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Meagan
@mmarie.bsky.social
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Data consultant working on data engineering, analytics, and data viz stuff. Mildly obsessed with my dog. Owner of an ultralight travel trailer. Taker of mediocre photos of nature things.
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mmarie.bsky.social
Retrieving Power BI bookmark information in a Fabric notebook with Semantic Link Labs
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Check Power BI Bookmarks with Semantic Link Labs - Data Savvy
Have you ever added a visual to a Power BI report page and published the updated report only to realize you forgot to adjust a related bookmark? It's very easy to do. The Power BI user interface doesn...
datasavvy.me
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
mmarie.bsky.social
I actually voted last week. My ballot was mailed to me a few weeks ago. I filled it out at home and dropped it in a nearby ballot box last week.
The Denver "I voted" sticker with a columbine flower, red rocks, and lots of succulents.
November 5, 2025 at 12:54 AM
mmarie.bsky.social
How Outlook Mobile for Android handles daylight savings time
Outlook showing today is November 1. A meeting is being added for November 2. While the left-side time window shows 9am, the meeting block shows 8 - 9 am.
November 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
mmarie.bsky.social
It can be tedious to check what visual interactions have been configured in a Power BI report. Check out a better way to review interactions with Semantic Link Labs in a Fabric notebook.
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Check Power BI report interactions with Semantic Link Labs - Data Savvy
It can be tedious to check what visual interactions have been configured in a Power BI report. If you have a lot of bookmarks, this becomes even more important. If you do this manually, you have to tu...
datasavvy.me
October 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
mmarie.bsky.social
Also known as DNS Appreciation Day.
October 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
mmarie.bsky.social
And Happy HA/DR day for those of you running services in Azure.
a bald man says " go ahead your turn " in front of an amazon logo
Alt: a bald man says " go ahead your turn " in front of an amazon logo
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October 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
mmarie.bsky.social
Here, I got you a present in the form of wonderfully awful date pickers. badux.lol
Bad UX World Cup
Build a bad date picker and win a shit trophy! Presented by Nordcraft.
badux.lol
October 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
mmarie.bsky.social
Happy HA/DR day for those of you running services in AWS.
October 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
mmarie.bsky.social
Dear Fabric lakehouse, if I have to go manually update your metadata one more time just so I can see my latest data (not even schema) changes that you have already accepted...
a husky dog is making a funny face while wearing a collar and leash .
Alt: a very annoyed husky dog is making a funny face while wearing a collar and leash .
media.tenor.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Reposted by Meagan
itsnotaboutthecell.com
On October 22nd, the #PowerBI Visuals team is hosting an Ask Me Anything (AMA) event for the r/PowerBI subreddit members!

Don’t miss out! Visit the link below and select [Remind Me] on the post to be notified when they go live.

#AMA #DataViz

www.reddit.com/r/PowerBI/co...
r/PowerBI Ask Me Anything
October 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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It's Patch Tuesday and ASP.NET Core has a doozy, with a CVSS score of 9.9, our highest ever. Let's examine why.

The bug enables http request smuggling, which on its own for ASP.NET Core would be nowhere near that high, but that's not how we rate things...

* Thread- (1/7)
Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2025-55315: .NET Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability · Issue #371 · dotnet/announcements
Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2025-55315: .NET Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability Executive summary Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability i...
github.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
mmarie.bsky.social
Microsoft Locks Down IE Mode After Hackers Turned Legacy Feature Into Backdoor

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Microsoft Locks Down IE Mode After Hackers Turned Legacy Feature Into Backdoor
Microsoft restricts IE Mode in Edge after threat actors exploited Chakra engine flaws for remote access.
thehackernews.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
mmarie.bsky.social
Anyone other dog owners/vets happy that Nutramax finally figured out how to make a lid for Welactin bottles that actually stays closed? Not sure why it took until 2025, but better late than never!
Bottle of Welactin liquid for dogs. The cap is shut.
October 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
mmarie.bsky.social
Getting back to tech:
If you struggled to access the Azure Portal or Microsoft Entra this morning, you weren't alone – Microsoft has blamed a Kubernetes crash for the outage.
^ Mostly EMEA

www.theregister.com/2025/10/09/k...
Kubernetes crash takes down Azure Portal and Microsoft Entra
: This time outage was not actually Microsoft's fault
www.theregister.com
October 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
mmarie.bsky.social
Greg Abbott, still the worst person to graduate from my high school in the nearly 50 years since then.
October 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
mmarie.bsky.social
The phrase of the day is "treacherous ureter".

Used in a sentence: My bulldog has idiopathic renal hematuria and apparently bulldogs tend to have treacherous ureters, which makes them less than ideal candidates for sclerotherapy.

TIL 🤷‍♀️
#vetsky #vetneph
a rainbow with the words " be more you know " and a star
Alt: a rainbow with the words "the more you know " and a star
media.tenor.com
October 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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handle.invalid
you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate
NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats" subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
mmarie.bsky.social
It's my turn to do the #Wow2025 for #PowerBI again! This week, we are looking at bar-in-bar microcharts in a table/matrix showing eCommerce data. workout-wednesday.com/pbi-2025-w41/.

Give it a try and let us know what you think!
@shan-gsd.bsky.social @merrykerry.bsky.social
A Power BI matrix showing eCommerce metrics by department. There is a selector to change the view to look at the metrics by individual product. The metrics use a progress bar to show conversion rate and a "bar-in-bar" visual for show the funnel of view to add to cart to purchase. There is also a button labeled "How to read this chart" which opens an explainer about the charts in the matrix.
October 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
mmarie.bsky.social
Successfully derailed my team meeting to teach them about runzas and bierocks (they are all in Pennsylvania or Texas). 😁
October 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
mmarie.bsky.social
Anyone else not comforted by this?

futurism.com/future-socie...
Despite Claude Sonnet 4.5’s awareness of being tested, Anthropic claims that it ended up being its “most aligned model yet,” pointing to a “substantial” reduction in “sycophancy, deception, power-seeking, and the tendency to encourage delusional thinking.”
October 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
mmarie.bsky.social
I have made a graphic to use in response to every time someone calls Fabric mirroring "Zero ETL". You can call it zero "E", maybe. But it's kinda like serverless - there's still a server somewhere, it just might be managed by someone else.
Some green Nike shoes shown in the reflection of a mirror with the words "It's not zero ETL".
October 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
mmarie.bsky.social
Microsoft is making a very subtle color change in Office apps - Neowin
www.neowin.net/news/microso...
^ They changed the red in the default colors to provide better color contrast against a white background to get it past the 4.5:1 threshold ❤️
Microsoft is making a very subtle color change in Office apps
Microsoft has made a seemingly minor but what it claims to be a "significant" change for certain customers using Office apps.
share.google
September 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
mmarie.bsky.social
Hertz deployed an AI vehicle scanner. Then came the CX meltdown.

www.customerexperiencedive.com/news/hertz-d...
Hertz deployed an AI vehicle scanner. Then came the CX meltdown.
Hertz’s AI vehicle scanner was supposed to improve the vehicle damage inspection process. What went wrong?
www.customerexperiencedive.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
mmarie.bsky.social
I'm technically a day early according to the calendar, but the leaves have already turned out in the mountains...

Happy fall, y'all 🍂

Old Dillon Dam trail, Silverthorne CO
Looking across a lake where there are lots of colorful trees with some big dramatic clouds above them A sloping hill with yellow aspens with a lake and some mountains in the background, pops of yellow and orange leaves throughout Looking through some yellow aspen leaves A hill dotted with yellow and orange Aspen leaves
September 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM