lol lmao even

Nothing to see here, just political decisions being made based on intelligence that was invented by copilot. This is the stuff of nightmares. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...

And so it begins. Will no way meet the demand but a lovely little set to have a play with…

24 hour warning! This time tomorrow James Dales will be entertaining us with a demo heavy session on mapping capabilities in #PowerBI and #IconMap, using #OpenData from #Wales. Come join us! www.meetup.com/fabricpowerb...

"Allow all edits during this session" might be the new "remember me"

PSA: when your community is copy paste responses from AI, it's no longer a community.

So off the back of this, I decided I wanted a new hobby this year and that hobby is going to be roasting coffee. Kinda like the idea of having an exploration into this. Yknow...for when I leave the burning tech world for good.

"It all comes down to what is the requirement..." ALWAYS

I know my bluesky is increasingly a vent at all the things, but here we go again... The latest baffling thing is in my car. I have a thin light strip that runs the width of the windscreen where the windscreen meets the console. They call it ID. light. It's facing me, has multi colour LED lights.

Modern car tech: we need to recall your car because electric handles....and certain conditions (basically driving slow around a corner) may cause the car door to open.

OH MY POSH (see what I did there) LOOK AT MY CLAUDE

Our first event of 2026 is next week! James Dales joins us to literally put #Wales on the map! James will be showcasing some soon to be available functionality, here's a sneak peak: www.linkedin.com/posts/jamesd... Join our #Fabric & #PowerBI user group here: www.meetup.com/fabricpowerb...

It feels like 2026 might be the year that we begin to question whether putting critical infrastructure in silicon valley cloud space was ever a good idea. I want to say I'm being overdramatic, but it's only day six...

New Year bump, speakers who submit to CFS, what are your thoughts…?

Back to work

Couldn't we have had just ONE WEEK to chill in 2026 before the fucking chaos starts up again?

Coffee at the ready, here I go with my fourth #YearCompass It's a framework to help me review the year gone and plan for the year ahead but the structure is brilliant and asks questions that help me reflect: yearcompass.com

I bet one of the core values says build trust or be accountable but yeah let’s apologise through the playbot….

Happy New Year party people 🥳 wishing you stable DNS, relevant ads and prompts that work first time!

The frequency of ads on Youtube is out of control, damn

Vibe coding in 2025

⚠️ I'm decommissioning dataplatform.social on March 31. ⚠️ Migrating your handle to another server (and bringing all your followers/followed handles) is relatively simple, but you have to do it while the server is still up. Information & migration instructions: dataplatform.social/@dhmacher/11...

Me watching Amorim substitutions #MUNvNEW

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

SURELY they are Philippe's creeps @maxrushden.bsky.social

My brother has lived with Schizophrenia for over 20 years. My super analytical, overly rational brain struggles to deal with some of silly little things that aren't rational for him. An example: I met him yesterday and he complained he was exhausted from having to shop old school because...

PSA: Our roadmap for 2026:

OF COURSE THEY HAVE

We thank you for joining us at our conferences in 2025 either speaking or attending. Register for the next event Saturday 31 January 2026. Register: bit.ly/DT2026-Regis... Have a Happy Holiday. #MicrosoftFabric #AI #Copilot #AIAgent #MicrosoftPurview #DataToboggan #PowerBI #datacommunity

During this break, I will be watching as much of the Marvel Defenders Saga on Netflix in chronological order because that's what Christmas is all about.

Data TGIF starts in less than 30 mins! Join us (me and @dbanuggets.bsky.social ) for free and meet dbatools inventor Chrissy LeMaire @funbucket.dev ! She'll talk about "I Rebuilt My Website in a Day (And You Can Too)" www.meetup.com/data-tgif/ev... #Meetup #dataTGIF #sqlServer #Azure

Schools need to teach a lesson on what AI is and what it can and can't do. There's no saving us, but we can save them. Honestly despair at the trust given to AI and the raging confirmation bias it is causing.

I'm experimenting with @sessionize.com to manage user group talk scheduling. It's pretty neat! But the flow of handling speakers is a little different to an event with a fixed time. Interested in your thoughts on how you would want to be handled dear speakers. sessionize.com/playbook/use...

I was reading a PR discussion recently from an OSS project rejecting a feature that had been fully developed through vibe coding with a lengthy debate about it, anyone remember where? My google-fu is off...

I am mentoring a grad looking to get into data. She has reached out to someone she did her course with who has landed a job. They wanted to charge her for their time!? Another person agreed to chat, pitched at her, wants to charge her £1k for 10 sessions 🤔 We can't just help others?

🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨 Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025! Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday. 🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...

Take care of your true fans, move them through your user journey. Ignore YouTube, but his conversations have really opened my eyes (Death of the follower is another good one). www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNYw...

Yknow what should be dead? Posting stupid ass "[insert feature / product / process here] is dead" posts...

There's just no way. Endured this complex system for 18 months with unsuitable players, additionally marginalising the best youth product in a generation...and only now the system changes!? I would be stunned if this happens...

#MicrosoftFabric & #PowerBI Wales user group schedule set for 2026. We run a monthly online session. Happy to accommodate shorter talks or 50+50 if you want to trial ahead of bits! Thanks to @sessionize.com for supporting user groups with free services 👌 sessionize.com/fabricpowerb...

Love this: "⁠⁠We often half-ass our naming conventions because we think of naming as marketing or docs...Naming is a functional requirement. It defines the ontology of your product. It teaches people how to think." Reading about how cmdlet became cmdlet... www.jsnover.com/blog/2025/12...

Emoticons are almost as old as me :-) arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

LETS GO!!!!!

Ticket prices 7x higher than they were at Qatar, price gouging of hotels, the risk of being turned away at the door because you laughed at covfefe and the constant worry at being kidnapped by masked ICE thugs. Has the beautiful game ever looked more ugly...?

ha ha won't be planning trips to the US any time soon then... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Data and football (soccer) fans...there was an interesting talk at ignite on Microsoft supporting the Premier League. Actually some interesting and useful applications of AI: medius.microsoft.com/Embed/video-...

It's a wonder my kids survived this long.

We're leveraging AI...