Raise your mug and take a sip of fresh brew with Steve as he wraps up a busy February of Business Central consulting and development

Show Notes: Video Transcript Summary (March 04, 2025)

Topics Discussed:

1. Intro & Audio Check

2. Brief audio test and welcome to the live stream across platforms (YouTube, Twitch, X/Twitter).

3. Weekly Recap

4. Monday-to-Friday whirlwind: Work crawl, Friday arrives unexpectedly.

5. Family Adventures

6. Wife’s Joshua Tree trip: Hiking and rock-climbing challenges.

7. Daughters’ high school talent show: Impressive choreography and performances.

8. The "Geekend"

9. Solo weekend with cats, tackling tech projects.

10. Pi-hole upgrade debacle: DNS issues, Quad9 discovery, and Raspberry Pi lessons.
11. New Lenovo ThinkCentre PC for DNS: $100 i7 steal.
12. Ubuntu vs. Windows 11: Slick Linux install impresses.

13. Smart TV and Soundbar woes: A "Malcolm in the Middle" moment.

14. Tech Updates

15. Quad9 DNS service exploration via Tom Lawrence’s YouTube recommendation.

16. Docker cleanup: 100GB+ of orphaned images removed.

17. Azure outages: Unreliable services, hidden logs, and the need for redundancy.

18. Work Projects

19. Bank reconciliations pending.

20. Sentinel rule finalized, BC Admin API progress, and report extensions.

21. Subscription cleanup: Saved $126/month (e.g., MidJourney, Backblaze).

22. Business Central Insights

23. IAT payment trivia: A mysterious ACH variant for international transactions.

24. BC environment refresh for MEM users.

25. Berlin team’s growth: From ERP novices to pros in under a year.

26. Cybersecurity & News

27. $1.4B Bybit hack: Supply chain attack via a compromised JavaScript file.

28. GitLab vulnerability: Password reset exploit discovered.

29. Firefox privacy shift: Speculation on data collection for AI training.

30. Upcoming Events

31. Directions NA (April 7-9, Las Vegas), DynamicsCon (May 13-16, Chicago), and more.

32. Discount code: “BCAMIGOS25” for DynamicsCon.

33. Team Dynamics

34. Berlin El Salvador crew: Smiling struggles, help desk mastery, and training.

35. 24-hour dev cycle: Coordinating across LA, El Salvador, Australia, and India.

36. Quantum Computing Tease

37. Azure Quantum module: Superposition and teleporting qubits with Q#.

Q&A Wrap-Up:

• Encouragement to explore IAT, Quantum Computing, and share updates.
• Plans to turn the stream into a podcast with show notes.

Closing:

• Cheers to a wild week—enjoy the weekend!