Julia Kordick ☁️

If AI is really coming for our jobs, I’d appreciate if it could start with German fall weather. 🌧️🍃

I’m cold, soaked, and one grey cloud away from seasonal depression.

🎤 This week on Julia-TV:

🗓 Oct 15 – AgentCon, Cologne 🇺🇸
Boost your coding productivity with GitHub Copilot Agent
globalai.community/chapters/col...

🗓 Oct 16 – Dev & Donuts, Mannheim 🇩🇪
“Das Release ist fertig – und jetzt?”
yasoon.de/dev-donuts/

If I look tired — hand me an oat flat white ☕️ thanks!

Tired of opening Azure Boards and asking, “where’s that ticket again?” 🙄

Your team uses Azure DevOps.
You use your favourite IDE + Agentic AI for coding.

Now they finally talk: the Azure DevOps MCP Server is in public preview. 🚀

👉 Blog: lnkd.in/eSNhbKEG
👉 Registry: lnkd.in/eGfwjdSh

a cat is sitting on a couch using a laptop ALT: a cat is sitting on a couch using a laptop

Customers be like:
“Julia, can you show us how you would prompt AI to achieve this?”

Me: [goes full AI whisperer mode — prompting, instructing, explaining, demoing]

Customers:
“Wow, impressive... but can you just send us your prompt file?”

Me: 🫠

(GIF to visualize me in full AI whisperer mode)

Back from 2 weeks sick.
Answered inbox + Teams like a responsible adult.
Now drowning in 47 new replies.

Honestly? Sick leave was more relaxing.

“How do we get more women into tech and encourage them to speak at conferences?”
Conference: Voices from the community → 📸
This. Is. Not. How.

Cursor knows. The real answer is the dark side. 🌑

YouTube video by Playwright How to Generate Playwright Tests using MCP + Copilot

Last week I learned: Playwright ships its own MCP server.

👉 Still great for fast, reliable UI testing.
👉 But now agents can talk to your app’s UI.

A new useful sidekick for software engineers ⚡️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaCj...
github.com/microsoft/pl...

How We Use AI Agents for COBOL Migration and Mainframe Modernization | All things Azure Legacy modernization is one of the most frequently raised challenges customers approach us with. They want to eliminate technical debt and run

And because I never get tired of sharing our own take on the topic… here we go again: aka.ms/cobol-blog

From Black Box to Blueprint Lost source code? Legacy systems don’t have to stay black boxes—AI can turn them into blueprints

When THE Martin Fowler blogs, you read it. 👀

His latest: turn legacy black boxes into blueprints — with humans doing the detective work 🕵️‍♀️.

Our approach is different: we let AI agents explore the box, capture the knowledge, and modernize along the way. 🤖⚡️

👉 martinfowler.com/articles/bla...

Introducing metered GitHub Enterprise billing for Visual Studio subscriptions with GitHub Enterprise - GitHub Changelog Scaling your GitHub usage just got easier. Customers on the Visual Studio subscriptions with GitHub Enterprise bundle now have the option to transition to pay-as-you-go, usage-based billing for GitHub...

No original thoughts today, just good links:

1️⃣ VS subs + GitHub billing update → github.blog/changelog/20...

2️⃣ ADO migration playbook → wellarchitected.github.com/library/scen...

3️⃣ GPT-5 for MS devs (new toys, same chaos)→ devblogs.microsoft.com/blog/gpt-5-f...

Now: oat iced matcha latte. 💚

🎉 Celebrating the big milestone: 20 followers here on Bluesky.

That’s right, twenty. A carefully curated group of elite lurkers who apparently tolerate my mix of tech rambling and half-funny jokes.

LinkedIn may have 4,000… but you 20? You’re the chosen ones. 🫡

No, sorry.

🎥 Let’s talk COBOL modernization (yes, that COBOL)

This Wed @ 12:30 CEST I’m live on @wearedevelopers.bsky.social WeAreDevs with @codepo8.bsky.social + @danielcranney.bsky.social

We’ll dive into legacy pain, AI agents, and how we (semi-magically) migrate COBOL.

