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A great tool for increased productivity – Microsoft PowerToys

A few months back, I came across a tool from Microsoft called PowerToys. Since I’ve been using it and finding it useful, I thought I’d share it with others as well. Microsoft PowerToys is a set of tools for power users of Windows, which sets out to enhance productivity. At the time of writing, the…

Migrating my blog – once again

For the third time, during my blog’s existence, I’ve chosen to migrate it. It’s been running as a static website for the past few years, utilizing Jekyll, hosted on GitHub.

Reignititon

After about 2,5 years, or so, at Intelecy and the startup life, I have decided to move into another direction. As of today, I have joined Novanet as a senior consultant. The decision to leave the startup world It was no easy decision to change my job. It was one that comes as a late…

On Burning the Candle From All Sides

At the time of writing, it’s been 2 years, 3 months and 25 days since my last blog post. Since that, I have released a book, released the follow-up version, and even a third edition. I have moved four times, including to a new city. I changed my job and joined a startup. I’ve met…

Writing a book

It’s been a few months since my last post here. The reason for this, is that I’m currently writing a book, which I’m rather excited about. The book I’m writing is about Microsoft Cognitive Services, and is aimed at .NET developers. It aims to provide some introduction to the different APIs. The goal that the…

Creating build server status lamps

Today I decided to do some tinkering with some of the IoT stuff I have laying around. Quite recently I started on another personal project, which I will do quite a bit of work on over the next few months. I decided that it would be good to setup a build server for the project,…

Recommending a blog Coding with Empathy

Today I’m starting a new series of post. Every last Sunday of each month I’ll recommend a new blog. Each blog will be one I often read, and find worthwhile to spend time on. The posts will be kept short and to the point, to let you spend more time exploring the blog in questions…

Put a name to the face Microsoft Cognitive Services

This is the second post in a series of posts, where we’ll look into Microsoft Cognitive Services. More specifically we’re looking at the Face API, and what that can do for us in terms of identifying people. The end goal is to connect a web camera to a Raspberry Pi, grab an image of a…

What I can learn in development from fixing my car

A few weeks back I had a problem with my car. The windscreen wiper wouldn’t work, or it was rather slow when it did work. Being an older model car, I figured I could probably fix it myself. Long story short, I did fix it myself. After I had fixed it, I started to think…

Getting started with Microsoft Cognitive Services Face API

As the world gets increasingly more data power, we are enabled to do more things (in the lack of better words). One of those things is to make computers and applications more intelligent, and Microsoft have created a series of API’s to help doing so. Using Microsoft Cognitive Services you’re able to do use a…

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