Ever wondered if shelling out for a top-tier #Windows laptop really delivers the bang for your buck in development speed, or if you could do with a much cheaper pc - like a #macmini? Stop wondering, and start reading, because I've got the answers for you! www.koskila.net/windows-jugg... #dell

One day your #DevDrive is fine. The next, all you get is ReFS claiming to be write‑protected, and laughing at your pitiful attemps at takeown and icacls. And as usual, there's a fix at the end of what turned out to be another ridiculous journey in the #Windows'land www.koskila.net/fix-refs-dev...

Probably the worst use of 10 GB of storage ever. 😂 #AppleIntelligence #macos

#BlazorStatic is a joy for performance and simplicity - all the way until URLs with trailing slashes crash the party. No server-side routing means /page works while /page/… doesn’t. But as always, there's a workaround. And it's a good one! www.koskila.net/blazor-stati... #dotnet #csharp #blazor

Make #GitHubCopilot stop guessing and start delivering according to your specs. Real instructions, usable examples, and rules #Copilot (mostly) won’t ignore. So now it's finally time to stop babysitting your agents! More on that here: www.koskila.net/copilot-inst...

In 2025, the #YearOfYammer is finally over, as #Microsoft discontinues the emblematic and ever-loved "Share to Yammer" button by just yoinking it away. There's also nothing to replace it with, yet. But will there be? Another exciting story at koskila.net ! www.koskila.net/share-to-yam...

Starting a 2025 Q4 thread of not-evil* jobs in tech or using tech skills, which I'll reply to add to as I find new cool things over time *or minimally evil, as this is often the best we can hope for in these troubled times. Assessments based on nothing but my own vibes

3 times in the last 3 years I've been burned by new Windows machines. If I had a working configuration, I would not mess with it. And you shouldn't have to take that risk either. Here's how you can keep your trusty #Windows10 setup running for another year! www.koskila.net/windows-10-t... #Windows

I've worked with #SharePoint for almost 15 years. It's paid for my house. Most of my friends know to uppercase the 'P'. 🤠 And for the life of me, I couldn't remember how targeting a term or its children works in #KQL 😂 I feel like I should've. 🤷 So here it is: www.koskila.net/target-term-...

Wait, is this how #VivaEngage works? You now have to request to join "All Company" - the default group for everyone in the network? 😅 I'm 100% sure this is not how it used to work.. #YearOfYammer

Et tu, #GitHubCopilot..? 🥲 The endless #gaslighting by LLMs has reached GitHub Copilot #CodingAgent.

Unexpected excitement in my blog this week! When #Dell fails an unwanted BIOS update, resulting in my #aipc being unbootable during a production incident, just blinking LEDs with an undocumented error code, Lisa from North Carolina comes to my rescue. www.koskila.net/dell-xps-15-... #AIWithDell

This week I'm posting about how my team wrestled with #SAP #SuccessFactors auth (especially the offline assertion stuff) so you don’t have to. The documentation wasn't exactly clear either. Exact token request, offline assertion gen, real-world gotchas. #blogging www.koskila.net/authenticate...

I don't know what @Microsoft has been up to with their recent #Windows updates, but they've worked wonders on my battery life! It's fantastic when your PC just becomes better by itself. Or so I thought. I opened #VSCode and now I'm back to ~90 minutes 😅 #IntelInside #Intel

Following #aMPBordeaux & #Teamsdagen, I made a short article about an authentication issue I met with M365 Agents SDK. This is an echo of discussions I had with #M365Dev folks @koskila.net, Benjamin Talmard & @yhabersaat.ch michaelmaillot.github.io/tips/2022509... #M365Community #SharingIsCaring

Controversial opinion: #VivaTopics was a great idea. And it was supposed to have a nice integration with #VivaSkills. But alas, instead, we got AI-inferenced skills. I'm now the "Waterfall project management" and "Workday" expert at Contoso. Thanks, #Copilot. www.koskila.net/2025-09-22-m...

#Newsflash: it can happen even on a mac! #maclife #microsoftword

After all these years, #Windows keeps surprising me. Copy-pasting tables between Word-documents stopped working. I rebooted the machine. Copy-pasting tables between #Word-documents works again. It's like magic. Image related: it's the Machine Spirit fixing my machine.

Returning home from #TeamsDagen - I've always thought it's cool how the Turku castle overlooks the ferry harbor.

