Timeline, newest first
- Now
geoclock.world, live. The dot is Nevada City. I lead Search Ecosystem Metrics engineering at Google and build Home Assistant cards and integrations in Nevada City.
- 2025–26
- 2024
US 12,160,507
Content encryption. Granted Dec 2024.
- 2017
Relay Media acquired by Google
Co-founder and CTO. Built a real-time AMP platform serving over 100 million pages a month for publishers including TMZ, Vice and Hearst TV, as the company's only engineer.
- 2017
US 9,779,067
Online publishing and content syndication. Granted Oct 2017.
- 2015
Yuzu, Barnes & Noble
Head of Engineering, 80+ people, e-learning for 700+ colleges.
- 2013
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Fundraising Advisory Board, 2013–15.
- 2012
US 8,244,629
Bi-gram scoring in fraud risk analysis. Granted Aug 2012.
- 2011
Repost
Founder, CEO and CTO. Republished full articles across sites with attribution and ads.
- 2010
VISA buys CyberSource for $2 billion
Founded in 1994 as a spin-out of Beyond.com. Wrote its early credit-card fraud detection and took it public.
- 2008
Black Rock Rangers, Burning Man
Logistics manager for 600+ volunteer mediators, 2008–09.
- 2008
US 7,403,922
Evaluating fraud risk in an e-commerce transaction. Granted Jul 2008.
- 2006
BitTorrent
VP Engineering. Doubled engineering and operations; moved onto reliable infrastructure.
- 2003
Dean for America
Staff photographer for the Howard Dean campaign. Published in the New York Times, the Washington Post and Vanity Fair.
- 2001
US 6,289,452
Delivering digital products electronically. Granted Sep 2001.
- 2000
US 6,029,154
Detecting credit-card fraud over the internet. Granted Feb 2000.
- 1999
US 5,864,620
Controlling software distribution in a multitiered chain. Granted Jan 1999.
- 1994
software.net, the first app store
Founded with Bill McKiernan and built the e-commerce system from scratch. As Beyond.com it grew to $100 million in revenue and went public.
- 1987
Specialix and the UK's first commercial internet connection
Founder, 1987–94. Set up the first commercial, non-academic internet connection in the UK. Specialix was later sold.
- 1979
Bracknell College
Studied electronics (City and Guilds), 1979–80.
Projects
Cards and integrations link to their repositories, where the README has install instructions.
- weather-radar-cardtook over, rewrote in TypeScriptMar 2025
Rain radar card for Home Assistant, built on RainViewer tiles.
- lovelace-multiple-entity-rowmaintainer
Several entity states and attributes on one entity row.
- May 2026
The live world day/night map on the web, also as a Chrome new tab and a Mac wallpaper.
- May 2026
Live world day/night clock modelled after Geochron, on NASA Blue and Black Marble imagery.
- Mar 2026
MeshCore radio networks in a Lovelace card.
- May 2026
Local polling of PurpleAir PA-II sensors. No cloud, no API key.
- May 2026
Drives any entity's icon color and glyph from another entity's state.
- May 2026
Unofficial usage stats for HACS plugins, integrations and themes.
- Subaru integrationcodeowner
Home Assistant's built-in Subaru integration.
Writing
About
I've spent more than 35 years starting and building technology companies, with four exits as a founder: two IPOs, CyberSource and Beyond.com, and two sales, Relay Media and Specialix. I hold seven US patents in fraud detection, digital distribution and content, granted between 1999 and 2024.
Now I lead Search Ecosystem Metrics engineering at Google, live in Nevada City, California, and build Home Assistant cards and integrations. I'm also a nationally published photographer and a past winner of the British Design Award.