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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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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 2h

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 · 3h

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 · 4h

"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 · 5h

"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 · 6h

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 · 6h

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 · 21h

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

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Weremuskrat John @muskratjohn.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 22h

@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 · 4d

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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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 1d

It is. I really love it.

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 1d

That's more like it!

Odd, I was using the Apple AI tools in the Photos app.

Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 1d

So issue 12 of The Power Fantasy? Well, I guess that explains the ending of 11 (and why Etienne is who he is). But then, holy crap, now we have another ending that ramps up the stakes still further...

Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 1d

Not here! It suggests that it is an American Nursery Web Spider, which it clearly is not. If only because this is Europe!

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 1d

Said spider on the ceiling.

A large brown spider on a white painted ceiling.

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 1d

Peter Gabriel already went there!

tidal.com/browse/track...

TIDAL - High Fidelity Music Streaming

TIDAL is the first global music streaming service with high fidelity sound, hi-def video quality, along with expertly curated playlists and original content — making it a trusted source for music and ...

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 1d

There is a giant housespider on the kitchen ceiling.

I guess we're living on takeout now.

(I wonder if it is on commission from Deliveroo.)

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 1d

I think it was this one; I remember it was opposite the old hospital and it seems to be the only mexican market in the area...

maps.app.goo.gl/pfV9K2hmKHWg...

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 1d

Imagine if it was an AWS service…

Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 1d

The asthma clinic at my local teaching hospital told me that turbohalers and similar gave better results as part of a dual purpose regime...

Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 1d

Nooooo!

Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 1d

Pretty sure it's been more than a decade since I last had an inhaler that used propellant. Even fpor emergency use.

Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 1d

Propellant-free inhalers have been the most common prescription in much of the developed world for a long time now.

CNN @cnn.com · 3d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 1d

Oh you need to; it is McDonald's masterwork. It's a story of islands in the storm of history, Peter Gabriel's Here Comes The Flood writ across a century and more.

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 1d

And yet Ian McDonald's Hopeland which reaches back to a historical C18 Ireland and forward to a world reshaped by the anthropocene is described purely as an SF novel, even though it's full of fantasy, of curses and blessings, of gods and Tesla coils...

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