Good morning, Stockholm! Are you at #Teamsdagen2025 today? If so, come check our session out at 11

Today, I'm heading out to Stockholm for #Teamsdagen2025! It's a trippy flight - takeoff at 12:00 and landing about 5 minutes earlier at 11:55 🙈 The event is tomorrow, if you happen to be there, come say hi! I'll be talking about #M365AgentsSDK with @michaelmaillot.bsky.social at 11:00 :)

Last week, I had a fantastic time at #CollabdaysFinland 2025! Another great day of learning, fun encounters and of course 45 minutes on stage with my old friend @gautamdsheth talking about #M365AgentsSDK! Here are the session materials:

#Finnair 2025 - chatbot Sisu: "There are Math.Random(3, 999) people in queue before you. Please go away." #customerservice #CX

Man, it's been a busy week so far - and it's only getting better! But that means I forgot to share my blog article from yesterday... This week I'm sharing some of my experiences (and motivations) with the #M365AgentsSDK so far. It's been a bumpy ride.. #teamsfx www.koskila.net/Why-m365-age...

... this is probably the first time I'm traveling to an airport with no intention of flying or picking anyone up. On my way to #CollabDaysHelsinki 2025! #collabdays

Another day, another POC to build, another way to break #M365AgentsSDK 😅 Luckily, this time I got some help from @michaelmaillot.bsky.social‬ to fix it, because the errors were definitely not helping... #M365AgentsToolkit #M365Copilot

Off to Mallorca for @OmniaIntranet's global team days. I feel like I was just there for #ValoIntranet team days.. In 2019 😅 I feel really fortunate for having a career that lets me do fun things with awesome people! #IT rocks. 😁 Anyway. Time to board. Picture related. ☀️

he looks so happy

Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about

End of an era. #HomeAssistant #WorxLandroid #RobotLawnMowers

Getting on with the times - the Finnish Air Force finally abandons the use of swastika after using it for over a hundred years. At least it wasn't a religious symbol for us..

Oooh, I guess the new #Finnair is really here to stay? I didn't really want to book anything anyway, I'm just killing time while waiting to talk to a person (because the chatbot failed at a task it certainly knew how to do before). The digital age sure is great. 🙈 #customerservice #CX

I've been playing with #GitHubCopilot #CodingAgent for a few months, and it's like having an incredibly eager and ultraproductive intern wreaking havoc at your codebase. Despite what it sounds like, it's actually quite impressive. We'll all be out of jobs soon. www.koskila.net/GitHub-Copil...

My heart goes out to anyone having to configure #DevBox'es. I'm relieved I have the option to just give up and use a normal virtual machine instead. 🙈 #MicrosoftDevBox

#Windows is so consistently inconsistent you'd think it's vibe-coded all the way. No Audio devices? I guess that means I don't need to take any Teams calls 😇

Also: good software is easy enough to change and maintain. THIS is something us developers learn very quickly. Those new to software always assume building is the most difficult part of creating software. Well, it rarely is! (Another counter-intuitive characteristic!)

Was there ever a time, when #Microsoft made simple tools that just did one thing, and did it well? And all that without any upselling! I don't actually know. But if there was, one of the last bastions of that time is falling now. #copilot #microsoftlens #onedrive www.koskila.net/microsoft-le...

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

#JustCopilotThings 🙈

$1000 if you vibe coded it and hired me to fix it. Plus expenses. Single malt scotch counts as expenses.

Can't believe how refreshing it is to return to a #Windows laptop after a while on a mac ❤️😅 I wish Apple had something like #WindowsHello, except working better. Some way for the user to show their Face to ID themselves to the computer.

Test Your Software, or Your Users Will #ThePragmaticProgrammer

Evening plans down the drain. #GitHub #githuboutage

About 6 months ago I embarked on the journey of discovering that #macOS and #Windows are surprisingly similar. #macmini offers hard-to-beat value and performance. But there were surprises - and apps I had to find replacements for 😅 Read it all here: www.koskila.net/All-the-ways...

After 10 years, I'm finally at a point where #MicrosoftStore tells me I have too many devices and need to unlink some. Maybe it's time to finally unlink some #WindowsPhone devices... 😭 #toosoon

My adventures in the macland are going great! I broke #GoogleChrome - twice! And it almost did NOT recover! Getting it back to working order was a fun ordeal with no steps outlined online (not without data loss anyway). So here they are: www.koskila.net/chrome-crash... #macos

Switching from a Mac or Linux to Windows can feel like revisiting a familiar chaos. This time, #Windows11 surprised me with fatal #git errors. But you can fix this issue easily. Check out my article for the solution! #github #justwindowsthings #techsolutions www.koskila.net/fixing-inval...

I doubt that, #PhoneLink. I really do. #JustMicrosoftThings

The eager and endlessly confident junior software engineer (#GitHubCopilot) strikes again! Turns out it doesn't know how to search for duplicate files. Maybe I shouldn't have been lazy enough to ask it for something I could script myself...

Oh... This still happens if you try to make the agent work too hard. #GitHubCopilot #AgenticAI