2021-02-08
I’m Jack Reid. I’m an engineering manager for BuzzFeed, living in South London.
At BuzzFeed I work on building websites. My projects there have been pretty varied; if you’re interested you can read a bit more about my work history here. It’s certainly a better account of me than my GitHub or my LinkedIn. Something that’s a common thread through my whole time and BuzzFeed and earlier is a focus on accessible web technology, there’s a bit more about that on the work page too.
Outside of BuzzFeed my personality is unfortunately a thin layer over the last few things I’ve read, listened to, or watched. For that reason most of this website is a catalog of the media I’ve consumed and enjoyed. My degree was English & Politics in name but a mixture of political science, critical theory and digital humanities in practice. That’s formed a lot of my interests ever since.
I track the films I’ve watched and the books I’ve read, but I also post highlight from articles I read online. You can even see what I’ve got saved to read later in Pocket. I haven’t really worked out a way to do something similar for music and podcasts yet, but rest assured I’m consuming that an unhealthy rate too. Read more about this weird media diet fixation here.
For some rare pieces of original thought, there’s my notes (think tweets) and blog.
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where do all the sleds come from
2021-01-24
here hold this it tells you everything thats going on everywhere all at once but without any context
2021-01-23
winding it in for everybodys sake
2021-01-22
i get back from running in the park and i deliver my morning dog report in full and at length
2021-01-21