Just got my iPhone battery replaced
Today, I went to the Apple Store in Covent Garden to get my iPhone 15 Pro Max battery replaced. I refuse to pay an arm and a leg for a newer model that merely has a better camera, so I…
Find out the exact angle of your MacBook lid
Walk into an Apple Store and you’ll notice something subtle about the MacBooks on display. They’re all positioned at exactly 76°. At first glance, it seems like an oddly specific number, but the answer is surprisingly clever. Rather than presenting…
Beyond Old Trafford: a first visit to Carrington
On Sunday, I visited a Premier League training ground for the first time. I’ve been to plenty of football stadiums over the years, but this was something different. The visit was part of Manchester United’s new stadium, museum, and training…
Pressure-testing code with multiple LLMs
Today, I asked Copilot to go and sit on the naughty step. I’ll tell you why… Recently, it’s become a regular thing for me to do what I call a ‘cross-pollination exercise’. It’s basically a weekly process where I take…
A new decade-best 10K time achieved
20/12/2025: “I think a sub-45 [10K] is within reach in 2026.” So it proved, as I beat my 45:38 from then with a 44:45 today — a 53-second improvement. I haven’t budged from my weekly routine: one 10K at slow-medium…
Sometimes the janky way is the only way
Some people are very prescriptive about how things should be done. They’ll tell you there’s a ‘proper way’ — a set process you’re supposed to follow. But the reality is, that so-called proper way doesn’t always hold up. Recently, I…
