About

Who?

I am Michael Fitzmaurice, a software engineer from the UK. You can find some more recent writing of mine on Medium.

What?

Techs-n-Effect is the place I talk about my technical interests, including the tools I use, (some of) the software I have created and maintained, the books, blogs and ideas that influence me, and anything technical that tickles my fancy.

Why “Techs-n-Effect”?

It’s a corny play on words. There was a hip-hop/RnB group in the 90s called “Wreckx-n-Effect”.

This is a technical blog and, well, you try thinking up a pun around the word “tech” that isn’t just a cheap play on the word “sex” (“The Joy of Techs”, “Techs and the City”, “No Techs please, we’re British”, etc.). Not so easy, right? Plus it was pretty much guaranteed to be a unique name, thus avoiding confusing name clashes.