Personal Tech-blog
Or: how a single stray 0x00 byte cost me roughly 10% of my monthly AI token budget, three wrong hypotheses, and two days of my life — and how it was never the bug I thought it was. Twice. Chapter 1: “Invalid header line: \u0000” It started, as these things do, with an error message that looked ... Read more
Hey y’all, I’m back from Color Cloud in Hamburg and – as usual – buzzing with that post-conference energy. Slightly different then the last two editions, because it was my first solo session on stage. No safety net, no co-speaker, just me, my slides and a demo. Spoiler: I survived 😅 Here’s the recap, the context, ... Read more
Hey y’all, Recently I needed to generate JWTs inside AL and couldn’t find a ready-to-use snippet. So I put one together, published it as a GitHub Gist, and figured: maybe it’ll save someone else a bit of time in the future. What’s in the Gist The Gist contains a small AL codeunit to generate JSON ... Read more
Hello y’all, I’m back from BC TechDays in Antwerp and still running on conference adrenaline.Here’s a quick recap, a few lessons learned and some repo news. Goosebumps in the big hall Standing on that stage with Tobias felt surreal at first. Ten years ago I sat all the way in the back, wide-eyed, taking notes; ... Read more
TL;DRWe now have a working Kiota language generator for AL, a “companion app”, and a first sample project. Everything is OSS – and I need your feedback to make the current prototype production-ready. From conference stage to GitHub At ColorCloud Hamburg Tobias and I showed how Kiota – Microsoft’s cross-language OpenAPI client generator – can ... Read more
Hello y’all, yes, it’s me.No, your feed reader isn’t broken.I really am posting something after – checks watch – almost three years.(If you’re new here: welcome! If you stuck around since 2022: you deserve cookies.) Where the heck have I been? Short version: life happened.Long(er) version: right after switching jobs, the universe tossed a few ... Read more
I know, I know. It’s been way too long that I did the last update on my blog. And I’ll really try to get nice new tech-content on here. But today is no such day. Over the last years I worked with COSMO CONSULT and I learned a lot during that time. I’ve met great ... Read more
I know, I know what you’re gonna say: license files are a thing of the past 😅 But even though I prefer the SaaS-model a lot over the on-prem model, we can’t forget that there are still tons of customers on-prem. And just recently I had a tedious task I didn’t want to manually do ... Read more
I wish you all a very happy New Year! For 2022 and wish that we all find a path back to a normal that is less annoying (I’m skipping the C-word here 😉) and that we can meet in person again more often. Thank you all, for a great community and for a still great ... Read more
During Directions EMEA some weeks ago I not only had the chance to meet great people and have great talks with them, but also to get on stage. Together with Jesper and Maria from Microsoft we talked about open source contributions and bringing Business Central to the next level. Open Source mindset and contributions I’m ... Read more