Simon Wheatley


Hi!

I’m a curious, tinkering, cooking, software product manager and leader from Manchester in the UK. I’ve worked solo, founded companies, tried, failed, succeeded, built products, solved problems, led teams, been acquired, and had a lot of fun.

I’m currently looking for my next adventure, if I might be able to help you then please get in touch.

  • It is [this guy’s] argument that “It will take less time and effort to fill up the right aligned form in comparison with the left aligned one”. Seems compelling, maybe I need to re-examine my forms in Startershop? (via Snook)

  • A space invader made with ceramic tiles as the pixels. I saw one of these in Manchester recently, near the Palace Hotel, but didn’t have a camera with me. They look great.

  • Finally I get around to updating my site to use something more sophisticated than hand written HTML. It’s a start. Things that were on the left are (probably) on the right now. Oh, apart from Dress-a-Doll which gets it’s own…

  • Run, don’t walk, over to the Kaiser Chiefs official site, where for 3 days you can download the Cheshire Chord Company cover of Kaiser Chiefs – I Predict a Riot. Absolutely brilliant. Update 06/01/22: You can listen to a clip…

  • I hadn’t realised that Richard Hawley was the guitarist with Pulp. Wikipedia’s article on Richard mentions his time with Pulp, but the Wikipedia article on Pulp doesn’t mention his involvement. I think he was guitarist on the tour in support…

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