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🚀 Introduction Over the holiday break, I decided to dive deep into Llama 3.3, running it on my MacBook Pro M3 Max (128GB RAM, 40-core GPU). What started as curiosity quickly turned into a full exploration of local AI models, Semantic Kernel, and API integrations using Microsoft Graph. In this post, I’ll walk you through my setup, the performance differences between Llama 3.3 and other models like Llama 3.170B, and the practical lessons learned along the way. ...

Building Custom Connectors with Microsoft Graph: A Starter Guide Welcome to the world of Microsoft Graph Connectors! If you’re looking to seamlessly integrate external data into Microsoft Search, you’ve come to the right place. This blog post is designed for technical audiences new to Microsoft Graph Connectors, providing a step-by-step guide on how to get started with building custom connectors. Let’s dive in! Introduction to Microsoft Graph Connectors Microsoft Graph Connectors offer a bridge between external data sources and Microsoft 365, allowing you to make external content searchable within Microsoft Search. This integration not only enhances productivity but also fosters collaboration by making external data accessible through familiar tools like SharePoint and Microsoft Teams. ...

Building inside Microsoft 365 ecosystem with Graph Connectors - A Recipe Book Welcome to the world of Microsoft Graph Connectors! If you’re looking to seamlessly integrate external data into Microsoft Search, you’ve come to the right place. If this is the 1st time you are hearing about Microsoft Graph Connectors, it might be useful to take a look at these 2 earlier post: from Waldek Mastykarz and Majesty Uwagerikpe on Find what you need with Microsoft Graph connectors and from Waldek again Anatomy of a Microsoft Graph Connector This post is a middle of the road post that likely your Data folks, your Security folks, your Business Analyst will ask you questions on so… Let’s dive right in! ...

Why you should read this post If you are interested in getting started doing software development with Microsoft 365 and in particular with Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft SharePoint, and/or Microsoft Graph,this post gives the cookbook recipie of what you need and where you need to go to get it. I am going to approach it from: Infrastructure ie. what you need to even get started Sample code created from both internal Microsoft as well as contributed from by the Technical Community Video tutorials of solutions curated by the Product Group team I am on at Microsoft Bonus - I will give you the links to Live calls that you can attend with Microsoft that highlights various popular technology stack where you can hear what is out there by the experts as well as ask your troubling keep you up at night questions. Infrastructure For as long as you continue to use this piece of infrastructure you get an instant sandbox preconfigured with sample data, which enables you to start developing on the Microsoft 365 platform within minutes. The sample data includes: ...

TLDR; Checking in on the results after 1 week in the wild of publishing this survey https://www.thatsgreatfeedback.com/studentloandebtforgive to capture feedback on the news that President Biden is considering Student Loan Debt Forgiveness and the results after 1 week are tabulated again. Huge Thanks to all the folks out there who took the time to fill out the brief 9 question Anonymous survey that yielded the below results! We were only able to get (as of the time of this post) 55 folks to respond 😊 to the survey. Notwithstanding, we have compiled the results for you below. ...

TLDR; I posted on May 07, 2022 this survey https://www.thatsgreatfeedback.com/studentloandebtforgive to seek feedback on the news that President Biden is considering Student Loan Debt Forgiveness as reported on Fox as well as Fortune and the 1st Results after 24 hour are in! Here is what people had to say Huge Thanks to all the folks out there who took the time to fill out the brief 9 question Anonymous survey that yielded the below results! ...

TLDR; Checking in on the results after 1 week in the wild of publishing this survey https://www.thatsgreatfeedback.com/maskmandatesapril22 about the news Mask Mandate is lifted to capture feedback on how thsi affects you and the results are tabulated again. Huge Thanks to all the folks out there who took the time to fill out the brief 5 question Anonymous survey that yielded the below results! As my good buddy Bill Baer taunted me yesterday & I dont think he would mind me sharing this 😊 "…the biggest problem…you need a big dataset" Notwithstanding we are now at 84 responses to the survey with 1/2 of the response coming in in the 1st 2 days. ...

TLDR; I posted on April 20, 2022 this survey https://www.thatsgreatfeedback.com/maskmandatesapril22 about the news Mask Mandate is lifted to capture feedback on how thsi affects you and the results are in! Huge Thanks to all the folks out there who took the time to fill out the brief 5 question Anonymous survey that yielded the below results! The 1st 24 Hours There were 5 questions posed and in one free from response the question asked centered around folks reaction to the federal ruling to lift mask mandates. By and large the sentiments from long form feedback that was collected are relatively split in the 1st 24 hours of responses collected. Where we saw varying differences in opinions came from targetted questions around personal impact as well as individual actions moving foward. A world cloud below homed in on ...

TLDR; Working from home can take a toll on you… in many ways… but one of which can be your physical health. Not something you notice immediately but perhaps end of day or perhaps over a period of a few months or heaven forbid… something progressive over a longer period of time. Having a work environment that promotes healthy habits is important and that can be accomplished by injecting some mobility at your desk throughout the day as well as equipping yourselves with ergonomic fixtures such as tables and chairs. I did a blog post https://fabswill.com/blog/cultivateahealthwfh/ about my new ergonomic chair as well as a survey around the topic as well here https://www.thatsgreatfeedback.com/ergochair2survey.html – The 1st 24 hours results are in… see below ...

TLDR; I am now at the time of writing this paragraph 3 days in from replacing my 4-year-old office chair to a new Autonomous Smart Office ErgoChair 2 and so far I am impressed with the features and working my way through using them properly. What do I mean by that? Well, the chair is super customizable in terms of the usual, height, arm rest positions, but it also has customizable features for lumbar support and headrest to name a few. If like me you spend a large part of your day sitting in front of computer monitors, hammering away at a keyboard and want to see/hear about this experience? keep reading… ...