Tag Archives: Retro badge

Dashing and bashing

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To make sure our employees make the right decisions if an resource report is good opportunity or not, we have crated a Power BI report that gathers all the existing data and presents them in a way they can easily read and understand. Making them better at decide if a registered request is something they should recommend or not. Using the good old Powershell scripts to create reports and saving data, thrive and thru Bice templates for deploying Azure resources and HTML to display them within the Power App and presenting them using the everlasting Power BI never goes out of fashion.

Lets get them to play.

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How to gather data from iot stations without having them. Using retro ways!

The QR code!

Gathering of data – The game – Oh, so retro:

This is a way for the hackkers to get up and move during the hackaton, so this is the most retro thing of all. No sitting on a chair to play a game, but the really RETRO way of go to a location to play, you have to physically move!

So we really feel that we are a Community champion, we have encouraged and helped all the hackers, judges and the comittee to get up and move and get their step count up.

Health is number one!

Retro badge

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When things don’t behave the way we expect, we tend to step backwards in time. Pen and paper on the table. Telnet in the terminal. No fancy tooling—just enough to answer the most basic question first: is the server actually there?

Paper didn’t help us auto-align boxes. It didn’t fix spelling mistakes. It didn’t make anything look pretty.
What it did do was slow us down in the right way.

With pen and paper, we talked more. We argued a little. We erased things. We redrew them. We spent time thinking about what we were building instead of how well the boxes lined up. The lack of undo forced intent. Every line had a cost, and that cost made decisions visible.

Telnet played the same role. No abstractions, no helpers—just a raw connection attempt. Either it responds or it doesn’t. Brutally honest feedback beats elegant dashboards when you’re lost.

This wasn’t about being anti-tools or romanticizing the past. It was about stripping away convenience until understanding had no place to hide. Once the thinking was clear, the modern tools became useful again.

Retro isn’t old. Retro is intentional.

Legacy connected

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Not everything needs to be revolutionary — sometimes you just want to mess with a TV from across the room. Using an IoT-enabled IR blaster to control legacy devices, because even old TVs deserve a cloud connection. Still funny every time..

Demonstration

Late Night Mining, Real Life Minecraft, Retro Mode On

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As we go into the late night developing as hard as we can, we recognize our desktops getting more and more effected by our mining spirit!

Not only are we introducing new walls and roofs to our Minecraft village, we are also bringing Minecraft to life.. IN REAL LIFE! #HappyCampers

With out swords and mined ores, we make sure that we keep the Minecraft spirit up, all night long!

While we are building the future with Power Platform, we are apparently doing it in full legacy mode too, the proof is in the wardrobe. Vintage SharePoint tees on the factory floor, like it’s 2013 and the ribbon is still alive. If that’s not “late technologies”, we don’t know what is. #RetroBadge

Retro Badge Justification

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Our solution intentionally adopts a late-technology design approach, inspired by classic IBM green-phosphor mainframe terminals (3270/3870 era) rather than modern UI conventions.

Instead of gradients, animations, cards, and icon-driven dashboards, we chose:

  • Monochrome green-on-black rendering
  • Fixed-width monospace typography
  • Text-first, status-oriented layout
  • Minimal visual abstraction

This mirrors how legacy enterprise systems exposed system health and operational state: fast to read, low noise, and optimized for reliability rather than aesthetics.

The idea wasn’t nostalgia for nostalgia’s sake, it’s a deliberate contrast to modern cloud dashboards. We’re showing that even in a Power Apps canvas app, modern platforms can still present information using time-tested, resilient UI paradigms that predate today’s frameworks.

In short:

  • Modern backend
  • Modern low-code platform
  • Intentionally late-technology frontend

That tension is exactly what we’re highlighting with the retro badge claim.

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Cepheo Crafting Creepers

Navigating the Age-Old Debate: The Retro Badge Controversy

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In any community, the balance between tradition and innovation is delicate. The interplay between nostalgia and progress often sparks debate. Sooo let me tell you what happened recently. The controversial decision was made: old school quiz form was refused to get the retro badge:

Having in mind that the judges are seasoned and wise tech veterans, we decided to come up with something more retro! We’re all familiar with the power of nostalgia, but sometimes, it takes a little extra magic to prove that something truly embodies the spirit of the past. So have a look into our /too much retro/ client:

Honouring one of the inspirations behind Parseltongue

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One of the inspirations behind the Parselthounge language (aka. Python), and closely related to the language used to write Python itself; is the C++ language written in 1985, the same year Barty Crouch Jr.’s was imprisoned in Azkaban :O

We are using Arduino to control the physical howler, using code written in the classical language of C++:

And as Snape instructed us, we wrote the code in snake_case, of course! #HouseOfSlytherin

Retro Badge

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The Golden Snitches using PowerPoint to alter and edit SVGs that are being used in Power Apps. We have some Hogwarts House Banners that were in the wrong SVG format, and we got advice from Scott Durow to use PowerPoint to alter the SVGs insted of altering the code itself in Power Apps.

Also, notepad is used to open the image and get the SVG code.

The Nostalgic, Retro Look of Quizzes: A Trip Down Memory Lane

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There’s something inherently nostalgic about the old-school online quizzes we used to take. You remember the ones—basic designs, pixelated images, and simple blue buttons for starting the quiz. These quizzes might seem outdated by today’s standards of sleek, interactive experiences, but there’s a unique charm to them. They evoke a sense of simpler times when the internet felt more like a fun mystery than an overwhelming flood of information.

There’s something instantly recognizable about those early online quiz interfaces. From the bright, bold colors to the blocky text, they had a distinct, almost childlike quality that made them feel personal and welcoming. These designs weren’t trying to be high-tech or glossy; they were focused on functionality and fun.

This simplicity might seem outdated today, but it holds a certain charm—especially when we remember that the point wasn’t to create a perfect digital experience; it was to create something fun, something to immerse you in a world of magic and possibilities.

Bellow you can see our sweet page for choosing how you want to be sorted:

Admit that you got blast from the past! So remember: sometimes, the most magical experiences don’t require cutting-edge technology—just a little imagination and a lot of heart.