I really appreciate this post from Scott Hanselman "Automatically Signing a Windows EXE with Azure Trusted Signing, dotnet sign, and GitHub Actions" https://www.hanselman.com/blog/automatically-signing-a-windows-exe-with-azure-trusted-signing-dotnet-sign-and-github-actions ....but seriously! […]

It’s the future 15/15 stars in 20 moves today in #additional ⭐3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣ https://additional.today

“Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith arrested, expected to be charged with war crime of murder” https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-07/ben-roberts-smith-war-crimes-allegations-arrest/106537668 Please 🙏

Taking 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 https://additional.today

https://www.intelligentliving.co/scientists-finally-figured-out-how-eels-reproduce/ 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 […]

Every 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 […]

Currently 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 […]

Every 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.

If 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 […]

It 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”

I've made a table of all the Jeeves and Wooster novels, with the common features of each story. https://wiki.secretgeek.net/jeeves-and-wooster-stories

I 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 […]

Once, 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

Updated the projects listed at https://leonbambrick.com/ This site has thumbnails and links for nerdy things i've created over the last few decades.

Reading “The Medici” by Paul Strathern. It’s quite the journey! Such a see-saw, across many generations.

Building a life-simulation which has sheep, wolves, and grass. Simple evolution. I’ve written this kind of thing a few times, i think three previous times. The challenge is always in “tuning” the system so the predators don’t drive the whole system to extinction. I’m feeling philosophical this […]

I complain multitudes

criticise empires all you want, but certain senators back in the roman empire days had some bright ideas, and we can all admire their pluck.

Watched the movie Hail Mary and I enjoyed it. I think it might be hard to understand or care about if you haven’t read the book. It’s a brave attempts to translate such a book into a film. But I admire the effort as much as the result. Meanwhile do some arithmetic. 15/15 stars in 23 moves […]

How I learned to stop worrying and love the cold steel embrace of the thieving nasty LLM overlords that took my life force

Paper umbrellas. Looks great. Seemed fine in the shop. But dissolves on contact with rain. This is my metaphor for most AI “products” - and really most software products, even before the AI craze, they’ve nearly all been paper umbrellas.

Happy international women’s day 15/15 stars in 18 moves today in #additional ⭐3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣ https://additional.today

Are you a psychoholic? It’s like being a chocoholic but instead of chocolates it’s psychology. Maybe you ”study” psychology, maybe you “read” about psychology, or maybe you even have a psychology of your own? Maybe you should see someone about that? I suggest a chocolatier.

Coach said to me “you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” so I shot him.

Currently reading “Histories” by Tacitus, a set of books written around AD 100. It’s very serious and heavy going, dealing with a turbulent time, much valour, treachery, impudence, heroism; but I’ll fall on my sword and die before I stifle my laughter at the mention of Emperor Otho’s elder […]

i found something stupid on the internet, blah blah, rhythm of a toot. i can't be bothered right now.

I fear that AI has completely surpassed the adult males ability to mansplain.

The big risk of AI isn’t from AI that’s unaligned with human goals, powerful AI aligned with human goals is the surest road to obliteration.

With modern software the only true limit is your imagination!! Sorry ha ha, I meant "patience". The hard limit is your patience. And however much patience you've got, it ain't nearly enough.

time wounds all heels

I contain multitudes. Gross yuck get them out help

Wandering around the Garden City shopping centre after surviving a near death experience, one finds it a hollow and meaningless Garden City shopping centre.

I keep learning the same lesson: In our society of disposable stuff we don’t prioritize maintenance, and (environmental concerns aside) that works out surprisingly ok except in one circumstance: Anything that sucks or blows (vacuum cleaner, pool system, pool robot, leaf blower, A/C, car A/C […]

in my hobby as a writer i've developed a new technique which i think would revolutionise the world, if it ever leaked into the brains of other writers. it is like this. 1/2

Coach to the team: you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. And Bambrick - you miss 100% of the shots you do take. Maybe next time, pass the ball.

Subjective and objective. Subjective is the understanding from the point of view of someone who is obviously biased. Objective is the understanding from the point of view of a narcissist who makes the ludicrous claim that they have no bias.

Woke up at 6 am - that is a time that apparently exists in the *morning* - like I’m one of those weird “morning lark” people who are always so annoying.

tshirt idea -- just these words FABIAN KILLED VINCENT VEGA

William Blake said: "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite." Which is a pretty stupid use of a metaphor. It should either be: "If the windows of perception were cleansed..." OR "If the doors of perception were opened..."

Koalas have opposable thumbs.

People don’t like thinking. We want shortcuts, and less thinking. Linguistically, Pronouns are supposed to make speech easier. E.g. instead of “Jack threw Jack’s ball at Jack’s brother” we use this handy variable called a pronoun — “Jack threw his ball at his brother” When we ask people to […]

Spaced Repetition for Kids — and idea whose time will come…. https://secretgeek.net/spaced_repetition_kids

The Droste effect is more officially known as Mise en abyme, according to the so called French anyhoo

Tailwind work pretty well, and it’s just “yet another” domain specific language. So often when we (engineers everywhere) create or enjoy or settle on a new “thing” it is a thing that owes its power of expression to some new “little language” inside itself. I argue that this is what made […]

a friend sent me the manuscript of a book he's written, seeking feedback. I think i'm the second person who has seen this. I wanted to read it, but really wanted to listen to it... so i converted it as follows: 1. Rich text file to text file (using c#) 2. text file to wav file (using […]

I’ve seen some messed up, inhumane shit in recent days. Don’t start me talking. Do mental arithmetic instead. 15/15 stars in 16 moves today in #additional ⭐3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣ https://additional.today

My kids used to have this deal whereby I’d pay them 1 cent for each leaf they retrieved from the bottom of the pool. Later we got a pool cleaning robot (dubbed “suckbot”) and it removed the leaves instead. So don’t tell me robots won’t replace us. They’ve already stolen my kids’ jobs.

"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation." Douglas Adams hit the head of the nail bang on with a sledge hammer when he wrote the […]

Important message.... part 1 of 2. Gmail uses this little ellipses indicator:

Consider the 3 body problem. Three masses orbiting each other in space — it can never be a stable system. Now consider every situation in your life. How much more complex it is than a simple 3 body problem. There’s never any guarantee of stability. Real life comes with no rock solid guarantees […]