Owen Barford
@SQLOB1
Vehicles, SQL Server and Virtualisation...and maybe a touch of cooking.
Skill Registry support in Toad + HF Inference Providers. Find, Add and Remove Skills from the Hugging Face and Anthropic Skills repos. New HF Tool Builder skill too 😎
🏛️ We launched the DuckDB Library: a curated collection of papers, podcasts, talks and books about DuckDB. 📚 We already have a collection of almost one hundred entities. The thumbnails show whether a piece is from the DuckDB team (yellow) or from others (purple). ➡️…
AI agents still feel like magic to a lot of people. They stop feeling magical the moment you build one yourself. Live demo: Build a #PowerShell AI Agent from scratch No frameworks. No mythology. Just the machinery. 🔗 meetup.com/nycpowershellm…
Spec driven development doesn't gel with the way I work. The spec is often a result of many POCs. Lately I've been generating the spec from the POC and vice versa. Bidirectional iteration that lets other stake holders comment on the spec as the implementation evoles.
Great books about data visualization and a great account for #Data professionals to follow!
Some good UK deals on our beautiful books out there 📘 63% off Beautiful News- just £9! geni.us/BNEWS 📕 20% off Information is Beautiful geni.us/IIBbook 📙 25% off Knowledge is Beautiful geni.us/KIB25 Info bit.ly/IIB-Books
Book of the year post! Of the 50ish books I read this year, “Quit” by @AnnieDuke is hands down the most memorable and impactful. Key message: knowing when to walk away is an overlooked superpower. Duke flips the script on grit, arguing that strategic quitting isn’t about giving…
I’m learning over the past 24 hours that the most powerful Claude features are hidden in Claude Code which turns out to be useful for things other than computer programming but requires dealing with the terminal ui instead of a friendly chatbot app.
Helion DSL for GPU kernel development and assessment on AMD GPUs: rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/ai-de…
ICYMI: new AI tools, tutorials, and guides are now live for AMD developers. 👇
.NET Data December countdown 19: Generate a cross platform E/R diagram of your database from the command line with EF Core Power Tools (also works in CI/CD pipelines) #database #sqlserver #postgres #oracle #dornet #mermaidjs github.com/ErikEJ/EFCoreP…
This week's Azure Update is up including the annual terrible Christmas song :-) youtu.be/mk6vwol-Za0 LinkedIn - linkedin.com/pulse/azure-we… 00:00 - Introduction 00:28 - Christmas song 01:40 - New videos 02:11 - Functions Service Bus Trigger 02:53 - ANF CZRR 03:48 - ANF advanced…
Hub, Switch, & Router Explained
𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲: The third edition of *The Definitive Guide to DAX* is now available in all formats. Here’s how to choose the right digital version. Unfortunately, early downloads of the 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗹𝗲 version experienced 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲𝘀. The good news is that…
Join @AnalyticAnna for an unscripted, chaotic, and totally fun recap of everything SQL in 2025! Featuring SQL legends @bobwardms, @erinstellato, @SysAdminDrew, & @AjayMSFT. Let’s learn (and laugh) together: bit.ly/4qcDaVh #DataCommunity #FabricCommunity
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I did some testing with SKILLS.md in GitHub Copilot, and it's so cool! 🔥 To start with Skills, think about your day-to-day work in your domain. Make your agent a specialist in those tasks by defining instructions in skills. Ask yourself: What are repeatable tasks…
We now support Agent Skills - the open standard created by @AnthropicAI for extending AI agents with specialized capabilities. Create skills once, use them everywhere. 🔗 aka.ms/vscode-agent-s…
Missed AI Dev Days? We’ve got you covered! The on-demand sessions cover two days full of content, from building AI apps and agents with Microsoft Foundry, Azure, and MCP, to shipping faster with VS Code, Visual Studio, and GitHub Copilot. Catch up here:…
What's this!?!?! an Awesome GitHub Copilot explorer extension for VS Code from @timheuer!?!?!? Let's take a look! marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName… #vscode #githubcopilot
Share you Agent Skills with the world with awesome-copilot! github.com/github/awesome… About to add one for ImageMagick #vscode #githubcopilot
The @AMD AI Playbook!
Big leaps in AI rarely come from one breakthrough. They emerge when hardware design, open software, and real workloads click into place. That’s the story we unpack with @AMD’s Ramine Roane: how an open, developer-first approach combined with high-bandwidth memory, chiplet…
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