I’m building a new home network, which for me means upgrading certain hardware, and acquiring new hardware over time. The far-reaching plan is to build a solid 10 Gigabit Ethernet-based network, with guest WiFi, proper VLANs, and the ability to… Read More »Review: Ubiquiti Networks’ Unifi Dream Machine Pro (UDM-Pro) in a home network
Power Automate Desktop, the core tool for Microsoft’s Robotic Process Automation (RPA) vision, is already progressing well with the most recent changes to Power Platform. I wrote an in-depth look at Power Automate Desktop recently, so if you’re not familiar… Read More »Changing from Data Gateway to Direct Connection in Power Automate Desktop in a hybrid setup
At home, I run a Plex media server. I’ve added a TV receiver to the setup to have a real DVR that I can control remotely. It’s great! Here’s how it looks in Plex when I want to record all… Read More »Building an integration for Plex with Azure API Management
In late 2019, some months before all of us moving to “living at the office” and eternal remote work mode, I wrote an opinionated post about using video – at all times – during Teams’ meetings. In essence, I argued… Read More »Using video during meetings – why, or why not?
I’ve spent a considerable time during my career automating and scripting things. I started with plain old MS-DOS .BAT files moved to Unix shell scripts and evolved via Perl to a collection of “hey, let’s use awk/sed/grep/find” VBScript. Eventually, I… Read More »An in-depth look at Microsoft Power Automate Desktop and building Robotic Process Automations
Before the public cloud was such a prevalent service, I spent most of my days (and evenings) building On-Premises solutions. Ordering racks and servers for those racks, planning to cable, and finally installing and configuring everything was very tangible. You… Read More »Hey Microsoft Azure, where is my data?
Over two years ago, I migrated to 1Password to store and manage all my passwords. Since then, I migrated back to KeePass again – as 1Password was quite cumbersome to use for our family’s needs. Too many technical issues, too… Read More »Building a self-hosted secure password management with Bitwarden and Docker
It’s been over a year since I last wrote one of these posts – essentially sharing a bit of news on what’s been happening recently. I did a quick recap of 2020 in late December, so now it’s time to… Read More »So, what’s up?
At home, I run most of my network based on the Ubiquiti Networks’ Unifi products. I’ve previously written a few times about different solutions that rely on these products, such as expanding my wireless network with a Mesh solution. Since… Read More »Replacing an Unifi Cloud Key (Gen 1) with a Docker container-based self-hosted solution
About a month ago, I decided to remove all Google Analytics tracking, telemetry, and analytics from this site. Initially, I started using GA years ago, when I wanted to see what kind of content seems interesting for my audience, and… Read More »A practical look at using Cloudflare to protect and optimize my site
Two years ago, in April, I wrote about the start of my Executive MBA journey. Fast forward 24 months, and here we are! I’ve completed 24 modules (out of 25) of lectures, pre- and post-assignments, and also the big one… Read More »Completing my Executive MBA journey
Microsoft Azure, with its numerous services and capabilities, is a significant platform. Depending on what a company might enable or employ from Azure, securing it might be trivial and challenging at the same time. I often consult with organizations of… Read More »Securing Microsoft Azure in 10 steps
I wrote about renewing Microsoft certifications in late December 2020. By then, we knew that maintaining certifications required some additional exams to be passed. I also updated that article slightly in February 2021 when it became evident Microsoft would require… Read More »Renewing Microsoft certifications in 2021
Today I’ll take a closer look at the Corsair K100 opto-mechanical keyboard. It’s now my main keyboard, replacing my previous Corsair keyboard, the K70 MK.2 low profile I had for several years. When I started working with computers – when… Read More »Review: Corsair K100 opto-mechanical keyboard for a typist
Today I’m writing about something fairly esoteric – an open-source project called Teslamate and how to set it up so that I can access it securely. Even if you don’t have plans to deploy Teslamate, I feel it’s still useful… Read More »Building secure access to Teslamate using Azure
Today, I disabled and removed all Google Analytics scripts and injections from my website, https://jussiroine.com. I’ve had Google Analytics 3 running for as long as I can remember – and more recently, I upgraded to Google Analytics 4 on the… Read More »Disabling and removing Google Analytics tracking from my site
For the past few years, I’ve used Microsoft Edge (the one based on Chromium source code) as my primary browser – on all of my devices. It was pretty great, and switching from Google Chrome to Edge was an easy… Read More »Switching away from Microsoft Edge
My home network is a regular LAN, built mostly with Unifi devices using 1 Gigabit Ethernet. I’ve extended the wifi, made a VPN to the cloud, played around with different devices within the network, and generally, I’ve been pleased with… Read More »Upgrading my home office network to 10 Gigabit Ethernet speeds – one step at a time
Many companies have company file shares, such as the K: -drive or similar. Someone reached out to me to ask how they could migrate their existing on-premises file share to Azure. The files are stored on a Windows Server-based server… Read More »Building a modern file share using Azure Storage to replace an on-premises file share solution
This time we’ll build a modern solution using legacy hardware – my old HP LaserJet color printer. The idea is that I can share the printer through the cloud and then print from anywhere – as long as the printer… Read More »Building a print-anywhere setup using Universal Printing and an old HP LaserJet