Mark Farragher
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Controversial opinion, but Spain should rebuild her mighty Armada and have one more go at England.
December 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Controversial opinion, but Spain should rebuild her mighty Armada and have one more go at England.
I just linked my first Innr Lighting light bulb to my z-wave powered #homeassistant, and now the light in my study is adaptive and follows the color and brightness of the sun!
#homeautomation #happiness
#homeautomation #happiness
October 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I just linked my first Innr Lighting light bulb to my z-wave powered #homeassistant, and now the light in my study is adaptive and follows the color and brightness of the sun!
#homeautomation #happiness
#homeautomation #happiness
From the trenches of AI coding:
Prompt: "Create a plot with ScottPlot"
AI: [writes ScottPlot 4.x code, tries to compile]
AI: "I see the problem. You are using v5 and I wrote code for v4. Let me fix that."
AI: [writes more ScottPlot 4.x code]
AI: "I see the problem. You are using v5 and I wrote ...
Prompt: "Create a plot with ScottPlot"
AI: [writes ScottPlot 4.x code, tries to compile]
AI: "I see the problem. You are using v5 and I wrote code for v4. Let me fix that."
AI: [writes more ScottPlot 4.x code]
AI: "I see the problem. You are using v5 and I wrote ...
October 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
From the trenches of AI coding:
Prompt: "Create a plot with ScottPlot"
AI: [writes ScottPlot 4.x code, tries to compile]
AI: "I see the problem. You are using v5 and I wrote code for v4. Let me fix that."
AI: [writes more ScottPlot 4.x code]
AI: "I see the problem. You are using v5 and I wrote ...
Prompt: "Create a plot with ScottPlot"
AI: [writes ScottPlot 4.x code, tries to compile]
AI: "I see the problem. You are using v5 and I wrote code for v4. Let me fix that."
AI: [writes more ScottPlot 4.x code]
AI: "I see the problem. You are using v5 and I wrote ...
Software development has now become 'voodoo-coding'. Instead of making a plan and writing short, elegant and performant code to implement the plan, we have been reduced to casting complex magic spells to compel fickle gods to write the code for us.
October 16, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Software development has now become 'voodoo-coding'. Instead of making a plan and writing short, elegant and performant code to implement the plan, we have been reduced to casting complex magic spells to compel fickle gods to write the code for us.
From the trenches of AI-coding:
I'm building an F# machine learning app. I put the cursor at the bottom of the file and tell Copilot to "add a regression pipeline to train a model on the data". Copilot inserts the new code at the top of the file, before the code that actually loads the data.
I'm building an F# machine learning app. I put the cursor at the bottom of the file and tell Copilot to "add a regression pipeline to train a model on the data". Copilot inserts the new code at the top of the file, before the code that actually loads the data.
October 15, 2025 at 8:31 AM
From the trenches of AI-coding:
I'm building an F# machine learning app. I put the cursor at the bottom of the file and tell Copilot to "add a regression pipeline to train a model on the data". Copilot inserts the new code at the top of the file, before the code that actually loads the data.
I'm building an F# machine learning app. I put the cursor at the bottom of the file and tell Copilot to "add a regression pipeline to train a model on the data". Copilot inserts the new code at the top of the file, before the code that actually loads the data.
From the trenches of AI-coding:
I'm in VS Code and have selected a large block of F# code. I tell Copilot to "move the selected code into a helper function". Copilot moves the first 5 lines into a function and confidently declares that everything is working now. The code no longer compiles.
I'm in VS Code and have selected a large block of F# code. I tell Copilot to "move the selected code into a helper function". Copilot moves the first 5 lines into a function and confidently declares that everything is working now. The code no longer compiles.
October 15, 2025 at 8:22 AM
From the trenches of AI-coding:
I'm in VS Code and have selected a large block of F# code. I tell Copilot to "move the selected code into a helper function". Copilot moves the first 5 lines into a function and confidently declares that everything is working now. The code no longer compiles.
I'm in VS Code and have selected a large block of F# code. I tell Copilot to "move the selected code into a helper function". Copilot moves the first 5 lines into a function and confidently declares that everything is working now. The code no longer compiles.
Me: "why is my code not working?"
