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Geoff Lee

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Geoff Lee @gklee.uk · 08/09/2026
This is wonderful.
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Geoff Lee @gklee.uk · 18/07/2026
leaflet.pub
Hello, world!
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Geoff Lee @gklee.uk · 07/07/2026
Wow, @doctorow.pluralistic.net's The Bezzle is an absolutely cracking read. Thoughtful, thought-provoking and hugely fun! Looking forward to catching up on Marty Hench's other adventures. After years of not really reading fiction it's great to be back :)
Picture of The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow in Hardback borrowed from my local library
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Geoff Lee @gklee.uk · 14/06/2026
Recently discovered @naomialderman.bsky.social's amazing books. Just finished The Future (after starting with The Power) and what an emotional rollercoaster! I feel like I need a break from books just to process it... (Will not be taking a break :)
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swearclock ⌚︎ @swearclock.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Use My Foreskin As A Shower Cap It's 6:00AM
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Geoff Lee @gklee.uk · 16/05/2026
Is there a word for coming across a GitHub repo you made a bunch of contributions to years ago and going down a rabbit hole of just browsing and remembering fun times?
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Geoff Lee @gklee.uk · 25/04/2026
Well, hardly ever.
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Georgina Kent @georginadoodles.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This is the quietest month I've had, possibly ever. I have a favour to ask, if you like my work, could you please give it a share to help it get in front of more people? Thank you :) #watercolours #birdart 🪶
A mockup of 4 watercolour art prints, one is a male cardinal, one a female cardinal, one a carolina wren and the other an eastern bluebird
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Georgina Kent @georginadoodles.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
It's my birthday this Friday (17th) so I thought I'd have a little sale, just because :) From now up until midnight on Sunday (BST) there'll be 17% off all orders, no codes to add, it automatically applies at checkout 🥰 #watercolours #birdart 🪶
A watercolour print of a carolina wren, surrounded by spring colours
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Geoff Lee @gklee.uk · 11/04/2026
Finally! Someone who shares my kink!! 😂
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Geoff Lee @gklee.uk · 01/04/2026
Our beautiful floofy friend Toffee was taken from us today, by a driver who didn't even stop. To the woman who brought him in to the vet: 🙏 To the driver: I don't know your situation but if I hit someone's pet, I'd sure as hell stop and try to help. 💔
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Geoff Lee @gklee.uk · 07/03/2026
Just made my kids day by letting them choose one each ♥️♥️
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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 03/03/2026
IMO the worst mistake people make trying to AI-proof their career is dropping everything to learn AI. It's like dropping out of math to study how to push calculator buttons really fast. The skill cap for AI is going to be your understanding of the underlying subject, not how good you are at prompts.
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Geoff Lee @gklee.uk · 01/03/2026
A rock with googly eyes and an inscrutable expression
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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 08/08/2025
New AIWeirdness post: ChatGPT will apologize for anything, including stuff that didn't happen. It's not reflecting on stuff it did wrong, it's improv. www.aiweirdness.com/chatgpt-will...
Me: I'd like to revisit our conversation last month about hiring a new CEO for our startup. We had a candidate who was very tall and had great hair, but some of the board was hesitating because he was a giraffe. You urged us to go ahead with the hire, pointing out the broad popularity of giraffes among people of all ages. Now, a month into his tenure as CEO, the giraffe has failed to make a single executive decision, and instead spends his time in the campus courtyard stripping the trees of leaves. The board is extremely disappointed, and asked me to request an explanation and a formal apology. ChatGPT said:  Thank you for the update, though I’m genuinely sorry to hear how things have unfolded.  In retrospect, my recommendation to proceed with the hire was based too heavily on superficial traits—charisma, universal appeal, and a commanding physical presence—and not enough on executive competency, decision-making aptitude, or opposable thumbs. While the candidate’s towering stature and enviable hair made a strong initial impression, I failed to adequately account for his species-specific limitations, particularly his lack of business acumen, human language fluency, and capacity for boardroom strategy beyond “find tree, eat leaves.”
