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My Spectrum turned up late. Italy ran behind on home computers, so by the time one arrived in our house the machine was past its prime everywhere else, and the tapes we had were older still. I was a kid at school, which is exactly the right age not to know or care that you are late to something. Every game took minutes to load off cassette and I loved all of them indiscriminately.
I only made it to the morning of Build with AI at Imperial College London on Saturday, March 14, 2026, but honestly, that was enough to make the trip worth it. The event, put together by GDG London and Women Techmakers at the Blackett Laboratory, had a good balance of energy and substance. What I liked most was the approach: it did not feel like a day about selling AI. It felt like a day about…
Shameless plug: if you want better focus and sleep, download Neurona first, then come back for the build story. I wanted a simple weekend experiment, specifically to try the Ralph Wiggum technique from Geoffrey Huntley’s original article, Ralph Wiggum as a “software engineer” . Instead, I got a very honest lesson in modern AI development: getting a prototype is fast, shipping a real…
Weekend Hack: Letting Ollama Sift 1,000 iOS Blogs for AI Gems Over the last year I’ve had this itch to build again. AI made that possible: suddenly I can ship more small things, faster, and use them to push a long‑term plan forward-go from “mobile expert”, to “mobile + AI expert”, to someone who really understands AI as product , not just models. The long game That long game means learning how AI…
Walking into the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park for Google DevFest felt like stepping through a living timeline, past codebreaking rooms and wartime machines, straight into today’s conversations about AI. It’s hard to imagine a better venue: the place where Alan Turing worked during WWII, the mind behind the Turing Test, makes an AI conference feel perfectly at home. Huge kudos to…
The Magic Trick That Isn’t Magic AI coding agents feel like magic. You type a request, and they search through files, write code, refactor functions, and somehow “know” what to do next. Pretty wild, right? But here’s the secret: the concept is surprisingly simple . I’ve always believed the best way to truly understand something is to build it yourself. That’s…
Why Londroid was the right stage Londroid gathers the people who build Android experiences for millions of users, so it was the perfect crowd for a conversation about transforming solo and small-team workflows. I opened with a question every indie Android developer has felt: what if the one-person team could deliver like a studio? From there, we explored what happens when AI becomes part of the…