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Developer Advocate at SAP. O'Reilly and SAP Press author. SAP community pioneer and SAP Developer Network co-creator. SAP Mentor Alumnus. Learner. Runner. Just another SAP Hacker. "Bulldog of logic". Opinions my own, and there are many of them.
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Q: Are we going too deep in topics? The "Metadata" tutorial (a very early & unfinished draft) goes into depth on XML namespaces. Too much? Not enough? Let us know. Thanks! https://qmacro.
A table of draft tutorials, with links, title, status and feedback possibilities.
February 13, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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Checkout the latest episode of the "The Open Source Way" podcast to learn about #MCP servers at SAP and the #Ul5 MCP server more detailed.

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1Z1G...

Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...
UI5 & MCP - Navigating the Model Context Protocol in SAP
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February 13, 2026 at 1:44 PM
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Catch the replay of this morning's #HandsOnSAPDev live stream with Patrice Bender and me with more under-the-hood goodness with the CDS languages in CAP.

https://qmacro.org/blog/posts/2025/12/09/a-new-hands-on-sap-dev-mini-series-on-the-core-expression-language-in-cds/
A screenshot of the first part of the post that's linked, which has the title "A new Hands-on SAP Dev mini-series on the core expression language in CDS" and the intro "Hands-on SAP Dev is back soon, kicking off in January with a new mini-series on CAP, specifically on CXL, the core expression language in the CDS family." plus a list of the episodes so far. There's a photo of me pointing at this screenshot, and the CAP logo too above my head.
February 13, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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This week's SAP Developer News, brought to you as always by the Developer Advocates, is out 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU3Eu2SlvxE
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February 13, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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Join Patrice Bender and me LIVE in 1 hour from now, where we continue our look under the hood at expressions in CDS. Friendly chat & curiosity driven learning-by-doing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2Y3uC10Cs8 #HandsOnSAPDev #SAPCAP
CDS expressions in CAP - Under the hood - Part 5
We continue our detailed look at CXL, the expression language which is part of the CDS family of languages, and learn about what expressions are, how to cons...
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February 13, 2026 at 7:04 AM
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RE: https://pdx.social/@courtney/116061862030124563

Robert's BYTE mag cover artwork left an indelible mark on my life; my early years of curiosity about computing were against the backdrop of front-cover magical ideas and constructs. RIP.
Courtney Rosenthal (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Robert Tinney has died. He's the artist that drew covers for Byte -- the magazine that documented the microcomputer revolution. I inherited several signed and numbered Tinney prints from a dear friend. They were sitting in a closet. I never hung them when we moved into this house. I dragged them out tonight. I should hang them this weekend. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/byte-magazine-artist-robert-tinney-who-illustrated-the-birth-of-pcs-dies-at-78/ #retroComputing
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February 13, 2026 at 6:34 AM
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Fab read. Content *and* language. Recommended.
February 12, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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Kudos to the CAP team for working in the open - did you notice that starting with this year's first release, a Capire preview for the upcoming release is already available? https://cap.cloud.sap/docs/releases/ 🚀
Two screenshots. The first is from https://cap.cloud.sap/docs/releases/ showing a table of releases, where the Feb 2026 release (not out yet) is available. The second is that Feb 2026 release overview. There's a selfie where I'm looking happy about this.
February 10, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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Look at this serious faces! There is already a new episode out! @holgerbsky.bsky.social and @cyclingfisch.bsky.social talk about the latest earnings, the stock market and they make predictions for 2026!

You find it on all common podcast directories!

open.spotify.com/episode/0kY7...
Holger and Martin make predictions in their podcast
February 10, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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Why I like nushell for my SAP-related work like BTP stuff and CAP.

