2018 has in many ways been another year of firsts; although 2017 laid the foundation for it with getting married to my wonderful wife and accepting a position at Microsoft in Redmond, 2018 was the year were we relocated "over there". With moving to the Seattle area in the end of January, 2018 has mostly taken place for me in the US, bringing many new opportunities like hiking around Washington state and catching up on concerts But 2018 was also the year, where I felt the downside of ...
About a year ago I started using Lets Encrypt for my certificate needs for a variety of websites and online services I run, but being mostly Windows based, I lacked a great automation solution. In the beginning I tried various solutions, including solutions for automatic certificate renewal for Azure Web Apps, however it didn't really work as great as I wanted to, so I ended up with a few PowerShell scripts to do the certificate requests and handling the token response manually - a far from ...
I just realized that today marks 1 year of me flying out to Seattle to interview with two Redmond based Microsoft teams. The interview loops was a result of 9 months of applying for various open positions, going through multiple informational and phone screen interviews - before finally finding my way to do a full on-site interview loop. Throughout the nine months, leading up to this, I hit several bumps on the way; First and foremost, I had to accept that it wouldn't just magically happen, it ...
It has been exactly six months since I went on a plane from Copenhagen Denmark and flew via London across "the pond" to start a new life in the US It has been six months where I had plenty of ideas of blog posts to write, but also six months full of getting settled, adventuring around Washington state including various hikes, had family and friends visiting and having no less than two trips back to Denmark - as you can probably guess; It hasn't been boring! I must admit, moving to the ...
Security on the internet is many things, only some of which we as end users can control. As web-developers are evolving into a state where they are more focused on security, some bad practices are slowly but steadily dying off, while others unfortunately keep living on; such as "my site doesn't need https". Eventually the release of Chrome 68 will hopefully move major sites over and minor sites will be following in the months to come; but we still need to tackle a huge issue on the ...
This week marks my 5th year as a fulltime-employee at Microsoft, starting July 16th, 2013 after finishing my studies. The last 5 years has tought me a lot, not only working fulltime on various products, fully owning features, fixing livesite issues, see Microsoft go through an immense transition to a more open company embracing open source and the DEVOPS approach. It also allowed me to realize a longtime goal, moving to the US to work out of Microsoft Corp. HQ in Redmond. Living abroad has it's ...