PinnedOKRx Summit 2022 — Personal SummaryA quick review of the most important presentations at the OKRx Summit. The summit was perfectly organized with simultaneous translators too. Those are my personal notes and do not represent the whole ideas presented during the summit. …Okr6 min readOkr6 min read
Published inJimdoverse·Nov 6Navigating the Clouds: Jimdo’s Journey to Cloudflare and BeyondUnpacking the Tech Moves: From Midnight Crisis to Cloudflare Collaboration — Disclaimer: Because I am not a native speaker, and my English is not the best, I got the help of ChatGPT-4 to redact this article. Under Siege: The Midnight Call to Cloudflare Two years back, we at Jimdo had our eyes on some security gaps. We had a plan to patch things up long-term but hadn’t hit…Cloudflare10 min readCloudflare10 min read
Jul 20, 2022Building an IoT Security Camera With Raspberry Pi and RenderHow To Create Your Own Security Camera System With Raspberry Pi, Picamera2, Flask, and Render — Most of the smart camera control systems available on the market are black boxes that we put in our homes. We don’t really know what’s going on inside them or how they’re updated. While there might be some reliable vendors, we want to explore how to create our own smart…Raspberry Pi21 min readRaspberry Pi21 min read
Nov 29, 2021Being Opinionated Is Good And Bad.Why I think it is best to be opinionated, even if hard. — I am highly opinionated, and I prefer to stick to an opinion until proved wrong instead of navigating the uncertainty of multiple options. It is a binary search approach. I will always take one direction; if I am wrong, I can quickly exclude similar solutions with the same underlying fundamental…Opinion3 min readOpinion3 min read
Nov 14, 2021T, The missing letter in OKRObjective and Key Results are in the OKR acronym, the T is missing but it is as important as the others. There are quite a few good resources on how to create great OKRs, but what I see many companies failing at, is the hidden parameters in OKR, timing. T stands for Time. When…Okr5 min readOkr5 min read
Oct 18, 2021Why IoT is Hard — 8 ReasonsWhat I discovered after working 8 years in the IoT market IoT architectures are inherently hard to design and implement, there are many reasons, and some of them at not obvious. In the last 8 years working in IoT, I spent a lot of time moving tools and devices from offline to online, and doing it right is extremely hard, even well-established companies are struggling into getting it right. There…IoT8 min readIoT8 min read
Mar 30, 2021Using Arduino’s New Oplà Kit to Read Remote Sensors and Display the Data in Your HomeRecently, I received the new Arduino Oplà Kit for testing. To try it out, I decided to create an IoT project with multiple environmental sensors that remotely collect data, then report that data over the cloud and back to my home IoT device. It sounds complicated, but the setup was…IoT10 min readIoT10 min read
Dec 4, 2020How to Build a Robust IoT Prototype In Less Than a Day (Part 2)Welcome back to our second article about creating a robust, bidirectional IoT prototype in less than a day using, and If you missed the first part, we covered setting up Node-RED, adding security, and deploying to Heroku. In this article we’ll look at creating our embedded system on the Arduino…IoT10 min readIoT10 min read
Dec 1, 2020How to Build a Robust IoT Prototype In Less Than a DayThe IoT world is powerful, but also quite complex. There are many protocols and vendors and the landscape is fragmented. [As Matt Turck has already shown in 2018.] Creating stable and effective prototypes is becoming essential for every web or embedded developer. …Heroku8 min readHeroku8 min read
May 10, 2020How A Manager Can Create An Internal Podcast With OBS Or Loom.Creating short video content is an effective way to sync your team, and very fast to produce. This week I used OBS to share videos with my colleagues. Here is what I learned. OBS is a broadcaster software useful for many different things; mainly I use it for recordings, and…Videos3 min readVideos3 min read
