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Sam Debruyn
@debruyn.dev
Data Platform Architect
☁️ #Azure, 📊 #MicrosoftFabric, dbt
Microsoft Data Platform MVP & dbt Community Award
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Wow it’s hard to report spam/scams on @github.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts fly.io/blog/youre-a...
My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.
fly.io
June 8, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Reposted by Sam Debruyn
Very interested in this #MicrosoftFabric session at @techorama.bsky.social . That's a big screen. @debruyn.dev for scale.
May 28, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Building a browser from scratch youtube.com/watch?v=9YM7...
Andreas Kling's Keynote Presentation on the Ladybird Browser
YouTube video by FUTO
youtube.com
May 8, 2025 at 6:19 AM
The 13 software engineering laws
newsletter.manager.dev/p/the-13-sof...
The 13 software engineering laws
Hyrum's law, Conway’s law, Zawinski's law, and 10 others.
newsletter.manager.dev
May 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Reposted by Sam Debruyn
One very funny part of this outage: all the self-hosters stayed online
April 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Python's new t-strings davepeck.org/2025/04/11/p...
April 25, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Interesting read:
nerdy.dev/ex-googler
US tech companies often seem to suck at HR.
G̶o̶o̶g̶l̶e̶r̶… ex-Googler. · April 10, 2025
My role at Google was eliminated.
nerdy.dev
April 17, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Reposted by Sam Debruyn
Americans who are unsure of how Canadians are feeling right now should peep the replies to this thread 👀
Canadians: Are you still going to the U.S.?
The Golden State and Canada have always shared so much in common.

Sure, you-know-who is trying to stir things up back in DC, but don't let that ruin your vacation plans.

We’re launching a new international campaign to welcome and encourage Canadians to visit the Golden State.
April 15, 2025 at 10:16 PM
New blog: A comprehensive guide to authentication for Azure SQL, Synapse, and Microsoft Fabric 🔐

No more token confusion! Learn all the scopes and methods to programmatically access Microsoft data services in 2025. Check it out: debruyn.dev/2025/all-the... #MicrosoftFabric #AzureSQL #MVPBuzz
All the different ways to authenticate to Azure SQL, Synapse, and Fabric
In this post I’ll go over all the details on acquiring access tokens to authenticate to any Microsoft SQL engine, including Azure SQL, Azure Synapse and Microsoft Fabric. We’ll explore users, service ...
debruyn.dev
April 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
@liavanbekhoven.bsky.social Is de “Vlaaamse” in je bio intentioneel?
December 3, 2024 at 11:42 PM
Maybe a bit a random tweet but hats off to @jan.ohmyposh.dev for building nifty and impressive FOSS tools and keeping on maintaining and improving them
November 28, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Reposted by Sam Debruyn
never liked the alibaba models but couldn’t put my finger on why
November 28, 2024 at 2:26 AM
Reposted by Sam Debruyn
Do the transforms in the SQL, not in the visualization tool
November 25, 2024 at 2:50 AM
Reposted by Sam Debruyn
My thoughts on uv, the #python package manager (and much more), along with a gentle getting-started guide
www.youtube.com/watch?v=goIw...
This fixes Python : uv is the future of package management
YouTube video by mehdio DataTV
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2024 at 9:14 PM
Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems? devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/...
Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems? - The Old New Thing
Simplifying the problem to an earlier problem.
devblogs.microsoft.com
November 24, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Moving away from Synology Photos. To Immich or Ente... still undecided 🤷‍♂️
November 23, 2024 at 8:14 PM
Reposted by Sam Debruyn
all belgian houses are ugly, it is a nation without beauty
November 20, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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is this where data twitter went?
November 20, 2024 at 9:30 PM
Here I was thinking it was Bluesky that was down
November 20, 2024 at 9:23 PM
The new Mac Mini is great — now do the iPhone SE www.theverge.com/2024/11/15/2...
The new Mac Mini is great — now do the iPhone SE
We want a Mac Mini for the iPhone lineup.
www.theverge.com
November 20, 2024 at 3:47 PM