About¶
I am based in Oxford and work in the University’s School of Archaeology, where my role brings together ICT, buildings, facilities, operational support, risk, and service management. The formal description belongs on the University site; this personal site exists for the surrounding interests that do not quite fit on an institutional profile.
Those interests are mostly practical. I care about how information is written, stored, published, found, and preserved. I prefer systems that can be inspected directly: folders, Markdown files, static HTML, Git repositories, terminal tools, and documents that remain useful even when particular applications change or disappear.
Much of my day-to-day thinking sits at the join between physical and digital infrastructure. Buildings have services, constraints, histories, and failure modes. So do computing systems. The best ones are maintained rather than merely launched; documented rather than mystified; quiet rather than demanding.
Work¶
My University work is concerned with operational support and strategic management across ICT and building services. It includes technical infrastructure, equipment, research computing support, purchasing, health and safety, security, building management, and fieldwork risk assessment.
This site is personal, so it should not be read as a University publication. Where something is official, it will be linked to the relevant Oxford page.
Tools and interests¶
I write primarily in plain text and publish through static systems. My current toolchain includes iA Writer, Obsidian, Vim, MkDocs Material, Git, Linux, Tailscale, and a small amount of carefully maintained CSS.
I am drawn to older computing environments not out of nostalgia alone, but because many of them were legible. They made boundaries visible. They made states obvious. A well-designed terminal screen, a good manual, or a plain directory tree can still be more humane than a modern interface that hides everything until it breaks.
Contact¶
The best starting point for work matters is my Oxford profile.
For personal correspondence, use:
contact@jeremyworth.uk