🔗 wearedevelopers.com/en/live

🎥 Live tonight — calling all German-speaking devs!
Join Sandra and me for a Microsoft Reactor session:
Let’s Learn MCP: Java Edition
🧠 Build your own MCP server & client in Java

🕕 July 24, 6PM CEST
🇩🇪 In German (but code is universal)
📺 www.youtube.com/live/Lt3hffR...

love the optimism, but no #GitHub #DevLife

How do I know I’m more stressed than usual?

– working out (regularly)
– eating spicy “pimped” ramen for the ninth day straight
– lost my Duolingo streak (comment ça va?)

Stress tastes like soy-sesame, fire level 10, with a side of broken routines.

#DuolingoDespair #InstantRamenTherapy #ThisIsFine

On vacation, thinking about what my work really is:

→ Making educated guesses
→ Forming opinions — and changing them
→ Saying things even when I might be wrong
→ Staying brave

The rest is just tools and tech.

#VacationThoughts #TechLife

Worked with ChatGPT to craft a talk title + abstract.
Then pasted that into GitHub Copilot…
to generate a demo repo on how to use GitHub Copilot
in the context from that title and abstract.

Recursive much?
How did I ever work without AI before? 🤖🌀

#GitHubCopilot #ChatGPT #AIinDev

Zwei Städte. Zwei Events. Eine Mission: Azure Community stärken (S01F10) Die Cloud Optimizer - Podcast · Episode

Florian and I joined Matthias & Christian’s podcast to spill the tea on organizing the Global Azure Community Day in Cologne ☕🎤

Speakers, signups, catering chaos — we covered it all.

🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/4Fcw... (only 🇩🇪)

#GlobalAzure #TechCommunity #AzureEvents #DevLife

Me being a bit too excited in German about the newest MS Teams feature. #MSTeams #Microsoft #Slack

Accelerate innovation by migrating your repositories from Azure DevOps to GitHub GitHub’s agentic AI is ready for Azure DevOps users—migrate your repos, keep familiar tools, and unlock GitHub Copilot’s coding agents.

“Is ADO dead?”
“Do we have to move to GitHub?”

You’d think these were conspiracy theories by how often they come up 😅
But no—there’s now an actual roadmap. With actual answers.

👉 resources.github.com/accelerate-i...

✅ What stays
✅ What changes
✅ What to do next

#Microsoft #GitHub #DevOps

Spotted at a customer site: free period products in the restrooms. 🩸✨
Small thing? Maybe.
Powerful message? Absolutely.

Dear companies: free coffee? ✅
Free pads/tampons? ❌ (still too often)

It’s not a luxury. It’s basic decency and a basic human need.

From 3 attendees to 100+ people community! 🚀
Florian Lenz & I grew Azure Cloud Native Meetup Cologne from me sliding into his DMs to hosting a full-day Global Azure event 🌍
📸 Some impressions attached!
➡️ Join us: www.meetup.com/azure-server...

Microsoft Build is coming! 🎉
Join us in-person in Munich on May 19 for a full day of hands-on dev fun: CI/CD, GitHub Security, Copilot + Azure 🚀
➡️ Register here: msevents.microsoft.com/event?id=836...
Get your hands dirty + boost your productivity. Let’s go! 💙👩‍💻👨‍💻

#MSBuild #DevEx #GitHub #Azure

Agentic adventures:

➡️ How it started: “I’ll build one AI agent.”
💥 How it’s going: “Please, for the love of K8s and cloud compute, STOP spawning sub-agents.”

#mememonday

Customers care deeply about data privacy—right up until they’re on public transport, working with their corporate device on sensitive files like it’s a public performance. Ever heard of a privacy shield? Get one, seriously.

At least they use Azure DevOps.

Global Azure Community Day 2025 - in Cologne!; Friday, May 9th, 2025; Microsoft Germany Office Cologne | In-Person
Register here: azure-community-day.de

Me when I should use AI for productivity gains:

I've hit that mental state where I'm not just doubting if English words are real, but I'm also staring at German words like, 'Are you even a word?' 👀