Tom Gould: I build software for newsrooms, and useful apps in my own time.

I designed and built the back end of Flow, a publishing system for newsrooms, and I’m its tech lead at Bright Sites. More than 200 publishers use Bright Sites’ software, including The Independent and the Evening Standard, where I started in 2015 as a senior developer. Before that I built and led web projects for an agency, a lender and a broadcaster, and I have worked on the web since 2004.

In my own time I build apps, libraries and tools. The one I work on most is Mullet: it plans a large coding job, runs it unattended in a sandbox, and marks each step done only when its own checks pass, starting with cheaper AI models and falling back to my own Claude Code. Where Should I Live ranks 78 cities by what you would keep after tax, what a month costs and which visas you could get, and the Solar Calendar has 13 identical months.

The libraries publish to Apple News from PHP, upload large files in resumable chunks and turn feeds into JSON. I write up how each one works, and the code is on GitHub.