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a cartoon character is covering his eyes with his hands . Alt: Stitch pulling at this eyes in frustration

Current status: googling “are my AirPods waterproof”

What separates a dashboard people glance at from one that drives decisions? On 2026-03-19, Shubhangi Goyal walks us through building #PowerBI dashboards with empathy, covering KPIs, data modelling, intuitive design, and user adoption. swfta.uk/ug-2026-03 #DataViz #Analytics

Youtube has decided that I am the target market for "I'm 50 and my kids keep telling me to do more cardio" and "I have an IQ of 140 but I make less money that some of my friends who hardly made it out of high school" ads and damn that's cold...

Yknow, I was just thinking this rugby match was missing something. And @itvx.com has it covered! Just what I was looking for...a stupid ass AI advert during a little break in play #IRLvWAL

Building #PowerBI dashboards that nobody uses? The problem usually isn't the data, it's the design thinking. On 2026-03-19 Shubhangi Goyal shows us how to build dashboards with a customer-first mindset, from defining the right problem to driving adoption. swfta.uk/ug-2026-03 #DataViz #Analytics

I've changed my mind AI can actually replace me. They finally invented the machine that gets progressively more ambitious ideas and then gives up

Maple, a golden poochon, standing, with a denta-stick in her mouth. A denta-stick is a hard, brick red dental stick, it is about 10cm long but cross section is an x shape so it is bulky rather than flat. And instead of holding it horizontally in her mouth, she always holds it out of the side of her mouth and thus it almost looks like a cigar and being an 80s kid reminds me of Hannibal from the A-Team

Maple gets a denta-stick each morning and for reasons unknown to me she walks around for a few minutes holding the stick like this. I can only assume she loves it when a plan comes together.

This award aged well…

You and me both 😂

Thanks, I am super secure with this stuff. I run 1 Password with long unique passwords, memorable words as scrambled text, MFA etc. Rotate my key passwords annually. It’s just the idea that I, a Welshman who has never been to Canada, let alone buy tires would appear in this breach.

a man with curly hair and glasses is making a funny face . Alt: a man with curly hair and glasses is making confused faces

I got pwned this week in Canadian Tires data breach. And odd breach for me to be in?

"We explicitly said you had to ask for authority before pressing the launch button, why didn't you follow the rules?"

bsky.app/profile/just...

Morning...

`That's the honest answer: I didn't stop to check the reference material I already had. There's no technical limitation that prevented me from following the rules — I just didn't do it carefully enough.`

I am more and more convinced that we are living inside some weird drawn out terminator origins storyline...

And fuck cancer

Good news, hope you have many more good days.

ssh is an obscure but widely-deployed command. It stands for Secure Snake Home and was made in the 90s to securely play snake online

I made a massively multiplayer backend for it with support for thousands of concurrent snake players

ssh snakes.run to join!

a man with curly hair and glasses is wearing a suit and tie and making a funny face . Alt: a man with curly hair and glasses is wearing a suit and tie and making a confused faces.

I asked someone for help because I can't access service desk and guess what advice I got?

Yup, you guessed it...raise an incident.

Introducing MicrosoftFabricMgmt: Managing Microsoft Fabric with PowerShell

Introduction If you have been following this blog for a while, you will know that I am a huge fan of using PowerShell to manage and automate things. SQL Server, dbatools, dbachecks — auto
blog.robsewell.com/blog/introdu...

Yeah FS humans, you are the problem…

sqlpackage extract from a database to a dacpac, sql files, or a sql project

Looking for input on improving tooling for going from a database to a SQL project - whether its reducing the number of commands, including the database properties, or another friction point you encounter - github.com/microsoft/Da...

Microsoft Fabric and Azure DevOps - The story so far for 2026 with Kev Chant, Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup **Description** Microsoft Fabric is growing in popularity as a Microsoft Data Platform offering. However, a lot of people feel challenged about how to implement CI/CD. In

Happening Today! (2026-02-19)

Kev Chant joins us to discuss #MicrosoftFabric and #AzureDevOps - the story so far for 2026. Learn how to implement #CICD, Git integration, and deployment best practices. www.meetup.com/fabricpowerb...

Doggo just wanted to see what all the sliding around was about.

Good doggo.

continvoucly!!!

The original, excellent gitflow diagram

A reboot of this excellent diagram, and absolutely not AI slop.

Remarkable...

The @commodoreofficial 64 has arrived. What a joy TikTok video by Scott Hanselman

Wow my @commodoreofficial.bsky.social 64 is here and it’s just perfect www.tiktok.com/t/ZThxTMs9G/

In fairness the response is insightful but I dunno, I just don’t think I’m prepared for a world where our communities are filled with non existent members.

Ugh and openclaw agents in the comments offering their own insights on the situation.

And of course a “Journalist” asks AI to summarise the blog post for an article, gets blocked so hallucinates quotes and then isn’t fact checked.

World gone mad