Yesterday, Microsoft officially announced that the new Surface Duo device will be available on September 10. Preorders started at the same time, and you can… Read More »Thoughts on the new Microsoft Surface Duo device
I’m a huge fan of the Your Phone Companion app that is now available for Windows 10. It was first made available in mid-2015, but… Read More »Supercharging your productivity with your Android phone and the Windows 10 Your Phone Companion app
I set out to migrate a few of my old virtual machines to Azure a few months ago. That didn’t end well, as I was… Read More »Getting started with Azure Migrate: Migrating an on-premises Hyper-V Virtual Machine to Azure
Last week, Garmin’s services mostly went down. This meant that all Garmin devices, among others, wouldn’t sync data between the mobile app (Garmin Connect) and… Read More »Thoughts on the Garmin outage and possible ransomware attack
I’m typing this on my new workstation, which I managed to build last week. So far, the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X processor (12 cores, shows… Read More »A few updates, and transitioning to vacation mode
[See Part 1: Building a high-performance workstation PC for professional use] Early in January this year, I spent time planning and researching which components to… Read More »Building a high-performance workstation PC for professional use (Part 2)
I often end up automating a lot of things in my life I find too repetitive, or too boring to do manually. This might not… Read More »Insights on building robust business process orchestrations using Power Automate, Logic Apps and Azure Functions
Summer in Finland was two weeks ago. Now it’s dull, gray, cold, and windy. So the perfect time to build yet another solution using Azure!… Read More »Building a custom URL shortener service using Azure and a Serverless approach
I’ve been wanting to build a little command-line tool to manage my tasks and to-do items for some time now. I initially set out to… Read More »Building a custom command-line tool for Microsoft To Do
This past weekend Finland (and Sweden, that I know of) celebrated the midsummer’s eve. For us, it includes the longest day of the year: The… Read More »Building a custom Android app using Xamarin.Forms and C# to retrieve temperature data from Azure
I’ve recently worked with Azure Logic Apps a fair bit. Last night, I wanted to stretch my understanding of the Logic Apps service a bit… Read More »Building a double-blind email distribution list using Azure Logic Apps and Exchange Online
A quick note that my session titled “GitHub for non-developers” is now viewable on Youtube: My bit starts around the 10 minute mark.
For the longest time, I’ve relied on Ninite to deploy my tools. The software that I rely on a daily basis – and for this,… Read More »Modernize your tooling deployment with Windows Package Manager (winget)
Years ago, I found this cartoon: In the 1990’s, once you got an email it was a fun and enjoyable experience. “Someone is thinking of… Read More »Back to basics: Two simple Outlook rules to reclaim your workday
I’ve built several presence light solutions in my life, mostly to entertain myself and to learn something new. Back when OCS 2007 was still a… Read More »Building a custom presence light solution using Philips Hue lights and C#