Sometimes, it’s good to let off some steam, and actually post a good, old-fashioned rant. Trying to keep them not too ranty, though.
I might post some of my rants on my other website – AntinJaMarin.net, which is actually Finnish for “Antti and Mari’s web” – so it’s a site I share with my wife. Yeah, I wonder how that works out in the long run!
HA! "Let off some steam, Bennet" - a classic.When I started this blog in 2015 as a place to stash my, eh, thoughtful workarounds, I didn’t think I’d ever hit 200 live articles (with another hundred still in draft mode). Or that I’d get half a million people reading them in a year! Man, I didn’t know either…Continue reading 2019 – Year Review (200th post on this blog!)
As a lot of the more frequent readers of this blog know, I generally work on proprietary – that is, non-open-source – projects. Whenever I do have some time to dabble in OSS, it’s usually for a hobby. This time around, I’ve been really struggling to find the time to…Continue reading Another year, another Hacktoberfest (2019)!
The next browser war is upon us, and this time it isn’t fought on the battlefield of proprietary API implementations and badly implemented CSS and JavaScript standards, but rather it’s different ecosystems battling it out with their respective variants of Blink, which itself is a part of open source Chromium.…Continue reading The boring version of browser wars is upon us
I’m trying out new, more long-form content on this blog – tell me what you think about it in the comments section below! This article explains one of the only cryptocurrency initiatives I find to be kind of level-headed – Basic Attention Token – and the browser that’s pretty tightly…Continue reading Enter the BRAVE new world of Chromium forks!
The year 2018 is drawing to an end, and it’s a good time for some reflection on what an interesting year it’s been! Personally, quite a few things have happened in the last 12 months – I moved to Canada, started a new/old job, became a father, spoke at awesome…Continue reading Thanks for an amazing 2018!
Note: While this was originally posted around the Christmas of 2018, and some company or seller names might not be relevant as scammers come and go, the principles in this blog post seem to be valid from the early 2000s to probably until 2038 (when the Internet ends due to…Continue reading The Scary Anatomy of a Microsoft License Fraud
Microsoft keeps 14-day rolling backups of your SharePoint Online sites. That’s awesome – no need to take backups anymore, right? Not so fast. It’s not always so easy, and by just relying on these backups, you risk losing your data. Forever, I might add. This cautionary tale is about SharePoint…Continue reading A cautionary tale of relying on the automatic backups in SharePoint Online
Whoops – this post comes quite late, as the session was a couple of weeks ago already. I recently had a session at SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities (SPS TC for short) and thought I’d share my materials and document my experiences. Oh, and do the shout-outs, since I referenced some…Continue reading Materials for my SPS TC session: “Citizen Developer Tools are not just for Citizen Developers” now available!
This is part 2 in my “One web developer’s story about the downfall of web hosting” series – a frustrating firsthand experience with a formerly-great web hosting provider taken over by EIG (Endurance International Group). You can find the first post here:EIG/Site5 review – Part 1, experience with Site5 before…Continue reading EIG / Site5 review – Part 2, the Aftermath
This article is part 1 in my “One web developer’s story about the downfall of web hosting” series; a frustrating firsthand experience with a formerly-great web hosting provider taken over by EIG (Endurance International Group). You can find the second post here:EIG / Site5 review – Part 2, the Aftermath…Continue reading EIG/Site5 review – Part 1, experience with Site5 before and after EIG takeover
