Justin Bird 🏴
@justinjbird.com
The digital projection of my mental self.
Organises @retrodata.live and @dataweekender.com runs a @codeclub.bsky.social, director of @swiftanalytics.uk.
swfta.uk/justin
Organises @retrodata.live and @dataweekender.com runs a @codeclub.bsky.social, director of @swiftanalytics.uk.
swfta.uk/justin
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Justin Bird 🏴
@justinjbird.com
· Aug 14
a baby yoda is sitting in a field with his eyes closed and making a peace sign .
Alt: baby yoda meditating
media.tenor.com
Maturing is not responding to some random keyboard warrior on the internet...
Reposted by Justin Bird 🏴
🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
Reposted by Justin Bird 🏴
Take care of your true fans, move them through your user journey.
Ignore YouTube, but his conversations have really opened my eyes (Death of the follower is another good one).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNYw...
Ignore YouTube, but his conversations have really opened my eyes (Death of the follower is another good one).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNYw...
How to Make it on YouTube in 2025 (Jack Conte Interview)
YouTube video by Colin and Samir
www.youtube.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Take care of your true fans, move them through your user journey.
Ignore YouTube, but his conversations have really opened my eyes (Death of the follower is another good one).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNYw...
Ignore YouTube, but his conversations have really opened my eyes (Death of the follower is another good one).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNYw...
Reposted by Justin Bird 🏴
Yknow what should be dead? Posting stupid ass "[insert feature / product / process here] is dead" posts...
a man is holding a microphone and saying please shut up .
Alt: a man is holding a microphone and saying please shut up .
media.tenor.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Yknow what should be dead? Posting stupid ass "[insert feature / product / process here] is dead" posts...
There's just no way. Endured this complex system for 18 months with unsuitable players, additionally marginalising the best youth product in a generation...and only now the system changes!? I would be stunned if this happens...
Manchester United are losing Bryan Mbeumo, Amad and Noussair Mazraoui to AFCON.
Along with injuries, this could force Ruben Amorim to finally move away from 3-4-2-1.
In preparing to face Bournemouth, the squad has trialled a 4-3-3.
@lauriewhitwell.bsky.social
Along with injuries, this could force Ruben Amorim to finally move away from 3-4-2-1.
In preparing to face Bournemouth, the squad has trialled a 4-3-3.
@lauriewhitwell.bsky.social
Is Ruben Amorim about to change his Manchester United formation?
Losing three key players to AFCON could play a part in the Portuguese trialling a new formation in the coming games
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
There's just no way. Endured this complex system for 18 months with unsuitable players, additionally marginalising the best youth product in a generation...and only now the system changes!? I would be stunned if this happens...
#MicrosoftFabric & #PowerBI Wales user group schedule set for 2026. We run a monthly online session. Happy to accommodate shorter talks or 50+50 if you want to trial ahead of bits!
Thanks to @sessionize.com for supporting user groups with free services 👌
sessionize.com/fabricpowerb...
Thanks to @sessionize.com for supporting user groups with free services 👌
sessionize.com/fabricpowerb...
December 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
#MicrosoftFabric & #PowerBI Wales user group schedule set for 2026. We run a monthly online session. Happy to accommodate shorter talks or 50+50 if you want to trial ahead of bits!
Thanks to @sessionize.com for supporting user groups with free services 👌
sessionize.com/fabricpowerb...
Thanks to @sessionize.com for supporting user groups with free services 👌
sessionize.com/fabricpowerb...
Love this: "We often half-ass our naming conventions because we think of naming as marketing or docs...Naming is a functional requirement. It defines the ontology of your product. It teaches people how to think."
Reading about how cmdlet became cmdlet...
www.jsnover.com/blog/2025/12...
Reading about how cmdlet became cmdlet...
www.jsnover.com/blog/2025/12...
The Cmdlet Decision: When to Be Weird
I’ve spent a lot of time, and acquired a lot of scar tissue, in this industry, and if there is one thing I’ve learned, it’s that most people are terrified of looking different. People hug the cente…
www.jsnover.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Love this: "We often half-ass our naming conventions because we think of naming as marketing or docs...Naming is a functional requirement. It defines the ontology of your product. It teaches people how to think."
Reading about how cmdlet became cmdlet...
www.jsnover.com/blog/2025/12...
Reading about how cmdlet became cmdlet...
www.jsnover.com/blog/2025/12...
LETS GO!!!!!
Today in “Dudes Rock”:
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
December 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
LETS GO!!!!!
Ticket prices 7x higher than they were at Qatar, price gouging of hotels, the risk of being turned away at the door because you laughed at covfefe and the constant worry at being kidnapped by masked ICE thugs.
Has the beautiful game ever looked more ugly...?
Has the beautiful game ever looked more ugly...?
December 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Ticket prices 7x higher than they were at Qatar, price gouging of hotels, the risk of being turned away at the door because you laughed at covfefe and the constant worry at being kidnapped by masked ICE thugs.
Has the beautiful game ever looked more ugly...?
Has the beautiful game ever looked more ugly...?
ha ha won't be planning trips to the US any time soon then...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
US could ask tourists for five-year social media history before entry
The plan would affect people from countries, including the UK, who can fill out a form in lieu of a visa.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
ha ha won't be planning trips to the US any time soon then...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Data and football (soccer) fans...there was an interesting talk at ignite on Microsoft supporting the Premier League. Actually some interesting and useful applications of AI:
medius.microsoft.com/Embed/video-...
medius.microsoft.com/Embed/video-...
Premier League’s data-driven fan engagement at scale
Learn how the Premier League transformed decades of match data, editorial c...
medius.microsoft.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Data and football (soccer) fans...there was an interesting talk at ignite on Microsoft supporting the Premier League. Actually some interesting and useful applications of AI:
medius.microsoft.com/Embed/video-...
medius.microsoft.com/Embed/video-...
It's a wonder my kids survived this long.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It's a wonder my kids survived this long.
We're leveraging AI...
December 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
We're leveraging AI...
"...the sheer number of machines still running Windows 10 could turn into a cybersecurity time bomb..."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
So no more security updates...or AI and Recall. Tough call.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
So no more security updates...or AI and Recall. Tough call.
Vast Number of Windows Users Refusing to Upgrade After Microsoft's Embrace of AI Slop
Huge numbers of Windows users are refusing to upgrade to Windows 11 -- and many of them are citing its AI features as the reason why.
futurism.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:26 AM
"...the sheer number of machines still running Windows 10 could turn into a cybersecurity time bomb..."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
So no more security updates...or AI and Recall. Tough call.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
So no more security updates...or AI and Recall. Tough call.
Not so fkin smart now is it
December 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Not so fkin smart now is it
There are so many horrifying numbers here :(
Guess what % of plastics have been #recycled? No prizes :(
December 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
There are so many horrifying numbers here :(
Well after 90 minutes of troubleshooting on the bleeding edge, I have fixed the problem...but I do not know how I fixed it. Standard...
December 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Well after 90 minutes of troubleshooting on the bleeding edge, I have fixed the problem...but I do not know how I fixed it. Standard...
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
December 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
TIL that here in Wales, we have a man vs horse race. As with all great ideas, this came from an argument in a pub...
www.therunnerjournal.org/post/man-vs-...
www.therunnerjournal.org/post/man-vs-...
Man vs. Horse: The Wildest Race in Wales Where Humans Take on Equine Speed
In the heart of Wales, there’s a race unlike any other—a competition that pits human endurance against equine power, challenging runners and riders alike in a grueling 22-mile battle through rugged te...
www.therunnerjournal.org
December 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
TIL that here in Wales, we have a man vs horse race. As with all great ideas, this came from an argument in a pub...
www.therunnerjournal.org/post/man-vs-...
www.therunnerjournal.org/post/man-vs-...
And FIFA, don’t forget FIFA. Pathetic all of them
This will be remembered as the most pathetic moment in American history. What a needy fool.
December 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
And FIFA, don’t forget FIFA. Pathetic all of them
A private healthcare company contacts me by phone and email periodically promoting their business-focused healthcare product.
It's not hassling level, but what is baffling is we already have the product 😂 where is the “your CRM is broke” button?
It's not hassling level, but what is baffling is we already have the product 😂 where is the “your CRM is broke” button?
December 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
A private healthcare company contacts me by phone and email periodically promoting their business-focused healthcare product.
It's not hassling level, but what is baffling is we already have the product 😂 where is the “your CRM is broke” button?
It's not hassling level, but what is baffling is we already have the product 😂 where is the “your CRM is broke” button?
I despair...
OP: Please can I have some help?
Memorable Member: AI said this, I haven't checked it tho.
OP: Thanks, but the thing suggested doesn't exist.
community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-pl...
OP: Please can I have some help?
Memorable Member: AI said this, I haven't checked it tho.
OP: Thanks, but the thing suggested doesn't exist.
community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-pl...
Fabric mirror SQL Server 2022 on prem via Service Principal
Hi everyone, I have a question regarding a connection from Fabric to an on-prem SQL Server using a service principal. Specifically, I need to mirror a database that resides on an on-prem SQL Server 20...
community.fabric.microsoft.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I despair...
OP: Please can I have some help?
Memorable Member: AI said this, I haven't checked it tho.
OP: Thanks, but the thing suggested doesn't exist.
community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-pl...
OP: Please can I have some help?
Memorable Member: AI said this, I haven't checked it tho.
OP: Thanks, but the thing suggested doesn't exist.
community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-pl...