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Brain, I know teeth brushing is an awesome time to get ideas but we are not opening up PowerPoint at 9:40pm to play with Morph transitions. Park it.

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 28/09/2026

Oh that was a good workout. Put up my weights for hack squat, lat pulldown and cable row. Next time I'll increase dumbbell bench press. Progress.

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 28/09/2026

Monday looks like FinOps, FinOps for AI and Tokenomics, as I prep for two events.

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 26/09/2026

Saturday afternoon and I'm ... troubleshooting Unreal Engine plugin issues.

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 26/09/2026

Saturday morning workout 💪

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 25/09/2026

One thing I've learnt as a speaker is to catch people's attention immediately. I don't start with "hello, thanks for having me, are you enjoying the event .." The opening line for my next talk just popped into my head. "The title of my talk is the wrong question to be asking."

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Justin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 23/09/2026

This is a white noise option

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 24/09/2026

Sometimes I don't want AI to make my slide deck for me but it's really helpful to say "Design this slide to have eight circle placeholders for photos with a title under each and a description under the title" and for it to just line up all my placeholders. (Copilot in PowerPoint)

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 23/09/2026

Apart from meetings, I've spent most of today making an internal slide deck that I wish existed. My hope is that Copilot will pick it up as a resource if people ask questions about this topic. It's a deck on purpose so people can steal slides if useful for other presentations.

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 22/09/2026

In the "back at the gym" mode where I'm restraining myself and it's a frustrating as heck. But I can't start too heavy. Baby steps are hard.

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 21/09/2026

Am I back at the gym? Heck yes. Have I blown out my right knee doing hack squats? I'm trying not to!

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 16/09/2026

Does it mean anything that in a word puzzle I saw "lawless" instead of "flawless"?

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 14/09/2026

"sorry dinner is late, kids, mum was troubleshooting her application deployment"

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 14/09/2026

Currently stuck between the determination to fix something versus the desire to delete it and start the deployment again. With the first, I'm learning a lot. The second option is much quicker.

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 13/09/2026

I snapped a plastic fin off the front of my car today because I thought she could handle the low speed hairpin turning circle. She could not. She kissed the tyre of a 4WD. It's not a big deal but I'm so mad at myself.

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 12/09/2026

Do fit people have cleaners because on my rest day I've already hit my step goal and my shoulder is burning from vacuuming.

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 10/09/2026

Did a new program at a new gym today. Will not be lifting my hair dryer tomorrow.

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 10/09/2026

I don't want a folding phone. I don't want self driving cars. I don't want AI generated images of me in the 80s. I want cures for cancer and no housing crisis and how we save our planet.

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 08/09/2026

I'm creating a Kubernetes cluster. What could possibly go wrong.

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 07/09/2026

Off to a charity dinner tonight so I'm preloading. It's a Monday night. I'm driving. So I'm chugging a protein water because your perimenopausal girl's gotta keep her grams up.

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 06/09/2026

Thinking of getting some new earbuds for the gym, after one too many times of having an AirPod eject and bounce under equipment. Recommendations? Pref noise cancelling. Not headphones.

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 05/09/2026

I highly recommend ignoring all your adult weekend responsibilities every one in a while, in favour of a patch of shade, your book, and an uninterrupted 4 hours. Oh and take snacks.

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 04/09/2026

Sometimes your app needs to live in different places, for reasons. Adaptive apps separate application intent from environment-specific implementation, and the open-source Radius project can help with that. Check out architecture guidance for Azure or Kubernetes: learn.microsoft.com/azure/archit...

learn.microsoft.com

Build Portable Applications with Adaptive Apps - Azure Architecture Center

See how adaptive apps can operate across diverse environments and conditions, including disconnected, sovereign cloud, on-premises, and hybrid topologies.

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 03/09/2026

Stunning day so I came outside to test my new portable monitor setup:

Thinkpad laptop with a Blaupunkt portable monitor on a timber table with tropical garden in the background

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 02/09/2026

*stares blankly at Inbox* Yes, I absolutely need to test this XBOX thing today, for work purposes.

