Barbara Forbes

How many keys to your cloud environment are lying under the doormat? Probably more than you think. Read the Dutch interview I gave for my session at @tweakers.net dev Summit in Utrecht:https://tweakers.net/plan/4858/dev-summit-2026-met-barbara-forbes-hoeveel-sleutels-liggen-er-onder-jouw-mat.html

What a week at #CDCGermany in Hanau! 🎉 I got to deliver two sessions: "This title was written by AI" and my talk on implementing Azure Policies. Thank you to everyone who came to listen, and a big thank you to the organizing team! #CDCGermany #Azure #AzureGovernance #AzurePolicy #AI #Community 0

Did a git reset wipe out your commits? There might be something you can do. | Git Tip 28 Want to learn Git? Check out my LinkedIn Learning course Git Essentials: www.linkedin.com/learning/git... #git #gittips

Last week I spoke at NT Conference in Portorož, Slovenia. My session was all about optimizing GitHub Copilot and making it work for you. Thank you to everyone who joined, and to the NT konferenca team for having me. If you were in the room: what customizing file are you going to use first?

Azure best practices are well documented. Making them work for your organization is the hard part. I'm honored to be doing two sessions about this at @espccommunity.bsky.social in Amsterdam this December. Early bird pricing ends September 30. Tickets: espc.tech/conference/e...

Adding the new ring is something special every year. But choosing what to put on my shelves is the biggest challenge! How many references can you spot? #MVPbuzz #MVP #Microsoft #GitHub

Very happy to be at @techorama.bsky.social in Utrecht with my talk "One Size Fits None: Make Azure best practices work for your organization". Will I see you there on October 26-28? Use SPK26-BF-ZN8J as a temporary discount code for €100 off! pretix.eu/techorama-nl... .

In October at NIC in Oslo, I'll be speaking about how you can use AI for Azure engineering and then contain it again through Azure policies. NIC will be in Oslo Spektrum and this is my first time in Norway! Who's also coming? More info: nicconf.com #Azure #GitHubCopilot #NIC2026

I am speaking at CDC-Germany, 30 September to 1 October in Hanau. I get to give two sessions! → This Title Was Written By AI — and that was only the beginning" → Implementing Azure Policies: before the portal" If you're around Hanau at the end of September, I'd love to meet you there!

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I'll be in Portorož, Slovenia in September. And not just for the stunning sea views I'll be there for NT Conference, the largest tech and business conference in Slovenia. It runs for the 31st time this year and I am happy to be part of it again. More information and tickets: www.ntk.si

Git Tip 26: When creating a PR, GitHub gives you three options: Merge commit, squash and merge, or rebase and merge. Not sure what they do and at this point to afraid to ask? Watch my new Youtube short www.youtube.com/@Ba4bes/shorts

git merge and a pull request sound like there are the same thing? In this video I explain the difference A lot more git fundamentals are in my Git Essentials course on LinkedIn Learning: www.linkedin.com/learning/git... #Git #GitHub #SoftwareDevelopment #DevOps

So what actually counts as production in your environment? @richcampbell.bsky.social and I almost got philosophical. But this is a very valid discussion when you are talking about Azure policy. The full conversation with Richard Campbell on Run as Radio: runasradio.com/Shows/Show/1...

Printer is in business 🥳

For my birthday this year, I got something I've wanted for a while: a 3D printer. 🥳 Another great way to waste my time. 😅 I'm currently waiting for new filament, the trial stuff was gone really quickly. So while I wait: what should my next print be? Drop your idea below.

GitHub Copilot is a generalist: Good at everything, optimized for nothing. Agent files fix that: you define a persona, the tools it's allowed to touch, and even the model it runs on, all in one markdown file. Full video with everything about Agent files on YouTube now: youtu.be/bRBflrvzg8I

I'm excited to share that I'll be speaking at the Cloud & Datacenter Conference Germany this year! Join me in Hanau, Germany from September 30 to October 1. Get your ticket here: www.cdc-germany.de Looking forward to seeing you there!

Yesterday, I got renewed as a Microsoft MVP! Let's keep the good things going, with the git tip of the week! Made a typo in your last commit message? Don't add a new commit to fix it. Find my tip on Youtube shorts: www.youtube.com/@Ba4bes/shorts #git #gittips #softwaredevelopment #githubcopilot

Git tip 21: When you set up git on your device for the first time, you configured your email address and user name. What if you need to use a different account for a specific repo? No problem! Want to learn the git basics? Find my course on LinkedIn Learning www.linkedin.com/learning/git...

Microsoft just released MAI-Code-1-Flash in GitHub Copilot, their first coding model. They claim it beats Claude Haiku. I ran a few very unscientific tests in VS Code to see how they actually compare. Find the short on YouTube:

Can't remember that one long git command even though you use it all the time? Git alias lets you turn any command into a shortcut you define yourself. Want to learn the git basics? Find my course on LinkedIn Learning www.linkedin.com/learning/git...

One more event before the summer! I am very happy to be part of Agent Con Utrecht on June 25th. My session about GitHub Copilot, let's see if I can fit it into half an hour this time! Tickets are completely free. Pick up yours: globalai.community/e/l9bfp20y

A token is not a word and it's not a character. A token is the chunk of text a model processes as one unit. view my new short on Youtube: youtube.com/@ba4bes

Git Tip #19: Every time you start a new repo, you add temp.txt to .gitignore. You don't have to! Git has a global .gitignore file. Set it once, and it applies to every repo on your machine. Find out how in this video

Last week, I found myself in an unexpected round of PowerPoint karaoke at the yearly Zure event Zafari. I will not say my story had a lot of educational value, but it did give me a nice photo for my portfolio!

Had a great time last week at @updateconference.bsky.social Krakow. It had been a while since I talked about Defender for Cloud, maybe I should do it more often. Thank you to those who attended and to the organizers for creating a very nice and streamlined event

38 minutes in, first #pspester demo at #psconfeu, keep them coming.

The rocket 🚀 launches. #psconfeu

Well the first day of the new billing model is going well 😂

GitHub Copilot agents can spend a lot of time on fixing the wrong problem. Most of the time the fix is not a better prompt. It is a plan. So plan before you agent. Full video on the new Github payment model: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKck...

Git Tip #17: Find out who wrote that weird line of code with git blame You find a line of code that makes no sense. git blame shows you every line in a file, who wrote it, and when. Use -L to narrow it down to a specific line range. Warning: sometimes it was you.