Garry Trinder

@garrytrinder.dev

👨‍💻 M365 Developer Advocate @ Microsoft

Tried out a new padel club tonight over at Selby Padel Club. Interesting playing on outside courts. It’s a bit different from playing in a farmers barn 😅 Back there on Sunday morning for an Americano tournament 🎾

Found out today that our new car is going to be available for delivery way ahead of schedule. Means that our annual road trip to Cornwall will be in an EV instead of hire car. 380 mile on a 260 mile range will need some planning.

I’m starting to see a trend where agents skills are being used as an alternative to fixing existing developer experience problems and it’s starting to annoy me. Skills are making people lazy and are becoming a band aid, abstracting away the bad experience and leaving the agents to work it all out.

Two new capabilities arrive in the 1.8 declarative agent schema: - EmailActions, triage, supervised send, delete, inbox rules, auto-reply, and folder management. - MeetingActions, scheduling events, creating time-finding polls, and surfacing time insights. learn.microsoft.com/microsoft-36...

Declarative agent schema 1.8 for Microsoft 365 Copilot

Learn about the 1.8 schema for a manifest file for declarative agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot.

learn.microsoft.com

introducing rondocode.com, a live music coding platform. it's heavily inspired by strudel but has a lot more functionality around authoring the actual synth dsp graphs