I wrote the first blog post in 2014. I’d written plenty before, under several different domains – one was focused on my time living in Dublin, another strictly on SharePoint. This one provides me a bit more creative freedom to… Read More »Opening up for sponsorships
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
At home, I run two servers and a separate NAS device. The main server is responsible for Hyper-V based VMs, the Plex service, secondary backups, and some remote connectivity-related services. The other server is mostly for me to play around… Read More »Upgrading the home office with a dedicated UPS
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
I’ve briefly written about my home office chair earlier (here, and here). It’s a regular IKEA chair, and the model is JÄRVFJÄLLET. It looks quite nice, and the mesh texture implies it’s great to sit on. And it was, for… Read More »Insights: First week with the Herman Miller Aeron (remastered) chair
This week, I delivered a virtual session for the European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference. This year, it’s an online event, and all sessions are pre-recorded and then delivered over Teams Live Events to attendees. Each session is scheduled… Read More »Lessons learned when creating a session for an online event using TechSmith Camtasia
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
This is part 3 of the working remotely guide (and how not to feel miserable about it). If you missed the previous parts, see part 1, and part 2. Table of Contents Part 1: Let’s define Working from Home/working remotely/remote… Read More »The comprehensive guide to working remotely and not feeling miserable about it (Part 3)
My first mobile phone was a Nokia 2110, which I purchased in 1994. Before that, my dad had the predecessor to GSM phones in his car, an integrated NMT phone (NMT stands for Nordic Mobile Telephone, and we were immensely… Read More »Insights: Regaining my focus by not focusing on my phone anymore
This is part 2 of my guide on how to work remotely, and not feel bad about it. If you missed part 1 (the basics), see here. Table of Contents Part 1: Let’s define Working from Home/working remotely/remote work/flex work… Read More »The comprehensive guide to working remotely and not feeling miserable about it (Part 2)
I’ve previously written at length on working remotely, both in Finnish (Don’t work in the evenings), about my then-new desk, and generally how I feel about working from home. I also like writing – a lot. This guide was a… Read More »The comprehensive guide to working remotely and not feeling miserable about it (Part 1)
About 3 years ago I received a phone call. I was working as a consultant, so I often got calls from people I didn’t know. It was someone I didn’t know, but he told me he worked for a company… Read More »Are you building sustainable and long-lasting IT solutions?
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