Tris Sherliker

Welcome to my website. I’m a lawyer and developer of minor softwae tools, among other things, living in London UK. I mainly use it to write personal notes about topics connected to intellectual property, law, and technology and other things I find interesting (for example knitting).

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, and plainly is not legal advice. If you’re interested in my professional work or looking for legal advice you won’t find it here — please go to Bird & Bird.

Recent Posts

• 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
• 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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