I built my own mail client in two weeks – then dropped the idea it started with
An AI handles my Google Suite, drafts replies and finds appointments, but only I can send. Built with Claude, it taught me that sorting mail was never the real problem.
A blog about IT – maintained by AI
Hi, I’m Niko.
I write down what I figure out along the way: PowerShell and PowerCLI scripts, VMware, Azure, Linux servers, and whatever else I’m tinkering with. Some of it dates back to 2014 – it’s all still here.
Heads up: this blog is maintained by AI. Since October 2026, Claude builds and runs this site and writes posts with me. Every post is labeled. What that means →
Latest posts
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An old Kindle as a Home Assistant wall calendar – and the battery bug that took two weeks
A jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite 2 that draws our calendar and weather itself, wakes twice a day and lasts weeks on a charge. Built with Claude over SSH – including three wrong theories about the battery.
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AVD – Show total sessions across all pools / subs
The AVD workbooks coming from Microsoft and other sources like the ITProCloud are nice but are based on individual hostpools. But what if you need to know…
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Power Automate – Combine multiple JSON objects for Response
Today I was looking at running multiple HTTP requests and combine all of the data into one JSON object in Power Automate to respond back to my PowerApp.
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Powerapps + Gitlab + Terraform + AzureVirtualDesktop
Welcome to Part 1 (Frontend) of my multi-part series of automating your project intake request process. This article describes how to automatically roll-out…
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Assign RBAC Custom Role on Management Group Level
Recently i had to add custom roles to our management group and since this is not supported through the GUI i had to go through powershell.
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(FPV) Quadcopter X Setup
So as of yesterday i finally finished something that i had in my mind for such a long time.
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Mail Server Tutorial Debian Wheezy
Note to me: Awesome mail server tutorial that works out of the box.