jacekw.dev/blog/2026/nu...
February 9, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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Moved a little bit further south on the Macclesfield canal, dreary day and rather muddy, but peaceful.
A photo from the towpath of NB FULLY RESTFUL, looking south, where the canal bends round in the distance, where another narrowboat is moored. The sky is grey blue, overcast, and the trees are still bare, a typical February morning.
February 9, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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A new post "Shift left with CAP", where I posit that shifting left in our CAP based solutions is something that we should be striving to do. Grab a ☕️ and I'd love to hear your thoughts too 👉 https://qmacro.org/blog/posts/2026/02/09/shift-left-with-cap/ #SAPCAP
One of the diagrams from the post, showing the "shift left" idea going from right (frontend) to left.
February 9, 2026 at 7:45 AM
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A great 20 min talk on #Awk by Cody Mello. Recommended https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfhMUed9RSE
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February 8, 2026 at 12:47 PM
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Something for the weekend? Catch up on the latest part of our current #HandsOnSAPDev series on CXL in CAP, with fab content for the curious, and for those who want to learn & level up, thanks to Patrice Bender https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6RpkC85SLQCEU8XcyqnA5wYEZGxMPm6B
A screenshot of the video thumbnails in the "Under the hood: CDS Expressions in CAP" series on YouTube, with a photo of me looking happy, pointing at them.
February 8, 2026 at 6:11 AM
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Don't forget to subscribe to our SAP Developers YouTube channel & turn on notifications. It's where real learning happens. 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@sapdevs
a screenshot of the SAP Developers YouTube channel home, showing the header and a couple of upcoming live stream sessions. A photo of me, pointing at the screenshot.
February 6, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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Catch the replay of today's amazing session on CXL in CAP with Patrice Bender. Learning by doing and driven by curiosity, as usual!

👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD71N7YYuGA
A still image from the live stream replay, showing a cds REPL session on the left hand side where we're examining some "intermediate" SQL flavoured CQN (from the forSQL function), and on the right hand side the browser is open at the "ref (path expression)" part of the CXL topic in Capire (https://cap.cloud.sap/docs/cds/cxl#ref). And as usual there's a silly photo of me overlaid in the corner, this time wearing a warm hat and scarf.
February 6, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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Published my first Chrome Extension:
View and Copy Network Requests with focus on OData Requests
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Network Request & Response Copier: My DevTools Panel for Faster API Debugging
I built a Chrome DevTools extension that lets you copy full request and response data in one click, with special support for OData $batch requests and WebSocket messages.
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February 5, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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Starting in 1 hour from now, join Patrice and me LIVE for Part 4 of our series on CXL in CAP. Everyone welcome! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD71...
CDS expressions in CAP - Under the hood - Part 4
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February 6, 2026 at 7:02 AM
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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Dear #SAPCAP community,

the January 2026 release of CAP is available and we prepared extensive release notes. Not the least the docs have been a major focus, so enjoy a read.

Check it out here: cap.cloud.sap/docs/release...
February 5, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Bonus second post today: "Modifying queries, replacing the WHERE clause", using the CAP Node.js cds.ql API 👉 https://qmacro.org/blog/posts/2026/02/04/modifying-queries-replacing-the-where-clause/
A crowded Euston railway station with a large display suspended from the ceiling. Superimposed onto the display is a photo of me pointing and looking excited, and this content: > q1 cds.ql { SELECT: { from: { ref: [ 'Bookshop.Books' ] }, where: [ { ref: [ 'title' ] }, 'like', { val: 'Book%' } ] } }
February 4, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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New cds who dis? #SAPCAP
A terminal session showing the output of cds -v at 9.7, all newly formatted ; cds v @sap/cds-dk (global) 9.7.0 ~/.npm-packages/1ib/node_modules/@sap/cds-dk cds. home ~/.npm-packages/1ib/node_modules/@sap/cds-dk/node_modules/@sap/cds cds.root /work/scratch npm root -1 . /node_modules npm root -g ~/.npm-packages/1ib/node_modules Node. js 22.17.1 [usr/local/bin/node # /work/scratch
February 4, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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I know the actual order of the authors likely reflects the contribution weighting, but I think they missed a trick when listing them :-) #Awk #Unix
The cover of a book. Title: The AWK Programming Language Subtitle: Second Edition Author List: Alfred V Aho Brian W Kernighan Peter J Weinberger Also Includes Publisher Series: Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series There's a small picture of two sea birds (I'm not sure what they are, could be penguins) in the water.
February 4, 2026 at 8:58 AM
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Read the original (1979) Awk paper last night, and I was struck by how much the language and this paper reflect each other - concise, simple, beautiful. https://www.awk.dev/awk.spe.pdf #Awk #Unix
February 4, 2026 at 8:46 AM