Dylan Hayes @moraine.co.uk · 19/08/2025A day in #sinaia Romania, Peleș castle is really quite something, like #Craigside in Northumberland but with the volume turned up to 11. 000
Dylan Hayes @moraine.co.uk · 10/08/2025I'm going to have some strange dreams tonight. I've just #donatedblood, recently finished reading #Dracula, and I'm off to #Transylvania shortly. 🧛 000
Dylan Hayes @moraine.co.uk · 24/07/2025At the oracle of #Zeus, Dodoni. There's an oak tree growing right in the temple of Zeus, which tradition holds is able to foretell things in the rustle of it's leaves, and a lightning shelter nearby in case the Gods are angered by mortals. 010
Dylan Hayes @moraine.co.uk · 25/05/2025Out for a run over windy clifftops towards #bamburgh, the castle and beach. A strong candidate for my favourite view. 000
Dylan Hayes @moraine.co.uk · 11/05/2025Back in the #peakdistrict one of the finest landscapes in England. Never been to Abney Moor before and it's amazingly quiet and far from the maddening crowds of Castleton 000
Dylan Hayes @moraine.co.uk · 09/04/2025Just stumbled upon the Holy Grail in #Valencia. Indiana Jones could have saved himself a lot of bother coming here. 000
Dylan Hayes @moraine.co.uk · 16/03/2025Spectating at the #Wakefield10K this morning. Decent weather and a great turn out. Well done to all the runners! 000
Dylan Hayes @moraine.co.uk · 14/03/2025Coming up next week on Tuesday evening. A great example of technical skills making the world a little bit better. www.meetup.com/m365-north/e...meetup.comPower Platform for Good! (Melissa Hale), Tue, Mar 18, 2025, 6:30 PM | MeetupThis lightning talk gives the attendees insights into how someone like me, with a scientific non-technical background ended up as a developer for a consulting company and a 010
Dylan Hayes @moraine.co.uk · 14/03/2025The UK press reacting to AI is fascinating. I've stolen Daily Star frontpages for my #CopilotStudio talks - like my "Psycho scumbag chatbots aren't all bad" outro slide. However, without getting political, surely the minister who's brief includes AI should actually be using ChatGPT? 000
Dylan Hayes @moraine.co.uk · 11/03/2025Cross Country trains Vs #ChatGPT4.5 round one. Doing some research on the train to Birmingham, and finding a conversational style of working with an LLM doesn't really work with the woeful 1995 style speed WiFi connectivity of the older trains. 000
Dylan Hayes @moraine.co.uk · 05/03/2025Great to be speaking about #CopilotStudio at the National UK Dynamics 365 & Power Platform User Group in Manchester. Thanks to the sponsors and organisers. Looks like I'll need to update my slides with today's news around autonomous agents in #Dynamics365. #mvpbuzz #powerplatform 010
Dylan Hayes @moraine.co.uk · 21/02/2025I've been using #MicrosoftLauncher with my OnePlus phone a while, but recently suffered freezes. I tried this: Accessibility & Convenience -> Accessibility ->Downloaded Apps -> Microsoft Launcher - On (was off). Since then all good - not sure why! 000
Dylan Hayes @moraine.co.uk · 18/02/2025A fun and thought provoking evening session talking #Copilot at @m365north.bsky.social. Big thanks to fellow presenters @simonjhudson.bsky.social, @simondoy.bsky.social and our audience. 032
Dylan Hayes @moraine.co.uk · 10/02/2025I like work trips by train. A window seat, table and noise cancelling headphones makes a pleasant journey, but the old Cross Country trains are mobile deadspots with terrible wifi, and a true test of the Microsoft 365 offline experience if OneDrive hasn't fully synced before boarding. 000
Dylan Hayes @moraine.co.uk · 28/01/2025It's taken a few days to finally get access to #DeepSeek, but I'm excited to see for myself what capabilities this disruptive outsider has brought to the top table of generative AI. 010
Dylan Hayes @moraine.co.uk · 24/01/2025I've been reading about OpenAPI's #Operator. It's an obvious and useful idea to have an AI agent interact with web page on your behalf. But on reading that popular websites are being modified to make them agent friendly, it sounds like we're just reinvented the API again 25 years later. 000
Dylan Hayes @moraine.co.uk · 23/01/2025My first talk of 2025 over in Manchester run by the good folks at the Dynamics 365 and the Microsoft Power Platform user group. Great to see some many people in the tech community braving the miserable weather and traffic on a January evening! #CopilotStudio #PowerPlatform #communityrocks 000
Dylan Hayes @moraine.co.uk · 09/01/2025Following on from my previous posting, I have blogged about my experience of using #Mermaid charts in #CopilotPages, and included a shameless LoTR reference to tie in with JRR Tolkien's recent 132nd birthday. dylanhayes.github.io/Copilot-Pages/dylanhayes.github.ioCopilot Pages - Adding ChartsCopilot Pages are a feature of Biz Chat allowing a more interactive approach to AI assisted authoring. Although broadly similar to Canvas in Chat GPT-4o, Copilot Pages have some interesting features f... 000
Dylan Hayes @moraine.co.uk · 03/01/2025An excuse for an early fail at Dry January. It is Friday afterall. 000
Dylan Hayes @moraine.co.uk · 02/01/2025Last day off before 2025 normality returns, and a chance to explore some of the more obscure corners of Manchester city centre. Rylands Library is like a cathedral of books, and an obvious inspiration for the visuals of Hogwarts. 000
Dylan Hayes @moraine.co.uk · 28/12/2024I have been playing with the Mermaid charting capabilities of Copilot Pages. Being able to output text and charts from one prompt like this "please create an article about the elves of middle earth. include a mermaid org chart in the article showing the principle elves of middle earth". 000
Dylan Hayes @moraine.co.uk · 21/12/2024An extremely windy trail run this morning, and my first Imperial Stout of the season. 140
Dylan Hayes @moraine.co.uk · 20/12/2024The word 'magical' gets way over used at this time of the year. But, Northern Lights at Temple Newsam justified the word - even if it was a bit crowded at time. 000
Dylan Hayes @moraine.co.uk · 13/12/2024Last week; a long drive & walk, and mulling over things to be planned or solved. I talked to #chatgpt and #copilot apps for suggestions for creative solutions and to record the results. No visual distractions, and a long asynchronous conversation. Despite annoyances it works well enough to do again 110
Dylan Hayes @moraine.co.uk · 12/12/2024Truly, we are living in the future when even humble Notepad has AI capabilities. I remember when it struggle with large ascii files. The modern version of Zawinskis Law of Software Envelopment should read "Every program attempts to expand until it has AI capability" 010
