Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 26/08/2025I read “The Long Walk” in 1-day. So it must be a good book. Right? 110
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 03/08/2025I just one-shotted a 26 min YouTube video and that’s a good feeling. No edits needed. 110
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 06/07/2025I feel good. I managed to record a #CopilotStudio YouTube video in 1 take. This thing is being posted unedited tomorrow. Except for when I ran out of hard drive space and had to re record some. 120
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 23/06/2025“In my objectively correct opinion” is a phrase I’m going to start using. For comedic purposes of course. I’m not like that IRL. 000
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 23/06/20253 strategies for choosing a topic to blog: 1. Solve a problem no one else has 🔥 2. Improve upon an existing method 🤓 3. Do the same thing, but explain it better 👶 010
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 09/06/2025I want to eliminate the words “deterministic” and “heuristic” from all explanations of AI. The average person does not understand what they mean. 010
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 02/06/2025New Blog Post 😃 In this #CopilotStudio I share how to open a PDF to the specific page where the citation is made. 📕 A colleague told me "this is the best use of customizing citations I've seen yet" 🌟 🔗 www.matthewdevaney.com/set-citation...matthewdevaney.comSet Citation to Open Specific PDF Page In Copilot StudioCitations can be customized to open a PDF to a specific page in Copilot Studio by appending the text “#page=3”. 033
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 01/06/2025“Internet 2: No Bots Allowed” would be amazing if it ever came to exist. 000
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 13/04/2025I made a #YouTube video for the first time in a year. 📹 While filming a 10-min scene my daughter came into the room and asked for a snack. 🍎 Was making hand signals off camera to say “yes” while not breaking my speech. 👍 It was pretty funny to me & I left it in the video. Life happens. 😄 040
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 04/03/2025I wrote a full guide on #PowerApps & #PowerAutomate deployment pipelines 😃 You can read part 2 & 3 right now! www.matthewdevaney.com/the-complete...matthewdevaney.comConfigure Development And Target Environments - Matthew DevaneyPower Platform Pipelines must be connected to a development environment and one or more target environments. 011
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 02/03/2025#PowerPlatform Pipelines & ALM Guide Part 2 & 3 are now released. Go get it now 📚 👉 www.matthewdevaney.com/the-complete...matthewdevaney.comConfigure Development And Target Environments - Matthew DevaneyPower Platform Pipelines must be connected to a development environment and one or more target environments. 000
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 25/02/2025Want to learn #PowerPlatform Pipelines to deploy #PowerApps and #PowerAutomate? 😎 Start here. It's a full multi-page guide 👇 🔗 www.matthewdevaney.com/the-complete...matthewdevaney.comCreate Power Platform Managed Environments For Dev-Test-ProdThe basic set of Power Platform managed environments required by ALM best practices are a development environment, test and production 020
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 23/02/2025I wrote a #PowerPlatform Pipelines ALM Guide 🔥 163 pages complete with visuals at every step Get it for FREE here. 👉 www.matthewdevaney.com/the-complete...matthewdevaney.comThe Complete Power Platform Pipelines ALM Setup Guide - Matthew DevaneyWelcome to The Complete Power Platform Pipelines ALM Setup Guide. In this guide you will learn how to setup Pipelines and the Git Integration 040
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 18/02/2025Sometimes I forget 🐘 #PowerAutomate can store 🏬 files on my hard drive 🚗 150
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 17/02/2025New Blog Post 😃 In this #PowerAutomate post I show how to save files to a local machine with a cloud flow ☁️ 🔗 www.matthewdevaney.com/power-automa...matthewdevaney.comPower Automate Save File To A Local DrivePower Automate can save a file to a local drive by installing a on-premise data gateway onto a machine and using the File System connector. 030
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 16/02/2025I wrote 6 #PowerPlatform articles today. So now I will rest for 6 weeks and drip them out one at a time 💧 But the neat thing is I might let people get them all at once if they sign up for my mailing list 📬 It will be a neat experiment to try 👨🔬 060
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 10/02/2025New Blog Post 😃 In this #PowerAutomate article I show how to get data from a #PowerBI dataset 📊 It’s off the charts. You can get thousands of rows and perform aggregations (sum, count, etc) 🔥 🔗 www.matthewdevaney.com/power-automa...matthewdevaney.comPower Automate Run A Query Against A Power BI DatasetPower Automate can query a Power BI dataset to return an array of values. This is useful for retrieving the count and sum of large datasets. 020
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 03/02/2025New Blog Post 😃 In this #PowerAutomate article I give examples of how to use the body function, actions function, and outputs function 👨💻 The actions function is best because you can get header values that don’t appear in the dynamic values list 🔥 🔗 www.matthewdevaney.com/power-automa...matthewdevaney.comPower Automate: Actions, Outputs & Body FunctionsThe Power Automate body function, actions function, and outputs function allow you to get any inputs/outputs you want from a previous action. 031
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 01/02/2025My personal website for #PowerApps and #PowerAutomate is now Pagespeed = 100 on desktop. It’s party time!! 🥳 150
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 26/01/2025New Blog Post 😀 In this #PowerAutomate article I show how to use the item() function and the items() function 📚 If you want to master the craft of building flows its a great idea to study the flow expressions language 🏆 🔗 www.matthewdevaney.com/power-automa...matthewdevaney.comPower Automate Item Function vs Items FunctionThe Power Automate item function refers to the current item in a repeating action & the items function refers to the current item in a loop. 050
