Kevin McDonnell - Microsoft MVP, Copilot Connection
@kevmcdonk.com
Microsoft MVP, co-host of @Copilot Connection podcast and Viva Explorer.
Coming to @espccommunity.bsky.social in Dublin on December? The ESPC Christmas Ugly Sweater contest is back!!!
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October 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Coming to @espccommunity.bsky.social in Dublin on December? The ESPC Christmas Ugly Sweater contest is back!!!
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Word of the Day is ‘snerdle’ (19th century): to stay warm and still beneath the covers for as long as humanly possible.
September 13, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Word of the Day is ‘snerdle’ (19th century): to stay warm and still beneath the covers for as long as humanly possible.
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✨💻✍Did you know that you can contribute to the #Microsoft365 platform community blog? We want your posts about how you extend Microsoft 365 - regardless if you are doing this code-first or low-code!
👉 Here is how to get started:
👉 Here is how to get started:
How to contribute to this blog
Everyone’s voice matters! We want to publish your content on all things you build with code, low-code, no-code on and around Microsoft 365.
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September 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
✨💻✍Did you know that you can contribute to the #Microsoft365 platform community blog? We want your posts about how you extend Microsoft 365 - regardless if you are doing this code-first or low-code!
👉 Here is how to get started:
👉 Here is how to get started:
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Kevin wrote the book on this stuff (literally; it’s titled “Innate”). He neither oversimplifies things or overcomplexifies them. Speaking as a brain researcher with decades of experience who has also read and thought about these issues a lot, this thread capture’s what’s what.
We're going to see a lot of bullshit in the coming days and weeks about "causes of autism", and most will be based on flawed, over-interpreted observational studies (1/n)
September 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Kevin wrote the book on this stuff (literally; it’s titled “Innate”). He neither oversimplifies things or overcomplexifies them. Speaking as a brain researcher with decades of experience who has also read and thought about these issues a lot, this thread capture’s what’s what.
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I vibe coded a free online version of my card game Bedlam, which is like Cards Against Humanity but for techies.
Try it out yourself at www.bedlamgame.com, play with others at work or add AI players to test it out single player -or use screenshot mode to generate pictures of funny card combos.
Try it out yourself at www.bedlamgame.com, play with others at work or add AI players to test it out single player -or use screenshot mode to generate pictures of funny card combos.
Bedlam the card game
A tech-focused card game similar to Apples to Apples and Cards Against Humanity
www.bedlamgame.com
August 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I vibe coded a free online version of my card game Bedlam, which is like Cards Against Humanity but for techies.
Try it out yourself at www.bedlamgame.com, play with others at work or add AI players to test it out single player -or use screenshot mode to generate pictures of funny card combos.
Try it out yourself at www.bedlamgame.com, play with others at work or add AI players to test it out single player -or use screenshot mode to generate pictures of funny card combos.
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The issue with GPT-5 in a nutshell is that unless you pay for model switching & know to use GPT-5 Thinking or Pro, when you ask “GPT-5” you sometimes get the best available AI & sometimes get one of the worst AIs available and you can’t tell and it might even switch within a single conversation.
August 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The issue with GPT-5 in a nutshell is that unless you pay for model switching & know to use GPT-5 Thinking or Pro, when you ask “GPT-5” you sometimes get the best available AI & sometimes get one of the worst AIs available and you can’t tell and it might even switch within a single conversation.
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🌟 Speaker Spotlight 🌟 @kevmcdonk.com blends 13 years in financial services with deep expertise in Microsoft 365, helping organizations navigate their modern workplace transformation. Don’t miss him at #ESPC25! #MVP #ModernWorkplace
Full agenda 👉 ow.ly/kcs150VRH2z
Full agenda 👉 ow.ly/kcs150VRH2z
August 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM
🌟 Speaker Spotlight 🌟 @kevmcdonk.com blends 13 years in financial services with deep expertise in Microsoft 365, helping organizations navigate their modern workplace transformation. Don’t miss him at #ESPC25! #MVP #ModernWorkplace
Full agenda 👉 ow.ly/kcs150VRH2z
Full agenda 👉 ow.ly/kcs150VRH2z
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Just ran @OpenAI #GPT0SS120B locally on my #MacBookPro M3 Max (128GB, 40‑core GPU) 🚀
Asked a tricky logic puzzle… it answered before I finished explaining.
