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Ever wish your AI assistant could directly call your REST API? By combining an OpenAPI (Swagger) specification with the Model Context Protocol (MCP), you can transform any REST API into a set of AI-accessible tools. In this guide, you’ll build a sim...

TL;DR: I built a tiny server that watches my Obsidian vault, re-indexes only what changed, answers questions—and exposes itself as both a REST API and an MCP server so Claude can call it directly. Grab the repo: https://github.com/robbiemu/vault-mcp ...

When building secure APIs in .NET, JWT (JSON Web Token) is one of the most popular choices for implementing authorization after authentication. It allows the server to authorize requests without storing session data, making it perfect for stateless A...

When designing an API, we make many frontend decisions such as response structure, pagination strategy, and error handling. We can capture these design choices using an API description language—and OpenAPI is one of the most widely used descriptor la...

It might seem like a minor issue, but it took me two days to debug! :( The firm I worked with had been using .NET 4.5 for over four years (shocking, right!?). This year, we decided to upgrade to .NET Core. Since it was my first time, I chose to do a ...
