Hi, I'm Tommy Oldfield!

I'm a full-stack web developer from Dundee, Scotland.
I currently work for the University of St Andrews.
You can read more about me and my work, but stick around for blog posts about tutorials and tech.

Tommy Oldfield

Latest posts

Man wearing a VR headset

Extended reality (XR) on the web

Extended reality (XR) is gaining more attention thanks to new headsets from Apple and Meta alongside AR apps like Snapchat and Pokémon Go on smartphones, but how can universities take advantage of this technology?

RSS logo on top of FreshRSS screenshot

RSS feeds are underrated

With the shutdown of third-party apps for Reddit, I took a look at RSS, the 20+ year old technology to help me keep up to date with the world.

Work

University of St Andrews homepage shown on a laptop.

University of St Andrews
A long red flag flying off of a building at Harvard University. The flag reads Harvard University graduate school of arts and sciences.

CS50
The playlist creation screen from the Wavlength web app. A heading tells the user that their playlist has been created and shows a list of songs by their respective artists.

Wavlength