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Peter De Tender

@pdtit.bsky.social
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Belgian 🛫 USA *Azure Technical Trainer West US MSFT * MCT * Former MVP * Passionate Speaker * www.pdtit.be * opinions are mine *

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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My orange-pedo loving sister said she has to vote R to stop trans people. Me: "I don't fucking care what people want to do with their own fucking bodies. It's none of your fucking business. You thinking you have a say in this is the stupidest thing I've ever fucking heard." 🤬
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 20/09/2026
Today I will… improve test coverage by @aaron-powell.com devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio…
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Today I will… improve test coverage by @aaron-powell.com
Boost your application quality by learning how to analyze our test coverage and improve it using Visual Studio features.
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Bojan Vrhovnik @bojanv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#AI Just Joined Your Code Reviews: #GitHub #Copilot Comes to #Azure Repos buff.ly/2MivbXl
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AI Just Joined Your Code Reviews: GitHub Copilot Comes to Azure Repos | Microsoft Community Hub
Overview Every engineering team runs into the same wall: the code is written, the tests are green, and then the pull request sits, waiting for a human to...
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 13/09/2026
Generally Available: Azure Developer CLI (azd) Extension Framework by The Azure Updates Team azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=5708…
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Generally Available: Azure Developer CLI (azd) Extension Framework by The Azure Updates Team
Subscribe to Microsoft Azure today for service updates, all in one place. Check out the new Cloud Platform roadmap to see our latest product plans.
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randy39.bsky.social @randy39.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 09/09/2026
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Run several agents at once by Kayla Cinnamon github.blog/ai-and-ml/github-copilo…
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GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Run several agents at once by Kayla Cinnamon
Learn how to run parallel agents in the GitHub Copilot app, and experience the moment it stops feeling scary and starts feeling powerful.
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Alvin Ashcraft @alvinashcraft.com · 04/09/2026
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Run several agents at once | with Kayla Cinnamon github.blog/ai-and-ml/gi... #githubcopilot #ai #agents #learning #beginners #copilotapp
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GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Run several agents at once
Learn how to run parallel agents in the GitHub Copilot app, and experience the moment it stops feeling scary and starts feeling powerful.
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Isaac Levin @isaacrlevin.com · 31/08/2026
Develop AI agents directly in VS Code through a three-part Microsoft Reactor series. Follow practical sessions that move from core concepts to working agent workflows. #AI #VSCode #AI #Agents isaacl.dev/hat
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Uncle Joe @sydseter.com · 29/08/2026
I am not a Monarchist, but I appreciate King Harald V's support for diversity. His words, 2026: "Norwegians are girls who love girls, boys who love boys, and girls and boys who love each other. Norwegians believe in God, Allah, everything and nothing... In other words: Norway is you. Norway is us."
King Harald V. portrait
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy
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PSHSummit @powershellsummit.org · 25/08/2026
"I don't have an hour of material." You don't need one. #PSHSummit takes 25-min Fast Focus talks, 45-min breakouts, 90-min deep dives, 4-hr labs and After Dark sessions. Fit the format to your material. CFP closes Aug 31: powershellsummit.org
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 25/08/2026
Distributing Bicep Modules with Token-Based Access Using ACR by Richard Hooper pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/07/distribut…
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Distributing Bicep Modules with Token-Based Access Using ACR by Richard Hooper
Reading Time: 6 minutesShare:Bicep 0.45.6 added ociEnabled, an experimental feature that routes module pulls through ORAS using Docker-style credentials instead of the Azure SDK. I have been waiting for something like this for a long time. If you Read more
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Isaac Levin @isaacrlevin.com · 20/08/2026
AI agent costs can spike mid-run. Track token usage in real time, enforce per-run budgets, and stop overruns before they happen with practical cost controls. #AI #Agents isaacl.dev/g92
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Jamie Maguire @jamiemaguire.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
[BLOGGED] MCP in .NET: The Practical Guide Nobody Wrote. OAuth Bugs, Transport Gotchas, and What Visual Studio Can’t Do Read: jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2026/04/…
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Massimo Bonanni @massimobonanni.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
From coder to orchestrator: How agents shift the role of a developer
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From coder to orchestrator: How agents shift the role of a developer
Developers are owning more of the delivery system around code, not just code itself. Join us during GitHub Universe to meet other devs, learn something new, and explore what's next. The post From coder to orchestrator: How agents shift the role of a developer appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
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Peter De Tender @pdtit.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I tried Instagram for a month, and all I got was staged humor, marketing stuff on any possible products or the promised land of 7-figures income while sleeping. Nothing educational, nothing that sticks,... Work leans into short-form Skilling, so wanted to give it a try. No idea where though
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Peter De Tender @pdtit.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Tired of running manual @github.com Copilot CLI prompts as part of your DevOps processes? Integrate your tasks into the pipelines itself... see my blog post for all details and 2 scenarios to get you started www.pdtit.be/post/running...