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 02/09/2026

I'm old enough to know this mosquito zapper needs Winamp skins.

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 31/08/2026

Australian scientists are close to releasing an effective inhaler delivery system for five different women's fertility drugs, replacing their injections. More of this kind of innovation, please.

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Breaking Bad: Yeah, Science!

Alt: Breaking Bad: Yeah, Science!

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 31/08/2026

I did not want to go to Pilates. I went to Pilates. And now I feel a little happier. Stupid exercise endorphins.

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 30/08/2026

Saw this ad for sticking plasters for nurses and I wondered what the IT equivalent sayings could be .... "Dropping packets" "Tried rebooting" "Applying updates" "Failed checksum" "0x0000009C"

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 30/08/2026

Saw this ad for sticking plasters for nurses and I wondered what the IT equivalent sayings could be .... "Dropping packets" "Tried rebooting" "Applying updates" "Failed checksum" "0x0000009C"

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 30/08/2026

Tuesday is the first day of spring and winter is DONE in Brisbane (Celsius)

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 28/08/2026

Downgrade a movie: GUMS

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 27/08/2026

"There's a thin line between being a hero and being a memory." RIP Peter Cullen

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Merill Fernando 💚 @merill.net · 26/08/2026

Folks, I just re-started MSAI weekly, your weekly round up of the Microsoft AI updates worth knowing. Including Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Azure AI Foundry, Copilot Studio, Security Copilot, Microsoft Fabric, Agent 365, and more. Check it out at msai.ms and subscribe today.

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 26/08/2026

Female-led student short film seeking funding to help cover their costs. If you're able, they'd appreciate your support for this new portfolio piece to complete their University degrees! linktr.ee/justaskdaisy...

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Just Ask Daisy Official: Instagram | Linktree

A keen 1970s secretary pushed down by sexist coworkers starts to crack as a darker truth about herself emerges.

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 26/08/2026

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Just Ask Daisy Official: Instagram | Linktree

A keen 1970s secretary pushed down by sexist coworkers starts to crack as a darker truth about herself emerges.

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Official Commodore® @commodoreofficial.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We’re at gamescom! The exhibitor floor opens tomorrow, and we’ve brought a few things with us: ⌨️Commodore 64 Ultimate 📞 Commodore Callback 8020 👽 Alien Breed Collection 🕹️ TAC-2 Controller 👀 And something new... (No, it’s not Amiga. One day.) Come say hello in Hall 10.1 - Booth C059/B050. #gamescom

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 25/08/2026

I am an adult who had chicken nuggets and toast for dinner tonight. No regrets.

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 20/08/2026

There are a bunch of people I get to work with at Microsoft who are genuinely passionate about making things better. Better products. Better supporting materials. They light up my workday.

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 20/08/2026

I need to go sit in a forest.

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 20/08/2026

Unsubscribing from your emails shouldn't require me to give you more personal information, under the guise of "updating my profile".

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 19/08/2026

The revolution will be delayed while all of my apps update.

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 19/08/2026

Was in such a flow state today completing multiple things that I really didn't want to shut down my laptop. Love days like that.

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 17/08/2026

The work in my AI-assisted workflow is the human review, the tricky decision making. These reviews are where I could argue for or against my own decision but I have to draw a line. GitHub Copilot gave me good reasoning but I still overruled some.

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 16/08/2026

Monday in Australia. A webinar this afternoon & a documentation review I'm working through. About 30 articles to make a judgement call on before I start issuing PRs. Never thought I'd say Doc and PR in same sentence but at this scale (docs and people) it makes reviews much easier.

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 16/08/2026

Love that some of the D23 events are live-streamed on Disney+

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 14/08/2026

TIL the kids call it "ChattyG"

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Sonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 14/08/2026

There's a weird clash about asking AI to write a prompt you're going to paste into AI.

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