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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 21/07/2026

Built a canvas in the GitHub Copilot App that mirrors my iOS simulator. Fully interactive and live-streamed from the iOS simulator app. The benefit? I can test PWA behaviour on iOS without leaving the GitHub Copilot App!

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 15/07/2026

Happy to be renewed as a Microsoft MVP for the third year in a row in both categories! 🥳 #MVPBuzz

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 15/05/2026

Found a fun easter egg in the new GitHub Copilot app 🤖

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 07/04/2026

In case you didn't know, the GitHub Copilot CLI agent harness can be used with models from OpenRouter! Enabling the Copilot CLI to use open weight/source models. #github #githubcopilot #githubcopilotcli

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 27/03/2026

Goodbye Seattle, it was a great week filled with lots of laughter! I'm happy to have been part of the MVP Summit again this year and loved all the sessions I attended. Thanks @microsoft.com 🚀 #MVPBuzz #MVPSummit #DevOps #AzureInfrastructureAsCode

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 21/03/2026

Working on my side projects with GitHub Copilot above Greenland while on my way to Seattle for MVP Summit! 🤖

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 23/02/2026

Demo 3: Works seamlessly on mobile (Copilot running server-side)

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 23/02/2026

🎬 Demo 2: Personalized recommendations based on your watch history

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 23/02/2026

🎬 Demo 1: Get movie recommendations for upcoming releases

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 23/02/2026

Integrated the GitHub Copilot SDK into my movie & series tracking web app for personalized recommendations. Built with React + server-side integration. Check out the demos in this thread! 🧵 #githubcopilot #GitHub #githubcopilotsdk

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 21/02/2026

Browse the web with GitHub Copilot SDK! I built a browser extension that connects to the Copilot SDK. It takes a prompt as input and browses the web. This is a simple example, but think about the automation possibilities (for example, automating timesheets). #githubcopilot #githubcopilotsdk

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 16/02/2026

Having a blast with the GitHub Copilot SDK and Remotion! I’ve built a web app that lets you generate videos with Remotion. You type a prompt, pick a model, and it generates and renders a short MP4 you can preview in the browser. #githubcopilot #remotion #githubcopilotsdk

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 10/02/2026

Tip: In GitHub Copilot CLI, if you run copilot --resume without an ID, it opens an interactive session picker that shows the available sessions so that you can easily dive back into one of them

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 03/02/2026

🎉 4 years of blogging and 43 blog posts later, I have reached a blog milestone of 100K views! Thank you to everyone for your support and for reading my blogs! 🚀 My content primarily focuses on Azure Bicep, Azure, DevOps, and GitHub (Copilot). Check out my content at: johnlokerse.dev

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 24/01/2026

If you use Azure Bicep as your primary IaC language, you should definitely check out the Bicep Console feature. The @biceplang.bsky.social team upgraded it with piped input support in v0.40.2. Think about the agentic possibilities this enables for quick UDF validation using GitHub Copilot.

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 23/01/2026

Checked it, and it searches for Skills in both .copilot and .github folders

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 16/01/2026

I regularly select PowerShell functions, C# methods, Markdown blocks, and Bicep resources or modules to update them using GitHub Copilot. Instead of manually highlighting code, I can quickly select these elements using my extension. Code Quick Select for Azure Bicep:

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 16/01/2026

I missed a “Keep all” button in GitHub Copilot, but it turns out it’s there. In the chat window, there’s a list of changes made by Copilot at the bottom. If you’re sure you want to keep all the changes, click the Keep button there instead of manually going through the changes X times.

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 19/12/2025

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 that you do daily?

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 10/12/2025

Added support for triggering Azure DevOps pipelines via Azure Bicep! The local-deploy extensibility feature is so awesome. Check the public repository out: github.com/johnlokerse/... #azure #azurebicep #azuredevops

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 08/10/2025

⚠️ Azure Resource Manager (ARM) extension for @vscode.dev is now officially deprecated! Microsoft now recommends that you use the Bicep extension instead. #MVPBuzz #azure #azurebicep

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 16/09/2025

Going back to Seattle next year for the annual MVP Summit! Looking forward to meeting up with the product groups and MVPs! #MVPBuzz #Microsoft #azure

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 02/09/2025

🚀 2600 Azure Bicep enthusiasts! A LinkedIn community where you can share Bicep experiences, blogs, tips and tricks and ask questions! 💪🏼 Happy to be running this with @rios.engineer for the Bicep community. #azure #azurebicep #MVPBuzz

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 02/09/2025

It's so cool what we can do right now with GitHub Copilot. Grounding my infrastructure planning document with Bicep MCP, Azure MCP and GitHub Copilot for Azure tool calls. Very easy to do with custom chat mode. Blog post on this next week! #bicep #azure @biceplang.bsky.social

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 07/08/2025

Bicep ❤️ Azure DevOps! With Bicep Local, you can interact with more than just Azure or Entra. You can connect Bicep to anything. This is going to be amazing! #bicep #azuredevops #azure

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 27/07/2025

🚀 Created my own Azure DevOps pull request hub using GitHub Spark! The hub combines PRs from all accessible repositories into one page. 🔗 Create your own using my requirements document (use GitHub Spark or GitHub Copilot): gist.github.com/johnlokerse/...

