A developer's weekly recap covering work on an Expo/React Native app using RAWG API, reading, writing, and personal reflections.
Introduces the Azure Policy Restrictions REST API for checking policy constraints on resources, with a PowerShell helper function.
A guide to handling APIs that return JSON values as either strings or other types, using a custom C# StringOrValue<T> struct for flexible deserialization.
A developer discovers and discusses slashpages.net, a project for creating personal 'slash pages' popular in the IndieWeb community.
A technical guide on building a custom GitHub Copilot extension, covering app registration, local setup, and integration steps.
A developer creates a Bash script called 'qq' to query Kagi's FastGPT API from the terminal, improving on a command-line LLM tool concept.
A technical guide on implementing per-user discounts for a Shopify store, inspired by Bungie's system, using a custom app and database.
Sample code and review of the new official OpenAI SDK for .NET, including chat, audio, and image analysis demos.
A guide on exposing .NET feature flags via an API and consuming them in an Angular front-end application for coordinated feature rollouts.
Practical lessons from integrating LLMs into a product, focusing on prompt design pitfalls like over-specification and handling null responses.
A guide to creating custom tools (functions) for the Azure OpenAI Assistants API, including setup, definition, and execution.
Explores Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Assistants API, a stateful API for building copilot-like apps with tools like Code Interpreter.
A tutorial on using the open-source Swift package ApiKit to integrate with and model REST APIs, using the Yelp API as an example.
Explains how to use datasets as parameters in Azure Workbooks to combine data from Log Analytics, Resource Graph, and APIs for advanced analytics.
Introduces an app that adds AI actions (GPT, Claude, Ollama, Groq) to Apple's Shortcuts app, requiring your own API keys for secure use.
A guide on configuring LangChain to connect to and use Azure OpenAI services in Python, covering setup, authentication, and examples.
A comparison of the five different types of Microsoft Entra ID and Graph extensions and attributes, consolidating information not found in a single Microsoft doc view.
A guide to using TypeScript generics and mapped types to create type-safe API response handlers for dynamic data structures.
The article argues that focusing on fixing 'Unhappy Paths'—user experience hurdles and errors—is crucial for product adoption, often more than optimizing the ideal 'Happy Path'.
A guide to automating cross-posting of blog content to Mastodon, Twitter, and LinkedIn using Azure Logic Apps and API integrations.
