Ioana Bouariu

When you think this year has been a mess, but it’s only just passed January…

My 5 year old wearing swim goggles while practicing backstroke in an indoor swimming pool, floating on their back with one arm raised out of the water as they move forward.

On our way to swim class, my 5 year old kid and I were talking about swim competitions, gold medals and how much he would like a gold #medal like #davidpopovici got. He also he said that taking someone else’s medal doesn’t make you a winner, makes you a thief. 😶

An orange-haired toddler sitting on the ground at a carnival game, crying angrily with fists clenched after losing. Colorful stuffed prizes, a gold chalice, a spinning game wheel, and ‘Sorry, try again’ tickets are visible behind him.

Toddler tantrum energy.

A snowy train platform in Norway this winter afternoon. Train tracks curve to the right, bordered by overhead power lines and dark metal poles silhouetted against a deep blue sky. Near the horizon, a soft band of yellow and orange light marks the returning daylight. Snow covers the ground, with footprints along the platform, and a single person walks in the distance.

15:30. Norway. The light is back. ❄️🌤️

Me trying to convince ChatGPT that what’s happening now is actually happening 🤦‍♀️

And if you wish upon a star..link satellite, does Elon Musk have to pay for the wish? 😆

Or was it this? m.economictimes.com/us/science-t...

Ursid meteor shower: What to know and how to watch the peak | CNN The Ursids will peak around the time of the winter solstice under dark skies with chances of enhanced meteor activity.

I saw what appeared like a shooting star this evening when looking for the northern lights outside the door. Was it this? edition.cnn.com/2025/12/20/s...

a little girl is laughing with her fist in the air while wearing a vest and tie . ALT: a little girl is laughing with her fist in the air while wearing a vest and tie .

Just a few more hours until the light returns #wintersolstice #followthesun

My current view. 4 pm and pitch black in Norway. There was a bit of light from 10 to 3 PM. Things should look brighter after December 21. Literally.

Think that I did this in NOTEBOOK before!

A print screen of my new shortcut from Sharepoint folder to Fabric lakehouse files.

Ah, look at this!

Heads-up to anyone still down in the porridge of #Fabric, we got all these shortcut possibilities now - notice OneDrive and Sharepoint! Brb as I am currently re-doing my solutions.

Yay!

Morning view from my kitchen window overlooking a peaceful neighborhood street that slopes down toward a misty lake. The lake reflects the soft golden light of sunrise, surrounded by trees in autumn colors. Low fog drifts above the water and fields in the valley, with rolling hills and scattered clouds glowing under a clear blue sky in the distance.

Celebrating that it’s Wednesday and the only thing on my agenda, after work, is a yoga session. Also, this view!

The first 3 lines gave me anxiety.
Enjoy your trip!

First look at Fabric Map on top of Fabric RTI In the last couple of months, I have written about various ways to work with Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence data, both about ingesting, enriching, and representing. Adding Microsoft Fabric…

Working with geospatial data? Check out #Fabric_RTI Map for layered visualizations. Get context data from Lakehouses or real-time data from KQL Databases and represent it in Data layers. Learn about using KQL for location data at
sandervandevelde.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/f... #mvpbuzz

We finally have 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿-𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 (𝗨𝗗𝗙) in DAX!

Don't make mistakes; this is not a user data function in Fabric.

This is a new DAX feature, the most important one in the last five years.

Read/watch more:
https://www.sqlbi.com/articles/introducing-user-defined-functions-in-dax/

GitHub - microsoft/presidio: An open-source framework for detecting, redacting, masking, and anonymizing sensitive data (PII) across text, images, and structured data. Supports NLP, pattern matching, ... An open-source framework for detecting, redacting, masking, and anonymizing sensitive data (PII) across text, images, and structured data. Supports NLP, pattern matching, and customizable pipelines...

This looks nice.

Have an actual conversation with your agent about your Fabric Eventhouse timeseries data In my previous blog post about the Fabric RTI MCP, I showed how to get started with the MCP and use the GitHub Copilot chat in Visual Studio Code to ‘talk’ to your Real-Time data via th…

Talk to your device, your data just got a voice. Have a real chat with your Microsoft Fabric RTI data using speech-to-text and text-to-speech. No keyboard needed anymore, just voice. sandervandevelde.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/h... #mvpbuzz

Annie chilling on the sofa

As my daughter is sitting on the sofa watching tv with her Resusci Annie, the CPR doll from this week’s swimming camp, I am reminded of this story of its famous face:

Want to know when your #GitHub account was created? Use #PowerShell: (Invoke-RestMethod -Uri 'https://api.github.com/users/{username}').created_at

a man in a white shirt and tie is making a funny face . ALT: a man in a white shirt and tie is making a funny face .

Makes the days when I have home office something to really look forward to

This is my foiled portrait of a unicorn!

#art #animal #unicorn #rainbow #sciart #printart #handmade

🏠 Home Assistant 2025.8 is here! The summer ☀️ of AI ✨

📢 www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/08...

AI Tasks unlock new powers 🤖, lightning-fast streaming TTS 🔊, easier control of individual light group members 💡, weekday time triggers 📅, and a brand-new energy flow chart ⚡️

#HomeAssistant

Last week, @dotdot.horse and I launched PSInclusive, a new GitHub org dedicated to publishing tools that support differently abled folks.

We kicked things off during #PSWednesday with the Accessibility #PowerShell module, a collection of functions designed to help differently abled folks.
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