$ whoami

I'm Miles Lord. I started writing software in machine code on the ZX81, the Spectrum, the Acorn Electron, and the Atari ST, where the feedback loop was a cassette deck and quality meant not making mistakes you couldn't afford to find. My career started at IBM and became thirty-odd years of quality engineering: automated test frameworks, tooling, and test strategies for complex programmes.

Some favourite moments:

• getting my game Droid onto the cover disk of ST Format
• publishing Sudoku Rules, a Sudoku generator and solver for the Compaq iPaq, which won a "Best Sudoku Software" award
• developing an idea I'd carried for ten years far enough to finally count the order-11 Latin squares

These notebooks are the other half of that life: building software fast, with AI writing much of the code, across desktop apps, visualisers, and dev tools. Read them through the lens I can't take off. Speed is easy now; knowing it works is still the job. Every project here ships with its harness (tests on day one, verification scripts, deterministic outputs, behavioural probes), because that is what quality engineering looks like when the code arrives at machine speed.

The name? Tokens are what the models spend, and a token gesture is the least you can do. Both readings are accurate.