Azure DevOps PR Hub overview created by GitHub Spark

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 18/07/2025

Working on a complex expression in a Bicep template. It's so great to call Microsoft Docs MCP to let the agent learn about a function and then combine it with best practices tools from GitHub Copilot for Azure. #bicep #infrastructureascode #githubcopilot

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 10/07/2025

🚀 I am happy to share that I have been renewed as a Microsoft MVP in DevOps and Azure Infrastructure-as-Code for another year! #MVPBuzz #DevOps #AzureInfrastructureAsCode #Bicep #microsoft

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 19/05/2025

🚀GitHub Coding agent is awesome! It’s doing a chore for me that I have ignored for a while. Fixing dead links by removing them from a markdown. Easy task to offload to GitHub Copilot. Create an issue, assign Copilot and boom. It’s working for you. #GitHub #GitHubCopilot

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 14/05/2025

🤖 GitHub Copilot tip! On GitHub.com you can ask GitHub Copilot to track the latest commits of your favorite developer in a specific GitHub repository. Example prompt: List the 10 most recent commits authored by anthony-c-martin in the azure/bicep GitHub repository #github #mvpbuzz

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 09/05/2025

Just noticed GitHub Actions shows progress bars per job in the workflow overview. Not sure when this was released, but a very useful feature if you ask me. 🚀

GitHub Actions workflow view showing a multi-job pipeline in progress. Each job in the deployment stage includes a horizontal progress bar, visually indicating how far along each job is. One job has a label ‘Deploy [defaults]’ with a progress bar partially filled and the text ‘Deploying to avm-validation’.

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 26/04/2025

Prepped my racing bike for outdoor rides! And I added some MVP stickers as a finishing touch 😎🚴 #MVPBuzz #Microsoft

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 22/04/2025

💪 Did you know that Azure Verified Modules now expose the subnet child resource in the container registry? In the latest Bicep Community Call, the AVM team showcased a new capability: deploying the subnet child resource without needing to deploy the parent virtual network. #azure #azurebicep

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 22/04/2025

Pro tip! I learned that you can use a shortcut to switch between Ask, Edit and Agent mode in GitHub Copilot using @vscode.dev. MacOS: command + . Windows: CTRL + . Will save you a few clicks a day:

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 21/04/2025

Looking forward to be reading Bill Gates autobiography “Source Code: My Beginnings”. It’s about his childhood in Seattle and founding of Microsoft.

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 29/03/2025

I finally met MVPs from the online community in person and learned so much from them. Meeting people from various Microsoft product groups was a highlight. The future of Azure, GitHub, Azure DevOps, and infrastructure as code looks amazing! What a great event!

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 25/03/2025

I have met so many awesome people today at the first day of the MVP Summit 💪🏼 #MVPSummit #MVPBuzz

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 23/03/2025

iPad + GitHub Codespaces + GitHub Copilot Agent mode! Great combo! 👌🏻 Adding some small features to make my life easier doing pull requests on Azure DevOps. #GitHub #GitHubCopilot #GitHubCodespaces #MVPBuzz

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 10/03/2025

Export as Bicep is available on the Azure Portal! 💪 🔗 Read more on Export as Bicep here: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/... #azurebicep #mvpbuzz

Export as Bicep on the "production" Azure Portal

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 25/02/2025

Same prompt, different results. Both have errors, but small enough to quickly fix it yourself. I added the version 0.18.0 myself.

Storage account generated with Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Storage account generated with Claude 3.7 Sonnet

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 07/02/2025

ChatGPT Canvas is amazing (using o1)! I made a small web app which lists pending Azure Pipelines based on selected Azure DevOps Projects. Azure DevOps does not have this natively. From terminal script to web app! (+-2 hrs of work) #AzureDevOps #azure #chatgpt

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 01/02/2025

A beautiful view of the Erasmusbrug in Rotterdam, taken during my walk on Friday night!

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 25/01/2025

Nice car mate! I’m driving the Kia equivalent 😎

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 01/01/2025

Happy new year! Wishing everyone a healthy and great 2025! 🚀

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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 23/12/2024

Happy holidays everyone! 💪🏼 I want to thank everyone for the amazing support this year and I am looking forward to create more Azure Bicep, Azure DevOps and GitHub content in 2025! ✈️ Next year is going to be extra epic too because of my first MVP Summit visit! #azure #azurebicep #azuredevops

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