Irwin Strachan
@IrwinStrachan
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Joined December 2014
Wild. By far the most complete Claude Skills repo yet π€― @Composioβs Awesome-Claude-Skills packs 100`s of ready-to-use workflows: β³ PDF tools, changelog generation β³ Playwright automation β³ AWS/CDK tools, MCP builders ... and much more! Free and open-source. Repo in π§΅β
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I did some testing with https://t.co/iBDV4QzYyd in GitHub Copilot, and it's so cool! π₯ 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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There's only 1 early bird left!
Join Europeβs leading #PowerShell community at #PSConfEU 2026! βοΈ 4 days of sessions βοΈ 3 hotel nights βοΈ Food & social event All included for β¬1750. π Wiesbaden, 1β4 June 2026 π https://t.co/Wavemm85EU
#Germany #IT #automation #Conference
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π 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 πͺ π https://t.co/DoGgJjK4ah
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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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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𦾠- riosengineer/Bicepify
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π 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 π Check out the sample folder: https://t.co/T5IAoeCccQ
#MVPBuzz #azure #azurebicep
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We are excited to announce that the Bicep Microsoft Graph extension is fully GA as of today πͺπ HUGE thanks to the MS Graph team for making this happen! Read more about it here:
techcommunity.microsoft.com
Declare Microsoft Entra ID resources like applications and groups in Bicep templates Β
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πCreated my own Azure DevOps pull request hub using GitHub Spark! The hub combines PRs from all accessible repositories into one page. π Create your own using my requirements document (use GitHub Spark or GitHub Copilot): https://t.co/8onHBGIXpQ
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#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 :
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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The video of my GitHub Actions + GitHub Apps deepdive session at #PSConfEU is out, was a lot of fun to talk about!
π CI/CD that scales securely? At #PSConfEU 2025, @PalmEmanuel showed how to: β
Mirror GitHub issues across repos β
Use GitHub Apps (not user tokens!) β
Automate pipelines org-wide π οΈ Real-world GitHub Actions + Apps demos. #CICD #GitHub
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Eligible owner and member for PIM enabled groups in Acces Packages! JustπInπTimeπ https://t.co/GBC6eYkvvY
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Just a quick heads-up for those working a lot with Entra ID Governance: Access Packages now supports eligible membership and ownership of PIM-enabled groups. This might sound a bit confusing, as many...
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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
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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hot take: @code is the best AI tool for automating things that have nothing to do with code.
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Microsoft just dropped a banger spreadsheet to help you level up your security! π It's a FREE Zero Trust assessment tool with a clear roadmap covering SIX key pillars. Let's break it down! π π₯ Identity π± Devices π Data π Network ποΈ Infrastructure π΅οΈββοΈ Security Operations
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π 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. π Read the blog post here: https://t.co/KhDkq7060A In my latest blog post,
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, wβ¦
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We're thrilled to announce that the 10th anniversary edition will be in Wiesbaden, Germany, from 1β4 June 2026. ποΈ Early Bird tickets (β¬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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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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My talk from the AI Engineer World's fair on "How agents broke infra" is live:
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πΒ 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. π Read the blog post here: https://t.co/vI16J1FExv With the latest release of Grok-3
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. Tβ¦
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