My Fediverse Digest for April 2026
A monthly digest of my thoughts, links, and updates from the Fediverse for April 2026.
Mar 31
09:28 PM
Does anyone else still get confirmation emails from reservations@res-marriott.com after booking a hotel reservation on Marriott website or using the mobile app?
Even through I made multiple reservations in the past 30 days, I have not received a confirmation email from reservations@res-marriott.com since February 2026 after receiving them from that email address for the past 7 years.
Before that it was Reservations@marriott.com ~25 years ago.
Apr 03
04:55 PM
Friday thoughts…
Humans are in a tin can flying at ~11,500 miles per hour to our moon…
and they get to troubleshoot [ checks notes… ]
Microsoft Outlook issues?
Apr 04
08:59 PM
Apr 10
09:59 PM
Good on ya @eff
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x
10:03 PM
Note: My #fediverse posting is going to be pretty high for the next week as I will be hanging out with the @techfieldday
Context: https://techfieldday.com/event/qlikconnect26/
10:07 PM
Imagine.
https://social.coop/@judell/116381889006469572
Apr 13
05:28 AM
Trying out @ivory for #qlikconnect #tfdx 🤓
05:36 AM
Trying out @MonaApp for #qlikconnect #tfdx 🤓
07:47 AM
Harnesses for AI will likely consume SaaS over the next 5 years. Product engineering will give way to more “harness engineering” goals to access emerging markets for agentic outcomes. Within a decade the SaaS market commoditization will halve while Harness as a Sevice (HaaS) expands the market geometrically. #qlikconnect #tfdx
Apr 14
08:22 AM
Ready for the show to begin #qlikconnect #tfdx
08:45 AM
In 2024, Qlik stopped the sprawl. In 2025, Qlik measured the momentum. By way of an automotive analogy, in 2026, Qlik and ServiceNow are asking us to give the AI the keys to the not-yet-quite-self-driving-car. But is the ‘Trusted Enterprise Context’ they’re promising an early analogy to GPS that we can actually follow, or just another map we’ll fold up and put in the glovebox? Or, as the keynote opened: Is it real? Do I trust it? How much will it really cost? #qlikconnect #tfdx
08:50 AM
“You are closer to Agentic AI than you think.”
08:59 AM
For Agentic AI to be trusted at UPS, their operationalization journey first involved seeing outputs that sped up decision making but, crucially, they also began to see their logistics professionals feel consistently confidently spending more time providing differentiated value to their customers. #qlikconnect #tfdx
09:09 AM
Thinking back to the “actionable insights” from Qlik Connect 2025, Qlik found the appropriate (and arguably most logical) action partnership for Qlik Connect 2026 in ServiceNow. ServiceNow and Qlik intent is to drive insights into action with trust, transparency, and explainability. #qlikconnect #tfdx
09:15 AM
Qlik is doubling down on data sovereignty announced in 2025. Today, this is with AWS in the EU Sovereign Cloud. For years, the balkanization of the Internet has been predicted. What’s also going to be fascinating over the next 12 months is the increasing probability of Amazon Leo (featuring in Qlik Connect 2027???) for remote sensing and telemetry stories protecting sovereign data in flight, in actionable insights, at rest in S3, and the closed loop of trust. #qlikconnect #tfdx
09:36 AM
“Your legacy [ data ] becomes your competitive advantage when it comes to AI.” Drew Clark, EVP, Products and Technology
09:43 AM
Several pundits have breathlessly claimed that AI will challenge, replace, or eliminate the need for BI analysts. However, the “BI superpowers AI” story is the perspective being shared by Ingersoll Rand both at AWS events and this year on stage with Qlk. #qlikconnect #tfdx
09:51 AM
Qlik Answers “Express Mode” (coming soon) takes Qlik Answers down a less Proustian path! I suspect this updates reflects the empathy that Qlik product management has developed from customer feedback on the chatty nature of GPTs when clear, crisp, and concise is more valued than complete or exhaustive responses. #qlikconnect #tfdx
09:53 AM
Qlik Automate Agent brings the power of “then…” to the post query response to drive outcomes across other platforms that can take action on the insight. #qlikconnect #tfdx
09:57 AM
Based on the updates so far, I am wondering how many Qlik product team members started in roles as an account executive, sales engineer, solutions architect, or similar customer exposure / empathy rich work setting. #qlikconnect #tfdx
10:06 AM
Qlik is emphasizing MCP capabilities by doing a demo with Anthropic Claude connected to Qlik’s MCP server. The demo features healthcare data and recommendations on tracking of curated and trusted data against benchmarks.
