On 12 September 1940, in a France that had signed an armistice three months earlier, four teenagers from Montignac lowered themselves into a hole in the ground. Marcel Ravidat had found the opening four days before and gone back for help: Jacques Marsal, Georges Agnel, Simon Coencas. What they dropped into was Lascaux. Horses, aurochs, stags, a whole ceiling of them, and nobody had looked at that ceiling since the last ice age. Lascaux Cave Paintings Sixteen years later, almo

Qlik just added automation-management tools to the Qlik MCP Server, plus open-source Agentic Skills that teach coding agents to use them right. In the new Data Voyagers episode, I put Claude Code to work building, then editing, a Qlik Automation that reloads every Table Recipe in a Shared Space. Full walkthrough, real Qlik Cloud tenant, tested at every step. If you manage automations by hand today, it's worth seeing what agentic tooling actually looks like up close.

In the early 1600s, a VOC merchant ship sailed into dangerous waters with cargo worth a fortune. Months at sea. Storms, pirates, shipwrecks. The crew might come home. They might not. All the company could do was wait. That is not a business strategy. The Dutch East India Company was growing too fast. Too many ships, too many routes, too much money sitting on the ocean. Every voyage was a gamble. And someone needed to figure out how to turn that gamble into something you could