Hello! I am Trond. Some times also known as "Trond Jakob" from people who insist on using both my first names for some unknown reason, or "TJ" from my more international friends or co-workers who struggle with Norwegian pronunciation.
I work with Microsoft Cloud technology in Sopra Steria and I am a Microsoft MVP in the «Azure infrastructure as code» area.
Outside of work I like building things, whether it be Lego sets or changing patterns of light to do what I want, travel to exciting places, taking pictures, and relaxing with some gaming at a very low level of skill. You can find me on Bluesky or LinkedIn.
The client I’m currently spending most (all) of my working time with have a lot of Terraform code. And I mean a lot. Like, you will spend a solid amount of time getting an overview of where everything is before you start being productive, a lot. And we are currently working …
You might be unfamiliar with the word “colophon”, and I admit it’s pretty niche. Merriam Webster’s definition is: “an inscription at the end of a book or manuscript usually with facts about its production”. And because it’s a new year, and I spent the weekend cooking up a big batch …
I was thinking about that Steve Jobs keynote from 2007 where Apple launched the iPhone this week. If you have been living in a cave, or for various other reason haven’t seen it you can watch it on YouTube: Steve Jobs MacWorld Keynote in 2007. I wasn’t thinking about it …
During the Christmas break I crawled into the storage / datacenter / Harry Potter-esque bedroom under my stairs and retrieved an Intel Nuc that had been powered off for a year++, added an additional SSD, and installed Arch Linux to setup a small lab for learning new things and brushing …
Before christmas holidays set in we had a feature request in my work life where owners of a landing zone in Azure wanted access to manage records in public dns. After a bit of thinking, discussions with the team posting the request, and understanding their use case better we discovered …