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Running AI Image Generation on Your Windows PC: Beginner-Friendly Starter Pack (Summer 2025 Update)

I started making images with AI web services back when MidJourney beta was just a Discord server, mostly to illustrate blog posts, presentation decks, and landing pages, as I hate… Read more »

cool tools, software   

My Microsoft Fabric Musings Published Elsewhere

I’ve had less time than I’d like to write on my own blog in the past couple of years, but if you like my writing about the data software market… Read more »

Power BI & Fabric   

How to Add a Dynamic Outline to an Odd Webcam Shape in OBS

Nvidia Broadcast comes with a filter that can be applied directly in OBS for background removal (similarly to what MS Teams does) without requiring a green screen. Since I often… Read more »

cool tools   

The Art of High-Stakes Negotiation: An AI-Powered Analysis of the Trump-Zelenskyy-Vance White House Meeting, Feb. 28 2025

This post is an experiment and demonstration of where state of the art LLMs are currently at, and the type of use cases I use them for, though my stakes… Read more »

best & worst practices, cool tools   

Running LLMs Like DeepSeek Locally: The Getting Started Windows Stack

Like many people, I switched from manual web search to using Large Language Models (LLM) to run research-oriented queries in order to be more productive, and in my case, with… Read more »

cool tools, search engines, software   

Connecting to Fabric Lakehouse, Warehouse, Power BI Datamart, and PowerApps Dataverse’s SQL Server from Desktop Tools and External Services

The main appeal of Power BI’s Datamart capability is arguably the fact it includes a SQL Server instance that’s optimized for analytical purposes and is fully managed, yet still exposes… Read more »

Power BI & Fabric   
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How to Bend Plex to Your Will to Handle Complex Libraries Without Losing Your Mind

It’s very easy to get started with Plex to handle a simple movie or TV show collection, but as you add different types of content and grow your libraries, it… Read more »

digital lifestyle, meta-tagging the universe, software   

Making Sense of Power BI Programmatic Options: REST APIs, PowerShell, TMSL, TOM, Tabular Editor Scripting, Semantic Link

Back around 2015, Microsoft introduced the current Power BI platform to replace its “Power BI for Office 365” SharePoint/Excel-based offering that most people have long forgotten, with a focus of… Read more »

Power BI & Fabric   
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Row Level Security & Beyond in Business Intelligence Applications: A Practical Overview

The ability to filter data by user is critical whenever sensitive information is shared, whether internally to an organization or even more so externally. This is often known as “row… Read more »

Power BI & Fabric   

Third-Party Tools to Ease Power BI Development and Increase Analyst Productivity

While some cloud BI tools such as Amazon QuickSight do all their authoring in the browser, Microsoft chose to develop a dedicated client creatively named Power BI Desktop. Its initial… Read more »

Power BI & Fabric   

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  • Running AI Image Generation on Your Windows PC: Beginner-Friendly Starter Pack (Summer 2025 Update) August 20, 2025
  • My Microsoft Fabric Musings Published Elsewhere August 4, 2025
  • How to Add a Dynamic Outline to an Odd Webcam Shape in OBS March 4, 2025
  • The Art of High-Stakes Negotiation: An AI-Powered Analysis of the Trump-Zelenskyy-Vance White House Meeting, Feb. 28 2025 March 1, 2025
  • Running LLMs Like DeepSeek Locally: The Getting Started Windows Stack January 29, 2025

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