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
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
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
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
During the lifetime of this blog, I’ve written extensively about building different things. At the moment, I have 54 articles outlining anything from building solutions on IoT to Azure and Microsoft 365 services and how I utilize them for my… Read More »Building a house: Planning and designing
This is a quick one, but I wanted to share this as I did not find enough guidance on this previously. I’ve had a three-display setup for several years now: The thinking I’ve had is that whenever I read something… Read More »Altering my productivity with a new display setup
I set out to replace and build a new high-performance workstation as my daily driver in July. It has now been about four months (or 120 days) since the build was completed, and I thought it would be fun to… Read More »My experience using a high-performance workstation PC (that I built) for 120 days
Lobe is a company Microsoft acquired in 2018. It has a visual interface that allows you to label and train images, that can be used to build a deep learning model for your apps. Installing Lobe Lobe is available (for… Read More »Building a machine learning model with Lobe, easily
In Finland, we have a ubiquitous and affordable Internet connectivity available. Almost everywhere. At home, I have a 1 Gb fiber, with 500 Mbit upload speeds. On my phone and iPad, I have separate 4G LTE connections, which usually provide… Read More »Building a simple speed test solution using Microsoft Azure
I realize this is awfully specific, but I needed to replicate my current hosted WordPress setup for some tests. I began this by exporting all content of my site using the All-In-One Migration WP extension – it results in a… Read More »Building a local WordPress test environment using Windows 10, Docker Desktop, and WSL 2
During Ignite, Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Communication Services. It’s a Platform-as-a-Service service that provides you with a robust back-end and services for building communications services in your apps and solutions. It’s also marketed as “the service that… Read More »Building a custom chat tool with Azure Communication Services
I usually write about tech, Microsoft, cloud services, and how I build things. This time it’s slightly different, as I wanted to reflect a bit on the previous 12 months in my life. A year ago, I wrote that I… Read More »A look back: One year of working out at the gym
Yet another weekend, and yet another interesting little project I got to work on! I often “scratch my own itch”, and this time it’s no different. I built a simple, yet powerful solution to measure the soil moisture of my… Read More »Building an IoT soil moisture monitoring solution using Azure and Ruuvitag sensors
I browsed back through my calendar, that the last time I went physically to work at the local Microsoft office was about 170 days ago. Even before this new normal, where everyone works from home, I often visited the office… Read More »Building a custom solution using Windows 10 and Azure to track when I’m working from home
[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 get for my new workstation. I’ve learned a lot since then, and meanwhile, I’ve kept… Read More »Building a high-performance workstation PC for professional use (Part 2)
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! This time, I wanted to build a custom URL shortener service. Microsoft has one, and… 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 build something fun a few months ago, but couldn’t get it working properly. So, this… 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 sun rises at 3:45 and sets around midnight. Lots of natural light means lots of… Read More »Building a custom Android app using Xamarin.Forms and C# to retrieve temperature data from Azure