Edward Draper Skinner’s professional career took him around the world writing and teaching software for embedded environments. That software lands airplanes, drives cars, powers satellites in space and rovers on Mars, and keeps a patient alive during surgery.

He retired at the end of 2014 and began working his way through an accumulated list of Things I Always Wanted To Do But Couldn’t. Some were completed in short order, a couple struck off as impractical or no longer of interest, but a handful remained, and their challenges have engaged him ever since.

Ed writes fiction and non-fiction, learns new computer skills, plays with the family LabraDoodle, Jack, watches film noir, and wrestles with his website.

Websites

EDSkinner.net is Ed’s writing website. It describes his fictional works. It is a static page website that is generated by Hugo not Wordpress.

Flat5.net was Ed’s first website. It started with hand-coded HTML on four pages in 2001. Ed added blogs in 2004 with Wordpress, and then in 2023 most of its content was transferred to EDSkinner.net.

Look Around

Use the menu (far above), the links in the footer (below), and the ones you’ll find on most pages to explore the website.

Thank you for visiting, and Ed looks forward to hearing from you via the Contact page.