The actor, comedian Lenny Henry was in a silly sitcom many years ago. His character invented the word Spondicious to exclaim when something was totally excellent. Lenny is also from Birmingham.

I’m an English bloke living in Catalonia and I love technology. I remember back to when I was a young one and had to walk down the road to a public phone box to make a call. Love that we now have computers in our pockets and can do amazing things with modern software and hardware. I can’t help in finding joy in manipulating technology.

I am a Mac and Apple guy through and through. I do have an Android phone at the moment but I had to get it to test my apps on an Android device. I do twiddle and fiddle with Linux on Raspberry Pi computers. The Mac software is always better designed with form following function. The apps are just prettier and a great to use. I recently set up an old iMac with Linux Mint. Thought it would be good as a home server. Certainly more power than the Raspberry Pi. I find though that I am missing some of the tools I take for granted on my Apple devices. I like to dictate as much as possible.It’s so much faster to input text with your voice rather than with the keyboard.

Coding Update 2026

Flutterflow is now in my rear view mirror. It was great while I was using it, but I have moved on to using AI for my coding. I have loved working with Warp to make code. I have also made software with Google AI Studio and Gemini Commandline tool. AI is definitely the way forward. I like the way I can get a Django project set up ready to work on and customise and I don’t have to keep re-inventing the wheel each time. I just have to create an agent and set it on it’s journey. Then I can build on top. Flutterflow was bringing in some AI but it was slow to arrive and not that useful.

I have also set up Ollama so I can work locally with some LLM’s. I’m still happy with Perplexity that I got free for the year. I will have to get something set up for when the free year is over. I have looked at Claude code but I’d have to have a subscription to use that. I prefer to pay as I go. Which is why I cut the subscription of Warp. I didn’t get enough credits to last the whole month and needed to buy more to keep working on a project. If I had a quiet month with it and didn’t use the monthly credits, they didn’t carry over to the next month.

Other AI Usage - Loving the Google Notebook LLM for research. If I need the AI to look specifically at certain documents the Notebook is really useful. I like to get a summary in audio format when I am learning something. I throw in a couple of Youtube links on the subject and it chats about what is in the videos. It enhances my learning after consuming the video I get a different format which helps me get the information in my head.

I’m now subscribing to Google One for about €22 per month. Luckily, I was able to test it out for a couple of months for free, and then I went back in again after cancelling the subscription and getting it for half price for a couple of months. What I’m trying to do, though, is to use the local LLM models first of all, and then move to the models where I have to pay when I’m ready to take it to the next step. So I can do the research and planning using the local models, and that’s okay if I’m not in a rush. When I’m ready to get down to work with it, I change over to the paid-for models with Google and also have an API key with Anthropic and open router, so I have some extra paid-for credits to use up there.

Making Websites

Most of the websites I have made in the past have been Wordpress sites. So easy to get up and running in an afternoon. This site is made with Astro and I’m loving it. Easy setup and It takes just minutes to get it live on the internet. With Astro I use Tailwind to style the page and it has been extra easy to set up the Tailwind here too. One of the things I like about Astro is that I can set it up to edit pages using Markdown. I don’t have to fiddle about with HTML if I don’t want to. It’s just easier to read and to format the content when working in Markdown.