Geeky Stuff

Posted by | March 22, 2026
DEMO: From the Day Job, MCP for Business Use

As of this writing, I have over 100 MCP tools available for use for my home automation.   The beauty of MCP is that - once you have all of your...

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Posted by | March 11, 2026
The Mother of All Hobby/Work Combinations: Terminator Bot

If you follow this site you know that I LOVE to combine my passion for hobbies with my passion for technologies.  While I am watching my favorite sporting events with...

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Posted by | March 10, 2026
Coding with AI the Right Way

There has been a lot of conversation regarding the use of AI in software development.  We all know that AI isn't (yet) a total or even useful solution for many...

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Posted by | February 21, 2026
Azure Databricks and Spark For Data Engineers

Mostly review, but there are a few sections on data engineering in this course that I am interested in. My notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e32TWhOzEHuRiYz2ClIks5_PNeI9GKqOAGLV0JwnW6A/edit?usp=sharing

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Posted by | January 3, 2026
Databricks – Master Azure Databricks for Data Engineers

I have a lot of experience with Fabric but not as much with its cousin Databricks. There is a ton of overlap between the two (Spark), but I wanted to...

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Posted by | November 6, 2025
Fast Agent + MCP

I am all-in with MCP, so I want to stay on top of the most recent trends when it comes to using this approach.  I recently became aware of the...

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Posted by | October 24, 2025
DEMO: Using MCP with Copilot and other Chatbots / Apps

I had previously demonstrated the power of Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools.  In this video, I take MCP to Azure.   One of the MCP servers is running in as an...

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Posted by | October 4, 2025
The Complete Agentic AI Engineering Course

I wanted to spend more time on the "big picture" instead of the micro.   After all, I've been building a ton of tools - it was time to spend some...

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Posted by | October 2, 2025
AI Agents With Flowise

I spent some time with flowise a year or two ago, and I (maybe unfairly) discounted it because it did not have the ability to run custom code.  N8N has...

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Posted by | September 26, 2025
Getting Started with DSPy

In the day job, I have seen a surprising uptick in the number of OCR-type projects that are coming to us.   I had been using document intelligence to mine the...

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