Building robust Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions is essential when leveraging Microsoft Copilot Studio for enterprise-grade AI scenarios. Whether you are creating a knowledge worker assistant, an internal FAQ bot, or a content synthesizer, ensuring groundedness and document retrieval performance is critical. The Copilot Studio Evaluator repository offers you a straightforward

Raycast, the super-handy command palette app that has become a staple for Mac power users, is finally coming to Windows! I’ve been using Raycast on macOS for a while, and it’s game-changing. Think of it as a replacement for Spotlight on steroids, complete with AI features, a growing

I want to share some thoughts about Yuval Noah Harari’s book “Nexus – A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI.” If like me, you’re at all curious about how humanity’s relationship with data, technology, and information systems evolved—and how this evolution might

I’ve been geeking out over Sam Altman’s recent blog post, “Reflections.” In this post, he makes a pretty bold statement: “We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it.” That’s a big deal. So let’s break down what this

Meet Phi-4—a 14B parameter open model which, in many scenarios, can go head-to-head with Microsoft’s GPT-4o-mini from OpenAI. Even better? You can run it directly on Ollama using: ollama run phi4 In this post, I’ll dive into what makes Phi-4 special, its primary use cases, and how

If you are trying to run Docker on your Mac in January 2025, it may very well happen that you encounter the following error: "Malware Blocked "com.docker.socket" was not opened because it contains malware. This action did not harm your Mac." What happened It

Nvidia announced a brand-new Personal AI Supercomputer during CES. Yes, you read that right—a personal AI supercomputer that can fit under your desk (okay, maybe a big desk, but still!). In this post, we’ll take a closer look at what it is, why it matters, and the nifty

The relentless proliferation of digital information demands advanced tools to facilitate the effective saving, organization, and retrieval of online content. While proprietary platforms such as Pocket and Instapaper offer convenience, they often do so at the expense of user privacy and operational flexibility. Hoarder, an open-source and self-hosted solution available

Often when working with .env file in Python containing the environment variables needed by your code, I need to have these environment variables also set in my local shell. For this purpose, I have created a small script that parses a .env file, looks for valid entries and exports them

Microsoft has introduced a new Python-based tool designed to convert various file types, including Office documents, into Markdown format. This tool aims to streamline the process of transforming complex documents into Markdown, a lightweight markup language widely used for formatting text. By leveraging Python's capabilities, users can automate

Recently, a very cute picture of a lego cat that is grooming himself (in all the best places) has made the round on social media. I tip my hat to the creator who is unknown to me. I knew I just had to have that cat! I first asked ChatGPT

Introduction In recent years, developer tools have embraced AI-powered features to boost productivity and efficiency. One popular tool in the spotlight is Cursor, which combines coding capabilities with AI features. However, Cursor comes with a hefty price tag. VS Code has Copilot, but it can only add code to what&

Satya on Copilot Actions: "This is Outlook rules for the age of AI." Empowering IT Teams with Microsoft 365 Copilot: New Actions, Agents, and Tools At Microsoft Ignite 2024, Microsoft unveiled exciting new features for Microsoft 365 Copilot, designed to revolutionize the way IT teams operate. With nearly

I am new to Mac OS so I'm documenting some of my findings as a developer. I often need multiple, different JDK versions based on what I am doing. For example, I recently worked with the prophet machine learning library in Python that spins up Java in the

Summarizing my learnings from this article: Ghost CMS strangely doesn't pretty print (color code) code snippets out of the box. Luckily, it takes 5 seconds to fix that. In the Ghost admin page, simple navigate to settings -> code injection -> site header and add the

I recently looked at using Microsoft Fabric to analyze time series data and be able to use machine learning to forecast future data. I came across this great example that shows how to build a program to forecast time series data that has seasonal cycles. It uses the NYC Property

I just found out that if you are running a Windows 11 PC that uses your Microsoft ID as primary login works perfectly when logging in locally but doesn't let you RDP in, claiming that the credentials are invalid, all you need to do is run (Win + R

I love writing Python code and recently looked into how I could run my Python scripts in the most efficient way on a Windows machine, optimally indistinguishable from native executables or .cmd / .bat files. I came up with the following solution, that allows not just that, but if you have

I was running the SSH server on an internet facing linux machine for a while (the one you are reading this post on...) on the standard port and was, as to be expected, bombarded with bogus login requests. To protect the server, I decided to first move ssh to a

I love VR / MR and have been using various headsets, PC based VR like the Meta Rift or the HTC Vive as well as stand-alone devices such as the Meta Quest 1, 2 and 3 as well as the Microsoft Hololens. Even though I think stand-alone VR is a nice

I love keeping all things things up-to-date in a simple way. I came up with the following script to update my Mac which uses homebrew, pipx and pyenv to manage installed applications, Python versions and PiPY packages. It will update all brew formulas and casks, list all installed pipx packages

Lately, the appearances of Sun Wukong, the monkey king, in computer games has caught my attention, so I wanted to know more. Black Myth Wukong, which is a very close adaptation of the original story where the Monkey King, who possesses extraordinary abilities, must battle his way through a mystical

I have been using the Cursor IDE for a while now. I only recently discovered the .cursorrules file feature, as it's not well highlighted in the documentation. This file, placed in the workspace root, helps provide additional context to the LLM, allowing to specify coding standards, common packages,