Anna McPhee

HI! I’m a code wrangler and connection-seeker from New Zealand.

After many nomadic years across 42 countries, I’m now settled in regional Victoria, Australia with my partner and daughter.

What started as a one-way ticket to Bangkok in 2014 became an 8-year journey of building things with code, words, and communities; from Buddhist sanctuaries in Malaysia to refugee camps in Greece, from permaculture projects in Portugal to Amazonian treehouses in Colombia.

These days I write about the places where technology meets creativity meets humanity: making the web more accessible, finding patterns in unexpected places, and building systems that work for neurodiverse brains like mine.

After years of professional development work, I’ve learned that the best code, like the best travel stories, connects people to something larger than themselves.

When I’m not wrangling code, or chasing my daughter around the garden, I write about creative systems, personal growth, deep thinking, and the art of making things grow, whether that’s code, flowers, or communities.

My approach to both life and technology is decidedly nonlinear, which turns out to be exactly what makes both interesting.