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Simon Le Gross Bisson

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👨‍💻 Used to write code, now writes words about code 📘 Azure AI Services At Scale🦎O'Reilly 💻 Beats: enterprise, dev, cloud 🙋‍♂️ Vrai Jerri, bird photos, SFF writer, reader, ally, he/him/they 🐈‍⬛ calico floofs 📧 [email protected] 🌍 sbisson.com

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · Jun 19

Come for the developer journalism, stay for the long running SFF review series, photographs of inner London birding, and well, the randomness of a crapaud in the big city.

All this from an ex-engineer who found one of his cancelled projects in For All Mankind.

And if you want to chat try Signal.

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 5h

Indiana Jones and the We Have 72hrs To Study This Site Before They Pour The Concrete Foundations For Another Fucking Bank.

Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 1d

Strider.

A grey heron makes its way down the Wandle delta, along the mudflats between the second and third weirs.

#birds #birding #wandle #wandsworth

A grey heron, one foot raised, wading through a flowing shallow river at low tide.

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 1d

Congrats!

Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 1d

New The Orb klaxon has sounded. Reminds me a lot of their first two albums…

tidal.com/browse/album...

The Orb - Buddhist Hipsters

Listen to Buddhist Hipsters on TIDAL

tidal.com

Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 1d

"Tell me you haven't listened to the American albums without telling me you haven't listened to the American albums."

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 1d

"Tell me you haven't listened to the American albums without tellingl me you haven't listened to the American albums."

Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 1d

First Matter device in my Home Assistant network. \a smart plug with power monitoring...

Yay!

A graph showing the power usage of a monitor. It has a blue line that peaks at about 34W.

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 2d

Drasi turns 1! 🎉

We launched Drasi to make change-driven systems easier—and now we’re adding GQL support for continuous queries alongside openCypher. This means more flexibility and a future-proof path for graph-based apps.

opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/10...

Drasi at one year: now with GQL for change-driven solutions

Drasi’s first year brings GQL support and community growth, empowering developers to build event-driven apps. Learn more.

opensource.microsoft.com

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 2d

The seasons turn and the green-winged teal are back on the delta.

#birds #birding #wandle #wandsworth

A line of green-winged teal on the edge of the river at Point Pleasant. They are small grey-brown ducks with a flash of green near their tails.

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 2d

Weird conspiracy for the day: seagulls are the souls of dead modems, come back to negotiate connections from hell.

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 2d

"Gimme dat!"

A squabble between black-headed gulls on the Wandle delta, over something that's now covered in mud but might have been food...

#birds #birding #wandle #wandsworth

A pair of black-headed gulls splashing in a pool on the Wandle delta. The lower bird is leaving a trail of water droplets.

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 2d

"What have you got in your beak?"

A black-headed gull flying up the Wandle delta this morning, about to start a fight.

#birds #birding #wandle #wandsworth

A black-headed gull carrying some food in its beak. It is flying over brown river water.

Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 2d

Received a press release for a "cozy cyberpunk" game.

I suspect someone did not get the memo on cyberpunk. It is *NOT* cozy. At all.

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 2d

So that spider on the kitchen ceiling? I think it met the Maines…

The corpse of a huge spider, after being played with by two giant cats.

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 2d

Science fiction, double feature.

a close up of a mouth with the words science fiction double feature written above it

ALT: a close up of a mouth with the words science fiction double feature written above it

media.tenor.com

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Weremuskrat John @muskratjohn.bsky.social · 5d

It's an Incredible DORK TOWER MONDAY! Fantastic new strip up now, at the Mothership!

www.dorktower.com/2025/10/06/1...

Reblog/Repost/Repeat, cheers and thank you so much!

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 2d

@eliotpeper.bsky.social’s new book comes out to day. Here’s what I thought about it.

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 6d

Recent Reads: Ensorcelled. Eliot Peper's novella is a love story, to the mountains of the High Sierra and to the power of storytelling and gameplaying. It's also the story of a life well-lived and, oh so much more, all packed into a little volume that shows we can still make beautiful books. Worthy.

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