Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Maturing is not responding to some random keyboard warrior on the internet...

TIL you can interact with the Apple Intelligence LLM running locally. Pretty limited atm, but early days I guess.

EFF’s @cooperq.com discussed this with @nytimes.com’s @nytwirecutter.bsky.social today. “Maintenance of these critical systems depends on a small number of volunteers working on this in their free time,” he said, calling for more investment in open-source projects.

the story goes like this

We just need a data quality play now, who’s with me!

Another Russian data center has migrated to the cloud.

This is Pele, my new rendering library for diagrams and charts, compatible with the latest Mermaid syntax. - 100-500× faster than mermaid.js - 6× smaller bundle - No dependencies - Easy to theme - Responsive to device width - Open source (MIT) Try it at pele.run

Pele is a fast, beautiful, open source renderer for Mermaid diagrams we created for the next version of Obsidian. You can already try it in the Pele playground and integrate it into your own apps! 🌋 pele.run

I, on the other hand, mostly Just…

One weird outcome of AI is how much harder it is to find a solution to a thing and to know how stable the product / company / developer is behind that solution. Just a minefield of almost identical websites that promise to fix the thing and the end result mostly being I'll just go build myself.

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Anything on the TV...? #LIVMCI

Polish prodigy Marcin Patrzalek responds to those claiming his music is fake. Watch this tutorial breakdown: One guitar, zero fakes – mastering melody, bass, and percussion all at once. Original post

OMG 😂🫣😂

i rebooted minesweeper as a AAA shooter. loot boxes coming soon minesweeper.mikelacher.com

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

cc #sqlfamily this looks interesting!

Basically correlates with improved efficiencies in boiling water for tea.

Obsidian October is back! This year we're launching "State of Obsidian" a survey about how you use Obsidian that we will compile into a public report for the community. Take the survey: 2026.obsidian.md

Everyone in Wales should be able to build a good life through good work 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 That’s why Plaid Cymru is launching 'Sbardun' - new support for Welsh businesses with the ambition and potential to grow. Helping them succeed, scale up and create more good jobs across Wales 💪

I was convinced that I read a thing saying PBIP had moved to general availability but now I can't find the thing. Am I imagining it??

Every work from office day...

A party responsible for Wales that has the interests of Wales at heart is such a refreshing change 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 ❤️

The #PremierLeague calling for the reform of #Fifa is interesting

RetroData is tomorrow! TEN HOURS of free practical learning. 16:00 UTC+1 Jean-Pierre Riehl on what agentic analytics can learn from decades of BI semantics. 17:00 UTC+1 Edward Pollack closes the day with parameter sniffing, and why the quick fixes hurt later. swfta.uk/retro-beta

It is RetroData week! Saturday brings TEN HOURS of free practical learning. 14:00 UTC+1 Daniel Patkos on Power BI and GitHub - PBIP, TMDL and CI/CD from a real five person BI team. 15:00 UTC+1 @kleegeek.bsky.social on SQL Server indexes and statistics, from the ground up. swfta.uk/retro-beta

Super!

It is RetroData week! Saturday brings TEN HOURS of free practical learning. 12:00 UTC+1 Kristyna Ferris on turning OLTP data into a star schema Power BI actually likes. 13:00 UTC+1 Joanna Hryniewicz on the questions worth asking before anyone opens Power BI Desktop. <https://swfta.uk/retro-beta>

It is RetroData week! Saturday brings TEN HOURS of free practical learning. 10:00 UTC+1 @2meterdba.bsky.social on picking an Azure SQL DB tier - real projects, real costs, and a test script you can take away. 11:00 UTC+1 @marcorus.bsky.social goes inside the VertiPaq engine. swfta.uk/retro-beta

You can drop DuckDB into a static webpage with one script tag. www.ssp.sh/brain/run-d...

It is RetroData week! Saturday brings TEN HOURS of free practical learning. 08:00 UTC+1 Shubhangi Goyal on Power BI dashboards - models, DAX and performance tuning. 09:00 UTC+1 Bas Land on building medallion architecture in Fabric. www.meetup.com/retro-data/e...

A significant amount of my brain power goes towards keeping the calendars of my many personas in sync. Whoever solves this problem will get all my money.