This article explains how to work around the issue where the Copilot app fails to take pictures. Sounds boring, right? But hey – even with all of the gripes I have about Copilot, I do use it daily, and I’d really like it to work. Because when it does work…Continue reading Copilot Android app refusing to take pictures? I have the dumbest fix you’ll ever hear, but it’ll work, trust me.
Adventures in the Windows 11 24H2-land: How to restore your webcam after February 2025 Patch breaks it?
This article explains how to get your built-in webcam back after a Windows 11 update (in my case, February 2025 Cumulative Update package) hides/disables it. The weird thing is, the camera is visible in the Device Manager. No app can see it though. And trying to update the driver through…Continue reading Adventures in the Windows 11 24H2-land: How to restore your webcam after February 2025 Patch breaks it?
Have you heard? Dev Home is going away before it even arrived!
Microsoft has just retired the Windows Dev Home experience before it ever came out of Preview -status. And before it ever became that useful. Or even functional, if you ask me. It was a good idea (or maybe even a really good one), that never really materialized. I mean, I…Continue reading Have you heard? Dev Home is going away before it even arrived!
Taming my Home Assistant database growth
This article explains how to sensitively and carefully limit your Home Assistant’s database growth, without losing any valuable data. And because data is the new oil, pretty much all of the data is valuable. Who knows when you need to know whether your basement door was open or closed 1…Continue reading Taming my Home Assistant database growth
Dev Drive performance increase in real life scenarios?
This article shows a few benchmarks I have run on the performance improvement that Dev Drive offers, using a real-life project I am (well, was) working on some time ago. The simple examples in this article should give you some guidance on what kind of performance you should be able…Continue reading Dev Drive performance increase in real life scenarios?
Join my session at CTTT25 this week: Level Up Your Teams Extensibility Game with Blazor | Session materials from Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn 2025!
This week I’ll be attending Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn 2025. It’s my first time in this event that’s practically next door in the beautiful town of Tallinn! Although I guess the name was kind of a dead giveaway already, right? I’ll be speaking about Blazor and Teams development stuff. This…Continue reading Join my session at CTTT25 this week: Level Up Your Teams Extensibility Game with Blazor | Session materials from Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn 2025!
How to identify which wifi band your Decos are using?
This article explains how you can identify which wifi bands your TP-Link Decos are using, without using a WiFi Analyzer or other such tools. I’ll also explain why you might need this information – in my case it was about interference (because of course it was!) And as usual, this…Continue reading How to identify which wifi band your Decos are using?
Don’t assign root domain to GitHub Pages if you use it for email!
Just a quick tip I learned the hard way: if you want to host a website on GitHub Pages, make sure to only point the www-subdomain, and not the “naked”, apex domain, in case you’re using it for email mailboxes. I learned the hard way that the A records pointing…Continue reading Don’t assign root domain to GitHub Pages if you use it for email!
Experiences from migrating to Bitwarden
I recently (finally) moved to a commercial Password Manager after I got tired of having to copy-paste everything from KeePass in my apps on Windows and letting the only company on Earth that has to remind themselves in their slogan NOT to be Evil handle all of my web/Android passwords.…Continue reading Experiences from migrating to Bitwarden
2024 Year Review – and 20 years in business!
Wow, that’s quite a headline for a 30-something to write, right? But the very real side effect of being a weird kid and starting freelancing when I was on 8th grade is that it’s now just over 20 years since I finished my first paid website projects. This year everything…Continue reading 2024 Year Review – and 20 years in business!