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Irwin Strachan

@IrwinStrachan

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@DataChaz
Charly Wargnier
8 days
Wild. By far the most complete Claude Skills repo yet 🀯 @Composio’s Awesome-Claude-Skills packs 100`s of ready-to-use workflows: ↳ PDF tools, changelog generation ↳ Playwright automation ↳ AWS/CDK tools, MCP builders ... and much more! Free and open-source. Repo in πŸ§΅β†“
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@JohnLokerse
John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP
12 days
I did some testing with https://t.co/iBDV4QzYyd in GitHub Copilot, and it's so cool! πŸ”₯ To start with Skills, think about your day-to-day work in your domain. Make your agent a specialist in those tasks by defining instructions in skills. Ask yourself: What are repeatable tasks
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@DanielEtten
Daniel Etten
26 days
πŸŽ‰ Just shipped my first Azure Verified Modules contribution! Added IPAM support to the Subscription Vending Machine (avm/ptn/lz/sub-vending v0.5.0): βœ… VNet-level address allocation βœ… Subnet-level IP management βœ… Automatic CIDR assignment from IPAM pools #Azure #AVM #Bicep
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@gaelcolas
gael
2 months
There's only 1 early bird left!
@PSConfEU
PSConfEU
2 months
Join Europe’s leading #PowerShell community at #PSConfEU 2026! βœ”οΈ 4 days of sessions βœ”οΈ 3 hotel nights βœ”οΈ Food & social event All included for €1750. πŸ“ Wiesbaden, 1–4 June 2026 πŸ”— https://t.co/Wavemm85EU #Germany #IT #automation #Conference
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@JohnLokerse
John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP
4 months
πŸš€ Feature request is implemented in Azure Bicep! The validate parameter decorator checks if parameters are valid with a certain value or format. If not, a (custom) error is thrown. I believe it will be available in v0.38 as experimental πŸ’ͺ πŸ”— https://t.co/DoGgJjK4ah
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github.com
Hi Bicep team, I have been experimenting with the new fail() function to see how I can implement this in my templates/modules. However, I discovered that a fail() inside a parameter default only ru...
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@danonazure
Dan Rios
4 months
Two new examples: Azure Deployment Stack output references + Resource Derived Types. Check it out #azurebicep #azure
github.com
Simplify getting started with Bicep through easy to digest examples🦾 - riosengineer/Bicepify
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@JohnLokerse
John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP
4 months
πŸš€ Azure DevOps Bicep local-deploy (experimental) has been updated! You can now deploy with Bicep: β€’ Projects β€’ Repos β€’ Artifacts feeds β€’ Federated service connections πŸ‘‰ Check out the sample folder: https://t.co/T5IAoeCccQ #MVPBuzz #azure #azurebicep
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@BicepLang
BicepLang
5 months
We are excited to announce that the Bicep Microsoft Graph extension is fully GA as of today πŸ’ͺπŸŽ‰ HUGE thanks to the MS Graph team for making this happen! Read more about it here:
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techcommunity.microsoft.com
Declare Microsoft Entra ID resources like applications and groups in Bicep templates Β 
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@JohnLokerse
John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP
5 months
πŸš€Created my own Azure DevOps pull request hub using GitHub Spark! The hub combines PRs from all accessible repositories into one page. πŸ”— Create your own using my requirements document (use GitHub Spark or GitHub Copilot): https://t.co/8onHBGIXpQ
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@gaelcolas
gael
5 months
#PowerShell #module #classes aren't directly usable after import β€” unless you use using module, which is fragile. I finally wrote up a clean approach using #Type #Accelerators to expose types automatically, with namespacing and cleanup. Full writeup :
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synedgy.com
Learn how to export classes from a PowerShell module with Type Accelerators for better usability. Improve your script today!
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@PalmEmanuel
Emanuel Palm
6 months
The video of my GitHub Actions + GitHub Apps deepdive session at #PSConfEU is out, was a lot of fun to talk about!
@PSConfEU
PSConfEU
6 months
πŸš€ CI/CD that scales securely? At #PSConfEU 2025, @PalmEmanuel showed how to: βœ… Mirror GitHub issues across repos βœ… Use GitHub Apps (not user tokens!) βœ… Automate pipelines org-wide πŸ› οΈ Real-world GitHub Actions + Apps demos. #CICD #GitHub
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@fabian_bader
Fabian Bader
6 months
This is big. In #XDR there is now a new table in preview: GraphApiAuditEvents It's the "free" version of the MicrosoftGraphActivityLogs and will enable more companies to detect threats without having to pay a lot of money. https://t.co/vDT92ZQrJT
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learn.microsoft.com
Learn about the GraphApiAuditEvents table in the advanced hunting schema, which provides information about Microsoft Entra ID API requests made to Microsoft Graph API for resources in the tenant.
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@burkeholland
Burke Holland
6 months
hot take: @code is the best AI tool for automating things that have nothing to do with code.
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@merill
Merill Fernando
6 months
Microsoft just dropped a banger spreadsheet to help you level up your security! πŸš€ It's a FREE Zero Trust assessment tool with a clear roadmap covering SIX key pillars. Let's break it down! πŸ‘‡ πŸ‘₯ Identity πŸ“± Devices πŸ“Š Data 🌐 Network πŸ—οΈ Infrastructure πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™€οΈ Security Operations
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@JohnLokerse
John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP
6 months
πŸš€ New blog! If you work with GitHub Copilot, Azure and Bicep, you will want to check out GitHub Copilot for Azure (GA). It can generate fully schema-validated Bicep files for you using agent mode. πŸ”— Read the blog post here: https://t.co/KhDkq7060A In my latest blog post,
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johnlokerse.dev
Over two years ago, I wrote about GitHub Copilot for the first time. Back then, it was powered by OpenAI Codex models, not the models we know today. GitHub Copilot has come a long way since then, w…
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@PSConfEU
PSConfEU
6 months
We're thrilled to announce that the 10th anniversary edition will be in Wiesbaden, Germany, from 1–4 June 2026. 🎟️ Early Bird tickets (€1750) include 3 nights at Dorint Pallas (from Monday to Thursday) More info: https://t.co/Wavemm85EU #PSConfEU #PowerShell #IT #Germany
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@IrwinStrachan
Irwin Strachan
7 months
So Azure periodic table is great, but I was hoping there wold be some json file I could download... https://t.co/vkkn0yYtcX Maybe I'm missing something or it exists elsewhere?
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@_Evan_Boyle
Evan Boyle
7 months
My talk from the AI Engineer World's fair on "How agents broke infra" is live:
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@JohnLokerse
John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP
7 months
πŸš€Β New blog! If you are using GitHub Copilot, there is a great feature you should know about: connecting GitHub Copilot to AI providers such as Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, and many more. πŸ”— Read the blog post here: https://t.co/vI16J1FExv With the latest release of Grok-3
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johnlokerse.dev
Now that Grok-3 from xAI is available in Azure AI Foundry, I wanted to try it out with GitHub Copilot Chat. This is possible through the Bring Your Own Key feature released in Visual Studio Code. T…
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