Watch the drive‑by demo 👉 go.macona.org/openaigptoss... #AI #M3Max #LocalAI #OpenAI #SmallLanguageModels #SLM #LocalAgents
Asked a tricky logic puzzle… it answered before I finished explaining.
Watch the drive‑by demo 👉 go.macona.org/openaigptoss... #AI #M3Max #LocalAI #OpenAI #SmallLanguageModels #SLM #LocalAgents
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August 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Just ran @OpenAI #GPT0SS120B locally on my #MacBookPro M3 Max (128GB, 40‑core GPU) 🚀
Asked a tricky logic puzzle… it answered before I finished explaining.
Watch the drive‑by demo 👉 go.macona.org/openaigptoss... #AI #M3Max #LocalAI #OpenAI #SmallLanguageModels #SLM #LocalAgents
Asked a tricky logic puzzle… it answered before I finished explaining.
Watch the drive‑by demo 👉 go.macona.org/openaigptoss... #AI #M3Max #LocalAI #OpenAI #SmallLanguageModels #SLM #LocalAgents
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Have you ever pushed a hard-coded key to a repo?
YouTube video by Microsoft Developer
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August 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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📢 The #CFS for Cloud Tech Tallinn 2026 is open! We're seeking sessions to enrich our agenda for the 4th year.
Share with your network! We look forward to your contributions. Sign up here 😉: ctttallinn.cloud/cfs
#VisitTallinn #CTTT26 #TechCommunity #PublicSpeaking
Share with your network! We look forward to your contributions. Sign up here 😉: ctttallinn.cloud/cfs
#VisitTallinn #CTTT26 #TechCommunity #PublicSpeaking
August 1, 2025 at 7:00 AM
📢 The #CFS for Cloud Tech Tallinn 2026 is open! We're seeking sessions to enrich our agenda for the 4th year.
Share with your network! We look forward to your contributions. Sign up here 😉: ctttallinn.cloud/cfs
#VisitTallinn #CTTT26 #TechCommunity #PublicSpeaking
Share with your network! We look forward to your contributions. Sign up here 😉: ctttallinn.cloud/cfs
#VisitTallinn #CTTT26 #TechCommunity #PublicSpeaking
To all the new #mvpbuzz award receivers today, huge huge congrats and enjoy that magical buzz!
To any still waiting to hear, keep sharing, keep caring and your time will come
To any still waiting to hear, keep sharing, keep caring and your time will come
a cat is sitting on a turntable with the word woo written on it
ALT: a cat is sitting on a turntable with the word woo written on it
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August 1, 2025 at 8:38 AM
To all the new #mvpbuzz award receivers today, huge huge congrats and enjoy that magical buzz!
To any still waiting to hear, keep sharing, keep caring and your time will come
To any still waiting to hear, keep sharing, keep caring and your time will come
Funniest moment of recent @codedeploygo.live? @julieturner.net pointing out to @andrewconnell.com that the orchestrator in Copilot is definitely a she! That made me properly laugh out loud
a couple of men are standing next to each other and one of them is wearing gloves and the other is wearing a bandana
ALT: a couple of men are standing next to each other and one of them is wearing gloves and the other is wearing a bandana
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July 31, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Funniest moment of recent @codedeploygo.live? @julieturner.net pointing out to @andrewconnell.com that the orchestrator in Copilot is definitely a she! That made me properly laugh out loud
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Another weekend project launched. This time for the MCP community!
