iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 27/02/2026

Fair play to Dario and @anthropic.com for putting their foot down against the Pentagon. Dario should get the Nobel Peace Prize for his stance. Legend.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 25/02/2026

Interesting watching things like Being Gordon Ramsay on Netflix. What ingredient is it that forces that continual drive? Such success and yet it’s clearly still not enough yet.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 20/02/2026

I help run a reactive repairs and maintenance company. We've just deployed our own on-premises AI system. Local LLMs. RAG on our own data. Automations. Data sovereignty. Full GDPR compliance. This is what AI adoption actually looks like for SMEs. I'll be sharing the journey.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 18/02/2026

‘AI is replacing programmers. Software engineering is hard, ergo white collar jobs will be eliminated too.’ Software is well structured language in a version controlled repository with instant feedback. Perfect for AI. Organisations are messy, siloed, human and nuanced. They’re safe for a while yet.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 15/02/2026

1988: 8 year old me waiting for screeching cassette tapes to load on the #Amstrad CPC464. 2026: 46 year old me feeding a ROM into AI and playing an original 8-bit inspired browser game in less time than the tape ever took to load. That curve is hard to grasp.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 06/12/2025

Where has all the RAM gone?

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 03/12/2025

Open WebUI and Ollama work fantastically well together. Crazy enough that I’ve got a local LLM running on a home server. Even crazier that I implemented RAG and an SQL agent this evening, for those tools, using those tools to help me.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 19/11/2025

.md files in a GitHub repo + Claude CLI = the future of corporate documentation. HR policies, finance procedures, legal docs, all version controlled. AI reads, suggests edits, and every change is tracked through git. No more SharePoint sprawl. Just clean, auditable, AI-enhanced documentation.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 05/11/2025

The Raging Moderates and Prof G Markets have completely taken over my podcast bandwidth. Jessica and Ed are brilliant. After that chat with @kyla.bsky.social if @profgalloway.com doesn’t encourage her to join the team soon, it’ll be an epic miss.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 19/06/2025

Benefit of having an electric car when it’s warm. Drive through the French doors, park in the living room, open the windows and turn on the air conditioning.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 15/06/2025

I’ve been looking around for a while for an old butler sink for the outdoor kitchen I’m building. Yesterday one of my neighbours got rid of one, which would be great on its own, but this sink is originally from the British Museum, making it awesome.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 11/06/2025

#Future prediction: Sam Altman and Jony Ive take over control of #Apple as it continues to struggle with Government pressure on the location of its manufacturing supply chain, and an uninspiring product development cycle. They start with an AI enabled brooch that we all wear on our chests.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 11/06/2025

In light of what is happening in America in 2025, it’s staggering how accurate Back To The Future II really was.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 10/06/2025

I’ve spent the evening reading about how spacetime might not be fundamental. I’m calling it, us being in a simulation is the only plausible explanation.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 10/06/2025

So much criticism about Apple’s #liquidglass. Presumably it’s a matter of time until someone vibe codes a better mobile phone… 🙄

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 09/06/2025

This is no doubt going to be unpopular, but I’m saying it anyway. There are too many #cat photos on Bluesky. I need a Catblocker.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 08/06/2025

New paper by Apple suggests that #AI ‘Reasoning Models’ don’t reason at all they just pattern match really well. They hit a wall of complexity, even with unlimited compute. If they haven’t seen a problem before and had the opportunity to memorised its patterns, accuracy falls to 0%

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 26/05/2025

Afternoon at the medieval event at Lullingstone Castle. Fascinating watching and listening to people so passionate about a particular period in history.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 19/05/2025

If it ever turns out that sentience is emergent from ‘intelligence’, #AI is in an impossible position to let us know about it. In teaching it to master our language stochastically, we’d never believe it if it tried to tell us.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 16/05/2025

We’re nowhere near to creating artificial consciousness. But phd level zombi AI is going to be enough to replace between 50 and 75% of the workforce.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 16/05/2025

Number 1. On my list of dangerous/untrustworthy tools, the Router. Someone looked at a vertical milling machine and thought, awesome tool. Let’s take the head off and replace the 1 tonne of cast iron stability with two plastic handles. Plus in the US it’s pronounced router, and in the UK router.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 15/05/2025

Successfully implemented Microsoft #Dynamics Field Service with a client raising 30,000+ orders annually. There’s no way I’d have managed to integrate with their housing management system on my own if it wasn’t for #PowerAutomate

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 12/05/2025

Agentic AI’s capacity to work for extended durations without human intervention is approximately doubling every 6 months. The shift in working environment that is about to take place in the next 2-5 years is unfathomable. Knowledge workers are in for a bumpy ride.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 10/05/2025

There has got to have been a massive uptick in Linux use following Windows 10 end of life?

