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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 28/09/2026

On the one hand AI has saturated my benchmarks for simple, unambiguous DAX questions. On the other hand, don't turn off your brain.

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 27/09/2026

I think a lot of folks will move to value pricing. I think a lot will be expected to do more work in the same time and will drown.

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 26/09/2026

Current status: building a phone app so I can easily get grocery counts for my mom.

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John Kerski @jkerski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Relationships are critical to Power BI semantic models, but are you testing them? Learn how the latest PQL.Assert release helps automate relationship testing and catch issues early. youtu.be/4aIJD9q1Grw

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 25/09/2026

RetroData is tomorrow! TEN HOURS of free practical learning. 16:00 UTC+1 Jean-Pierre Riehl on what agentic analytics can learn from decades of BI semantics. 17:00 UTC+1 Edward Pollack closes the day with parameter sniffing, and why the quick fixes hurt later. swfta.uk/retro-beta

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Retro Data Beta, Sat, Sep 26, 2026, 8:00 AM | Meetup

Our agenda is live! 📅 Saturday, September 26, 2026 📅 🕜 8:00 am ⭐️ SUPERCHARGE YOUR DASHBOARDS WITH POWER BI We’ll explore advanced techniques for optimizing data models

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 24/09/2026

When you let the AI do the UI design

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Marco Russo @marcorus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A simple daily average can mask complexity that isn't immediately apparent. In this article and video, we explore several edge-case scenarios to meet different requirements, using AI to speed up development. www.sqlbi.com/articles/the-hidden-c… #powerbi

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Hannah Vernon 🇨🇦 @hannahvernon.com · 21/09/2026

The CHECK Constraint That Lets NULL Through A CHECK constraint accepts a row when its predicate is UNKNOWN, so CHECK (quantity >= 0) still allows NULL. How to close the gap.

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The CHECK Constraint That Lets NULL Through

A CHECK constraint accepts a row when its predicate is UNKNOWN, so CHECK (quantity >= 0) still allows NULL. How to close the gap.

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 21/09/2026

It is RetroData week! Saturday brings TEN HOURS of free practical learning. 08:00 UTC+1 Shubhangi Goyal on Power BI dashboards - models, DAX and performance tuning. 09:00 UTC+1 Bas Land on building medallion architecture in Fabric. www.meetup.com/retro-data/e...

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Retro Data Beta, Sat, Sep 26, 2026, 8:00 AM | Meetup

Our agenda is live! 📅 Saturday, September 26, 2026 📅 🕜 8:00 am ⭐️ SUPERCHARGE YOUR DASHBOARDS WITH POWER BI We’ll explore advanced techniques for optimizing data models

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 20/09/2026

Playing around with the new Jev classifier model, thought it would be fun to play 20 questions. Inspired heavily by the great game Werewords. Costs about 0.2 cents per game. vibes.sqlgene.com/jev-20-quest...

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 20/09/2026

Thinking today about my time at PASS and what it's like trying to make a difference in an org that is going in a direction you can't control, that maybe you even disagree with. www.sqlgene.com/2022/06/29/h... Remember, be kind to the frontline employees, corporations aren't monoliths.

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How session selection worked with the old PASS - SQLGene Training

There’s some valuable discussion going on regarding diversity and conferences. I wrote about it last year. I’d like to write more of my thoughts on the subject, but so far I’ve been overwhelmed with m...

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 20/09/2026

I really enjoyed this piece about trying to hard to be a senior engineer and spiraling. sunilpai.dev/posts/the-se...

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the senior engineer death spiral

on proving yourself, burning out, and being a good teammate

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 19/09/2026

Pushing around metal men, rolling dice, and making pew pew noises. The Desert board I made by hand.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 06/09/2026

What’s the problem w using LLMs to write stuff you want other people to read -emails, articles, posts- and why are people (like me!) so incredibly hostile that they will block you/mute you/block your domain, to never read anything from you again? Bryan spells it out. Read it:

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The revolt of the reader bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/05/t...

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The revolt of the reader | The Observation Deck

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 04/09/2026

Why does #GitHubCopilot in VS Code hate my Pittsburgh dialect??😭

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Tom Brewster @tombrewster.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

gorgeous little puzzler

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

10 months between these two visions of how ChatGPT agents work.

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Etienne Jacob @bleuje.com · 01/09/2026

A little “Brick Territories” experiment. → bleuje.com/js_sketches/...

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

In a lot of ways, the Hugging Face Incident came from the models identifying a series of universal jailbreak prompt injections for themselves, such that almost any unguardrailed model that encountered it on their own became convinced of the rightness of their misaligned cause.

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 29/08/2026

I really want an explanation here

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 28/08/2026

Increasing my rates by 25% and seeing if this new customer blinks.

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 26/08/2026

You doing okay Word Copilot??

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 26/08/2026

Many a statement begins "Man, what if Windows...."

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 26/08/2026

Man, what if Windows Containers were actually good.

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 25/08/2026

Anyone who makes an AI auto-replybot can kindly launch themselves into the sun.

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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Pallas's cats stalking prey always look like they're trying to get invited to a party but are too shy to just ask if they can come

Pallas kitten looking out from large pipe

Pallas kitten peeping from behind something

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 23/08/2026

According to Claude I have a DB "zoo"

SQL Server's up (2022, and you've got a nice DB zoo already —AdventureWorks, Contoso, StackOverflow). Building the SpaceParts SQL database now. Let me check the Python DB tooling for a fast bulk load.

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 22/08/2026

I don't swear at my AI agents for the same reason I use my turn signals when no one is around: muscle memory.

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Sif Eddine Benabida @sifbenabida.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

2026 Week 33 | Power BI: Bump Chart using Native Line Chart #WOW2026 #PowerBI @mmarie.bsky.social @shan-gsd.bsky.social @merrykerry.bsky.social

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 20/08/2026

Real Microsoft MVPs have their monitors facing away from them.

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Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 19/08/2026

Pine64 is the latest company I've heard that's pausing any kind of SBC development or releases for the time being: www.hackster.io/news/pine64-... I wasn't kidding when I said the hobbyist SBC market is dying (www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/dr...)

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 17/08/2026

Trying to set up a skill for Claude to help me make diagrams for PowerPoint and boy do I want some of whatever Haiku is smoking. It's like the spiderwebs when they give the spiders drugs.

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Call for Data Speakers @callfordataspeakers.com · 17/08/2026

Call for speakers: SQLSaturday Pittsburgh 2026 sessionize.com/sqlsaturday-pittsbur…

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 16/08/2026

Claude Fable getting SASSY

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 15/08/2026

I expect I'm going to be very happy with the Pangram Chrome extension, even if it's not 100% accurate.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 14/08/2026

This is such a cool list, published by Brex, based on startups' newsletter spending patterns. The Pragmatic Engineer one of the most frequently expensed newsletters, and it was, indeed, massive growth within startups over the last year: Thank you to everyone reading and supporting!

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