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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The internet made me do it

    From BBS to LLM, typing meaningfully into text boxes is the one underrated superpower the internet gave me.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.