Flow diagram showing how Azure DevOps connects to Github repos, integrates GitHub Copilot CLI as part of 2 pipeline scenarios
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 05/08/2026
Azure Service Health has four alert types. You probably configured one. by Ricardo Martins techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/St…
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Azure Service Health has four alert types. You probably configured one. by Ricardo Martins
Most startups I work with have Service Health alerts configured on at least one subscription. That part's fine. The problem is they usually have it set up...
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Jamie Maguire @jamiemaguire.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
[BLOGGED] Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework: An Open-Source Engine for Agentic AI In this blog post, I pull together recent announcements, what it means for you, and weave in some of my own thoughts. Examples of the Agent Framework in action is also included. Read:
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Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework: An Open-Source Engine for Agentic AI 
Innovation in recent years in the conversational and agent AI space has been wild. Microsoft have recently shipped a new open-source engine that brings together the best bits from Semantic Kernel, AutoGen and the Process Framework. In this blog post, I pull together some of the recent announcements, what it means for you, and weave in some of my own thoughts. We cover: Microsoft Agent Framework Why Agents Need a New Foundation The Paradox of Choice What this means for Semantic Kernel, Process Framework and AutoGen What This Means for Your Current Project How long will Semantic Kernel Be Support for Microsoft’s Official Position Azure AI Foundry Integration Signals to Pay Attention To The AI Timeline and Looking Ahead   An Example of the Agent Framework in Action is also included.  Let’s dig in. ~ Why Agents Need a New Foundation In these last 18 months, there have been many disconnected SDKs, platforms and approaches when it comes to shipping AI age
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Bojan Vrhovnik @bojanv.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Take command of your #Microsoft Foundry #AI agents with the #Azure #Copilot Observability Agent
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Take command of your Microsoft Foundry AI agents with the Azure Copilot Observability Agent | Microsoft Community Hub
Generative AI (GenAI) agents are moving from prototypes to production, running as part of real distributed applications. When a Microsoft Foundry agent slows...
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The guy at the end of Bruno’s leash @davidgs.com · 27/07/2026
PSA: If you are writing any sort of software, please, for the love of all that is holy, ADD A LICENSE! And not just a "This is free to use" statement. Just pick one. MIT, Apache2.0, whatever you want, but pick SOMETHING. -signed Struggling with Undefined Licenses in Open Source
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Max’s Dad @djwyszynski.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This marketer deserves a promotion.
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 15/07/2026
Understanding Token Cost Anatomy: The Five-Headed Bill Nobody Budgeted For by Shannon Eldridge-Kuehn www.shankuehn.io/post/understanding…
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Understanding Token Cost Anatomy: The Five-Headed Bill Nobody Budgeted For by Shannon Eldridge-Kuehn
You know how this usually goes...you wind up pulling the monthly AI spend report and the number is just that...a number. "Anthropic API: $14,200." No breakdown, no context, no indication of whether your team built something genuinely useful or spent three weeks regenerating the same 8,000-token system prompt on every single call.The invoice knows what you spent. Unfortunately, your invoice (by itself) has no idea why you spent what you did.The graphic above breaks it down: Five buckets, five cos
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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 15/07/2026
From the Visual Studio blog... In case you missed it earlier... Built-in Agent Skills Bring .NET and Azure Expertise into Visual Studio devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio… #Azure #GitHubCopilot #dotnet
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Peter De Tender @pdtit.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
New blog post: IAC-review-agent in VS Code Over the last few days, I built a custom GitHub Copilot agent that reviews Infrastructure as Code bicep templates; specifically for Azure anti-patterns, cost red flags, and Well-Architected Framework compliance. www.pdtit.be/post/agentic...
