Hello, I’m Patrick. I’m a start-up finance person. I live in London and work at Blippar.
I sometimes play around with tech projects and I like cooking - occasionally I don’t suck at one of them. This is currently the intersection of those two things. I don’t know if anyone will read this, and I’m not sure if I particularly want them to. I’m principally writing this for myself and as a place to host projects, but maybe someone finds it useful.
I’d like to add longer writing here at some point - probably on start-ups and finance - as a way to improve my writing and clarify my thoughts. I may also link any other projects which I want to share.
As much to keep me honest and focused on the content, this is how I plan to approach this site:
I’ll keep it a simple as possible. If there’s a toss up I’ll err on the side of simple.
The style will be clean typography with minimal distractions.
I’ll try to keep it fast and avoid scripts or imports as far as possible. So far it’s just plain HTML/CSS. But I may add analytics at some point if I fancy it.
It’s a static site and will stay that way. Currently built with hugo. No logins, comments or accounts.
I’ll try to avoid playing with the CMS - largely by avoiding having much of one. I’ll probably fail at this. I probably already have.
I want to be able to write the articles / recipes in as close to vanilla markdown as possible. Even better if I can do it from my phone.
In no particular order:
Tiny Projects which heavily inspired the basic style.
Patrick Collison’s site which feels like it’s built with the same approach, a personal site others might find helpful.
NYT Cooking a fantastic one stop cooking reference.
MoneyStuff by Matt Levine For some of the most entertaining, clear, regular, accessible and educational writing on technical topics I’ve ever come across.