One day while working on a ticket a customer mentioned they were seeing “Phantom Dynos” attached to their app causing issues. This was very unusual & none of us had seen anything like this before. It turned out to be a very rare edge case but we got things resolved and everyone moved on happy as Larry. However, during our trobleshooting & discussions one of my colleaguse mentioned how “Phantom Dyno” sounded like a pop punk song title…. That gave me ideas & that evening after work I decided to make a pop punk track called Phantom Dyno, and the Tales From Developer Support tracks were born.

Everybody has something that sustains them, something that breathes life into their soul, something that gives them a reason to wake up in the morning, something that makes them excited like nothing else can. For some beings it’s music, for others it’s love and others it’s plants.

Years ago, I started writing a book about a lilttle vampire called Bram who hated the taste of blood. It was supposed to be a short book with illustrations for kids, the first in a series. I was supposed to finish it quickly, contact every childrens book publisher in Europe and start writing the next one. Bish, bash, bosh, easy, peasy. “I’ll be rolling in the millions in no time,” I thought. After all, that’s what JK Rowling did wasn’t it?!

Long ago a very close and wise friend told me, “You have to get more out of your job than your job gets out of you.” Sage advice. A pity I forgot it for so long.