👨‍💻 Used to write code, now writes words about code 📘 Azure AI Services At Scale🦎O'Reilly 💻 Beats: enterprise, dev, cloud 🙋‍♂️ Vrai Jerri, bird photos, SFF writer, reader, ally, he/him/they 🐈‍⬛ calico floofs 📧 simon@sandm.co.uk 🌍 sbisson.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/sbisson.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/sbisson.com/post/3mx4skr2jv223It is hot in Nimes, so we stopped for ice cream. @marypcbuk.bsky.social’s came with its own parrot.05 Oct 2026 11:24 +0000at://did:plc:4ikfvfsb2iutyfedfijiflmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mx4skr2jv223https://bsky.app/profile/sbisson.com/post/3mx35im7iik27The Comfort Aparthotel is ideal for geeks like me: our 6th floor room has a balcony looking out over the station, where I can sit in the warm Occitan night air and watch the trains go by.04 Oct 2026 19:35 +0000at://did:plc:4ikfvfsb2iutyfedfijiflmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mx35im7iik27https://bsky.app/profile/sbisson.com/post/3mx2mlg57g22dNimes is delightfully Roman. With a side order of crocodiles. A great place to break a Barcelona to London rail journey.04 Oct 2026 14:32 +0000at://did:plc:4ikfvfsb2iutyfedfijiflmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mx2mlg57g22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/sbisson.com/post/3mwy533xpfs2fSat in Barcelona Sants station and a push alert goes off; so many phones blaring the alert signal. Flood warning for heavy rain tonight.03 Oct 2026 14:49 +0000at://did:plc:4ikfvfsb2iutyfedfijiflmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwy533xpfs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/sbisson.com/post/3mwxuu4ljsc2rFor the lion and the lamb. La Sagrada Família through a rainstorm from Montjuic.03 Oct 2026 12:22 +0000at://did:plc:4ikfvfsb2iutyfedfijiflmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwxuu4ljsc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/sbisson.com/post/3mwxpll62jc2x22 years ago today. Happy anniversary @marypcbuk.bsky.social!03 Oct 2026 10:48 +0000at://did:plc:4ikfvfsb2iutyfedfijiflmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwxpll62jc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/sbisson.com/post/3mwqwymhczc2oThere is a bird here called the Spotless Starling, and I wonder if it should have been Lady Macbeth’s totem?30 Sep 2026 18:12 +0000at://did:plc:4ikfvfsb2iutyfedfijiflmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwqwymhczc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/sbisson.com/post/3mwqspiuu4c23Barcelona really wants to be cyberpunk.30 Sep 2026 16:55 +0000at://did:plc:4ikfvfsb2iutyfedfijiflmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwqspiuu4c23https://bsky.app/profile/sbisson.com/post/3mwqqnm2pfk23Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestOfTheMonth. Through a mix of work and illness I did not get any official birding in, so my best is a view through a dirty TGV window of flamingoes and other waterbirds in the Camargue. Birding at 250kph! #birds #birding #france #flamingo30 Sep 2026 16:18 +0000at://did:plc:4ikfvfsb2iutyfedfijiflmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwqqnm2pfk23https://bsky.app/profile/sbisson.com/post/3mwoshoeu522oDistant lightning and the rising moon over Barcelona.29 Sep 2026 21:45 +0000at://did:plc:4ikfvfsb2iutyfedfijiflmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwoshoeu522ohttps://bsky.app/profile/sbisson.com/post/3mwny6yvwl2lnBack when the AI boom began I thought people would regret the failure of the semantic web. I'm at a data event in Barcelona, and baby, it's back. Big time. Time to brush up on your XSLT. I mean, I've been able to mention UNVTD formats and people have understood what I am talking about.29 Sep 2026 13:55 +0000at://did:plc:4ikfvfsb2iutyfedfijiflmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwny6yvwl2lnhttps://bsky.app/profile/sbisson.com/post/3mwnh57njuc2eI29 Sep 2026 08:50 +0000at://did:plc:4ikfvfsb2iutyfedfijiflmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwnh57njuc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/sbisson.com/post/3mwngakyyb22eMicrosoft adding ontology support to Fabric OneLake. RDF is back baby! (I was one of the RDF leads in an ecommerce consultancy back in 2001 or so. Dublin Core FTW.)29 Sep 2026 08:34 +0000at://did:plc:4ikfvfsb2iutyfedfijiflmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwngakyyb22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/sbisson.com/post/3mwnay2x2js2eGood morning Barcelona. Thank you for the two phone alerts last night. Four phones. Two alerts. Pandemonium!29 Sep 2026 07:00 +0000at://did:plc:4ikfvfsb2iutyfedfijiflmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwnay2x2js2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/sbisson.com/post/3mwlwfdaqck2cToday's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BokehBirds. Photographing pigeons on our roof with a long lens at short range through the catio wire fence gives interesting bokeh effects. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #putney #pigeon28 Sep 2026 18:18 +0000at://did:plc:4ikfvfsb2iutyfedfijiflmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwlwfdaqck2chttps://bsky.app/profile/sbisson.com/post/3mwlljrlaj222The view from the hotel lift instantly gives me an Alan Parsons Project earworm.28 Sep 2026 15:03 +0000at://did:plc:4ikfvfsb2iutyfedfijiflmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwlljrlaj222https://bsky.app/profile/sbisson.com/post/3mwl5jcynfc2dSolar farm in Perpignan with fruit trees growing under the panels.28 Sep 2026 10:52 +0000at://did:plc:4ikfvfsb2iutyfedfijiflmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwl5jcynfc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/sbisson.com/post/3mwl4ys4svc2dTerribly dirty windows on this TGV, but the white dots are a potato phone shot of flamingoes near Narbonne. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #narbonne #flamingo28 Sep 2026 10:43 +0000at://did:plc:4ikfvfsb2iutyfedfijiflmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwl4ys4svc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/sbisson.com/post/3mwl2rnnzac2iActually saw a pair of Camargue flamingoes from our TGV as it sped along a narrow spit of land alongside the etangs.28 Sep 2026 10:03 +0000at://did:plc:4ikfvfsb2iutyfedfijiflmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwl2rnnzac2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/sbisson.com/post/3mwjqjxxfdk25Sitting in a hotel room in Provence eating crisps and going through my editor's line edits on Chapter 1, as you do.27 Sep 2026 21:28 +0000at://did:plc:4ikfvfsb2iutyfedfijiflmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwjqjxxfdk25https://bsky.app/profile/sbisson.com/post/3mwj5rkahn227How fast is a TGV? Ours just overtook a light aircraft taking off from an airfield beside the tracks…27 Sep 2026 15:52 +0000at://did:plc:4ikfvfsb2iutyfedfijiflmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwj5rkahn227https://bsky.app/profile/sbisson.com/post/3mwiwy44bns2y🎶“Don Dan Daaann!”🎶 The sound of SNCF.27 Sep 2026 13:50 +0000at://did:plc:4ikfvfsb2iutyfedfijiflmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwiwy44bns2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/sbisson.com/post/3mwiwul32ok2yLille Europe. It is concrete and glass.27 Sep 2026 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:4ikfvfsb2iutyfedfijiflmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwiwul32ok2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/sbisson.com/post/3mwiojkoojs2oFirst time into the EU with an Irish passport. Freedom of movement is back!27 Sep 2026 11:19 +0000at://did:plc:4ikfvfsb2iutyfedfijiflmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwiojkoojs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/sbisson.com/post/3mwigxmmud22uToday's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Seabirds and the Alt is #Airborne. I take a lot of photos of the gulls down on the delta, and this fishing black-headed gull gives me a twofer as it takes off, vertically. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #wandle #gull27 Sep 2026 09:04 +0000at://did:plc:4ikfvfsb2iutyfedfijiflmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwigxmmud22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/sbisson.com/post/3mwgp7lxyzkynThe brackets for our solar installation were due to arrive in November. Guess what turned up this monring with no warning?26 Sep 2026 16:26 +0000at://did:plc:4ikfvfsb2iutyfedfijiflmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwgp7lxyzkynhttps://bsky.app/profile/sbisson.com/post/3mwgbhrowmk2xToday's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Pairs, photos with pairs of the same species in them. The Alt theme is #Green. A pair of black-headed gulls along St Clement's Bay give us a twofer by flying over an emerald-green sea. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #jersey #gull26 Sep 2026 12:20 +0000at://did:plc:4ikfvfsb2iutyfedfijiflmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwgbhrowmk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/sbisson.com/post/3mwemchccvkre100 words to go in chapter one. And it is making sense!25 Sep 2026 20:28 +0000at://did:plc:4ikfvfsb2iutyfedfijiflmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwemchccvkre