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Alex Power[s]

@itsnotaboutthecell.com

I spend my days crunching numbers and my nights torturing a wife and cats with the sound of keystrokes. Opinions are my own. #MicrosoftEmployee Co-organizer: Saint Louis Microsoft Fabric / Power BI @ https://aka.ms/fabricstl Data | Guitar | Pro-Wrestling

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FancyGist A beautiful Markdown editor for GitHub Gists.

(FancyGist is a UI on top of GitHub Gists that makes writing and sharing Markdown nice and fast)

fancygist.com

07.03.2026 05:26 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Very explicit! It’s like trying to move an image in a Word doc.

07.03.2026 01:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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#ai #github | Alex Powers I probably use #AI in my day job 99% wrong every-single-day, but that 1% that I can get right - I carry onto the next day and the next - and overtime that really (I mean REALLY) starts to compound. T...

I was pretty transparent in my post last night that I expect to be a PM - "Problem Manager" moving forward.

www.linkedin.com/posts/alexmp...

05.03.2026 17:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Ask Amir Anything on r/MicrosoftFabric

Ask Amir Anything on r/MicrosoftFabric

And we are live! Ask Amir Anything about #MicrosoftFabric !!!

www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftF...

04.03.2026 17:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Boo! Was it able to recover the file?

04.03.2026 01:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@carnage4life.bsky.social I just look back at the teenage drama when he got oustered from the board and what a whiplash of a weekend that was.

Have any lessons been learned or is this just teenage drama disguised as executive leadership.

04.03.2026 00:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Ask Amir Anything on r/MicrosoftFabric

Ask Amir Anything on r/MicrosoftFabric

Watching the queue fill up is always one of my favorite parts of the AMA! People drop their questions and vote up the other ones they'd love to see answered first. Swing by and drop them in for Amir Netz!

www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftF...

#MicrosoftFabric #Data #AI #AMA

03.03.2026 17:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Now you got me thinking about TJ’s espresso beans. I must now fight the urge to go into the Thunder Dome (Brentwood parking lot) on a Sunday.

01.03.2026 16:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What’s going on with that Power BI? We’ve got customers with 100s of billions of rows. Millions is nothing and usually points back to the modeling of the data (big flat tables are a no-no)

01.03.2026 15:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s unfortunate that @lindsayfickas.bsky.social gives away all her skeets for free.

We really should have a way to donate a coffee to her for all the hours of enjoyment she creates on this site.

28.02.2026 18:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Tell me about it. We have an awful DINO here that slid by despite every awful warning sign from everyone.

People were way too caught up on the egg price craze.

28.02.2026 17:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

None The Ramones

These instructions are becoming far too complex with added conditions. We shall overthrow the ruler.

28.02.2026 04:44 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

The The Ramones???

I mean, rulers choice.

28.02.2026 04:27 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

*considered

27.02.2026 22:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Unsure if you concerned sharing in r/SQLServer but I know the sub would love it.

27.02.2026 22:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Really cool project share.

27.02.2026 22:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Damn man, love reading her progress.

Sending some β™₯️ to you and the family.

27.02.2026 17:37 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

First Atlanta. Next that beach :P

26.02.2026 17:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you're a #FabCon or #SQLCon workshop speaker, check your emails and fill out the form. I'm doing my part as a former speaker to make sure YOU (the most important person in the room) got time to do your technical deployment scripts and setup your stuff if you plan to use the FabCon tenant.

26.02.2026 17:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m afraid of Americans. #NIN

26.02.2026 05:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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In the pit at Nine Inch Nails tonight.

We enjoyed ourselves so much in Chicago so we said why not go when they are two minutes from the couch.

Also, I love Boyz Noise warming the audience up for the first hour. He rips.

26.02.2026 02:32 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Personal apps.

25.02.2026 04:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Alright. That’s enough lizard people for me on TV tonight. ✌️

25.02.2026 02:44 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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officialelectric.itch.io

24.02.2026 23:03 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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a man with glasses and a ring on his finger says " yeah that 's gonna be a no from me dawg " Alt: a man with glasses and a ring on his finger says " yeah that 's gonna be a no from me dawg "

I say with great respect and sincerity but for the last three years I get hounded at events by government workers asking when β€œX” big AI thing is coming to government and I always think - β€œbut you’re so far in the past…”

So letting a YOLO mode destroy tech that runs our country.

25.02.2026 02:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Use the TOJSON and TOCSV functions to inspect the content of intermediate table variables when debugging a DAX measure.
Article + video available!

#powerbi #dax

https://www.sqlbi.com/articles/debugging-dax-variables-using-tojson-and-tocsv/

24.02.2026 11:04 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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From the MicrosoftFabric community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the MicrosoftFabric community

I knew Amir Netz had some friends.. but 100+ reminders and still climbing for his Ask Me Anything next week 🀯. Hit the link, press [Remind me], and start thinking about your questions as we ramp up for the #FabCon and #SQLCon fun!

#MicrosoftFabric #SQLServer #PowerBI

www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftF...

24.02.2026 14:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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From the xbox community on Reddit: Asha directly addressing recent stories. Y’all need to calm down the weirdness just a little. Explore this post and more from the xbox community

Asha has already earned my respect for standing up to the incoming wave of criticisms with this post. Everyone deserves a shot and the proof will be in her execution - "My focus is to make Xbox the best place to play, return to our roots (...)"

www.reddit.com/r/xbox/comme...

24.02.2026 14:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Short drive to Louisville.

24.02.2026 04:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They all are. And hearing people do multi-round interviews, sending in their personal details to "HR" get onboarded after virtual Zoom meetings and then ghosted and cat fished.

It's just... sigh... the internet is a frustrating place.

24.02.2026 02:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0