My name is Ben Taylor. I’m co-founder of Rainbird, a decision automation platform for regulated work.

This site is really just a bit of an occasional dumping ground. This is where I publish something I’ve written that has no home elsewhere. My photography has its own home at 100reasons.co.uk.

I’m interested in AI, photography, logic, open rights, heavy metal, and a hundred other things. I may write posts about these things from time to time and put them here.

Technical Information

This site is made using Astro. I chose a static site generator over a hosted CMS because I was looking for something simple and controllable. I was trying to avoid as much bloat and overhead as possible. Pages are plain HTML, with no JavaScript unless a page actually needs it (search, and the occasional bit of code you can run inside a post).

I host using Netlify. This turns out to be an extremely good solution for a site like this. My code is stored in GitHub. Netlify watches for commits, then automatically builds the site and deploys to their CDN. I don’t need to maintain any servers, I just update my code and hey presto my site is updated.

Content Licenses

All content on this site is copyright Ben Taylor.

You will see details of how content on this site is licensed in the footer of each page.

Unless otherwise noted, most content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Where I’ve used this licence you’re free to re-purpose and use as you please, just please attribute me and publish under the same licence.

Some content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Where I’ve used this licence I wish to retain exclusive commercial rights to the content. For instance much of my photography is licensed like this as I may, one day, decide to sell it. Where I’ve used this licence you’re free to share the content for non-commercial use only, but you may not modify it and you must please attribute me.

Benbot

Benbot on my home page was a present and made for me by @smolrobots.bsky.social, who make lovely drawings of helpful small robots.