About Fireside Code

Fireside Code is my little corner of the internet for programming, projects, experiments, and whatever else I happen to be working on.

I'm RadRadish, a developer from the UK. Most of my time is spent building things, pulling them apart, rebuilding them because I decided the first approach was terrible, and occasionally writing down what I learned along the way.

This site is deliberately a personal blog rather than a polished publication. You can expect posts about software development, Java, C++, Linux, game development, infrastructure, self-hosting, tools I've been experimenting with, and the inevitable problems that appear when any of those things meet reality.

Why Fireside Code?

I wanted somewhere that felt a little more personal than the usual sterile developer blog.

The name comes from the idea of sitting by the fire and talking through whatever you've been working on. No conference stage, no corporate presentation, just projects, ideas, mistakes, lessons, and the occasional tangent.

That is also why the site looks the way it does. Think less developer documentation portal, more quiet table in the corner of an old tavern with a laptop on it.

What I write about

There isn't a strict publishing schedule or narrow subject list. If I'm interested in something and think it's worth writing about, it'll probably end up here.

A lot of that will naturally involve programming and the projects I'm building, but you may also find posts about development environments, hardware, servers, Linux, web infrastructure, software I've tried, and lessons learned from things going unexpectedly wrong.

Most importantly, Fireside Code exists because I enjoy making things and occasionally have something worth saying about the process.

So, pull up a chair.