Principal Solution Architect with over two decades of experience, I specialise in designing secure, scalable solutions using Azure, MS 365, C#
Glasgow, Scotland
Joined June 2025
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Iain Rae Lennox retweeted
We mourn the passing of Patrick Stewart, who inspired countless individuals at NASA (and beyond) to boldly go where no one has gone before.
ALT Image description: A packed, sparkling starfield captured by our Hubble telescope — with strange new worlds potentially awaiting. Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, R. Cohen
Iain Rae Lennox retweeted
This was the moment I had dream of, the moment I had feared. Patrick Stewart walking onto the bridge of the USS Enterprise that I had recreated. Would he hate it would he love it. What would this moment feel like. For months we agonized over every detail, then the moment came and he walked onto the bridge and moved to the chair that had helped define his career and he sat down. I clicked the shot as that smile fell over his face. This is how I will remember him. Such an honor to have had the opportunity to work with such an extraordinary individual. He will be greatly missed.
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If you haven't had the chance. Listen to his autobiography on audiobook as he narrates it himself. I listened to it on one long roadtrip during a very challenging time and it's truly a gift.
Iain Rae Lennox retweeted
Word and Excel reimagined for Linux with full compatibility! Maybe we don't need that Microsoft port of Office after all?
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Iain Rae Lennox retweeted
So i started using the Surface Laptop Ultra at GitHub Universe. And its good.
But I am independent, and I will always speak my mind.
I switched from a Mac and set up Outlook accordingly. And what I discovered is:
Outlook has ads. What the heck? Outlook displays advertisements right above my important emails.
What is this about? Is Microsoft actually serious? I’m speechless. How is it possible to build such good hardware, only to develop software that runs so completely counter to that?
An absolute deal-breaker.
Yeah, going back to Apple Mail without ads. Absurd. completely absurd.
Iain Rae Lennox retweeted
I am deeply saddened to learn of Walter Koenig’s passing.
Although we did not know each other well away from the set, we shared the later seasons of the original Star Trek series and the six films that followed.
What I observed, and what so many fans have expressed over the years, was a man who genuinely loved the Star Trek community.
At conventions, Walter was rarely content to remain behind a signing table. He preferred to be among the people who had kept Star Trek alive for so many decades.
That kind of genuine connection is rare, and it will be remembered by everyone who came into contact with him.
My condolences to his family, his friends, and the countless fans whose lives he touched.
Iain Rae Lennox retweeted
“America made the first electronic computer to win a war. “
You’re referring to the ENIAC, I presume.
Respectfully, it wasn’t made to “win a war” but rather it was first created to produce ballistic tables for artillery, and even then it wasn’t fully operational until after war.
There is of course the Attenasoft-Berry computer the preceeded and marginally influenced the design of the ENIAC, but that was really more of a graduate student project then a fully functional computer.
If you want to name a computer designed “win a war” my vote would be the Colossus, inspired by Turing, built by Tommy Flowers, and operational at @bletchleypark in the United Kingdom. It was used to decode encrypted communication among the German High command, and it quite literally changed the course of the war, perhaps shortening it by two years.
Iain Rae Lennox retweeted
Shaming developers for using AI to contribute to open source is the new insisting real programmers don’t use @StackOverflow.
Judge the PR, not the tools used to create it.
Iain Rae Lennox retweeted
reddit runs on Linux. Which now has AI contributions.
Therefore, r/OpenSource has to delete itself.
Iain Rae Lennox retweeted
This broadly matches my experience.
Iain Rae Lennox retweeted
Bad news! It has been discovered that as I have no passport I am an illegal immigrant!
It turns out that means I have to be given a house and a car! Thank you Scotland!
🤖 Made with AI
Iain Rae Lennox retweeted
When in doubt, just use C# and ASP.NET Core.
It's blazing fast.
.NET 11 RC2 is even faster.
For me, it's the best overall major web framework - auth, config, logging, perf, modular middleware, DI, cross-plat, etc.
But I didn't expect this:
Iain Rae Lennox retweeted
Imagine being so utterly devoid of wonder, ambition and imagination that you can't comprehend the possibilities of flying cars.
Iain Rae Lennox retweeted
You should be fascinated hitting the power button on your computer.
Every boot on an x86 machine iterates through the entire sequence of computing evolution in a few milliseconds:
Stage 1:
16-bit Real Mode, acts like an 8086 from ~1978. 500ns (ish); about 15-30 instructions. Goal of this stage is to create a writeable stack+heap.
Stage 2:
32-bit Protected Mode, acts like a 386 from ~1985. Tens of millions of instructions; takes forever on DDR5 /w memory training. Temporarily uses L2/L3 “cache-as-ram” to kickstart main ram (Intel calls this NEM).
Stage 3:
64-bit Long Mode, acts like AMD64 from ~2003. Hundreds of millions of instructions; enumerate pcie devices, gpu, bootloader, etc.
Stage 4+:
Secondary core wakeup. Every *single* core has to go through the same process, but by this point it’s faster because Main RAM is warmed up.
Stage 2 is just so neat man. Quite literally the same concept as an APU/cart start. Use the smaller motor (L2/L3) to kickstart the main turbine (Main Ram) and execute the training process.
Is that not just the coolest thing? Next time I’m annoyed waiting at the DDR5 training process, I’m going to imagine it’s spinning up SR71 turbines.
Iain Rae Lennox retweeted
Linus Torvalds says, rules prohibiting AI usage are “UTTERLY STUPID” and “idiotic”.
For the Linux kernel, Torvalds says, “we’re not going to make stupid rules that say ‘you can’t use tools for X’”.
Iain Rae Lennox retweeted
Ministers lied when they said the evidence behind their "Islamophobia" definition was deleted.
I exposed Labour's cover-up, and they have now been forced to correct the record.
It's almost certain extremist groups influenced the definition.
I'll keep fighting for the truth.
