I'm somewhere between 4 and 5, I think. I definitely can't close my eyes and picture things as if they were images or movies, it's more like I "feel" or "know" what I'm thinking about. If I see anything, it's a vague, blurry memory. Same when I'm reading books... 1/2

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Maps! In @obsidian.md! I rolled this out across my vault with one prompt and @funbucket.dev’s #aitools. Amazing!

Microsoft as Red 🙈

I haven't used #Confluence in a while and my gosh their implementation of #Rovo (their AI) sums up everything that is awful about tech's implementation of AI. I have text on a page that I want to format. Highlighting the text offers me a menu with "Ask Rovo" and "Improve writing", that's it!

New client: oh we use Visio

There is a growing trend on linkedin of writing a tech post and pair it with yourself in some random pose, whose idea was this?!?

Pep roulette messes with my brain. Who has two thumbs and subbed out Doku this week. #SQLFPL

10/10 take. No notes.

Damn that's cold...the "what's new in Synapse Analytics" link directs to Microsoft Fabric 😆

Reminds me of this "NYC cabbie" explaining counting in French to a passenger www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rmB...

The local has been rebranded as a smokehouse brand that does "NFL Sundays". In practical terms that means that at 18:00 on a Sunday, if there is an NFL game on, the channel gets changed. I can't help feeling for the person who has to switch on the NFL partway through LFC v MUFC today 🙈

Good read... tonsky.me/blog/syntax-...

A-ha this week’s #SongExploder is another great episode #TakeOnMe went on some journey!

Short rambling. kerrykolosko.com/make-your-bl...

The enshittification of the interweb

I lost a friend recently. He has requested we all wear Welsh rugby tops to his funeral. My mostly football-loving friend group is losing it's mind at having to acquire Welsh Rugby tops. What a guy 😆

This site is remarkable 😆 replacement.ai

First time I’ve not been able to finish a #DarknetDiaries episode. Bit of a mess, just me?

Kid in my #CodeClub today: I read somewhere that every interaction with #AI is costing a bottle of water, and just what is the point? Yeah dude, I hear you, I hear you...

Starting in one hour! @brianbonk.bsky.social joins us to discuss working with #RealTimeIntelligence in #PowerBI. As #MicrosoftFabric continues to grow, more developers are working with this tech. Learn practical tools that you can apply today. Join us! www.meetup.com/datawales/ev...

📅 Wed 2025-10-01 Tomorrow! @brianbonk.bsky.social joins us to discuss working with #RealTimeIntelligence in #PowerBI. As #MicrosoftFabric continues to grow, more developers are working with this tech. Learn practical tools that you can apply today. Join us! www.meetup.com/datawales/ev...

A lovely tribute to Phil Factor from @redgate 's founder:

Cmon @duolingoverde.bsky.social I turned notifications off, that was a conscious decision. Why have you gotta keep checking if I made the right decision 🤷🏻‍♂️ it feels like you tell me weekly “You’re missing out on notifications”. I promise you I’m not.

Miss18yo first year biochem student just asked me to help her install R and now I have this dawning realisation that I’m gonna have to learn R now

Bought it. I did enjoy it. A wonderful celebration of Douglas Adams. Some awesome back stories and reflections on his view of the world and how that has panned out. I was reminded of this from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and yeah…

On my walk today I’m listening to a lovely discussion on Douglas Adams on the podcast Cautionary Tales

Please enjoy today, 25/9/2025, the last square date until 2116 (5^2/3^2/45^2).

Miss 15yo said "y'get me?" to me today, this was me pretty much...

Just in case you were wondering why capital letters are also called "UPPERcase" :)

I'm trying to register a W11 VM to my tenant and log in with my work account. I registered the device through a local account. When signing in with my work account it hangs registering Windows Hello. I have given password and done MFA but now it just sits here, anyone come across / resolved this...?

This weekend! "Defining What's Normal" - Aaron Cutshall covers #database #normalization principles, performance impact, and when it's OK to break the rules at #RetroData! 📐 Register: www.meetup.com/retro-data/e...

Upgraded to Tahoe and the new glass thing is…uhhh…weird? I do like some of the styling, the edging of icons is nice but the new standard colour for folders is horrible. I don’t know why I need all apps to respond to underlying colours and who signed this off?!?!

This weekend! Why does #SQLServer use some indexes but not others? @sqlballs.com dives into indexing internals and SQL Server's C++ architecture to make your queries faster at #RetroData ⚡ Register: www.meetup.com/retro-data/e...

Friday feed cleanser. My daughter went to Uni last weekend with a bunch of photos, and this was one of them. Maple at about 3 months old. Consumed by a reasonably small doughnut toy.

This weekend! #DataModeling 101 with Markus! Learn core concepts through Microsoft Data Platform - from normalised schemas to #StarSchemas across #SQLServer, #PowerBI & Azure at #RetroData ⭐ Register: www.meetup.com/retro-data/e...

This weekend! Choosing the right #database for your project? Susan Vanderford walks through relational, document, key-value stores & more - helping you make the right call at #RetroData 🗄️ Register: www.meetup.com/retro-data/e...

This weekend! Stop just dumping data in your lake! Mathias Halkjaer shows how proper data structure planning can dramatically enhance security, partitioning & performance at #RetroData 🏗️ Register: www.meetup.com/retro-data/e...

This weekend! #RowLevelSecurity in #PowerBI demystified! Leslie Welch's Monty Python-inspired workshop covers RLS from setup to enterprise challenges at #RetroData 🛡️ Register: www.meetup.com/retro-data/e...

This weekend! "Accidental Data Lies" - Juliana Smith exposes how innocent charts can mislead! Learn to create visuals that tell the truth and earn trust at #RetroData 📊 Register: www.meetup.com/retro-data/e...

This weekend! #SQL execution plans feeling daunting? @hugokornelis.bsky.social breaks down where to start reading them when your queries are running slow at #RetroData. Perfect for SQL troubleshooting! 🔍 Register: www.meetup.com/retro-data/e...

This weekend! Building a €100 #DataWarehouse with Azure? Yes, really! @koenv.bsky.social shows how small companies can build dirt-cheap analytics with #AzureDataFactory, #SQLDB & #PowerBI at #RetroData 💰 Register: www.meetup.com/retro-data/e...

This weekend! Don't miss Indira Bandari's "Lessons from the Trenches: Real-World #ETL/#ELT Horror Stories" at #RetroData! Learn from common pipeline pitfalls and battle-tested solutions that actually work 💪 Register: www.meetup.com/retro-data/e...

I dropped Twitter today. I should have done this months ago but Elon wading into British politics inciting protesters with shit like fight back or die is some seriously fucked up stuff. History will look back and wonder wtf we gave such unhinged individuals platforms to do what the fuck they liked.

Last chance! Microsoft are offering a 50% discount on data exams if you join the Fabric community by 15/09: - PL-300: Power BI Data Analyst - DP-600: Fabric Analytics Engineer - DP-700: Fabric Data Engineer - DP-900: Azure Data Fundamentals More details: buff.ly/MAt4rjy

I finished it! sqlreitse.com/2025/09/11/w...

Ohhh the duck got phished...

When you know your SEO needs a bit of work cc @gethynellis.bsky.social