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Developer Advocate at SAP. O'Reilly and SAP Press author. SAP community pioneer and SAP Developer Network co-creator. SAP Mentor Alumnus. Learner. Runner. Just another SAP Hacker. "Bulldog of logic". Opinions my own, and there are many of them.
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Join me on Sun 30 Nov on Day 1 of UKISUG Connect for a 2 hour fun packed interactive and (hopefully) enlightening session on CAP's CDS - for domain experts, key business users and other non-developers. Details: qmacro.org/blog/posts/2... #UKISUGConnect #SAPUKI
The UKISUG Connect logo with a photo of me pointing in awe and wonder at the official documentation of the CAP's Conceptual Definition Language
November 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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I for one welcome our new AI overlords github.com/capire/docs/...
Some encouraging code review comments from an AI bot in a pull request on GitHub (for some CAP documentation fixes), with the Kent Brockman news anchor character from The Simpsons, above a repurposed classic quote of his, which reads: "I for one welcome our new AI overlords"
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Enjoyed listening to @cyclingfisch.bsky.social and @holgerbsky.bsky.social on their #SAPTechEd edition episode (Nr. 81) of Coffee Corner Radio on my run this morning. Recommended! 👉 music.youtube.com/podcast/pKxH...
A composite image made up from the Coffee Corner Radio logo (a coffee mug with a microphone in it) and a selfie where I'm pointing at it.
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Wow, Cloudflare, taking the interconnected Web apart, one frustrating block at a time #FAIL
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November 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Celebrating the end of daylight savings and the start of brighter earlier mornings with a frosty run this morning
A selfie on my run, with the Cheshire plains rolling away in the background beneath an almost clear light blue early morning sky, frosty fields turning into denser wooded areas and the skyline of the metropolis of Manchester just visible towards the horizon.
October 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Celebrating the end of daylight savings and the start of brighter earlier mornings with a frosty run this morning
A selfie on my run, with the Cheshire plains rolling away in the background beneath an almost clear light blue early morning sky, frosty fields turning into denser wooded areas and the skyline of the metropolis of Manchester just visible towards the horizon.
October 26, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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How about catching up this weekend on this fun #Devtoberfest discussion amongst many of the Developer Advocates, about developer tooling in the 21st century. Lots of topics covered, including AI, agentic coding, model context protocol, MCP servers, IDEs and more 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovf3...
A Zoom meeting display with small video windows showing various Developer Advocates smiling and having fun, and a title box "Developer tooling in the 21st century".
October 25, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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I'm honoured to host the first #Devtoberfest session of today, with the great Dr. David Kunz - join us at in 3 hours from now at 0830 BST / 0930 CEST / 1300 IST / 1830 AEDT to dig in to some agentic coding with the CAP MCP server www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvSr... #SAPCAP
The session title slide: Devtoberfest by SAP TechEd 🟠 Agentic Coding with CAP David Kunz, SAP (and a photo of David) plus me pointing at the slide
October 24, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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a screenshot of a few feeds in my Miniflux list (in a new install)
October 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Useless tool is useless
Screenshot of a browser window with a hair tearingly frustrating situation. The page shows the message "We can't check the safety of this website right now" and the footer says "Powered by Microsoft Defender for Office 365" and there are also some "Error: null | Invalid url: null | Error: Failed to construct 'URL': Invalid URL" messages too.
October 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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If it makes you feel any better, I have a draft blog post. Not abandoned, just suffering from a lack of tuits.
; git status On branch main Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'. Untracked files: (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) content/blog/2025-10-15-cds-models-modularity-and-modules.md content/images/2025/10/capire-bookshop-package.png nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
October 22, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but there's --exclude:
A tmux session showing the output of cds test --help in one pane: Usage: cds test [ options ] [ patterns ] Options: -l, --list List found test files -i, --include Include matching files, default: (.test.js|.spec.js)$ -x, --exclude Exclude matching files, default: ^(gen,*.tmp)$ -n, --skip Skip all matching test cases -o, --only Run only matching test cases -q, --quiet No output at all -s, --silent No output -t, --timeout in milliseconds -u, --unmute Unmute output -v, --verbose Increase verbosity -w, --workers Specify number of workers -?, --help Displays this usage info --failed Repeat recently failed test suite(s) --passed Repeat recently passed test suite(s) --recent Repeat recently run test suite(s) --match Alias to --include and in the other there's the output of tree, showing the project contents: . ├── README.md ├── app │   └── MY-UI-TESTING.test.js ├── db │   ├── data │   │   └── my.bookshop-Books.csv │   └── schema.cds ├── eslint.config.mjs ├── package-lock.json ├── package.json ├── srv │   └── cat-service.cds └── test └── CatalogService.test.js and an execution of cds test --exclude app, showing: OData APIs ✔ serves CatalogService.Books 1 passed 0.633s
October 22, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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This is a great way to get me to NOT read a blog post.