IAC review agent workflow overview
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Jason @greedyrunner.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
This handy flowchart is for any fellow cis people out there who have someone in their lives who come out to them as trans.
Flow chart
Your friend or relative comes out as trans
Question. Does this harm you in any way?
If answered is yes, left to box that says, it doesn’t, then on to next question.
If answer is no, on to next question
Question. Are you happy for them?
If answered yes, on to final box that just says, sweet.
If answer is no, on to box that says, Why not? Get your shit together.
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Peter De Tender @pdtit.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
New blog post: Grafana dashboard to show @Github Copilot usage insights www.pdtit.be/post/trackin...
grafana dashboard with github copilot usage infografana dashboard with github copilot usage info
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Jan Willem Spaans @janwillemspaans.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Nederlander op festival: 'WIE WIL ER BIER?' 'IK HOOR JE NIET DE PIXIES SCHREEUWEN ERDOORHEEN' 'WIE. MOET. ER. EEN. KANKERLEKKKER. BIERTJE?' Belg op festival: Steekt pink in de lucht, kijkt vragend naar zijn vrienden en ziet aan het aantal knikjes hoeveel pintjes hij moet halen. Geheel geluidsloos.
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Zorg Corp. 🖥️ @zorg-corp.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I'm genuinely surprised to see how many of these companies discovered AI, and immediately thought: a) "-Great! Now we can get rid of half the workforce!" ...instead of thinking: b) "-Great! Now the same number of people can do more, and generate even more revenue for the firm" Why is that?
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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Wow who’d have thunk it, vaccines work 🤔 Great news to celebrate.
No women aged 20-24 in England have died from cervical cancer for the first time, thanks to the HPV vaccine.
A landmark study funded by Cancer Research
UK shows the HPV vaccine is making cervical cancer increasingly preventable, with researchers highlighting a major milestone: between 2020 and 2024, no women aged 20-24 in England died from the disease.
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POSETTE: An Event for Postgres @posetteconf.com · 02/07/2026
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that lets us connect LLMs to external systems. Pamela Fox @pamelafox.bsky.social (Microsoft) demonstrates designing MCP servers for PostgreSQL. 📺See Pamela's POSETTE 2026 talk on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_JP... #PosetteConf
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Jamie Maguire @jamiemaguire.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Feeling overwhelmed with endless content? Every week, new podcasts, talks, and videos flood our feeds. That’s why I built Audio Notes. Just paste a YouTube or podcast link, and it gives you an AI-generated summaries, action items, and topic tags.
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Audio Notes 2.0. Smarter Summaries, Better Insights, Less Time Wasted – Jamie Maguire
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Peter De Tender @pdtit.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
@hildur.bsky.social the 2nd one arrived! More quiet time on the horizon 😉
Night guest book cover by Hildur Knutsdottir
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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Peter De Tender @pdtit.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
@hildur.bsky.social looking forward to some quiet time 😁
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which was gutted last year. If Bezos can spend $500M on a yacht, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.
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kurtsh @kurtsh.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
When bro tells you to dance, you better %&$#ing dance. #humor
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PSHSummit @powershellsummit.org · 16/06/2026
Security vs agility? No fight needed. Jonathan Levine drives AppLocker + Windows Firewall at Jane Street from readable JSON/YAML, time-limited exceptions baked in. Live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IGx... #PSHSummit #PowerShell #Security
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Security That Says “Yes”: Agile Windows Security with PowerShell by Jonathan Levine
At Jane Street, we have discovered that traditional system hardenin...
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PSHSummit @powershellsummit.org · 16/06/2026
From deterministic "Is" computing to probabilistic "Ish" AI: Jeffrey Snover on ditching prayer-based planning for a Plausible Theory of Success. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Slz... #PSHSummit #PowerShell #AI
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Navigating the AI Revolution by Jeffrey Snover
We are witnessing a fundamental shift in the physics of innovation,...
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PSHSummit @powershellsummit.org · 16/06/2026
PowerShell turns 20! Fossils (their word) Jason Helmick & @jdhitsolutions.com swap stories from the early days, heavy on demos, light on PowerPoint. Live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=76I_... #PSHSummit #PowerShell #Community
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PowerShell Perspectives by Jason Helmick, Jeff Hicks
PowerShell will be turning 20 this year and it has come a long, lon...
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PSHSummit @powershellsummit.org · 16/06/2026
What if your functions rejected bad input before they ran? @emrys.macinally.de dives into custom validation classes, enforcing prefixes, semver and cross-param logic. Live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8XT... #PSHSummit #PowerShell #DevOps
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Pimp Your Parameters: The Magic of Validation Classes by Emrys MacInally
Ever wished your functions could reject bad input before they even ...
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PSHSummit @powershellsummit.org · 16/06/2026
New to IaC or escaping ARM templates? Let Copilot coach you. Stephanie Yen teaches Bicep hands-on, backed by the Bicep MCP server, production-ready from day one. Live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qev3... #PSHSummit #PowerShell #IaC
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Learn Bicep in 2026: How AI Skills can be your Bicep coach by Stephanie Yen
Learn Bicep hands-on with GitHub Copilot as your coach, backed by t...
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PSHSummit @powershellsummit.org · 16/06/2026
Why settle for a locked-down phone app when your house can answer to a shell? @ja.mesrusk.in opens his actual windows with PowerShell, no cloud phone-home. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rV9... #PSHSummit #PowerShell #IoT
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Opening Windows (with) PowerShell by James Ruskin
Some web-based home automation systems have APIs - some are locked ...
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PSHSummit @powershellsummit.org · 16/06/2026
Build, test and ship your PowerShell modules hands-free. Adam Driscoll runs the full GitHub Actions gauntlet: tests, artifacts, releases and Gallery publishing. Live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ3u... #PSHSummit #PowerShell #DevOps
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GitHub Actions for Fun and Profit by Adam Driscoll
In this session, we'll take a dive into GitHub actions and see how ...
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PSHSummit @powershellsummit.org · 16/06/2026
Hardcoded creds in your pipeline? Yikes. @schlauge.com wires PowerShell into Azure Key Vault, AWS Secrets Manager and HashiCorp Vault for rotation at scale. Live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cOH... #PSHSummit #PowerShell #DevOps
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Secrets at Scale: Managing Cloud Credentials with PowerShell Automation by Phil Bossman
Managing secrets across multiple cloud platforms is a challenge—esp...
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Peter De Tender @pdtit.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
New blog post: how I migrated my @hugo.io site from Azure Static WebApp to @github.com Pages, using GitHub Copilot /plan mode www.pdtit.be/post/how-i-u... And a little surprise 🫢
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How I used GitHub Copilot to migrate my Hugo website to GitHub Pages
If you’ve followed this blog for a while, you know it runs on Hugo, a fantastic static site generator that turns a folder of Markdown files into a fast, fully static website. For the past couple of ye...
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PSHSummit @powershellsummit.org · 12/06/2026
What if your PowerShell scripts could become tools AI agents call on their own? Steven Murawski turns cmdlets into MCP tools with PoshMcp. The future is wild: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l6a... #PSHSummit #PowerShell #AI
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Turning PowerShell Commands into AI Tools by Steven Murawski
Discover how PowerShell developers can dramatically expand the reac...
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PSHSummit @powershellsummit.org · 12/06/2026
What do employers actually expect from IT pros now? Pierre Roman & Rick Claus get honest about the skills, mindsets & AI tooling that move your career forward. Catch up on it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC6p... #PSHSummit #PowerShell #AI
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Evolving your IT career in the AI age by Pierre Roman, Rick Claus
The role of the IT professional continues to evolve. Join our speak...
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PSHSummit @powershellsummit.org · 09/06/2026
PowerShell Summit videos are being uploaded to our YouTube channel this week. Let us know which one you are most excited for. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2026
YouTube video by PowerShell.org
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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 07/06/2026
Microsoft just announced an Xbox 25th anniversary console and controller in translucent green. The X button at the front lights up green, and the bumpers on the controller honor the OG Duke controller. Full details here www.theverge.com/news/945359/...
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This is Microsoft’s Xbox 25th anniversary console in translucent green
The anniversary edition console includes an Xbox button that lights up green and a translucent green controller.
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