Now that the World Cup is over (it did not come home), here’s one last side project before I unplug and vanish for a few weeks. If you live in Norway, you’ll know that the grocery market is essent...

Let’s take a break from the World Cup for a minute to talk about watching paint dry. What do painting a wall and balancing the Norwegian electricity grid have in common? As I got to the bottom of ...

A few weeks ago I shared how I moved the Bouvet PenguinPool from Erik Stubø’s legendary Excel sheets to a fully automated commentary system on Databricks. The jobs run, the Slack messages land, the...

Erik Stubø was not only a very capable CFO at Bouvet, he was also an eager football fan who faithfully took charge of running an Excel-based prediction pool for every European and World Cup tournam...

Recently Douglas Garcia Torres shared an open-source project created by Onno van der Horst for running a World Cup pool as a Databricks App. Naturally, this gave me the perfect excuse to spend some...

I’m using Github Actions to automatically archive journey data from my car. For now I’m writing the data to a local sqlite database stored in a private Git repo, but I’d like to push it to a “remot...

Over 7 years has passed since I released the first version of the MQTT Notification Plugin for Jenkins. It’s not particularly big or clever, but it serves a simple purpose and it was a good excuse ...

I’ve put together a little demo of the Speech API from Azure Cognitive Services. I’m surprised at how well it understood my Norwegian! The repo can be found on GitHub. Example Input I read the f...

I’ve started playing with the IoT Hub in Azure and it took some time to assemble the pieces for testing secure MQTT messaging, so here’s a writeup of some notes I made along the way. Getting start...

Here we go again. Another attempt at blogging, this time following a slightly modified version of the KISS principle: Keep it simple: static! This version of the site is a GitHub Pages site using J...