used in the creation of this post. I’m mostly mentioning this to capitalize on the current hype machine surrounding GenAI for SEO reasons.

A little about me: at the time of writing, I’m a senior software developer at Workday in Victoria, B.C., where I help to develop the media upload, transcoding and playback stack as part of the Workday Media Cloud team. In my spare time, I enjoy running, reading, and creating unnecessary home automations with Home Assistant; automatically brewing coffee when we head to the kitchen in the morning is a hit with my wife.

I also enjoy various musical pursuits – I sing in a local choir, produce electronic dance music, and am a lapsed jazz pianist – though I can still fake my way through the odd lead sheet…

A headshot of James against a background of trees.
Proof that I have a head and a face!

If you want to connect with me on social media, you can find me on LinkedIn and Instagram. Occasionally, I’ve even been known to commit dubious lines of code to GitHub and upload questionable DJ sets and mixes to the cloud.

My SEO plugin is recommending I bump up the word count, so for even more content, you can check out my Privacy Policy. I’m quite proud of it – I spent dozens of seconds changing the default copy and tweaking the grammatical tense of the text.

Thanks for visiting and stay tuned for some good old-fashioned textual web content!