Going headless
After 18 years of blogging on WordPress directly, the time has come to adjust my setup by separating the content layer and the presentation layer.
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Jukka's personal blog.Since 2008.
This is where it all started: 18 years of posts on Microsoft business apps, Power Platform and life in the connected world. Today my regular writing and advisory work live in the three sites listed below. This blog archive remains available online, with the occasional new post when I feel like it.
Perspectives on Power Platform
perspectives.plus
The newsletter. Regular, independent analysis of Microsoft's low-code and AI platform. What changed, what works, what doesn't.
Subscribe to PerspectivesNiiranen Advisory
niiranenadvisory.com
Independent Power Platform advisory: architecture, licensing and governance decisions, without a product to sell.
- From apps and seats to code and credits: speaking at DynUG Norway
- I’m now a Lovable Solution Partner
- Honest Copilot training: less hype, more payoff
The Licensing Guide
licensing.guide
A practical reference to Microsoft business applications licensing, explaining the quirks and commenting on the latest updates.
- Copilot Credits are changing the licensing conversation
- App builders need Copilot Credits, too
- Licensing the Power Platform environment region selection
Always prove you’re a human
AI makes it seem easy to sound intelligent without being present. It also makes it super simple to throw all your social capital down the drain.
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Claude vs. a €12 Bluetooth keyboard on Linux
AI coding agents are great at solving pure software issues. How about hardware debugging? The observation gap is the real killer there.
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Why it matters
We don’t write just to deliver a payload of importance. We write to think. The sudden flood of “why it matters” formula in written content is not a positive sign for this.
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Find the right tool in XrmToolBox
A modern site to browse and discover community tools for the Power Platform and Dynamics 365: XrmToolBox Plugin Catalog.
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The spirit of the licensing.guide
My dedicated website for all things Microsoft licensing (Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Copilot) has now been launched. Introducing: The Licensing Guide.
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Excel cannot be beaten
40 years on, the champion of business apps remains undefeated. The very reasons SaaS apps replace spreadsheets are the same reasons users refuse to let go of Excel.
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The internet made me do it
From BBS to LLM, typing meaningfully into text boxes is the one underrated superpower the internet gave me.
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A year in the life
A year of rebuilding something that has been missing from my life. A year of reflecting on what is important, and what could be possible next.
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7 months of Perspectives – start of my newsletter journey
Learning a new way to write after 16 years of WordPress based blogging. Why the tools we’ve always used may not take us where we want to go next.
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Why start a newsletter instead of writing a blog
First came the social media algorithms, now the generative AI bots. People who want to have an impact through writing & sharing their thoughts should reconsider how to connect with their audience.
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Silence of the lambs
Reflecting on NDAs that aim to keep former employees silent (case OpenAI), and the role of transparency in defining company culture.
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My final Microsoft MVP award
After 11 years in the MVP program, the time has come to move on in life. Here’s the background story on why I’ve decided not to pursue the awards anymore.
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