VS Code - MCP Install Button Generator
Check it out at VSCodeMCP.com
The backstory: I wanted an easy way for users to one-click install my Lokka.dev MCP Server to VSCode
VS Code - MCP Install Button Generator
Check it out at VSCodeMCP.com
The backstory: I wanted an easy way for users to one-click install my Lokka.dev MCP Server to VSCode
July 29, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Another weekend project launched. This time for the MCP community!
VS Code - MCP Install Button Generator
Check it out at VSCodeMCP.com
The backstory: I wanted an easy way for users to one-click install my Lokka.dev MCP Server to VSCode
VS Code - MCP Install Button Generator
Check it out at VSCodeMCP.com
The backstory: I wanted an easy way for users to one-click install my Lokka.dev MCP Server to VSCode
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We now have audited data on water consumption for AI.
Over the 18 month lifespan of Mistral Large 2, a 128B model, all water usage (including chats, training; hardware & data centers) took as much water as 678 US households use yearly.
Each additional query is 45 mL. (Fixed a conversion error)
Over the 18 month lifespan of Mistral Large 2, a 128B model, all water usage (including chats, training; hardware & data centers) took as much water as 678 US households use yearly.
Each additional query is 45 mL. (Fixed a conversion error)
July 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
We now have audited data on water consumption for AI.
Over the 18 month lifespan of Mistral Large 2, a 128B model, all water usage (including chats, training; hardware & data centers) took as much water as 678 US households use yearly.
Each additional query is 45 mL. (Fixed a conversion error)
Over the 18 month lifespan of Mistral Large 2, a 128B model, all water usage (including chats, training; hardware & data centers) took as much water as 678 US households use yearly.
Each additional query is 45 mL. (Fixed a conversion error)
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The boys try something new: a kind of drinking game while discussing #Microsoft365, which some samples we got from the amazing @vesanopanen.com . Let's see how far we got! www.office365distilled.com/167
Office 365 Distilled | EP167: Vesku Party Questions
The boys try something new this episode. What started as a great idea, turned into a drinking game! Marijn got some great Teerenpeli Finnish whisky samples from Vesa Nopanen (which they always exch...
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July 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The boys try something new: a kind of drinking game while discussing #Microsoft365, which some samples we got from the amazing @vesanopanen.com . Let's see how far we got! www.office365distilled.com/167
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Popcorn at the ready for these blockbuster sessions at #ESPC25 🍿
🎥 Agentageddon and How to Prevent it
⭐ Starring: @chuntingford.bsky.social @kevmcdonk.com @zoe-365.bsky.social
🎬 Premiere: Dublin, December at ESPC25
Can you guess the movie inspo? 👀
🎟️ Tickets: ow.ly/yzuy50WgzgK
🎥 Agentageddon and How to Prevent it
⭐ Starring: @chuntingford.bsky.social @kevmcdonk.com @zoe-365.bsky.social
🎬 Premiere: Dublin, December at ESPC25
Can you guess the movie inspo? 👀
🎟️ Tickets: ow.ly/yzuy50WgzgK
July 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Popcorn at the ready for these blockbuster sessions at #ESPC25 🍿
🎥 Agentageddon and How to Prevent it
⭐ Starring: @chuntingford.bsky.social @kevmcdonk.com @zoe-365.bsky.social
🎬 Premiere: Dublin, December at ESPC25
Can you guess the movie inspo? 👀
🎟️ Tickets: ow.ly/yzuy50WgzgK
🎥 Agentageddon and How to Prevent it
⭐ Starring: @chuntingford.bsky.social @kevmcdonk.com @zoe-365.bsky.social
🎬 Premiere: Dublin, December at ESPC25
Can you guess the movie inspo? 👀
🎟️ Tickets: ow.ly/yzuy50WgzgK
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🆕 #KashBox article | Simple automations for your information and content.
