Optimising DAX: How VertiPaq Stores Your #Data by Carmel Eve #PowerBI endjin.com/blog/optimis...

I took my niece, nephew and mother to see The Mandalorian and Grogu yesterday. I don't understand all the negativity around it. We all absolutely loved it. "It's just an overlong TV episode with a bigger budget" - yes, and how is that a bad thing?

The GenAI Reality Check: New Instrument, Same Orchestra by Barry Smart #Azure endjin.com/blog/genai-r...

and the docs are up: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/agent-.... This uses precisely the thing @aspenwilder.bsky.social had done over here using monty "python" as a #webassembly component, and it screams: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

AI Strategy: Think Top-Down, Experiment Bottom-Up by Barry Smart #Azure endjin.com/blog/ai-stra...

If your org is struggling with AI, this is definitely worth reading (or listening - an audio version is available) and probably a link you'll want to send to various internal stakeholders. endjin.com/blog/ai-stra...

Fabric Performance Benchmarking - Spark versus Python Notebooks by Barry Smart #MicrosoftFabric #Azure endjin.com/blog/fabric-...

This is exciting. Hyperlight in the wild!

Barry has put a huge amount of work into this! Just in time for his #SQLBits2026 talk (on Saturday). If you're using #MicrosoftFabric or thinking of adopting it, this is very much worth your time (as it significantly changes the costs calculations). endjin.com/blog/fabric-...

There are many ways in which I hate "New Outlook" but #1 is the deprecation of RSS. For 20+ years Outlook has been my information portal - email + RSS. I had a single app, that synced data across apps & experiences that kept me informed. Without RSS, an plain email client looses so much value.

Integration Testing #AzureFunctions with Reqnroll and C#, Part 1 - Introduction by Jonathan George #AzureFunctions #Azure endjin.com/blog/integra...

@endjin.com has been a remote-first company since 2017. After a few years away travelling around the world, Carmel Eve returned to work in the UK. Carmel talks about how remote flexibility protected her mental health and made that transition possible. endjin.com/blog/returni...

Having gone from Cline to Roo Code, to GitHub Copilot, to Claude Code and OpenCode over the past 18 months, Mike Evans-Larah shares his simple mental model for grokking AI-assisted coding: 1. Harness 2. Capabilities 3. Model 4. Provider endjin.com/blog/ai-assi... #ai #llms #vibecoding

No @azureweekly.endj.in last week - Easter, a family gathering and a dog that's just had surgery meant I've just not had time.

I have a 256gb one and whenever I use it, I am amazed, especially as I have USB external HDDs that don't have that capacity!

I've done a bit of work with OpenCLI - I've got a tool which generates a MCP server from an OpenCLI spec, and one that generates a OpenCLI spec from any CLI. Was surprised to get an issue against DeadCode - a tool to help AI Agents identify dead code - to improve OpenCLI support for a new visualiser

Have to say, I'm a little shocked and sad to see this. github.com/Azure/AKS/is...

We're starting to blog about the approaches we've taken to deliver successful outcomes for AI solutions. It shouldn't surprise anyone that the same rigorous approaches we take for software & data engineering & data science projects are just as effective for Al scenarios endjin.com/blog/2026/03...

I very much enjoyed the Matt Dinniman & Jeff Hays event last night in London. I did not enjoy having to leave a packed theatre at 23.00 - mid performance - because SWR has decided the last train service is now at 23:35. Nothing like getting mocked from the stage AND by the audience. BYEEEE 👋

I keep seeing reviewers saying "War Machine is like Predator" - have none of them seen Battle Los Angeles???

I'm beyond excited that my nephew has developed the reading bug after discovering my collection of Naruto books. He consumed 1.5 in less than 12 hours and asked to take the next 6 volumes home with him "to last him the week".

The joys of the YouTube Algorithm in one comment: "Wow, that was an awesome explanation. I am shocked it has just 89 views. I liked and subscribed. Great job, thanks a lot" www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8yG...

📢 New Post from Jon George: TL;DR: A queue‑of‑work pattern splits large API ingestion jobs into thousands of parallel tasks, cutting runtime from 15 hours to under 2 and providing automatic retries, fault tolerance, and lower cost than traditional orchestrators. endjin.com/blog/2026/03...

After a cracking brekkie at Gail's, we're at The Design Museum - it was one of Waller's favourite places #wallerfest26

Today is #Wallerfest 2026 - where we @endjin.com are coming together to remember & celebrate our beloved colleague, our very first employee, Paul Waller, who died from Motor Neurone Disease 1 year ago today. His passing was sudden and unexpected, and shocked all of us. We miss him every day.

New Blog from Ian Griffith, covering his Rx .NET v7 talk On .NET Live earlier this week, sharing the source code of his demoes and digging a little deeper into some of the content he shared. endjin.com/blog/2026/02...

