Eugene Meidinger

Data training for busy people. Power BI Consultant. Pluralsight author. He/Him.
Mast: @[email protected]
Bsky: @sqlgene.com

[Eugene Meidinger @SQLGene]

[BLOG] The Power BI modeling MCP server in plain English
https://t.co/qWEnlvOwvf

[Eugene Meidinger @SQLGene]

I expect to get some useful tools and scripts out of it, but it's going to be so much harder to navigate. Like finding good games on the What's New store page on Steam.

[Eugene Meidinger @SQLGene]

Thanks to AI, Power BI and Fabric are entering their shareware era of 100 random one-off tools.

[Eugene Meidinger @SQLGene]

I think a lot of people, myself included, go through this AI high then hangover of "I CAN BUILD ANYTHING!!!" Then "Wait, 90% of my ideas are bad" and then "Man, I don't want to maintain this buggy mess".

[Miles Cranmer @MilesCranmer]

This is an insane paper and I love it

https://t.co/DP8OR5NJf2

[Ronan Berder @hunvreus]

So far it seems agents prefers simpler setups.

RAG was the hot thing for a minute, until we realized grep/sed was good enough. Local CLIs seem to perform much better than MCPs.

I don't think serverless is going to work well either. I doubt the majority of agentic loads will be running on Cloudflare, Lambda, or Vercel.

[Nathan McNulty @NathanMcNulty]

Set-Alias -Name whoami -Value 'New-Guid'

[Ian Quigley @allmeasures]

I'm on a mission to make this plot as publicly recognizable as the one with the holes in the WW2 airplane

[Eugene Meidinger @SQLGene]

Just had my first production issue because of AI-written code in production. The Python notebook was printing information about errors but didn't rethrow every single exception, so some were getting silently swallowed.

So our million row table had 18,000 missing records.

[Eugene Meidinger @SQLGene]

I miss when Doodle Jump was the epitome of mobile games.

[Kent C. Dodds 🏹 @kentcdodds]

The new GitHub Copilot app has a built-in game. Something to do while the agent's at work!

[Eugene Meidinger @SQLGene]

Having Claude revalidate all the stale empirical claims in my vibe-coded app before AI becomes 10x more expensive and I have to go back to hand-coding.

[Eugene Meidinger @SQLGene]

@mim_djo Unified RAM outside of Mac is exciting. I don't think my real boss (a.k.a my husband) would approve though.

[Eugene Meidinger @SQLGene]

Also pondering making things that are intentionally "useless" but build mastery and joy, like an OS for the Clockwork Pi.
https://t.co/SMH1oXferP

[Eugene Meidinger @SQLGene]

I'm in a similar spot having built a bunch of random junk and reflecting a lot on what things *actually* make my life better.
https://t.co/3IMH8jHMnN

[haroon meer @haroonmeer]

I’ve mentioned this before: this is one of the oncoming trains for corp-security. We’ve long failed at least-privilege, but weren’t often punished for it.

Helen in HR (or Bob in accounts) didn’t know what to do with the extra perms they didn’t know they had.

Their agents will.

[Eugene Meidinger @SQLGene]

@sluongng @kurtbuhler I assume you've got Docker locked down well 😄

[Kurt Buhler @kurtbuhler]

Download the Tabular Editor CLI here and give it a spin: https://t.co/IINGspadEH

[Web Design Museum @WebDesignMuseum]

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The looping animation featured dancing badgers, mushrooms, and a snake, paired with a catchy repetitive song that became one of the most iconic viral videos of the early internet era.

#InternetHistory

[Eugene Meidinger @SQLGene]

@Sierkovitz As a child I owned one and I could not undersatnd why you would ever run it.

[Eugene Meidinger @SQLGene]

I love this kind of project
https://t.co/w2yFgfCVan

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

How this whole Antigravity 2.0 launch + Google CLI + Antigravity deprecation feels to me

Google being the same Google it's always been