My workflow:

- see this message
- close browser tab
partial screenshot of a webpage with a Cloudflare message: blog.[redacted].dev Verify you are human by completing the action below (some checkbox captcha) blog.[redacted].dev needs to review the security of your connection before proceeding.
October 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Here's another great #Devtoberfest session from Friday ( #SAPCAP day) from @mauriciolauffer.bsky.social on testing CAP Node.js apps with cds.test - and yes Mauricio, the REPL use made me 😻 www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kfi...
A still image from the video on YouTube, showing Mauricio, his screen (where there's a terminal within VS Code in which he is running the cds REPL) and a photo of me giving a thumbs up, overlaid.
October 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Something comical about this ... (in addition to the classic mistake (IMHO) of using "login" as a verb, instead of "log in")
Dialog with question "Is it you trying to login?" and two buttons: - No, it's not me - Yes
October 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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I'm speaking this Saturday on #SAPCAP at SAP Inside Track München - see you there! qmacro.org/blog/posts/2...
A slide titled "Sat 11 Oct 2025 @ SAP Labs Munich Campus (sitmuc.de)" With the SAP Inside Track München graphic at the bottom, and a photo of me giving a thumbs up and a speech bubble that says "CAP Node.js features for local development"
October 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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YT has great facilities for queueing, playback speed & watching on different devices & more. So rejoice in that we have the Audimax sessions from reCAP 2025 now also on the reCAP Unconference YT channel! More info in the latest SAP Developer News episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnva... #SAPCAP
A photo of me pointing at a screenshot of part of the new playlist on YouTube
October 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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This week's SAP Developer News, brought to you by the Developer Advocates, is out now 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnva... - watch it to spot a bonus #Bash script in one of the items #TheFutureIsTerminal
a still image from the news item - showing me with a speech bubble saying #TheFutureIsTerminal, and a thumbs up overlaid on top of the Bash script
October 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Next up today on #Devtoberfest's "CAP Friday" will be a session from René-Mathieu Jeglinsky and Mahati Shankar on Capire, the awesome documentation resource for #SAPCAP at 1030 BST / 1130 CEST / 1500 IST / 1930 AEST

👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvjb...
A photo of me pointing at the thumbnail of the upcoming session, with title "Get to know more about CAP's documentation offering", and photos of Mahati Shankar and Rene Jeglinsky, both from SAP.
October 3, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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I can never not think of this
A still image from the film The Fifth Element with Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich; Milla's character is holding a pass that says "MULTI PASS"
October 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Wow yes! Happy memories. It's there where I spotted this, home from home
An oval metal plate with: CRAVEN BROTHERS LIMITED 20 TONS 1907 MANCHESTER painted yellow with black relief letters
October 2, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Reminds me of
The image from the XKCD "Dependency" cartoon, showing a massively heavy and complex infrastucture supported, critically, by a small and relatively weak looking piece at the bottom.
October 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Upping the resolution to the max (4K) is (again, IMHO) not the answer to clarity and understanding. Less on the screen, bigger fonts and artifacts, at a still clear resolution (1080p) is what we strive for. It's what I use in my live streams, e.g. (randomly) this one www.youtube.com/live/1j253lu...
a screenshot/still image from one of my live streams, showing my terminal window running tmux, with neovim in one pane and a shell in the other, where program output is being emitted. There's a video of me in the bottom right corner in mid flow.
September 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Thank you to the organisers of SAP Inside Track Porto for allowing me to effuse about the wonders of CAP and the cds REPL. I hope you enjoyed the talk as much as I enjoyed giving it :-) If you want to learn more, and work through what I showed, this blog post will help: qmacro.org/blog/posts/2...
A still image from the live stream version of my talk, with the audience in the top left, my screen showing a couple of CDS entities in the REPL in the bottom left, and me on stage waving my arms about as usual on the right.
September 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Current status: channelling @martinrue.bsky.social and writing a blog post about modularity and modules in CDS models #SAPCAP
Photo of a table and chair outside a cafe on a quiet sunny square (in Porto, PT). On the table there's an empty coffee cup and saucer, and my laptop, open, showing a draft blog post on the left (in Neovim, natch) and a rendering of the Markdown source in a browser tab on the right.
September 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM