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Experiment Power BI Pwsh7+

Errors of 2023-01

Power BI

You can’t create a new table with the same name as an existing
query or item in the model.

The “New Table” button creates a new table named “Table”

This means if you create a query named “Table”, the UI cannot
create any new tables. It’s before the rename step.

I discovered this also includes the names of disable queries.
At first I thought It was a cache—issue, but it’s not.

This is actually a good “bug”.
Which is better than if the opposite was true — letting you
create tables and expressions with ambiguous identifiers.

AI using PowerShellAI

Powershell /w the module PowerShellAI
# the original version that didn't parse 
# because ',' made number endings ambiguous
'1,000,2,000,3,000,0,000,1,000,2,000,3,000,0,000' -split '\,'
| Join-String -sep ' ' -SingleQuote
| Label 'original' -Before 1

'1000', '2000', '3000', '0', '1000', '2000', '3000'
| Join-String -sep ' ' { '{0:n0}' -f @( $_ -as 'int' ) } -SingleQuote
| Label 'should be' -Before 1 -After 1
 

$result ??= @{}
( $result.Steps1 ??= ai '# first 100 numbers modulous 4, multiplied by a factor of 1e6' )
| renderNice | Label 'Step1' -bef 1
hr
label 'step3' -after 1 'This time it''s parsable, but, the numbers are not the same different.'
$result.Steps3 -split ',' -replace "'", '' | renderNice
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Experiment Formatting

Experiments of 2022-08

Query to Summarize All Queries

Summarize.Query.pq

Summarize ⁞ Queries ┐main_query.png

Using Inline Images and SVG in a Power BI Table

With the column set to Image Url, you’re able to

  • use an external image like https://www.fakeurl.com/image.png
  • or output a svg image programmatically, by placing logic in a measure
  • or embedded a raw a .png image into the model/report itself
    • First encode the image Base64
    • Save that text in a table
    • Finally create a measure that prefixes the text with
[Inline Png ] := 
      "data:image/png;base64, " & SelectedValue( [ColumnWithText] )

Recent Discord Api

/*
note: make sure your GUIDs are strings, why?
because javascript does not have an integer type, so it has to squeeze
inside a floating point, see: <https://discord.com/developers/docs/reference#snowflakes>
*/
const cfg = {
    "GuildId": "180528040881815552",
    "Channel": "490008213056389120",
}

const apiUri = {
    "prefix": "https://discord.com/api/v9/",
    "activeThreads": `guilds/${ cfg.GuildId }/threads/active`, // bot only endpoint
    "channelMessage50": `channels/${ cfg.Channel }/messages?limit=50`
}

// apiUri.curUri = apiUri.channels
apiUri.curUri = apiUri["channelMessage50"]

console.log(`Cur uri: "${ apiUri.curUri }"`)
curUri = `${ apiUri.prefix }${ apiUri.curUri }`

await fetch(
    curUri, lastOpt
).then((r) => r.json()
).then((x) => console.log(JSON.stringify(x)))
  • run Discord in the browser
  • open web dev console
  • take an existing request -> copy as Fetch() or curl
  • saved those headers as lastOpt
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Experiment

Animations of 2022-07

Single File With Automatic Inline Testing

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Command Line Getting-Started PowerShell Pwsh7+ Quick Tips What's New

PowerShell : Prefixing lines with the Pipe operator |

There’s a lot of ways to use line continuations in Windows Powershell without backticks . Powershell added a new one, the | pipe operator. It’s cleaner to read, and makes it easier to insert, delete, or toggle comments on the console.

Now you can write:

# Powershell
ls | sort Length
| Select -First 10
| ft Name, Length

Instead of piping on line endings

# Windows Powershell
ls | sort Length |
Select -First 10 |
ft Name, Length

# or
ls | sort Length | Select -First 10 | ft Name, Length