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Years ago, I was gifted a Lenovo/Google Assistant smart clock.

For Christmas, I received one of those Lego Game Boys.

To be clear, this happened about a decade ago and has been patched for very nearly as long.

My nephew is big into retro video games, and Pico-8 is great for making a tiny retro-style videogames, so here are some that I made for him.

To be clear, while I was a massive nerd in high school, I wasn’t like a hacker at all.

Some years ago now I worked on the BBC Developer Portal — alas, the plans to open it up to the public so you could all use (some of) the BBC’s APIs never really came to fruition (yet?)

I recently found an eslint rule called no-plusplus.

I recently started using Obsidian as my main notes app, and Linux with Gnome as my main OS.

A while back I wrote a thread on a social media website which I no longer use, about this Unicode character, a famously terrible joke, and Christmas. ffi "ffi" is the Latin Small Ffi Ligature.

My preferred text editor is Sublime.

Like most programmers, I live alone, which means I end up in charge of rather more housework than I am altogether prepared to do.

Fish Exist.

The hoods came down, as they had the last two thousand times.

As part of the Manchester Science Festival 2016, Katie Steckles decided to build a monitor for the domino computer.

Today, the Guardian helpfully informed me that a unicorn lair had been discovered in North Korea.

As part of the Manchester Science Festival 2012, Matt Parker decided to demonstrate how computers worked by building one out of dominoes.

I think one of the problems with science journalism is that before a science story can be reported in the news media, someone has to convert everything from metric to journalist units.

With the issue of Scottish independence looming again, the question of the flag has come up.

Recently, a security hole was found in WhatsApp Messenger’s implementation of the Signal protocol.

Under First Past The Post (FPTP), everyone picks their favourite option, and the one with most votes wins.

I saw a Twitter exchange today about a Starbucks employee and a homeopath selling their respective brands of instant coffee (just add water) and water (just add medicine) by saying "there were absolutely no chemicals in it".

On my brother's wall is a map of Earth with the South Pole at the top.

According to the Guardian, Bristol council have taken to allowing the public to vote on which graffiti gets removed and which is good enough to be left as 'street art'.

I’ve just read about a thing called the Dice-O-Matic.

I get annoyed by the stupid formulæ used by PR companies to generate nonsense ‘news’ reports about their clients’ products.

Nobody believes me when I tell them this.