August 16, 2025
“GPT-5 is going to kill OpenAI.” That’s the line floating around right now. Some are panicking, some are celebrating, and a lot of people are just confused. But here’s the thing that line is wrong. Not just wrong—it completely misses the bigger story.
Read more →August 2, 2025
I recently ran into a problem where I needed to create consumption resources for a customer. However, due to a low reputation score, I was unable to do so.
Read more →July 23, 2025
Ever had a brilliant app idea, but felt the process of bringing it to life was a slow, manual grind? I certainly have. Between brainstorming, wireframing, and creating a clickable prototype, the friction can be immense.
Read more →July 21, 2025
Enterprise SaaS software will be dead by 2027. While that might sound extreme, his reasoning, centered on the evolving build-or-buy dilemma fueled by AI, offers a compelling glimpse into a potential future for business software.
Read more →July 15, 2025
This blog post will cover how to use real time sentiment analysis to analyze the sentiment of audio in real time.
Read more →July 11, 2025
Generative AI can lighten clinical workloads, help parse complex medical records, and coach patients between visits. Those gains only matter, though, if Protected Health Information (PHI) and other personal data stay safe. Use this plain-language checklist to keep your Azure OpenAI projects squarely inside HIPAA’s guardrails.
Read more →July 7, 2025
Join the AI revolution! Learn how to leverage the latest tools and techniques to create a generative AI portfolio that demonstrates your innovative capabilities and sets you apart from the competition.
Read more →July 5, 2025
TL;DR — Congress just "un-broke" Section 174. As of July 4 2025, the newly signed One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) restores immediate write-offs for U.S. R&D spending via a fresh §174A, lets companies retro-deduct anything they were forced to capitalize for 2022-24, and leaves foreign research on the old 15-year track. Startups get cash back; tech giants like Microsoft recover billions; everyone still needs decent project records—just fewer spreadsheet acrobatics.
Read more →July 4, 2025
Do you have a library of valuable training videos on YouTube? Ever wished you could instantly find that one specific moment where a key concept is explained? Or quickly reference discussions around a particular term across all your video content?
Read more →July 3, 2025
I was curious. How many episodes have we actually put out? It feels like a lot, but sometimes the numbers can surprise you. And true to Clark's advice, I wanted to find a quick, efficient way to get that count.
Read more →June 18, 2025
Recently, I had the privilege of attending an insightful session on "Automating Taxonomy Generation With Compound AI and Agents on Azure Databricks," presented by Sudhir Gajre, Managing Director of GenAI at Lovelytics. Sudhir, a recognized thought leader in the GenAI space and a frequent speaker at Data and AI conferences, shared how his team is revolutionizing one of the most historically challenging aspects of data management taxonomy.
Read more →June 10, 2025
This post is about creating custom roles in Azure. We discuss using RBAC and data attributes to manage access to resources.
Read more →June 5, 2025
We recently had the distinct pleasure of hosting Renard Henry, Head of IT at Toyota Connected North America, on "Engineering in the Loop." The conversation was a fascinating dive into the realities of AI in the automotive industry, Toyota's innovative spirit, and the leadership principles that drive success in a fast-paced tech environment. Renard brought a wealth of experience, not just from his current role but from a diverse career spanning finance, healthcare, and even a black belt in Jiu-Jitsu!
Read more →May 31, 2025
Tired of AI-generated code that almost hits the mark? 😅 With GitHub Copilot, you can actually guide it to write code to YOUR standards! By using custom instructions (like a .github/copilot-instructions.md file in your repo or personal settings), you can ensure consistency, enforce best practices, and make Copilot aware of project-specific needs. Spend less time tweaking and more time building.
Read more →April 30, 2025
The Year the Frontier Firm Is Born
Read more →April 26, 2025
Let's chat with Gemini in AI Foundry
Read more →April 26, 2025
Cursor’s support bot hallucinated a brand‑new licensing policy, sparking a Reddit revolt and a wave of cancellations.
Read more →April 8, 2025
Josh Duffney's Talk on Patching Containers with Copacetic
Read more →April 8, 2025
First session of AI Skills Fest!
Read more →April 5, 2025
GitHub Copilot Code Review is now generally available!
Read more →March 23, 2025
In a recent episode of Azure Cloud Talk, Brian and I dove headfirst into the dynamic and rapidly evolving world of AI, with a particular focus on its place within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem.
Read more →March 9, 2025
In a recent episode of Azure Cloud Talk, hosts Alec Harrison and Brian Gorman welcomed Chris Thompson, founder and principal at OptQuality.
Read more →March 2, 2025
This post I will be talking about my newest AI tool, Riverside. This tool is what I use to help me edit, clip, and cleanup my podcast!
