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

I love this @kagi.com profile banner, it's very cool that they celebrate early adopters. Kagi is the best search since sliced bread!

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 😊

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 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.

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!

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.

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'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