This
freesteel website is authored by Julian Todd who has been an independent programmer in Liverpool since 2003, with a brief interlude of two years when he was an an employee of Autodesk when they took over
HSMWorks to which he had supplied a quantity of CNC machining algorithms. His original
goatchurch.org.uk site has been ported to here. His main workplace is the co-working space called
DoESLiverpool.

Post
NC Graphics sell-out to Vero, Martin and Julian developed the
Adaptive Clearing algorithm in 2004 for
Cimco, which we marketed to a skeptical industry (see our
brochure) before it accidentally grew into the core of the
HSMWorks kernel. There has been a number of
machining blogposts, as well as Julian’s
departure and
criticism of Autodusk.

Political websites, such as
PublicWhip (counting the votes by MPs), UNdemocracy.com, and
ElectionLeaflets (crowd-sourced party political leaflets) pile up faster than good homes can be found for them. No need for my contribution any longer as lots of talented people are now in the space. There’s also a company called
Sensible Code (formerly known as Scraperwiki).
Kayak diving began with the purchase of two dive kayaks in 2002. Julian and Becka have paddled them from all corners of the UK and Ireland, though quite a lot round Anglesey, and mostly on their own due to a total lack of other kayak divers in the country. The
kayak diving blog category has a lot of normal diving mixed in, but there is a special
kayak diving page.
Cave surveying activities branched out from the
CUCC explorations in Austria since 1988, to the development of cave surveying software
TunnelX, and finally into a total resurvey of the caves under
Leck Fell as numerous Misty Mountain Mud Miners projects came to fruition. Read it in the
Daily Mail.