The Compiled Edition

Code is Just

A record of the British home computer revolution — and one man's place in it.

It began as a live Twitter thread in 2021. I didn't plan it. I didn't edit it. I just wrote, line by line, as the story came — my account of the early 1980s, when a generation taught itself to make machines do its bidding.


What started as a list of old credits became something else.

A story about justice, survival, and finding a voice through code. The thread took on a life of its own — shared widely, praised by broadcasters and developers, even optioned for television. But what people asked for, again and again, was a clean, complete version of the whole thing. One you could hold, and keep.

This is that edition.

  • Compiled and lightly edited for accuracy
  • With added images and footnotes for clarity
  • Preserving the immediacy and rawness of the original

Code doesn't lie.
Code doesn't cheat.
Code is just.


£6.99
On Kindle, or as a direct download. Same book, same price — your choice.

No DRM on either edition. Yours to keep, on any device, forever.


Code is Just is where the philosophy began. The software carries it forward — single-purpose, local-first, native apps that you buy once and own.

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