Seb

Given an Amiga A600 at 8 by my Uncle Tim. Not stopped since.

Born pre-internet, immersed as a teenager. Never had the best kit. I was jealous of the kid in the village with an A1200. Hand-me-downs like the Psion 3a, which I learnt BASIC on.

[work]

20 years building a £30m+ ARR business at SGS Engineering.

4 years working for myself at Day Marketing.

[history]

08 → 42 34y

08
Gifted an Amiga A600 after my father's death. Became obsessed.
10
Gifted a Psion 3a.
12
Bought an HTML book on holiday in Wales.
13
Bought my first PC.
16
Installed Slackware.
17
Inherited £10k and built a dual-processor Athlon MP beast.
18
Learnt PHP and did some work for local businesses.
19
Spent a year partying at Brunel before dropping out.
20 Built Status Fluid Power.
23 Started at SGS and managed the site, among many roles.
24
Got properly into AdWords as a revenue source.
26
Built a Magento 1 site that did over £100m turnover.
29
Met my wife.
30
Ran a team of 5 managing IT and marketing.
31
Implemented ERP.
33
Networked a 77,000 sqft new-build office and warehouse.
38
Assisted in the acquisition of SGS by Storskogen.
39
Left SGS to start my own business.
40
Ran a toy business for my wife.
42
Full ricer. Hyprland, Arch, quad-monitor battle station. What I wanted at 8.

[enjoy]

Pratchett and Iain M Banks
Drum & bass, dubstep
Motorsport
Sheds
Dogs
Linux
Big racks

[setup]

Arch Linux · Hyprland · Ghostty · Bash · Walker · Obsidian

github.com/sebday/hyprdots

Theme switcher, wallpaper selector, Shopify sales in the taskbar, git commits tracker. Rolled from scratch.

[heroes]

Casey Muratori
DHH
The Primeagen
Katharine Birbalsingh
gingerBill
Eric S. Raymond
Palmer Luckey
Elon Musk

[racks]