In 2021 I vowed to stop taking my bike to the repair shop and learn to fix everything myself. Inspired by that I’ve been trying to get better at repairing electronics. Repaired a few switches, smaller appliances, replaced a laptop keyboard. But today I replaced a screen and stripped a digitiser from another laptop. Whoop!

We’re almost certainly living in a time of enforced changes to our plates due to rising costs, climate change, terrible Brexit trade deals that favour foreign farmers over our own. Once the lower classes dined on fresh lobster, next up it’s South African ostrich. Claim your Brexit dividend now!

Well that’s an unexpected thing to happen today, John Romero (of I’d Software) just sent me an award on Reddit. That’s like some software engineer achievement I didn’t know I needed! https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/11e845g/think_smart_not_hard/jadzrxb/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

Love this message ups gives you when it fails to send a message through iMessage. Thanks for sending my photo as a text message, computer.

For #caturday, my phone reminded me of a photo of my cat, Iggy, that I really wanted to photoshop in 2020 but didn’t have the energy to painstakingly cut out. Well, thanks to modern phone tools, you finally get to see what sat in my brain two and a half years ago!

Wrote a Reddit bot to reply in a subreddit with a bunch of dumb things Elon Musk has said. It’s designed to be contextual and also with low probability in order to prevent spam, so threads are very unlikely. But this exchange happened and I love when randomised software interacts with people like this. https://www.reddit.com/u/NotEnoughMuskSpam/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf