About Kev

Creative Technologist,
maker, builder, tinkerer.

Hi, I'm Kevin Gordon - UK-based Creative Technologist as one of my many skills. I make things, write about it, and have been doing so in various forms online since the early 2000s. This is the personal site. Hobbies, experiments, blog posts about code and LEGO and whatever else I've been up to.

The personal bit

I've been making things on and off the internet for a long time. The first version of this site went up in the early 2000s, back when WAP mobile sites were exciting and PHP was the future, he he. The archives are still around — fair warning, they're a bit rough.

These days I post about whatever's grabbed my attention. Usually that means web development - a PHP dashboard, a JS game I rebuilt for the fifth time, a CSS bug that took three hours to fix. Or it means making things - printing something in OpenSCAD, sourcing obscure LEGO parts from BrickLink, designing a phone chassis that probably nobody else needs.

I also post about life, mental health and wellbeing occasionally, and the odd thing that just seems interesting. No niche. No algorithm. Just a blog.

What I'm into right now

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LEGO Builds

Currently obsessed with the phone car chassis project and wheel hub compatibility research.

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3D Printing

OpenSCAD design. Zero failed prints so far. Many triumphs. Documenting all of it.

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JS Games

Tetris. Again. Then Tetris once more. Each rebuild teaches something new.

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Digital Illustration

Late-night sketches on my phone. The art side lives at kevingordon.art.

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Web Analytics

Building my own GA4 dashboards because I like understanding how my sites actually perform.

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AI & Automation

Using AI in my own workflow and writing honestly about what works and what doesn't.

Two sides, two sites

If you've ended up here expecting CV material - patents, innovation labs, Ford and Worldpay — that's not what this site is for. The professional stuff has its own home at Kevin Gordon Tech , where I write about the career work: creative technology leadership, product prototypes, the IoT and payments world.

Kev's Web is the personal site. The stuff I do because I want to, not because anyone asked me to. The two don't have to be separate people - they're both me - but they have different stories to tell and different audiences to tell them to.

I post about work on here too, occasionally, when something from the day job is interesting enough to write up. But the primary content here is: making things, breaking things, writing about it.

The older stuff

There are years of old posts from previous versions of this site — the pre-responsive era, the PHP4 era, the era before I knew what I was doing. They live in an archive and they're not going anywhere. Browse the old posts →