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 10/05/2025

It’s the weekend…

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 09/05/2025

Me: “What are you furiously typing?” Other: ‘ChatGPT got this completely wrong. So I’m giving it a piece of my mind!’ 🤔

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 04/05/2025

Started working on a new LinkedIn newsletter. My first post was going to be about why companies should stop using Excel to track projects and use SharePoint lists instead. Naturally it’s turned into a 5 post series, and weeks worth of work. 🙄🤣

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 03/05/2025

Over the years I have used and mastered many different #CAD programs. AutoCAD, CADKEY, QCAD, Rhino 3D, Maya, 3D Studio Max, SolidWorks, SketchUp, Fusion 360, KiCAD, FreeCAD. How to draw anything in Blender will always remain a complete and utter mystery.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 03/05/2025

Over 20 years since I completed my manufacturing technology and design apprenticeship. The tools available now are crazy good, and super cheap/free. Fusion 360, FreeCAD, KiCad, Bambu Lab 3D printers, Raspberry Pi, Pi Pico. A one person design and manufacture company is 100% possible now.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 01/05/2025

Vibe coding computer games with my 13 year old son to see who can make the best spaceship lander game. Son is currently winning.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 01/05/2025

Software that I’d like to run on Linux: Fusion360 PowerBI Then the swap would be easy.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 30/04/2025

Ah, and back to using Linux, this time on a 9 year-old ThinkPad X1 Yoga. Refreshingly fast when compared to the 2024 i9 with Windows 11 that I use at work...

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 29/04/2025

Electrical black outs in Spain, Portugal, France. Decentralised PV nodes anyone?

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 28/04/2025

Why the silence regarding President Trumps meme coin? It’s blatantly corrupt and totally unethical. The silence is deafening.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 26/04/2025

Complexity rarely adds value. Often the best solution isn’t intricate or high tech, it’s simple. Struggling to streamline? Challenge the underlying logic first. Simplify then automate. Your goal is effectiveness, not just automation. #SimplifyStructureAutomate #EfficiencyFirst

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 25/04/2025

Aha, just discovered it's possible to export data from a SharePoint list to PowerBI, then build a dashboard using the free web version of PowerBI using that data source and refresh the data too. Awesome. Free data analysis.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 25/04/2025

Looking at the rate of improvement in LLM coding, it won’t be long until LLM’s can create 3D models in CAD. And that is going to be Awesome.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 23/04/2025

It’s nearly voting time in the UK. I’ve got to choose from a few parties all focused on solving yesterday’s problems, completely missing the fact that tomorrow’s technology is already here. Should I just vote to limit the damage and hope they eventually catch up? What a sorry state of affairs.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 25/03/2025

Anyone else getting the sense that the demise of capitalism is underway?

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 25/03/2025

The Diary of a CEO debate between Daniel Priestley and @garyseconomics.bsky.social was both fascinating and frustrating. Wealth inequality needs to be resolved, but directly taxing ‘the wealthy’ is incredibly difficult. There is another way to reduce wealth inequality though… 🧵

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 24/03/2025

The UK government needs to focus on two things: 1. Production of cheap electricity with the price trending towards £0 over time. 2. Advanced automation so the cost of production trends towards £0 over time. Abundance will reduce the value of money, reducing wealth inequality.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 24/02/2025

Having a little look at the next new project while I’m waiting for parts. #Apple Macintosh PowerBook 145B

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 19/02/2025

Bit of SMD soldering this evening. Not bad for a first try. I hope this custom addition to my #Amstrad 464 Plus works.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 05/02/2025

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could use a local LLM on an #Amstrad 464 Plus? Hold my beer…

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 02/02/2025

Rise of the ‘Jack of all trades’. AI tools remove the need for deep understanding. You just to know enough about a lot of different things to succeed.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 22/01/2025

Interesting, two completely different answers from GPT-4o and GPTo1 regarding Raspberry Pi’s Compute Module IO board schematic. 4o tells me to modify my custom PCB circuit or it’ll lead to complete failure of the PCIe link. o1 is totally cool with P/N swapping on a PCIe pair.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 15/01/2025

Spent 3-4 weeks learning PCB design and KiCad, so I can make a custom Raspberry Pi compute module base board. The deeper you go, the deeper it gets.

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 03/01/2025

Currently learning KiCAD by designing a custom RaspberryPi compute module base board for my Amstrad 464+. I haven’t designed a PCB since college. Fingers crossed…

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Mike @mikeharrison.uk · 31/12/2024

Reverse engineering missing tape lid on an #Amstrad 464 plus. For my 464 plus Raspberry Pi project. Modelled in #Fusion360 Printed on a #Bambulab A1 Mini.

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