Ste Griffiths

Living the way of Jesus, writing code, and loving my community.

Hi, I’m SteGriff! I’m married to Helen, I write code for work (and for fun), and I’m trying to take after Jesus Christ (but still working on it).

Upblog is my digital garden, wiki, and blog, all in one. I also syndicate some stuff to dev.to.

Latest posts:

Cymru Serif Sampler

Cymru Serif is a really cool font. I first looked into it after discovering the new Cadw logo. Don’t remember how/where I acquired it, but...

Advent Notes 2025

Some cool people do a December Adventure, of which my favourite is always Devine’s, as looking at uxn/varvara is always a mind-expanding trip. I am...

My AI Policy

My AI pledge remains that this site is all my unaltered voice, and I will never use LLMs or other GenAI to copy-edit, write, or...

Plant pot sticker which links to posts about life right now

Pebble sticker which links to a collection of tiny web apps

Tamagotchi-style sticker which links to posts about virtual pets

About me

I love a good "about me" section!

I've always lived in Southport (UK) and I work from home as a Lead Software Engineer for a large insurance group.

I grew up wanting to be Wallace (and/or Gromit) because he was an inventor who made amazing machines. I settled for programming computers when I learned VBA and HTML as a kid in the early 00s.

From 2012, I did a computing degree with the Open University while I worked at Village Software in Liverpool.

I got married in 2014 to Helen and we settled down in the High Park neighbourhood. We extended our house together under the tutelage of my Dad over the course of a year and half.

We have two kids, Boy21 (codename "Monkey") and Girl24 (codename "Frog"). I will never reveal their names or faces on the internet.

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I'm a volunteer church leader at Canning Road (website by me) and a trustee of SASWTrust (website not by me).

I am interested in things! Languages, Music, Virtual Pets, NFL, Formula 1, Games, and just human spirit and creativity in general.

I take the stairs, smile, say good morning to people, and look forward to life's funny chance meetings.

I speak Castellano de Argentina to an intermediate level, for keeping up with Helen's family of origin. I speak basic Vietnamese for fun and because of my offshore Vietnamese colleagues. I also have rudimentary German and French and a dormant, phrasebook level of Japanese. I use Duolingo (username SteGriff) alongside other forms of practice and reading.

I play Guitar and Drums adequately and Piano (pop/chording) amateurishly. I had a brief attempt at commercial music at the start of the 20s and earned a few thousand plays and a fistful of dollars on Spotify with some lo-fi records.

I'm grateful to live a beautiful, privileged, vida muy dichosa 💖

Thank you for visiting my website. You can contact me using ste at this domain. I love getting email from my website and I will do my best to reply!

Chibi cartoon stegosaurus playing an electric guitar

Cute cartoon husky dog girl singing into a mic

Young cartoon monkey playing the drums

Baby cartoon frog playing a tiny electric piano

About this site

This site is built using Jekyll, hosted on Netlify.

Styles are from Tachyons and a little custom CSS which I'm always trying to reduce.

Templates are by me.

The SJG monogram and other graphics are by me (unless otherwise stated!).

I edit this site in Notepad++ or VS Code, on Windows. It's built and deployed natively by Netlify when I git push straight to main 😎

Did you know there are /stats? 📊