Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026That EE Cummings poem that goes — And nobody, not even the rain, has such tiny hands Should’ve said: And nobody, not even the rain, has such tiny hands, except a Tyrannosaurus Rex because it has incredibly tiny hands you have no idea 010 1
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026When it rains in Brisbane, drivers go absolutely nuts, as if they’re racing homes to get the washing off the line and will murder anyone who crosses their path. It’s been dry lately, but this morning there was the finest mist of drizzle. Cue the madness. I’ve seldom seen such carnage. 100 1
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026“Currently reading Moby Dick” levels of madness 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026Can’t sleep. Hoping for a Carrington event. 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026So now I’m going back again, I’ve got to get to her somehow. All the people we used to know they’re an illusion to me now. 100 1
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026Just resetting the counter here… It has been “0” days Since a regex Fucked up my shit 101 1
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026Digital Peasants fed on scraps of token 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026Cells are now florps. Functions flow sideways. techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/mi…techcommunity.microsoft.comExcel now supports multiple values in a single cellComments 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026I’m a software developer as well as an artist. My feelings about using AI to write software are very different from my feelings about using AI to create art. 100 1
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026Fans of Will Poulter will raise an eyebrow to this amazing deal 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026Everyday is a school day when you make enough mistakes 103 3
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026Dumbest name in cryptozoology: “Big Foot”. What… like he’s just got the one of them? “I only seen him real quick he definitely had one big foot. I don’t want to make assumptions regarding the other foot. For all I know it was quite petite.” 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026An impish figure reclines on a couch. “What I want to know is, why ‘demon?’ I mean, why can’t I just be known as, I don’t know, ‘Maxwell’s hard working little buddy?’” 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026Schrödinger wakes up, groggy, no memory of the last few hours, unsure of his surroundings. He seems to be confined inside some kind of box. There is a strange mechanism at one end. His pulses quickens; from outside he hears a cat purring. 011658 116
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026I’ve had a very clever idea for a new kind of calendar app that will ensure you never forget an appointment again. There are three things to know: 1. In life, it is very easy to forget an appointment. 2. It is almost impossible to forget an occasion on which you have been embarrassed or insulted […]aus.socialOriginal post on aus.social 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026Schrödinger could’ve just used a transparent box 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026Never buy a hat from a man with no head. 101 1
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026Here’s another painting I did at Bad Art Group today. This is a watercolour of Stitch. (And the figurine used as a model) 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026I painted this today at “Bad Art Group” 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026Teach Amanda Fish. She’ll go off and teach the whole Fish family. But what about all the other families? 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026Were the pyramids built by slaves? —— “The pyramids were built by free people” “Really? You’d fink it would take more dan dat.” 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026Hey there. I've released a game! Just minutes ago. You are the first to know. Blog post here: - secretgeek.net/factory-fields - free online demo is here: factory.secretgeek.net ....and you can buy the full game at itch .io here: - devshop.itch.io/factory-fields 100 1
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026(Important step in blessing a new account) 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026The server I used to be on has been getting steadily worse so I’ve moved here instead. Send toot. 110 1
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026Don't put the logic in the view. Or the controller. Or the model. Or the database. Just turn off the computer. Go and read a book. 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026The existence of 4/4 time implies the existence of 4/4 space 101 1
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026Perception alone can’t distinguish between the illusory and factual, certainly not before coffee. 15/15 stars in 17 moves today in #additional ⭐3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣ additional.todayadditional.todayAdditionalA daily maths game. 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026Rightio. I've made a game and I'm going to put it out on itch.io. Any of you lot got any thoughts or experience with itch.io? 110 1
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are […]mastodon.cloudOriginal post on mastodon.cloud 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-13/visu… Nice work @phocksabc.net.auElon Musk is the world's first trillionaire. Here's what that looks likeElon Musk has become the world's first trillionaire. It is hard to fathom a figure so staggering, but let's give it a shot. 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026I've did a blog post! Remember those?, Like they had in the olden days of yore. You can read it for free! No pop-ups, no payment demands, nothing exciting like that, just powerful and inspiring words: secretgeek.net/solid 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026Visual Studio IDE feels like a palatial, dilapidated mansion -- once opulent, now creaking -- haunted, leaky, infested, terrifying, Dickensian, Poesque, macabre... you expect to see it pictured in the background as a developer in the foreground, flees, screaming. 010 1