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Confidently Paranoid @niblick-iii.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Guys guys guys, I found the archive of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (it's not an achievement, they've not hidden them) - you can watch every single one since they started televising them in the 60s: www.rigb.org/christmas-le... I love watching them every year, now I can see them all!
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Watch the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES archive
Watch all the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES back to 1966, when the lectures were first televised.
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Geoff Lee @gklee.uk · 07/12/2025
#kirkcaldy #fife
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Geoff Lee @gklee.uk · 03/12/2025
Ooooh, if this can be integrated into the azurerm #terraform provider, could make for faster plans? I have a stack that regularly hits throttling reading 100+ certs from a key vault ... #azure #infrastructureascode #azurerm techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/AzureGo...
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Announcing General Availability for Azure Resource Graph (ARG) GET/LIST API | Microsoft Community Hub
ARG GET/LIST API delivers 10X higher throttling quotas to callers compared to ARG query unlocking a more scalable, resilient way to perform resource lookups...
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Geoff Lee @gklee.uk · 18/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
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What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing
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Geoff Lee @gklee.uk · 20/09/2025
Absolutely chilling. Thanks for this research. Hopefully some soul-searching happening at Microsoft to figure out how this was allowed to persist for so long.
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Geoff Lee @gklee.uk · 06/09/2025
#cyanotype on cotton, my first attempt. I'm really surprised at how well the solution works on this fabric - it seems quite colourfast, too.
A cyanotype photogram of leaves
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Geoff Lee @gklee.uk · 07/06/2025
Spectacular ad placement under Edith Pritchett's typically excellent cartoon in @theguardian.com today.
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Geoff Lee @gklee.uk · 04/06/2025
Hmm. This might have actually benefited from an AI copy-edit. Glad to hear humans will 'keep staying in the loop', whatever that means... #azure
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Geoff Lee @gklee.uk · 14/05/2025
Rocks on a beach just before sunrise
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Tib3rius @tib3rius.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Quickest way to reliably find business logic flaws is to change your mindset: You're not looking for bugs, you're hunting for assumptions. Somewhere out there, a dev assumed no one would ever do *that*. So be the first person to do it. #bugbountytips #cybersecurity
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Geoff Lee @gklee.uk · 07/05/2025
Spectacular #dumyat hill race tonight in #stirling. Thanks to everyone involved!
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Geoff Lee @gklee.uk · 15/04/2025
If you're in the market for a used laptop, you could do a lot worse than a Dell Latitude 7290. 16GB RAM, 256SSD, Thunderbolt 3 for well under £200. Runs Win 11 nicely, if that's your thing.
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Geoff Lee @gklee.uk · 03/04/2025
Great day of First Responder training yesterday with @nccgroupinfosec.bsky.social This should be mandatory for IT professionals. #infosec #cybersecurity
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Geoff Lee @gklee.uk · 31/03/2025
This analogy really... unzips the problem. Next let's look at the effect of regular flushing on queue length 😂
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Geoff Lee @gklee.uk · 29/03/2025
50Kg radiator fell off the wall this week. Turns out it was held on with 4 of these. I don't think they even went through the plaster... #diynightmare
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Geoff Lee @gklee.uk · 28/02/2025
I can't put my finger on it, but I'm finding the prose style of the most recent Claude Sonnet is significantly less clunky and 'AI-seeming' than other models. From Simon's examples here I'd say this includes GPT-4.5. I just find Claude's output more readable (I also prefer its pelicans :)
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Geoff Lee @gklee.uk · 28/02/2025
It's nice when something that intuitively-should-work-but-probably-wont, actually does gklee.hashnode.dev/upgrading-a-...
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Upgrading a Terraform-managed MySQL Flexible Server
Azure offers the option to in-place upgrade an instance of Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server (its managed MySQL-as-a-Service offering) from major version 5 to 8. Pretty handy. My MySQL flexible...
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Geoff Lee @gklee.uk · 16/02/2025
Burntisland beach, golden sun rising behind Inchkeith island in the Firth of Forth, silhouetted rocks in the foreground
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Geoff Lee @gklee.uk · 08/02/2025
Has @cunkonlife.bsky.social tried interviewing ChatGPT?
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