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Free HEIC to JPG Converter (built with AI)
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Free HEIC to JPG Converter (built with AI)
As I mentioned on a recent LinkedIn post, I was disappointed to find that HEIC images from an Apple iPhone couldn’t be included in a PowerPoint presentation. I looked everywhere for a codec and tried to get PowerPoint to just understand the files. No dice. I spent $0.99 on some app in the Microsoft store,…
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Catching Data Inconsistencies with Claude Cowork
Why manufacturing data needs a matching BOM and PO As a past Dynamics 365 functional consultant, a lot of my work was related to data. Creating setup data, data migration, and helping troubleshoot bad data was a lot of my job. To make sure that I have some sample data to use for Northwind Kitchens,…
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How to Get Consistent, On-Brand Documents from AI Every Time
When I write documentation, I try my best to make sure the voice, format, and look are consistent across things I write. One of the things that I find hardest about delegating is being able to share my focus on consistency. In reality, the subject matter and content are the important things for someone doing…
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Claude at Work: Building Context for Your Cowork Projects
As I mentioned in previous post, Claude Cowork is more of an assistant than just a chat interface. Behind the scenes, Claude Cowork actually spins up a little sandbox container within which it can read and write to files, execute code, and access skills and connectors. What is Claude Cowork? Claude Cowork is Anthropic’s agentic…
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Claude at Work: What Are Claude, Claude Cowork, and Claude Code?
I use something from Anthropic’s Claude suite almost every day. I think that almost everyone in my sphere of influence should be using them, too. In this series of blog posts, I’ll go through what I use these different tools for and how they help me. The goal is to lower the bar and show…
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Github and Replit not working? Credentials not being saved.
I’ve been working with Replit and using Github to control the code that Replit is generating. The GitHub integration was working just fine up until a few days ago. I then started getting an error when trying to interact with my repo from GitHub. Either “error: unable to read askpass…” or “fatal: authentication failed for…
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The Power Automate trick I wish I knew sooner – using alternate keys instead of GUIDs
I’ve been building Power Automate flows that take rows from Excel and create sales orders and sales order lines in Dataverse. It’s pretty standard, but I keep needing to reference related records (like the customer or a delivery warehouse or something) and I had to go get the GUID first. Here’s a blog post I…
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How to find the company ID (GUID) in Business Central
If you’re using Power Automate and Business Central, you might have played with environment variables. For Power Automate flows that are built inside a solution, environment variables can be created to represent an environment or company in Business Central. These can then be referenced inside the Power Automate flow and moved with the environment. By…
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What does the future look like for business intelligence?
For years, business intelligence has been synonymous with dashboards. Rows of charts, filters, and KPIs that require interpretation and follow-up. Tools like Power BI and Tableau helped us go from raw data to insights, but the final step has always rested on the human: make a decision, take an action, push forward. I think that’ll…
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Easily filter by Multiple Values in a Single Column in Power BI
Here’s another one that popped up from someone looking for Power BI support at Tapestries Group. I’ve also run into this at Dynamics User Group a number of times, so here’s a couple of approaches The problem – a delimited column with multiple values Let’s say you have this data: You want to filter for…