Isofarro

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Full-stack engineer, ex-news-junkie, ZX Spectrum & Amstrad CPC retro-gamer, chess. Built the ZOE Covid Symptom Study app. I like muffins. #chesspunks #retrogamer #helloself

Retrogamer cover for May 2025, the subscriber issue, shows a solitary 48k ZX Spectrum, with the iconic Spectrum rainbow stripes on the machine and on the cover background.

Independence day style alien invasion (before Brexit). Cameron in Downing Street looking out the window at alien spaceship, Gove volunteers to fly a fighter plane and shoot all the aliens. Cameron points out he's just the Education Secretary and never flown a fighter plane. Gove insists he can do it, despite no military training. He argues he used to be a journalist for The Times, he wrote articles and has strong opinions on aliens. Gove knows he can do this job. Next scene Gove flying a fighter jet all wobbly, Cameron watches, he misses the alien spaceship and presumably crashes. Silhouette of Cameron holding his head in both hands in regret.

The pride of my collection: My wall of ZX Spectrum games in double-jewel and clamshell cases. All tested and working.