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.
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 …
When I last wrote about the new msgraph provider for Terraform my conclusion was that the preview release was not yet really usable, partly due to missing features. Well, one month later, and version 0.2.0 was shipped this week with one major update to change a lot of that and …