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 19/01/2025New Blog Post 😃 In this #PowerAutomate article I share how to extract data from a web page using by a cloud flow 🤖 You don’t always need Power Automate desktop to do web scraping 🖥️ 🔗 www.matthewdevaney.com/how-to-extra...matthewdevaney.comHow To Extract Data From Web Page Using Power AutomatePower Automate cloud flows can be used to extract data from a web page by getting the HTML and output its details with an AI Prompt. 031
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 13/01/2025New Blog Post 😃 In this #PowerAutomate article I show how to get more than the 35 email maximum from an inbox 📬 We are going all the way to 999 emails 😎 🔗 www.matthewdevaney.com/how-to-get-o...matthewdevaney.comHow To Get Over 25 Emails In Power AutomateTo get over 25 emails in Power Automate use the Outlook - Send An HTTP request action instead of the Outlook - Get Emails (V3) action. 040
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 11/01/2025I ate a bag of “Limited Edition” chips. Achievement unlocked 🏆 010
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 10/01/2025I would like #CopilotStudio to include a headless web browser for its Agents. That way I could really browse the web the same way a human does. 040
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 09/01/2025Upcoming Feature Alert 🚨 #PowerApps will soon allow defining security roles by the values in a column (e.g. City equals Seattle) 🔒 Here’s how it will work 😊 1/3 150
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 08/01/2025United States can fuck off with its talk about “acquiring” Canada🖕 🇺🇸 That’s called “annexation.” And doing so would mean war. ⚔️ 060
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 06/01/2025New Blog Post 😃 In this #PowerAutomate blog post I share how to host a webpage using a flow. 🛜 That’s right. A web page. Hosted. By a flow. 🔗 www.matthewdevaney.com/power-automa...matthewdevaney.comPower Automate Flow To Host A Web Page/Web ApplicationPower Automate can be used to display a web-page or even a single-page web application in a web browser by returning HTML code. 074
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 03/01/2025Third of January. Half-life 3 is also third. Half-life 3 confirmed. 000
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 01/01/2025“Illegitimi non carborundum” Translation: “Don’t let the bastards get you down.” 120
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 30/12/2024Agents 🪄 Bots 🤖 and Workflows 🌊 All of these words have been used to describe the “mechanism” which performs automation. There is considerable overlap between them. And I have heard these words spoken interchangeably. It’s confusing! 🫤 260
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 26/12/2024AI Agents get people excited about the possibilities for automation. And I am all for it! 🤖 👍 The funny thing is that many times the proposed AI Agent use-case would be better as a traditional automation 👴 It’s important to know why a technology is the best fit to solve a problem 🤓 🧠 150
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 24/12/2024I am shocked to have 3,000 YouTube subscribers 😳 When did that happen? 150
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 17/12/2024#LinkedIn Statistics for 2024 📊 93k Engagements 5.6M Impressions I do not pay any attention to LinkedIn analytics but I thought I'd share for the heck of it. 040
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 16/12/2024New Blog Post 😃 In this #PowerPlatform article I build a flow to force sync users and update the Dataverse Team members when new users are added to an Entra Security group. Notice the cat getting being forced to take a bath? 🔗 www.matthewdevaney.com/force-sync-u...matthewdevaney.comForce Sync Users From Entra Security Group To Dataverse TeamWe can solve this using a flow to force sync users & update the Dataverse Team members when new users are added to Entra Security group. 161
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 14/12/2024This sax player goes hard 🎷 😎 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp5P...youtube.comwhen you’re overqualified for the jobYouTube video by George Collier 110
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 13/12/2024Witcher 4 trailer is amazing. And Siri is the new protagonist!!! 🗡️ I’ll be playing this game the moment it releases. The Witcher series has always told great stories. 🔗 youtu.be/yWMu6JeT2g8?...youtu.beThe Witcher 4 - Official Reveal Trailer | The Game Awards 2024YouTube video by IGN 120
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 11/12/2024I connected my own domain and now I have a new BlueSky username: @matthewdevaney.com 080
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 10/12/2024TIL there is a "Copy Set Name" feature in #Dataverse 😎 It is super helpful for #PowerAutomate when you are updating a Dataverse lookup and need to know the Entity Set Name. And the best part is that I wasn't the clever person who figured this out. It was my readers. Thanks guys! 030
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 10/12/2024In the “Age Of AI” the best developers will still be the ones who know how to RTFM 🤖 010
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 09/12/2024New Blog Post 😃 In this #PowerAutomate article I show how to update a lookup column in #Dataverse 👀 Everytime I have to do this I forget the lookup syntax so I wrote this article so I will never forget again 🐘 🔗 www.matthewdevaney.com/power-automa...matthewdevaney.comPower Automate: Update A Lookup Column In DataverseThe Power Automate syntax to update a lookup column in Dataverse is difficult to memorize so I have written a quick-guide on how to do it. 040
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 03/12/2024Amazing Tip 🔥🔥🔥 Copy and paste the Fetch XML from #PowerApps into a List Rows action in #PowerAutomate to filter results without writing any code 😎 170
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 01/12/2024I swore I would never build another Lego after that Tuxedo cat. One and done I said. 🐈⬛ Now Lego has model of THE ENDURANCE so I might have to make it two and done 🛳️ www.lego.com/en-ca/produc...lego.comThe Endurance 10335 | LEGO® Icons | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop CACollectible model building project for fans of famous ships 250
Matthew Devaney @matthewdevaney.com · 26/11/2024Pagination is useful when #PowerAutomate requires more records than a single fetch allows 🐘 Always pagination to 100,000 records and the top count to 5,000 records on SharePoint and Dataverse tables 📄 There’s no penalty for doing this. And you’ll get the maximum amount of records very quickly 🐇 ☁️ 1100