LLM: "I see the problem, let me fix it for you"
Me: "sorry, it's still not working"
LLM: "oh I see, it's because of this code right here" *points at the code it just wrote*
That was Anthropic Claude 3.5, last year's state of the art model 😑
LLM: "I see the problem, let me fix it for you"
Me: "sorry, it's still not working"
LLM: "oh I see, it's because of this code right here" *points at the code it just wrote*
That was Anthropic Claude 3.5, last year's state of the art model 😑
August 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Me: "why is my code not working?"
LLM: "I see the problem, let me fix it for you"
Me: "sorry, it's still not working"
LLM: "oh I see, it's because of this code right here" *points at the code it just wrote*
That was Anthropic Claude 3.5, last year's state of the art model 😑
LLM: "I see the problem, let me fix it for you"
Me: "sorry, it's still not working"
LLM: "oh I see, it's because of this code right here" *points at the code it just wrote*
That was Anthropic Claude 3.5, last year's state of the art model 😑
This evening, I went to cafe #ViceVersa in #Amsterdam to join the creative writing group "Writing Under The Influence". I received a writing prompt and had only 20 minutes to come up with a story. It's a great way to exercise my creative muscle while drinking delicious Dutch beer 😊
June 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
This evening, I went to cafe #ViceVersa in #Amsterdam to join the creative writing group "Writing Under The Influence". I received a writing prompt and had only 20 minutes to come up with a story. It's a great way to exercise my creative muscle while drinking delicious Dutch beer 😊
A fun walk down memory lane — I just rediscovered the book that first taught me how to program a computer, way back when I was just 10 years old!
So strange to read that book again today. And it just shows how effective a cartoon can be for learning 😊
So strange to read that book again today. And it just shows how effective a cartoon can be for learning 😊
May 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
A fun walk down memory lane — I just rediscovered the book that first taught me how to program a computer, way back when I was just 10 years old!
So strange to read that book again today. And it just shows how effective a cartoon can be for learning 😊
So strange to read that book again today. And it just shows how effective a cartoon can be for learning 😊
Every Monday I'm at the #Rabobank in Utrecht training a team of data and #AI engineers, organized by @capgeminiglobal.bsky.social Academy.
This week is for #PowerBI. The team will finalize their cloud architecture by building CO2 emission dashboards in PowerBI and linking them to their #Lakehouse.
This week is for #PowerBI. The team will finalize their cloud architecture by building CO2 emission dashboards in PowerBI and linking them to their #Lakehouse.
April 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Every Monday I'm at the #Rabobank in Utrecht training a team of data and #AI engineers, organized by @capgeminiglobal.bsky.social Academy.
This week is for #PowerBI. The team will finalize their cloud architecture by building CO2 emission dashboards in PowerBI and linking them to their #Lakehouse.
This week is for #PowerBI. The team will finalize their cloud architecture by building CO2 emission dashboards in PowerBI and linking them to their #Lakehouse.
This is modern pair programming! In the video, I'm working with #AI to build a new practice quiz for my students.
In the video you can see the AI working autonomously, processing quiz questions, doing research and finding references.
AI is definitely a force multiplier for senior developers.
In the video you can see the AI working autonomously, processing quiz questions, doing research and finding references.
AI is definitely a force multiplier for senior developers.
April 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This is modern pair programming! In the video, I'm working with #AI to build a new practice quiz for my students.
In the video you can see the AI working autonomously, processing quiz questions, doing research and finding references.
AI is definitely a force multiplier for senior developers.
In the video you can see the AI working autonomously, processing quiz questions, doing research and finding references.
AI is definitely a force multiplier for senior developers.
Reposted by Mark Farragher
How Cory Doctorow describes Kagi: pluralistic.net/2025/02/15/i...
February 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
How Cory Doctorow describes Kagi: pluralistic.net/2025/02/15/i...
Reposted by Mark Farragher
What are the main differences between Kagi and Google?
We dive into that in our latest video 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZLO...
We dive into that in our latest video 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZLO...
Kagi VS Google
YouTube video by Kagi
www.youtube.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
What are the main differences between Kagi and Google?
We dive into that in our latest video 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZLO...
We dive into that in our latest video 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZLO...
Reposted by Mark Farragher
i am not a brand loyalist but like holy hell has paying for kagi made my web experience so much more livable. it's like taking off your training weights but for search.
February 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
i am not a brand loyalist but like holy hell has paying for kagi made my web experience so much more livable. it's like taking off your training weights but for search.
Reposted by Mark Farragher
Kagi sees an opportunity to convince people to stop turning to Google for search, quit leaning on inconsistent AI answers, and start seeking out a smarter way to find what they need.
