Richard Morgan

Engineer. Occasional builder. London.

Writing

20 May 2026

Gmail spring clean

Fifteen years of inbox, ~86,000 messages binned in an afternoon — and the five-version script optimisation that made it fast enough to bother.

20 May 2026

Counting letters

LLMs miscount letters because they see tokens, not characters. The "useless" inference from that quirk is one of the most expensive misreadings of how they work.

Projects

curriculum.richmorgan.co.uk Open

UK Curriculum Explorer

A knowledge graph of the UK National Curriculum — years, subjects, learning progressions, teacher planners. Built in Neo4j, rendered as a browsable site.

sound.richmorgan.co.uk Open

Sound Lab

An interactive Year 4 science app — sound missions, experiments, and a notebook. Installable as a PWA.

pokedex.richmorgan.co.uk Open

Pokédex

A Pokédex built around the PokéAPI — made as a way to explore, build, and spend time with my son.

lourinha.richmorgan.co.uk Open

Lourinhã '26

Trip HQ for a week in Lourinhã — built to help a friend plan the holiday, and to get strangers heading to the same place talking to each other.

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Remit AI

An AI prototype in private preview. Gated behind Cloudflare Access — sign in with an allowlisted email to view.

Elsewhere

Live profile

Gaming

Silky on Xbox Live since 2003 · SilkyRich on Steam. Profile + recently played.