Tris Sherliker
Welcome to my personal website. I’m Tristan Sherliker, a lawyer and developer of minor software tools, among other things, living and working in London UK. I mainly use this site to write notes about things I find interesting (for example tech topics, law and making things) and the occasional drawing.
I am a lawyer-who-codes, and I work on the principle that understanding technology is one of the best ways to advise on it, and am endlessly fascinated by the parallels between law and technology. For two domains that seem so different, they really share a remarkable number of common themes and approaches. If you enjoy chatting about this sort of thing, drop me a line.
I also publish and maintain BunTool, a free and open-source tool (without tracking, cookies, or any kind of data harvesting) for people to organise their papers for court and other legal settings. BunTool is a used by unrepresented people who need to go to court, by charities, and also quite widely by solicitors, barristers, mediators and some even judges.
You can also find me on GitHub, LinkedIn, or email me. This is entirely a personal page and unconnected to my work as a partner in Bird & Bird’s IP team. If you’re interested in my professional work or looking for legal advice you won’t find it here — please go to Bird & Bird, which is quite separate.
Recent Posts
- Sharing science comics with kids — Sunday 20 September 2026
- What animal has a prime number of legs? — Sunday 6 September 2026
- Handwriting proof of concept — Saturday 1 August 2026
- Don’t put your name to bot-written content — Thursday 23 July 2026
- Obfuscated, self-evaluating bash script by CDN Akamai being supplied to consumers via retail stores — Saturday 4 July 2026
- Vulnerability reports are still special — Wednesday 24 June 2026
- Ah whoops. Computers can have accidents now — Saturday 30 May 2026
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What logs does BunTool save?
— Sunday 24 May 2026
A sample of real logs to illustrate -
Cloudflare cache frustration
— Sunday 10 May 2026
Senseless errors annoying lots of people -
Vibecoding a simple feature with Claude
— Saturday 9 May 2026
Apparently I’m neurotic about backend code -
When was a webpage modified?
— Saturday 2 May 2026
Looking for last-modified data which is sometimes present -
Putting scripts into $PATH
— Sunday 22 March 2026
A personal digital multitool -
Red Lines
— Sunday 2 November 2025
When the only thing your lawyer knows is that the other side is wrong
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