⚙️ Microsoft Lists rules + new demo vid
⚙️ @SharePoint quick steps + @wonderlaura.bsky.social vid
⚙️ @MSPowerAutomate flows + @teacherstech.bsky.social vid
Read & share 📄 kashbox.substack.com/p/automate-y...
⚙️ Microsoft Lists rules + new demo vid
⚙️ @SharePoint quick steps + @wonderlaura.bsky.social vid
⚙️ @MSPowerAutomate flows + @teacherstech.bsky.social vid
Read & share 📄 kashbox.substack.com/p/automate-y...
Automate your flow of work
Three simple ways to make Microsoft 365 keep you informed and connected.
kashbox.substack.com
July 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
🆕 #KashBox article | Simple automations for your information and content.
⚙️ Microsoft Lists rules + new demo vid
⚙️ @SharePoint quick steps + @wonderlaura.bsky.social vid
⚙️ @MSPowerAutomate flows + @teacherstech.bsky.social vid
Read & share 📄 kashbox.substack.com/p/automate-y...
⚙️ Microsoft Lists rules + new demo vid
⚙️ @SharePoint quick steps + @wonderlaura.bsky.social vid
⚙️ @MSPowerAutomate flows + @teacherstech.bsky.social vid
Read & share 📄 kashbox.substack.com/p/automate-y...
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Earlier this week I considered being that guy and speaking to my son's school about some of the stuff he's being taught; namely the existence of feminist spiders. Glad I didn't, as long story short, he can't pronounce the word venomous properly.
July 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Earlier this week I considered being that guy and speaking to my son's school about some of the stuff he's being taught; namely the existence of feminist spiders. Glad I didn't, as long story short, he can't pronounce the word venomous properly.
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Just Posted: A #DotNet #Aspire project using #Ollama to host a local #Blazor Chat Bot - github.com/ADefWebserve...
GitHub - ADefWebserver/LocalInternalAIChatBot: A DotNet Aspire project using Ollama to host a local Blazor Chat Bot
A DotNet Aspire project using Ollama to host a local Blazor Chat Bot - ADefWebserver/LocalInternalAIChatBot
github.com
June 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Just Posted: A #DotNet #Aspire project using #Ollama to host a local #Blazor Chat Bot - github.com/ADefWebserve...
Not sure @tomarbuthnot.bsky.social planned for wonky lanyards…
June 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Not sure @tomarbuthnot.bsky.social planned for wonky lanyards…
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Hmm🤔. Was @microsoft.com generatively-inspired by @copilotconnection.com when they launched their official Microsoft 365 Copilot YouTube channel - “M365 Copilot Connection”❓🤨
June 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Hmm🤔. Was @microsoft.com generatively-inspired by @copilotconnection.com when they launched their official Microsoft 365 Copilot YouTube channel - “M365 Copilot Connection”❓🤨
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Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...
Scientists at Loughborough University create 'world's smallest violin'
The violin is smaller than a human hair and has "laid the groundwork" for future research.
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June 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...
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It is hard to express how consuming decades of #scifi books (and media) has prepared me for discussing the intricate possible outcomes of #llm #ai technology.
At dinner, to my left a colleague has read a lot of historical analysis books about things like the industrial revolution. Useful!
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At dinner, to my left a colleague has read a lot of historical analysis books about things like the industrial revolution. Useful!
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May 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
@buckleyplanet.bsky.social so I'm guessing that X is still the place for more engagement on #CollabTalk?
May 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
@buckleyplanet.bsky.social so I'm guessing that X is still the place for more engagement on #CollabTalk?
A5 Upskilling with AI means putting out content in ways that people can engage with. Don't just put out a load of written content. Make it conversational and encourage people to share and work together to show where they have been successful. #CollabTalk
May 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
A5 Upskilling with AI means putting out content in ways that people can engage with. Don't just put out a load of written content. Make it conversational and encourage people to share and work together to show where they have been successful. #CollabTalk