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026“Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players (reuters.com)” I’ll save you a click: it’s a brick wall. 010 1
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026If you’re going through hell, keep going, as they say. But also, be sure to stop at a souvenir shop. Hell is bound to have some really awesome t-shirts, for example. 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026Do you like my new glasses? I just got them. I’m supposed to be able to see better but I can’t see anything. 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026I’m watching the Count of Monte Cristo series on SBS and there is some background music they use during many moments of high drama, and it reminds me very much of some specific portion from “Shine on You Crazy Diamond” — is anyone else tortured by this? 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026Made this fun little interactive blobby game thing secretgeek.github.io/fizz-ball At first i was making a lava-lamp simulator, but when i got this weird/fun interaction between blobs, i leaned into it.secretgeek.github.ioFizz Ball 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026I really appreciate this post from Scott Hanselman "Automatically Signing a Windows EXE with Azure Trusted Signing, dotnet sign, and GitHub Actions" www.hanselman.com/blog/automaticall… ....but seriously! […]mastodon.cloudOriginal post on mastodon.cloud 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026It’s the future 15/15 stars in 20 moves today in #additional ⭐3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣ additional.todayadditional.todayAdditionalA daily maths game. 100 1
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026“Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith arrested, expected to be charged with war crime of murder” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-07/ben-… Please 🙏abc.net.auLive moment: Ben Roberts-Smith expected to be charged with war crimesOne of Australia's most decorated soldiers, Ben Roberts-Smith, has been arrested and is expected to be charged with five counts of the war crime of murder. 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026Taking a brief break from fighting an incoming wave of AI enabled spam to perform some mental arithmetic 15/15 stars in 17 moves today in #additional ⭐3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣ additional.todayadditional.todayAdditionalA daily maths game. 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026www.intelligentliving.co/scientists… Secret of eel sex finally revealed, Sigmund Freud finally proved right! Or maybe Freud was wrong? I don’t know what Freud thought about Eels reproducing I only know he spent like 10 years dissecting them to try […]mastodon.cloudOriginal post on mastodon.cloud 100 1
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026Every time some half-wit website insists I deal with a popup instead of the thing I'm trying to do, I feel like shouting like Aunt Dahlia from Jeeves and the Feudal spirit -- "The next subhuman gargoyle that comes butting in and distracting my thoughts when I am trying to wrestle with vital […]mastodon.cloudOriginal post on mastodon.cloud 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026Currently listening to and enjoying the 2012 re-recording of War of the Worlds with Liam Neeson as the journalist. Really enjoying it. Liam is such a bad ass though that I imagine he’d just kick the Martian’s ass. He’d face stomp that red weed and tell it to fuck off back to mars and it would […]mastodon.cloudOriginal post on mastodon.cloud 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026Every time I try using AI to assist when writing code, I also get this overwhelming feeling that I need to go and water the lawn with Brawndo. 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026If you let codepilot (for example) make changes within a repo, there’s no way to say “btw don’t *ever* touch this specific file.” And similarly, no way to put a fence around a specific piece of code. “Don’t mess with this bit, thanks, skynet.” These are really simple things to ask for. But we […]mastodon.cloudOriginal post on mastodon.cloud 100 1
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026It has long been my contention - and none have ever dared counter the notion - that the show “Bones” (starring Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz) should’ve been called “Cheek Bones” 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/03/2026I've made a table of all the Jeeves and Wooster novels, with the common features of each story. wiki.secretgeek.net/jeeves-and-woos…wiki.secretgeek.netJeeves and Wooster Stories (wiki.secretGeek.net) 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/03/2026I struggle to understand how software has gotten just so incredibly bad. How every gain made by hardware has been eaten up, many times over, resulting in crap that is at the absolute outer limit of usable. Why is there no general boycott, no rising up of pitchfork welders, no popular […]mastodon.cloudOriginal post on mastodon.cloud 000 0
Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2026Once, if I remember rightly, my life was a feast where all hearts opened, and all wines flowed. One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her. I armed myself against Justice. I fled. O sorceresses, O misery, O hatred, it was to you my treasure was entrusted 000 0