I’ve built several presence light solutions in my life, mostly to entertain myself and to learn something new. Back when… Read More »Building a custom presence light solution using Philips Hue lights and C#
For a very long time, I’ve SSH’d to my Raspberry Pi and Linux boxes whenever I need to do something… Read More »Developing remotely on Raspberry Pi 4 and Linux using Visual Studio Code
This time it’s something a little bit different. Back in 2015 I ordered a bunch of ultrasonic sensors, with hopes… Read More »Building an automated monitoring tool to track how many people are at the office by using Unifi network gear and Azure Logic Apps
It’s summer in Finland now – a pleasant +15 C! Hopefully, it will be warmer in July. We put up… Read More »Creating a custom Microsoft Edge (Chromium) extension using Azure Logic Apps and the Bing Image Search API for content
It’s been a busy week, especially now that the summer holiday season is fast approaching, and plenty of things still… Read More »Five things you need to know now
ESPC20 or the European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference session list has been updated and it now has 90+… Read More »90+ sessions announced for the European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference
And here we are again – back to temperature monitoring! I wrote extensively about this three months ago in Building… Read More »Building a custom app using Universal Windows Platform and Microsoft Azure to monitor hardware temperature
I’ve been taking a few vacation days this week. That is probably one of the considerable differences for me –… Read More »Understanding Developer Velocity to achieve better business performance
Fresh off from Microsoft Build 2020, we now have the very first versions of the Microsoft PowerToys Run available for… Read More »Microsoft PowerToys Run is simply amazing
Next Wednesday, so that would be May 20 (I’m horrible with dates, so triple checking this twice), we have a… Read More »Connect with Microsoft Western Europe and your local dev community at Build 2020
Microsoft Teams was made available in public preview back in November 2016. Since then, the platform has matured and is… Read More »Getting started with Microsoft Teams Live Events
On June 16, a new Microsoft event will take place and it’s called European Open Source Virtual Summit. You can… Read More »European Open Source Virtual Summit is June 16
I’ve been using Cloudflare’s free and fantastic 1.1.1.1 DNS service since it’s inception in 2018. The idea is that you… Read More »Insights: Protecting the home network with Cloudflare’s new (and free) 1.1.1.1 for Families, that now has malware blocking
Today, Microsoft announced a bunch of new Surface products: Surface Book 3 – 17.5 hours battery life, 13″ and 15″… Read More »Thoughts on the new Microsoft Surface products – hello Surface Book 3, Surface Go 2, and others!
During the past year or so, I’ve built several things. Some are quick hacks, others I’ve spent a considerable amount… Read More »Building a notification tool using .NET Core, Twilio and WhatsApp messages