PKPatrick Kearnsinfullstackcity.com路1d ago 路 12 min readCutting AI Prompt Tokens by Turning Text into Images with .NETSending text to an AI model as an image sounds like it should cost more. The application has to render the text, encode a PNG and send a much larger payload over the network. Yet for the right kind of00
PKPatrick Kearnsinfullstackcity.com路1d ago 路 12 min readBuilding SSRF-Resistant HTTP Clients in .NETApplications increasingly accept URLs from outside their own code. A webhook tester calls an endpoint supplied by a customer. An image service downloads a remote avatar. A document pipeline retrieves 20
SKShivprasad Kesarkarinshivprasadai.hashnode.dev路1d ago 路 1 min readAnnouncing My #100DaysOfAIWithMicrosoft ChallengeStarting on 20 July 2026, I'll begin a personal learning challenge focused on Microsoft's AI and cloud ecosystem. Over the next 100 days, I'll study Microsoft Learn modules covering topics such as Gen00
RKRohit Kumarinsysinfotoolstech.hashnode.dev路4d ago 路 7 min readComplete Step-by-Step Guide to Migrate Namecheap Email to Office 365 in 2026REAL USER QUERY"Our whole agency runs on Namecheap Private Email right now. We're onboarding to Microsoft 365 for the Teams and SharePoint integration, but I don't want everyone's inbox history to jus00
PKPatrick Kearnsindotnetdigest.com路6d ago 路 24 min readSecuring AI Memory Against Poisoning in .NETMemory makes an AI assistant useful. It can remember that a customer prefers email, that a project uses a particular naming convention, or that a developer wants examples written with primary construc43JMK
PKPatrick Kearnsindotnetdigest.com路Jul 11 路 18 min readBuilding an AI Gateway in .NET.NET applications usually begin their AI integration in a sensible way but that soon changes once the application has ten or twenty AI-backed features. One feature retries on a timeout while another f105JKUA
NNakonakokawaiiinai-change-brief.hashnode.dev路6d ago 路 6 min readAfter Microsoft鈥檚 4,800 Job Cuts: How to Redesign Your Career for AI-Changing WorkMicrosoft says the eliminated roles were not replaced by AI, yet also says AI is changing daily tasks鈥攁 distinction that points to a more useful career strategy than either panic or complacency. Micro00
PKPatrick Kearnsindotnetdigest.com路Jul 8 路 14 min readShould Your .NET App Expose an MCP Server?AI features in .NET apps are starting to move past the simple chat box. At first, Devs usually adds one model call. The app sends a prompt, gets a response, and shows it to the user. That is easy enou52EH
RKRobert Krukinrobertkruk.me路Jul 8 路 5 min read馃攼 POC: Sovereign AI for Regulated Industries Using Managed Azure AI Foundry Open-Source LLM ModelsFollowing on from my previous Azure AI Foundry post, the next step in my AI journey has been exploring how open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) can be hosted within the Australian region while mai10
PKPatrick Kearnsinfullstackcity.com路Jul 7 路 18 min readWhat If Your Pull Request Had a Blast Radius Score?Some pull requests look harmless until they reach production. Then someone notices the change touched authentication, a shared response contract, an EF Core migration, and one production config value 10