Effectively, this MCP product strategy enables a data estate investment to be open enough to expose a company’s most trusted contextual data to users seeking insights conversationally and to put those users on a path for Agentic AI.
10:12 AM
Qlik Open Lakehouse is conjuring “open” as the approach to reduce costs, increase performance, and improve time to insights in a Goldilocks zone medallion architecture. 🥉🥈🥇🧊
#qlikconnect #tfdx
10:29 AM
In addition to the Qlik and ServiceNow partnership announcement there are also Answers, Discovery Agent, MCP Server, and new agents for prediction, automation, and analytics development announcements. #qlikconnect #tfdx
10:32 AM
Architecture for AI driven business outcomes and key metrics
10:41 AM
On stage, Siemens Healthineers is describing how design governance principals fits into regulated industry data handling. Applied linguistics and natural language interfaces are considered to be a powerful means for expansion of accessibility. With greater accessibility the shortened timeline of event to insight to action in support of improved health outcomes will improve lives. #qlikconnect #tfdx
05:49 PM
Jesse Cole’s “Fans First” product design methodology is basically a relentlessly applied scorched-earth policy against annoyance and friction. The Savanah Bananas dragged a 170 year old purist tradition into the madcap fun filled future by transforming baseball into a modern fever dream of non-stop engagement, absurdist alliteration, purposeful parody, deliberate defamiliarization, memorable experimentation, noteworthy non-sequiturs, and tactical triple entendres that brings joyous experience without “fine” compromise or bunting. And they did it lots and lots of data… and puns. So. Many. Puns.
Which begs the inner monologue rhetorical question… “Does our product experience bring joy to our customers in a way that makes them our fans?”
Apr 15
09:02 AM
Day 2 starts with innovation: Data Impact Awards and Customer Success with a callback and reinforcement of CTF
Context | Trust | Freedom
It is interesting for Qlik’s COO to say the goal is to move beyond pipes (“|”) so perhaps silos would be less subliminal word choice…
“Customer Zero” = the internal use of AI at Qlik
Eating their own dogfood…
Drinking their own champagne…
And now… the announcement: Qlik Agentic Advisory
Qlik Agentic Advisory claims to address what I call the ibles and ables but this does build tension for seeing a demo
Next… Raymond James, NHS, and Hello Fresh shared their challenge, response, and results. The Raymond James framework was both memorable and timely.
09:24 AM
Continuing the Qlik Lightning Round of challenge, solution, impact (results) were representatives from NEC and Compass Health Network (TouchPoint Support Services, Morrison Healthcare, Crothall Healthcare, Unidine, etc…)
For each story, seeing specific product callouts showed the value of the portfolio and choice in practice.
Qlik hackathon winners too!
09:36 AM
In 2024, 2025, and now in 2026 it is abundantly clear that Qlik and AWS are co-innovating and co-engineering.
On stage, Fujitsu shared a data driven management story of how 110k employees are realizing the benefits of a 5B transactions everyday from their sovereign data lake made possible by Qlik and AWS.
Coming soon… agentic advantage from disciplined curation of great data products.
(Likely a Harness + MCP + LLM + SLM story for Qlik Connect 2027)
09:58 AM
Qlik and Justice U shared their mutual support for the importance of learning how to identify and report suspected human trafficking
10:08 AM
Hearing “trust is the product of consistency over time” and similar variants of this phrase is a strong indicator of how meaning shifts for the word “trust” and the progression of product engineering to be focused on Customer eXperience (CX) both implicitly and explicitly.
10:20 AM
Anyone saying “today’s AI is the worst AI you will ever use” probably doesn’t want to acknowledge the modern tendency to trend towards #e14n or is intentionally ignoring inconvenient truths to maximize sustained hype peaks for another round of funding.
Or, maybe I need to switch to decaf.
05:13 PM
Enforcer? #qlikconnect #tfdx
Apr 21
02:43 AM
Work travel moments
Apr 22
09:48 AM
“Your account has now been migrated from the legacy Free plan to HCP Terraform Free.”
https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/continuing-hcp-terraform-s-enhanced-free-tier-experience
Apr 23
09:52 PM
RedEye flights Déjà vu
Apr 27
08:07 PM
There will be undoubtedly be more telescopes in LEO but you can bet they will more like Option B than Option A. Bring your quarters (of a million dollars) to see the sights.
