Just wanted to let you know that our Legacy Modernization Agents repo officially crossed 100 stars, we just shipped 2.0, aaaand Gustav and I are very proud of our work.
If you have problems with COBOL or other legacy tech debt, take a look 👇🏻
➡️ github.com/Azure-Sample...
#AgenticAI #AppModernization
Today is one of those days where I push straight to main. Only AI review, no fear, #noregrets. Sorry colleagues.
#devlife
We talk a lot about AI agents, but the real learning magic comes from hands on trying.
#AgenticAI Hacks are happening across EMEA. Build agents.
Orchestrate workflows. Use #Microsoft Agent Framework, AI Foundry and MCP.
Join us: pulse.microsoft.com/en/build-ai-hacks-agentic-ai/
If AI is really coming for our jobs, I’d appreciate if it could start with German fall weather. 🌧️🍃
I’m cold, soaked, and one grey cloud away from seasonal depression.
🎤 This week on Julia-TV:
🗓 Oct 15 – AgentCon, Cologne 🇺🇸
Boost your coding productivity with GitHub Copilot Agent
globalai.community/chapters/col...
🗓 Oct 16 – Dev & Donuts, Mannheim 🇩🇪
“Das Release ist fertig – und jetzt?”
yasoon.de/dev-donuts/
If I look tired — hand me an oat flat white ☕️ thanks!
Tired of opening Azure Boards and asking, “where’s that ticket again?” 🙄
Your team uses Azure DevOps.
You use your favourite IDE + Agentic AI for coding.
Now they finally talk: the Azure DevOps MCP Server is in public preview. 🚀
👉 Blog: lnkd.in/eSNhbKEG
👉 Registry: lnkd.in/eGfwjdSh
Customers be like:
“Julia, can you show us how you would prompt AI to achieve this?”
Me: [goes full AI whisperer mode — prompting, instructing, explaining, demoing]
Customers:
“Wow, impressive... but can you just send us your prompt file?”
Me: 🫠
(GIF to visualize me in full AI whisperer mode)
Back from 2 weeks sick.
Answered inbox + Teams like a responsible adult.
Now drowning in 47 new replies.
Honestly? Sick leave was more relaxing.
“How do we get more women into tech and encourage them to speak at conferences?”
Conference: Voices from the community → 📸
This. Is. Not. How.
Cursor knows. The real answer is the dark side. 🌑
Last week I learned: Playwright ships its own MCP server.
👉 Still great for fast, reliable UI testing.
👉 But now agents can talk to your app’s UI.
A new useful sidekick for software engineers ⚡️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaCj...
github.com/microsoft/pl...
And because I never get tired of sharing our own take on the topic… here we go again: aka.ms/cobol-blog
When THE Martin Fowler blogs, you read it. 👀
His latest: turn legacy black boxes into blueprints — with humans doing the detective work 🕵️♀️.
Our approach is different: we let AI agents explore the box, capture the knowledge, and modernize along the way. 🤖⚡️
👉 martinfowler.com/articles/bla...
No original thoughts today, just good links:
1️⃣ VS subs + GitHub billing update → github.blog/changelog/20...
2️⃣ ADO migration playbook → wellarchitected.github.com/library/scen...
3️⃣ GPT-5 for MS devs (new toys, same chaos)→ devblogs.microsoft.com/blog/gpt-5-f...
Now: oat iced matcha latte. 💚
🎉 Celebrating the big milestone: 20 followers here on Bluesky.
That’s right, twenty. A carefully curated group of elite lurkers who apparently tolerate my mix of tech rambling and half-funny jokes.
LinkedIn may have 4,000… but you 20? You’re the chosen ones. 🫡
No, sorry.
🎥 Let’s talk COBOL modernization (yes, that COBOL)
This Wed @ 12:30 CEST I’m live on @wearedevelopers.bsky.social WeAreDevs with @codepo8.bsky.social + @danielcranney.bsky.social
We’ll dive into legacy pain, AI agents, and how we (semi-magically) migrate COBOL.
🔗 wearedevelopers.com/en/live
🎥 Live tonight — calling all German-speaking devs!
Join Sandra and me for a Microsoft Reactor session:
Let’s Learn MCP: Java Edition
🧠 Build your own MCP server & client in Java
🕕 July 24, 6PM CEST
🇩🇪 In German (but code is universal)
📺 www.youtube.com/live/Lt3hffR...
love the optimism, but no #GitHub #DevLife
How do I know I’m more stressed than usual?
– working out (regularly)
– eating spicy “pimped” ramen for the ninth day straight
– lost my Duolingo streak (comment ça va?)
Stress tastes like soy-sesame, fire level 10, with a side of broken routines.
#DuolingoDespair #InstantRamenTherapy #ThisIsFine
On vacation, thinking about what my work really is:
→ Making educated guesses
→ Forming opinions — and changing them
→ Saying things even when I might be wrong
→ Staying brave
The rest is just tools and tech.
#VacationThoughts #TechLife
Worked with ChatGPT to craft a talk title + abstract.
Then pasted that into GitHub Copilot…
to generate a demo repo on how to use GitHub Copilot
in the context from that title and abstract.
Recursive much?
How did I ever work without AI before? 🤖🌀
#GitHubCopilot #ChatGPT #AIinDev
Florian and I joined Matthias & Christian’s podcast to spill the tea on organizing the Global Azure Community Day in Cologne ☕🎤
Speakers, signups, catering chaos — we covered it all.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/4Fcw... (only 🇩🇪)
#GlobalAzure #TechCommunity #AzureEvents #DevLife
Me being a bit too excited in German about the newest MS Teams feature. #MSTeams #Microsoft #Slack
“Is ADO dead?”
“Do we have to move to GitHub?”
You’d think these were conspiracy theories by how often they come up 😅
But no—there’s now an actual roadmap. With actual answers.
👉 resources.github.com/accelerate-i...
✅ What stays
✅ What changes
✅ What to do next
#Microsoft #GitHub #DevOps
Spotted at a customer site: free period products in the restrooms. 🩸✨
Small thing? Maybe.
Powerful message? Absolutely.
Dear companies: free coffee? ✅
Free pads/tampons? ❌ (still too often)
It’s not a luxury. It’s basic decency and a basic human need.
From 3 attendees to 100+ people community! 🚀
Florian Lenz & I grew Azure Cloud Native Meetup Cologne from me sliding into his DMs to hosting a full-day Global Azure event 🌍
📸 Some impressions attached!
➡️ Join us: www.meetup.com/azure-server...
Microsoft Build is coming! 🎉
Join us in-person in Munich on May 19 for a full day of hands-on dev fun: CI/CD, GitHub Security, Copilot + Azure 🚀
➡️ Register here: msevents.microsoft.com/event?id=836...
Get your hands dirty + boost your productivity. Let’s go! 💙👩💻👨💻
#MSBuild #DevEx #GitHub #Azure
Agentic adventures:
➡️ How it started: “I’ll build one AI agent.”
💥 How it’s going: “Please, for the love of K8s and cloud compute, STOP spawning sub-agents.”
#mememonday
Customers care deeply about data privacy—right up until they’re on public transport, working with their corporate device on sensitive files like it’s a public performance. Ever heard of a privacy shield? Get one, seriously.
At least they use Azure DevOps.