Read more →February 26, 2025
Writing my thoughts about the Omaha UG Beyond Agentic Trustworthy Ai for Everyday Techies
Read more →February 12, 2025
What I Learned About Building a Custom Copilot with Sam Nasr
Read more →February 9, 2025
We are going to cover the most recent announcement of Azure AI Agents!
Read more →February 5, 2025
This is an opinion post of where I think AI currently sits in the market, how you can navigate vendors, and how skeptical you should be when people are trying to sell you something.
Read more →January 20, 2025
Have you ever come across a piece of software that feels so intuitive, you wonder how you managed without it? That’s exactly how I felt when I first started using Descript. As someone who regularly edits podcasts, creates videos, and transcribes interviews, Descript has quickly become one of my go-to tools. Below is a rundown of my experience and honest thoughts on this all-in-one platform.
Read more →January 16, 2025
This post will summarize my experience with the Linkedin request for services option.
Read more →January 7, 2025
This entry is my goal to explain why I have created a newsletter, what I plan to include in it, and what you should expect from it!
Read more →January 3, 2025
In this blog post, I share my experience interviewing a seasoned senior developer and the wealth of knowledge they brought to the table. From their journey navigating the ever-changing tech landscape to their strategies for mastering complex challenges, this conversation dives deep into what it takes to excel in the world of software development.
Read more →December 13, 2024
In this article we are going to talk about how Cursor can help you pass Advent of Code with ease! This is just a quick example of how AI can help you solve complex programming problems with ease, and if it can do this imagine what it could do for your day to day work problems.
Read more →December 12, 2024
We will discuss the reasons why AI is so important in today's world and a little catch up of where I have been!
Read more →May 22, 2024
This blog post provides an in-depth comparison of Microsoft's three main AI products, helping readers understand their unique features, use cases, and benefits. It aims to guide you in choosing the right AI product for your specific needs, whether it's for natural language processing, computer vision, or reinforcement learning. The post also offers insights into how these AI products integrate with Azure and other services, ensuring you can seamlessly incorporate AI capabilities into your existing workflows.
Read more →April 13, 2024
My own opinion on vibe coding. Why I think people not using AI are misunderstanding how people are actually using it.
Read more →February 15, 2024
We are going to discuss what an assistant is in Azure Open AI, what they are, and why I would want to use them?
Read more →January 30, 2024
We are going to use Azure AI Search to index a simple CSV file and show how we can use that to query the data. We can also take the index and further use it to answer questions using Azure Open AI.
Read more →January 18, 2024
We are going to use the RAG pattern with Azure Open AI to build a universal translator bot that can translate between any language and use only a single English document to answer any question in any language.
Read more →April 26, 2023
In the 2000s and early 2010s the world was a strange place. Mobile phones were reaching so many people in so many parts of the US and texting was quickly becoming the way people communicated. Lol, OMG,BRB, etc., were all being engrained in the lexicon of the world. Now that mobile networks were speeding up and texting was becoming more common, unlimited texting quickly became common. This is around the time the first iPhone came out and smartphones weren't nearly as mainstream as they are today. That means web browsing was super expensive on mobile devices if you could even get it.
Read more →March 28, 2023
As you may know, Microsoft has major investments in OpenAI, one of the top artificial intelligence companies creating such leading products as ChatGPT and DALL-E. They clearly believe AI is a huge piece of the future of technology, and they’re beginning to integrate OpenAI products and features throughout Microsoft platforms.
Read more →September 14, 2022
Why should you use shallow rendering when testing your UI?
Read more →July 28, 2022
Netflix is moving away from AWS?
Read more →July 1, 2022
Who Am I?
Read more →May 1, 2022
Infrastructure As Code
Read more →April 25, 2022
Deploying the Microsoft vote app to Azure Container Apps instead of a full blown AKS!
Read more →April 18, 2022
Debugging Azure App Services
Read more →April 11, 2022
Adding Azure Functions to a Static Site
Read more →April 4, 2022
Deploying to Azure Static sites and hosting sites cheaply
Read more →November 2, 2021
MS Ignite day 1 key takeaways
Read more →September 23, 2021
My opinion on the perfect MS tech stack
Read more →September 14, 2021
Adding Google Analytics To Gatsby
Read more →August 16, 2021
Iowa Microsoft Azure User Group update and life update
Read more →July 19, 2021
IMAUG Bicep Presentation
Read more →July 15, 2021
Was Microsoft Build Worth It?
Read more →May 27, 2021
Have you heard of Power Apps or fusion teams? Are they the future? Find out more!
Read more →May 25, 2021
Here is a landing page for my take aways from Microsoft Build
Read more →May 9, 2021
What and why IMAUG?
Read more →April 29, 2021
Deploying Gatsby with Github actions to Azure
Read more →March 30, 2021
Cypress in Azure Part 2
Read more →March 28, 2021
Who Am I?
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