Weekly 0086 – Checklists, Copilot Personas & Empower Vibes
This week was a mix of checklists, presentations, and events. Between polishing migration strategies, delivering talks, and publishing new content, it felt like one of those weeks where things just kept flowing. Oh, and we wrapped it all up with a summer party 🎉
Monday
I kicked off the week with a quick call to discuss the Migration Checklist I’m creating. The idea is to be more prepared before starting customer migrations from GitLab, BitBucket, Perforce, and SVN to GitHub Enterprise. Just a first touchpoint before presenting it properly the next day.
Mood of the day: calm before the storm 🌊
Tuesday
The morning started with a deeper call about the Migration Checklist. Everyone agreed it’s a solid starting point, so we’re moving forward with it. I also had a first exploratory call with Namespace about a potential partnership—still early, but promising.
In between, I prepared slides for an update call and hit publish on my latest blog post: 🚀 GitHub Copilot: A Persona-Based Approach to Real-World Development. Later, I presented the same topic at our XKE event (Xebia Knowledge Exchange) and got great feedback.
The day didn’t end there: I joined the M365 community call to share our project from a few months back, and after dinner I even pushed out a new open-source template: Chrome/Edge Extension Template with TypeScript + Vite.
Mood of the day: super productive ⚡💻
Wednesday
Most of the day was heads-down prep for my Empower 2025 session. I wrestled with .NET Aspire and Postgres for my demo app—eventually ditched Postgres for SQL Server to keep things moving. On top of that, I debugged some errors in my git-to-Perforce export tool.
Mood of the day: fighting with tech dragons 🐉🛠️
Thursday
The big day: Empower event in Zurich 🎤. Fantastic venue, smooth organization, and lots of great conversations. After my session, I had a few side chats about my “multiple persona” approach to GitHub Copilot (always fun when an off-topic idea sparks interest).
Mood of the day: energized by the crowd ⚡🙌
Friday
The week closed with a customer meeting in the morning to address migration concerns—always better to tackle these early. Then it was time to switch gears completely: our company summer party 🤘🏻.
A lot of surf in the city! It was a blast!
Mood of the day: business + party mode 🎶🍻
🙋♂️ Hey, I'm Emanuele — you might know me online as Kasuken.
👨💻 Senior Cloud Engineer | Microsoft MVP | GitHub Star
🛠️ I build things with .NET, Azure, AI, and GitHub
🌈 Turning code into 🦖 and 🦄 — one commit at a time
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