This scrappy search upstart is getting thousands of people to give up Google
As Google results grow cluttered and AI runs rampant on the web, Kagi is winning over disillusioned searchers with an engine that puts them first.
bit.ly
February 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Kagi sees an opportunity to convince people to stop turning to Google for search, quit leaning on inconsistent AI answers, and start seeking out a smarter way to find what they need.
Pictures from last week's @microsoft.com #Azure #Databricks training for the city council of Amsterdam. We're in the council chamber of the #Tuinstadhuis.
Amazing location, I love what they did with the four screens in the middle of the room!
Amazing location, I love what they did with the four screens in the middle of the room!
January 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Pictures from last week's @microsoft.com #Azure #Databricks training for the city council of Amsterdam. We're in the council chamber of the #Tuinstadhuis.
Amazing location, I love what they did with the four screens in the middle of the room!
Amazing location, I love what they did with the four screens in the middle of the room!
Check this out, the web analytics company Matomo has decided to write a business case about my training academy: matomo.org/case-studies...
Matomo has become my tool of choice, because of how easy it is to configure the software to be compliant with the very strict #EU #GDPR legislation.
Matomo has become my tool of choice, because of how easy it is to configure the software to be compliant with the very strict #EU #GDPR legislation.
How an online academy improves website performance and ensures compliance with Matomo - Analytics Platform - Matomo
Discover how MDFT Academy improved website navigation, increased conversions, and ensured compliance by switching to Matomo.
matomo.org
December 5, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Check this out, the web analytics company Matomo has decided to write a business case about my training academy: matomo.org/case-studies...
Matomo has become my tool of choice, because of how easy it is to configure the software to be compliant with the very strict #EU #GDPR legislation.
Matomo has become my tool of choice, because of how easy it is to configure the software to be compliant with the very strict #EU #GDPR legislation.
Today I wrapped up my #Databricks training for KVL in #Rotterdam.
I was happy to discover that the KVL office is in the iconic Van Nelle building in Rotterdam, a monumental factory built in 1920! This was the first factory built entirely out of concrete. It felt like giving a training in a museum.
I was happy to discover that the KVL office is in the iconic Van Nelle building in Rotterdam, a monumental factory built in 1920! This was the first factory built entirely out of concrete. It felt like giving a training in a museum.
November 29, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Today I wrapped up my #Databricks training for KVL in #Rotterdam.
I was happy to discover that the KVL office is in the iconic Van Nelle building in Rotterdam, a monumental factory built in 1920! This was the first factory built entirely out of concrete. It felt like giving a training in a museum.
I was happy to discover that the KVL office is in the iconic Van Nelle building in Rotterdam, a monumental factory built in 1920! This was the first factory built entirely out of concrete. It felt like giving a training in a museum.
In the #Gandalf game by Lakera, you have to use prompt engineering to trick an #AI into revealing a secret password. But every time you guess correctly, the AI increases it's security measures.
It took me only 30 minutes to beat level 7 😎
You can play it here: gandalf.lakera.ai/gandalf
It took me only 30 minutes to beat level 7 😎
You can play it here: gandalf.lakera.ai/gandalf
November 21, 2024 at 5:31 PM
In the #Gandalf game by Lakera, you have to use prompt engineering to trick an #AI into revealing a secret password. But every time you guess correctly, the AI increases it's security measures.
It took me only 30 minutes to beat level 7 😎
You can play it here: gandalf.lakera.ai/gandalf
It took me only 30 minutes to beat level 7 😎
You can play it here: gandalf.lakera.ai/gandalf
It's that time of the year again! My Azure Data students at the Rabobank in Utrecht are graduating and presenting their final projects.
Highlights:
- using LLMs to categorize transactions
- calculating CO2 emissions of the bank datacenter
- a DevOps pipeline to deploy Synapse Analytics
Highlights:
- using LLMs to categorize transactions
- calculating CO2 emissions of the bank datacenter
- a DevOps pipeline to deploy Synapse Analytics
November 18, 2024 at 8:38 AM
It's that time of the year again! My Azure Data students at the Rabobank in Utrecht are graduating and presenting their final projects.
Highlights:
- using LLMs to categorize transactions
- calculating CO2 emissions of the bank datacenter
- a DevOps pipeline to deploy Synapse Analytics
Highlights:
- using LLMs to categorize transactions
- calculating CO2 emissions of the bank datacenter
- a DevOps pipeline to deploy Synapse Analytics