Hello world
Hi, I'm Firesphere, also known as Simon.
I'm a professional web developer with extensive knowledge of Silverstripe, secure webdevelopment, Laravel and Symfony, as well as security engineer.
I also work with Python, and MicroPython, on a pile of Raspberry Pis and Arduinos.
Most of my development work is publicly available on GitHub and Codeberg.
The quote in the heading I got from Bill Hunt, photo left by Kristina Hoeppner.
Latest articles
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📖 What I've been reading
Jan 27, 2026, 9:44 AM
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🗞️ Newsletters...
Jan 24, 2026, 4:32 AM
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🌊 It was Trixie, but I got there
Jan 11, 2026, 5:10 AM
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🗓️ Hey Wellington, what's up?
Dec 31, 2025, 1:02 AM
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💬 Let's talk: Webmentions
Dec 29, 2025, 5:40 AM
Highlights
Some of my best/favourite projects I've worked on over the years.
Photo: Wrights Hill by night, taken by me.
Stickertrade.me
Stickertrade.me is a personal project of mine, where the goal is to share stickers, ask for stickers and share the love for stickers around the world.
SuperGrans Aotearoa
SuperGrans Aotearoa is the national body for SuperGrans agencies throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. They work alongside the individual SuperGrans agencies promoting and supporting their teams of mentors in sharing their knowledge and skills to people in their communities.
Job Hunt tracker
Keep track of your job applications, add notes, prepare for interviews. All in one place.
CSP Headers
Protecting your Silverstripe website users with Content Security Policies made easy and manageable with reports, management interface, SubResource Integrity generation, and easy set-up of reporting to Sentry or security-header.
Solr Search for Silverstripe
One of my personal Silverstripe modules, where I build from the ground up, a Silverstripe implementation for searching with Solr, using the latest version available of Solr, with compatibility down to version 4.
