Jörg Schmidt

My NYE 2026 bingo predictions include MSFT Exec Quits" and "Steve dies in Stranger Things"

Score one for the NYE 2026 bingo board

A beginners guide to vibe engineering: Welcome to Vegas - SQLGene Training In this post, I will assume 1) you have no experience with LLMs at all and 2) you think the idea of AI writing 80-90% of our code in the future is complete poppycock. Personally, I feel….less certain ...

A beginners guide to vibe engineering: Welcome to Vegas
www.sqlgene.com/2026/02/22/a...

Yesterday I built a full end-to-end PoC stack with OpenAI Codex 🚀, from frontend to backend to database, and then added load testing and observability across the entire flow 📈

Current architecture:
Vite web frontend 🖥️ -> Rust backend service 🦀 -> PostgreSQL 🐘

Cover of a book named Feathers of Aotearoa: an illustrated journal by author Niels Meyer-Westfield. The cover shows several hand drawn illustrations of feather from New Zealand birds.

Early 40th birthday gift.
I'm a very happy kid ☺️

From chaos to a clean model view in one prompt: "start" (can't start an agent with an empty prompt). It also created a separate view for each star.

Claude Opus 4.6 in VS Code GitHub Copilot + custom Agent

#PowerBI

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19.

DuckDB was added to the wall of fame of CWI, next to Dijkstra’s shortest path algorithm, the Atlantic Crossing of the Internet & the creation of Python

On the occasion of our 80th (really!) bday

Congrats to @hannes.muehleisen.org & @markraasveldt.bsky.social

@duckdb.org
@cwi-amsterdam.bsky.social

datapointprague.cz Advanced customization of the core Power BI visuals and slicers 📊. Full-day, hands-on preconference workshop by @avatorl.bsky.social

Announcing Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring That Doesn't Suck Announcing Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring I built a free, open-source SQL Server performance monitoring tool. Two editions, no licensing fees, no telemetry, no cloud dependency. Here's what it does...

Announcing Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring That Doesn't Suck

Announcing Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring I built a free, open-source SQL Server performance monitoring tool. Two editions, no licensing...

Okay, now you got my attention!

The Real Power of the New Slicers. Turn Your Slicers into Charts. 📊

Power BI and Fabric Summit 2026. Day 2. Room 2.

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How I keep up with AI, and why you honestly shouldn’t - SQLGene Training In 2016, I thought I knew how to keep up with technology. In 2026, I’m less sure. AI feels a bit like fast fashion. Oh you are wearing cerulean? Pfft. Everyone knows that chartreuse is in now. How emb...

This week's blog post: How I keep up with AI, and why you honestly shouldn’t

www.sqlgene.com/2026/02/09/h...

There's never been a better time to have a problem. Try Claude Code; make something. You'll be amazed what you can do. And I'm not just talking about Power BI... anything. | Kurt Buhler | ... There's never been a better time to have a problem. Try Claude Code; make something. You'll be amazed what you can do. And I'm not just talking about Power BI... anything. | 15 comments on LinkedIn

Inspired by a recent short video by Kurt Buhler on AI and FOMO
www.linkedin.com/posts/kurtbu...

Opinion | We Didn’t Ask for This Internet

This is a political podcast but I think it's fairly unpolitical that we need less big tech, more competition, and better consumer protections.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for February 2026

New blog post: SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for February 2026

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#SQLServer #SQLServer2025

SQL Server: sys.dm_fts_parser for Full-Text Word Breaking

blog.greglow.com/2026/02/03/s...

If you use Tabular Editor, I want to hear from you, good and bad. I'd love to set up a 30 minute call.

I'm happy to announce I'll be working part time as developer relations for Tabular Editor
🥳🥳🥳

Resist and Unsubscribe

www.resistandunsubscribe.com

Two pane UI with M on the left and DuckDB on the right.

My M converter supports DuckDB!

A white framed print on a light wood paneled wall above a black bedside table. The print features a row of seven stylized, colorful feathers, with the text 'SHANE + ILYA' written underneath in gray capital letters

Hi-res image downloads are free and can be printed up to 16"x16".

Gallery quality prints are available for order - they ship through a local print network to reduce carbon load and cost.

No two prints will ever be the same - there are 11,167 🐦 to choose from!

My latest dashboard(s) for the #PowerBI "World Championships".
[Feeling too exhausted to write interesting comment to drive "engagement" here]

Text reads "#outcountingbirds" with a bird name and corresponding feather drawn for each letter

Text reads "birds are cool" with a bird name and corresponding feather drawn for each letter

Text reads "sandwich" with a bird name and corresponding feather drawn for each letter

Text reads "FUCK ICE" with a bird name and corresponding feather drawn for each letter

Back on my 🪶 bullshit.

Ist leider hinter der Schranke.
Wie auch immer. Endlich ist er weg.
Traurig, dass er es wohl selbst in der Hand hatte und Niemand den Mut fand ihn einfach zu feuern.

I couldn’t “learn” anymore… www.serverlesssql.com/dopamine/

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

This was an interesting chronicle:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Remember that looming mental health crisis I mentioned? It stopped looming. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...

If anyone asks why I’m not going to the MVP summit this year…