When I am working and need to focus I like to have music in the background.

For the first time in ages we had a family night at the cinema to see the film "One Life". It is unusual for my wife and I to agree on a film to watch, let alone the kids as well!

A lot of coding jobs can involve fairly "normal" tasks - create a page, write to and read from a database, add a new field to this screen. These tasks have been done numerous times by numerous developers around the world in different flavours.

There is an idiom "the straw that broke the camel's back" which, according to Wikipedia, describes

a minor or routine action that causes an unpredictably large and sudden reaction due of the cumulative effect of other small actions.

My dad is pretty tech-savvy (he was an electronic engineer) however he was having problems with how long it took his Windows PC to become usable.

I enjoy doing jigsaws once a year, over the Christmas period.

During a team call this morning, one of the engineers mentioned about the useless things he still remembers and how it would be good if the brain would clear them out.

By now most people have tried or at least heard of ChatGPT. It is now relatively easy to run your own AI instance on your own machine.