Things I've Written

In my previous article I introduced Polyclaw — an autonomous AI copilot inspired by OpenClaw and rebuilt to be Azure-native. It schedules its own …

What if your AI assistant didn’t forget everything the moment you closed the tab? What if it could check on things while you sleep, text you on …

⚠️ Disclaimer: The features discussed in this article, specifically the o3-deep-research model and certain Foundry capabilities, are currently in …

Recently, a new programming pattern for AI coding agents has emerged. It is called the Ralph technique (pioneered by Geoffrey Huntley). The core idea …

Recently, Anthropic released their new flagship model, Opus 4.5. The holiday season provided a quiet window to really experiment with it, and after …

We’ve all been there. A tight schedule, back-to-back meetings, and suddenly you find yourself staring at a blank PowerPoint slide, needing to …

What problem are we solving Many agent failures are not caused by weak prompts or undertrained models, but by poor environments. The most capable …

As AI apps become more complex, a pattern emerges: we move from a single monolithic agent to a collection of smaller, specialized agents. One agent …

We’ve all been there. The AI team is proud; they’ve just launched a new AI agent. They ran load tests and ensured the infrastructure can …

In the initial wave of AI adoption, the focus was on making unstructured data discoverable. We used techniques like chunking and vector search to …

Many years ago, I was part of a project migrating legacy APIs from an old XML-based protocol to modern, REST-based OpenAPI specs. A lesson that has …

My views here are my own and do not reflect any employer or organization I may be affiliated with. Disclaimer: this article was written in July 2025. …

In my previous post we built a custom tool to make ETL output order consistent. This time we keep the idea of purpose built tooling but let Copilot …

GitHub.com recently announced the public preview of its Copilot coding agent, which can take ownership of entire issues, plan the steps, and work …

GitHub Copilot Chat has taken a big leap forward by letting you connect your own custom AI model - for instance powered by Azure AI Foundry - to the …

Organizations manage a broad spectrum of official documents, from internal memos and client proposals to compliance submissions and operational …

I often see customers eager to leverage generative AI to better understand and reason over their existing data. One common scenario is comparing …

Before diving into the article, there’s also a podcast version available! 😉 🔊 Listen to the Podcast We’ve all been there — you have …

In the wake of the generative AI revolution, we’ve witnessed a surge in AI-powered applications promising to transform how we interact with …

Over the past few weeks, it has been my privilege to collaborate with my distinguished colleagues, Damiano Curia, Carlos Garcia Lalicata, Francesco …

In the digital era, extensive libraries of images have become ubiquitous across multiple industries, such as e-commerce, education, marketing, and …

With the ongoing updates in Large Language Models (LLMs) and their orchestration libraries, it is important to recognize and prepare for potential …

In past articles, I talked about making a chatbot called “Upskiller” that uses the vast information from YouTube videos about Azure. …

I often study a lot of material to understand the details of Azure services. Interestingly, I’ve found that sometimes the most insightful …

Before we start, remember these tips are meant for fun projects that can handle some downtime. We are trying to cut costs and this may mean your …

Azure API Management can give you security-in-depth by already identifying invalid requests containing no or invalid JWT tokens on your requests …

Over the past few months, we all witnessed a surge in popularity of Large Language Models. I’ve personally worked on several proof-of-concepts …

Disclaimer: I’m just experimenting with this as a personal hobby / for fun. There has been a lot of buzz lately surrounding the ReAct Prompt …

Recently, there has been a lot of hype around large language models and their application in chatbots. However, there is so much more that this …

WSL2 is the optimal solution for bringing the Linux command line experience to Windows. The user experience when using the Windows Terminal is great. …

I recently built a Unity game with the help of ChatGPT, an amazing tool for developers. I included DALLE-2 for graphics and video game backgrounds. …

ChatGPT is a GPT-based chatbot developed by OpenAI that allows users to engage in natural language conversations with a virtual assistant. This …

Terraform helps users get the most out of their cloud when provisioning infrastructure in an automated and repeatable way. Azure Resource Manager …

Profiling applications can be a difficult and time-consuming process, but it is essential for understanding how an application is performing and where …

I recently ran into an issue when setting app settings via the az functionapp config appsettings command. The issue specifically occurs when there are …

As developers, we are always looking for ways to be more productive. An iPad with GitHub Codespaces is a great developer experience. The iPad is …

When working with GitHub Actions it can be useful to use Selenium. A common use case is for example the verification of a deployment (e.g. checking if …

It is probably no surprise for you if I tell you that I am writing this on an iPad. Recently I was looking into GitHub Codespaces. A tool that makes …

One would usually use an interactive login to access the Google Sheets on behalf of a user. This approach works perfectly if the user is sitting in …

I recently moved to a Macbook M1 as my daily driver (running Linux on top). It came to my surprise how well everything worked it was. Virtualization …

This year I helped to build drugplug as part of Hack Zurich. One key feature of the app is the extraction of relevant information or warnings out of a …

Recently I’ve started to publish sticker designs on redbubble. As I am after the “long-tail” items, I planned to generate hundreds …

In this article, we are going to take a look at the impact of the recent log4j Zero-Day on Apache Karaf based apps. The situation is evolving, I …

With the recent log4j vulnerability, everyone is currently patching their Java Applications. In this article, we’re going to take a look how …

Himawari-8 provides free live feed images (every 10 minutes) from geostationary orbit. I’ve put together a small script to get it as a …

No, I’m not talking about Mozilla’s newest mass-roll-outed Mr Robot Addon. Looking Glass is a Linux app developed by Geoffrey McRae of …

Neural Enhance is a fantastic Machine Learning Showcase. It lets you upscale photos by ‘inventing’ details using machine learning. Neural …

A couple of months ago, I presented how to implement a simple orchestration case on Talend ESB using Apache Camel and Apache CXF. This reference …

There are several options how to push data from within a camel route to Elastic Search. If your goal is to additionally pipe your data which goes …

The subscription version of Talend ESB comes with so called “Event Logging”. Event Logging can give you valuable insight into the activity …

Magnolia CMS – typically used in Enterprise environments – is a powerful, java based CMS. The community edition comes pre-packed with an Apache Tomcat …

This year, PRODYNA hosted a company-internal Hackathon. All employees of our branch (Switzerland) were divided into teams of three to four members. …

Keeping an eye on your server’s SSH activity from time to time is recommended. I created a dashboard using Kibana/Elastic Search to quickly …

Orchestration is a key feature of every modern ESB. According to Wikipedia, the definition goes: “Orchestration is the automated arrangement, …

Currently, Firefox and Thunderbird Extensions are very popular. Scripting an Extension is quite simple. All the information you need about the basic …