I Need Coffee - Episode 198 - Weekly BC Review!

I Need Coffee - Episode 198 - Weekly BC Review! (january 23, 2026)

1. Weekend & Personal Life 
   - Oil change + mobile office setup at dealership (good remote work test via SonicWall & tethering).  
   - Weekend mostly a blur due to cold; little memory of non-work activities.

2. Weekly Work & Projects
   - Preparing Vibe conference presentations (co-presenting with Tanya & David Ler).  
   - Progress on Partner Dashboard app, Teams Planner, maintenance/service agreement pricing.  
   - New AppSource app now live in production → surprises (obscure permissions, out-of-sequence user actions).

3. AI / "Vibe Coding" Experiences* 
   - Discussion of agentic/AI development tools & efficiency (podcast appearance on "Window on Technology" with Jeremy Vyska).  
   - "Vibe coding" experiments → fast prototyping but bad code ("Michael Jackson" style), bugs in PTEs, performance profiler revealing excessive events.  
   - Critique of viral "live stream to $1M revenue" vibe-coding project (crypto coin pivot turned him off).

4. Time Zone Challenges in Business Central  
   - Job queues, tenant time zones, DST issues → built custom time zone management with nightly refresh.  
   - Surprising bug: one Mexican time zone causes 1-hour offset in license validation timestamp.

5. Edge Cases & Production Surprises  
   - Repeated theme: bizarre, unforeseeable sequences of events and bugs appearing only in production/real usage.  
   - Philosophy shift → "bugs are actively finding us".

6. DynamicsCon Session Review  
   - Reviewing hundreds of submissions → humorous observations on self-awarded titles ("world-renowned", "expert", "wizard").

7. Cybersecurity & OSINT  
   - Mind-blowing OSINT webinar (Anti-Cyphon / Michelle Khan): doxing via voter records, insurance databases, hotel Wi-Fi room enumeration, GitHub email exposure, etc.  
   - Ransomware hitting a partner → reminder of real risk.  
   - Recent attacks: Fortinet firewalls/portal bypasses, Cloudflare WAF zero-day.

8. Security / AI Critique 
   - Zach Corman interview breakdown of MCP servers (Anthropic-related) → horribly insecure single-endpoint design, prompt injection risks.

9. Integrations & Pain Points
   - Nightmare Salesforce → BC integration (customized, messy data model, years-long project).  
   - Completed painful but successful Bill.com + Multi-Entity Management (MEM) integration.

10. Team & El Salvador Updates 
    - ERP Center of Excellence in Berlin, El Salvador: team studying (MB-800), building Partner Dashboard, payment portal, custom reports.  
    - Fatima passed PMP exam; planning local Dynamics user group.

11. Upcoming Events & Personal 
    - Partner & Vibe conference (next week, Texas).  
    - Directions NA (late April, Orlando?), DynamicsCon (May, Las Vegas), etc.  
    - Personal: prom escort practice with daughter, standing desk experiment, at-home AI-generated workouts, key person insurance research.

12. Closing Notes  
    - Shout-out to Mauricio (podcast producer).  
    - Light-hearted sign-off: cats, coffee, Claudebot/AI lobster project.