Hello!

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Thank you for scrolling this far :)

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As a child, the computer was my favourite gadget. I remember falling in love with word processing. I'd configure Word so that when other users typed  common words they would get all kinds of funny (irritating) statements instead. I enjoyed writing. Then came playing games on my friends' Apple and Atari machines.  When a neighbour gifted me a ZX Spectrum with a desk I thought all my Christmas's had come at once. I entered a chapter of my life where finding shortcuts was part of the process.

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When I had a job that was repetitive and involved lots of calculations, I learned how to program my maths into Excel and write macros to save time. I could speed through data faster than I had ever imagined which is how I became a bit of a data science enthusiast.

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I'm not going to lie, I am delighted to see the Paint icon back in the screen capture app. That little paint pallet makes me happy and reminds me of the days before Canva and the ability to create colour themes with a word prompt. When people only created stuff they really cared for. 

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Whilst it does feel a bit self-indulgent to think anyone might be interested in my brain dumps left open to read on the internet, I would not be living my life if I did not iterate my very own personal website and explore my own AI agent. Here you will find my typos, without the watchful eye of a human editor checking that I am not oversharing. I will not be chocking on guidance that suggests ways to make my musings more palatable for professionals, politicians and web-scrapers. 

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Just a few of my thoughts on computers and computing and our lives with machines in 2026, typed out, left open on the internet for anyone to read. 

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Jenny x