Ian Griffiths was On .NET Live, talking about Rx .NET v7, System.Linq.Async changes to support the new System.Linq.AsyncEnumerable package in .NET 10, & plans for Rx v8. Catch up with the hour long session, which includes a number of demos, or read the transcript 👇 endjin.com/what-we-thin...

〰️ HAPPENING TODAY at 9AM PT 〰️ Join us for a walkthrough of Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx.NET) v7 and learn what’s next in its future plans! See you LIVE here ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OAv...

New Post from Ian Griffiths: getting T4 working on .NET 10 based on our experiences with Rx .NET & Reaqtor (which use a lot of T4 for type generation). IMHO T4 either needs some love from Microsoft or it needs to be fully open sourced. #dotnet #csharp #t4 endjin.com/blog/2026/02...

Yet another misstep by the .NET PG. Polyglot Notebooks was a fantastic tool. Getting a bit tired of AI draining all the resources... github.com/dotnet/inter...

Spent Wednesday in Bristol with Barry & Carmel, as Barry was presenting his talk "No-Compromise Data Apps: Why Streamlit is the Missing Piece in Your Analytics Stack" at Data Bristol. We also had a cracking lunch at Yakinori - highly recommended www.yakinori.co.uk

New post which uses a retail example - analysing customer reviews about delivery to explain RAG. endjin.com/blog/2026/02...

"Wonder Man is the most distinctive MCU entry since WandaVision and among the highest quality Disney+ shows that Marvel has produced." It's a standalone, the show's heart is in its grounded relationships, and Josh Gad plays Olaf in the club. If you're not watching Wonder Man, you're missing out:

1/4 We've been overhauling our data engineering processes as we got tired of waiting for clusters to spin up, bad web-based dev UX,& tests taking hours to complete. We migrated our dataframe orientated workloads from #Spark to #Polars and immediately felt the benefits. endjin.com/blog/2026/01...

Absolutely loving Wonder Man. It's up there with Loki. Sir Ben Kingsley is obviously having an absolute blast playing Trevor Slattery again. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is great. Marvel content always shines when they focus on the characters and everything fantastical is just the context to explore them.

North East Data Scientists is back with the first meetup of the year. 🔍 Roy Ruddle on investigating data quality 📊 Barry Smart on building interactive Streamlit apps For anyone working with R, Python, analytics, or data science in the North East. 🗓 29 Jan 2026 | Newcastle

Discovered that Phantasm I - IV are on Amazon Prime over the weekend. The spheres are nowhere near as scary as I remember - I must have conflated them with knife missiles from The Culture. A reboot with a more cosmic horror vibe could be really good.

Any senior .NET devs looking for a new gig? We’ve got openings doing some pretty impactful stuff. My DMs are open.

Gain even more trust and compliance with OneLake diagnostics immutability (Generally Available) by Tom Peplow blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-GB/blog/g...

I was actually really impressed with the Star Trek: Starfleet Academy pilot. It did all the things a pilot should do (but most really don't), and it did them really well. I like that they've maintained some of the Lower Decks humour. Really looking forward to seeing Ep 2 tonight.

Happy birthday to me. 2025 in review... joeabercrombie.com/2025-in-revi...

The great @philco.bsky.social has added AOT support for Spectre.Console.Cli, and we've started a discussion on our Discord for anyone interested in trying it out and/or has feedback about the implementation: discord.com/channels/142...

I turned 48 last month. In other news I've just booked in for an eye test on Monday and have ordered a much bigger monitor. This year has been a bit too blurry for my liking.

The first CoreCLR Interpreter benchmarks are out and it’s significantly (magnitudes) slower than Mono. But a good first starting point and should be enough time in the 11.0 timeframe to improve: github.com/dotnet/runti...

It's time for my favourite blog post of the year - the annual performance benchmark of our .NET based AIS (Automatic Identification System) - Marine Vessel Telemetry - parsing library. Every vessel over a certain size has to transmit information (name, location, status, direction etc).

Ian Griffiths (of the Programming C# books) is releasing a series of short videos on all the new features in C# 14... first up... Script Directives... endjin.com/what-we-thin...

AI has transformed tech interviews into a game of cat and mouse.

Some thoughts on the UK budget: It seems the UKGOV are happy to class anyone with £5m assets as "wealthy" so why not raise the inheritance tax limit for farms to £5m also? It would remove one of the thorns in their sides...

We've just released a new version of the Interactive Extensions for .NET (Ix.NET). Now that .NET 10.0 offers built-in support for LINQ to IAsyncEnumerable<T>, it's time for Ix.NET's System.Linq.Async to step back. endjin.com/blog/2025/11...

I've been tracking Flatcar for a few years and it's fantastic that it's*finally* supported on AKS. Great article by @pixelrobots.co.uk