I read “The Long Walk” in 1-day. So it must be a good book. Right?

I just one-shotted a 26 min YouTube video and that’s a good feeling. No edits needed.

I feel good. I managed to record a #CopilotStudio YouTube video in 1 take. This thing is being posted unedited tomorrow. Except for when I ran out of hard drive space and had to re record some.

“In my objectively correct opinion” is a phrase I’m going to start using. For comedic purposes of course. I’m not like that IRL.

3 strategies for choosing a topic to blog: 1. Solve a problem no one else has 🔥 2. Improve upon an existing method 🤓 3. Do the same thing, but explain it better 👶

I want to eliminate the words “deterministic” and “heuristic” from all explanations of AI. The average person does not understand what they mean.

New Blog Post 😃 In this #CopilotStudio I share how to open a PDF to the specific page where the citation is made. 📕 A colleague told me "this is the best use of customizing citations I've seen yet" 🌟 🔗 www.matthewdevaney.com/set-citation...

“Internet 2: No Bots Allowed” would be amazing if it ever came to exist.

I did not ask for this… #KeyboardCats ⌨️ 🐾 🐈‍⬛

I made a #YouTube video for the first time in a year. 📹 While filming a 10-min scene my daughter came into the room and asked for a snack. 🍎 Was making hand signals off camera to say “yes” while not breaking my speech. 👍 It was pretty funny to me & I left it in the video. Life happens. 😄

Hey buddy, I’m trying to work here 👋

I wrote a full guide on #PowerApps & #PowerAutomate deployment pipelines 😃 You can read part 2 & 3 right now! www.matthewdevaney.com/the-complete...

#PowerPlatform Pipelines & ALM Guide Part 2 & 3 are now released. Go get it now 📚 👉 www.matthewdevaney.com/the-complete...

Want to learn #PowerPlatform Pipelines to deploy #PowerApps and #PowerAutomate? 😎 Start here. It's a full multi-page guide 👇 🔗 www.matthewdevaney.com/the-complete...

I wrote a #PowerPlatform Pipelines ALM Guide 🔥 163 pages complete with visuals at every step Get it for FREE here. 👉 www.matthewdevaney.com/the-complete...

Why? 🐱

Sometimes I forget 🐘 #PowerAutomate can store 🏬 files on my hard drive 🚗

New Blog Post 😃 In this #PowerAutomate post I show how to save files to a local machine with a cloud flow ☁️ 🔗 www.matthewdevaney.com/power-automa...

Meanwhile, In Canada 🇨🇦

I wrote 6 #PowerPlatform articles today. So now I will rest for 6 weeks and drip them out one at a time 💧 But the neat thing is I might let people get them all at once if they sign up for my mailing list 📬 It will be a neat experiment to try 👨‍🔬

New Blog Post 😃 In this #PowerAutomate article I show how to get data from a #PowerBI dataset 📊 It’s off the charts. You can get thousands of rows and perform aggregations (sum, count, etc) 🔥 🔗 www.matthewdevaney.com/power-automa...

New Blog Post 😃 In this #PowerAutomate article I give examples of how to use the body function, actions function, and outputs function 👨‍💻 The actions function is best because you can get header values that don’t appear in the dynamic values list 🔥 🔗 www.matthewdevaney.com/power-automa...

My personal website for #PowerApps and #PowerAutomate is now Pagespeed = 100 on desktop. It’s party time!! 🥳

New Blog Post 😀 In this #PowerAutomate article I show how to use the item() function and the items() function 📚 If you want to master the craft of building flows its a great idea to study the flow expressions language 🏆 🔗 www.matthewdevaney.com/power-automa...

New Blog Post 😃 In this #PowerAutomate article I share how to extract data from a web page using by a cloud flow 🤖 You don’t always need Power Automate desktop to do web scraping 🖥️ 🔗 www.matthewdevaney.com/how-to-extra...

New Blog Post 😃 In this #PowerAutomate article I show how to get more than the 35 email maximum from an inbox 📬 We are going all the way to 999 emails 😎 🔗 www.matthewdevaney.com/how-to-get-o...

I ate a bag of “Limited Edition” chips. Achievement unlocked 🏆

I would like #CopilotStudio to include a headless web browser for its Agents. That way I could really browse the web the same way a human does.

Upcoming Feature Alert 🚨 #PowerApps will soon allow defining security roles by the values in a column (e.g. City equals Seattle) 🔒 Here’s how it will work 😊 1/3

United States can fuck off with its talk about “acquiring” Canada🖕 🇺🇸 That’s called “annexation.” And doing so would mean war. ⚔️

New Blog Post 😃 In this #PowerAutomate blog post I share how to host a webpage using a flow. 🛜 That’s right. A web page. Hosted. By a flow. 🔗 www.matthewdevaney.com/power-automa...

Third of January. Half-life 3 is also third. Half-life 3 confirmed.

“Illegitimi non carborundum” Translation: “Don’t let the bastards get you down.”

Happy Mew Year 🐱

Agents 🪄 Bots 🤖 and Workflows 🌊 All of these words have been used to describe the “mechanism” which performs automation. There is considerable overlap between them. And I have heard these words spoken interchangeably. It’s confusing! 🫤

AI Agents get people excited about the possibilities for automation. And I am all for it! 🤖 👍 The funny thing is that many times the proposed AI Agent use-case would be better as a traditional automation 👴 It’s important to know why a technology is the best fit to solve a problem 🤓 🧠

I am shocked to have 3,000 YouTube subscribers 😳 When did that happen?

#LinkedIn Statistics for 2024 📊 93k Engagements 5.6M Impressions I do not pay any attention to LinkedIn analytics but I thought I'd share for the heck of it.

New Blog Post 😃 In this #PowerPlatform article I build a flow to force sync users and update the Dataverse Team members when new users are added to an Entra Security group. Notice the cat getting being forced to take a bath? 🔗 www.matthewdevaney.com/force-sync-u...

This sax player goes hard 🎷 😎 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp5P...

Witcher 4 trailer is amazing. And Siri is the new protagonist!!! 🗡️ I’ll be playing this game the moment it releases. The Witcher series has always told great stories. 🔗 youtu.be/yWMu6JeT2g8?...

The factory must grow 🏭

I connected my own domain and now I have a new BlueSky username: @matthewdevaney.com

TIL there is a "Copy Set Name" feature in #Dataverse 😎 It is super helpful for #PowerAutomate when you are updating a Dataverse lookup and need to know the Entity Set Name. And the best part is that I wasn't the clever person who figured this out. It was my readers. Thanks guys!

In the “Age Of AI” the best developers will still be the ones who know how to RTFM 🤖

New Blog Post 😃 In this #PowerAutomate article I show how to update a lookup column in #Dataverse 👀 Everytime I have to do this I forget the lookup syntax so I wrote this article so I will never forget again 🐘 🔗 www.matthewdevaney.com/power-automa...

Amazing Tip 🔥🔥🔥 Copy and paste the Fetch XML from #PowerApps into a List Rows action in #PowerAutomate to filter results without writing any code 😎

I swore I would never build another Lego after that Tuxedo cat. One and done I said. 🐈‍⬛ Now Lego has model of THE ENDURANCE so I might have to make it two and done 🛳️ www.lego.com/en-ca/produc...

Pagination is useful when #PowerAutomate requires more records than a single fetch allows 🐘 Always pagination to 100,000 records and the top count to 5,000 records on SharePoint and Dataverse tables 📄 There’s no penalty for doing this. And you’ll get the maximum amount of records very quickly 🐇 ☁️

30 days since I passed PL-600 this #Microsoft Certification has not appeared on my transcript. 🙄 Why must I spend more time following up to get my credential than studying and test taking combined?