Speaker - Alec Clews

Alec is old school and wrote his 1st computer program on an ICL mainframe computer using a 10cps printing teletype terminal. Code was stored on paper tape.

He's now semi-retired, delivering community training, and writing a book for Australian seniors on personal cyber security.

Alec's 1st public content was handcrafted HTML (using Vi of course) in about 1995. However writing a long form, self published, book for general a audience has required a whole new set of technical and soft skills.

He uses developer workflows and Open Source tools to write. Sometimes he still writes code.

On the Internet he can be found as alecthegeek (since 2006).