In the first StyloMail article, I used Jev to ask specific questions about email and get typed, probabilistic answers back. Nimble, from Bespoke Labs, brings that technique to a model I can host myself through Ollama. From C#, I can send the same kind of state…
Yes, I'm getting on the Jev bandwagon. I wanted to see how far I could get using it to build a behavioural spam-blocking proxy in .NET Core. Something that looks at mail in both directions: what arrives in your inbox, and what leaves an account that might have…
A glyph-based terminal renderer using shape-matching algorithms. Supports images, animated GIFs, videos, YouTube playback, and live subtitles with multiple render modes including Braille for maximum detail. NuGet License: Unlicense GitHub Releases The goal is…
This is Part 3 of the DocSummarizer series: Part 1: Building a Document Summarizer with RAG - The architecture and why the pipeline approach beats naive LLM calls Part 2: Using the Tool - Quick-start guide for the CLI Part 3: Advanced Concepts (this article) -…
Native AOT promises to turn your .NET applications into tiny, self-contained executables that start instantly and run anywhere—no runtime installation required. It's magic when it works. But add SQLite to the mix and suddenly you're debugging cryptic…
Welcome to Part 2 of our comprehensive guide to data access in .NET! In Part 1, we explored Entity Framework Core in depth, including SQL generation, common pitfalls, and that critical warning about proxies and caching. In this article, we'll explore the…
When building .NET applications, one of the most important architectural decisions you'll make is how to handle data access and object mapping. The .NET ecosystem offers a rich variety of approaches, from full-featured ORMs to bare-metal SQL execution. Each…
So you might have noticed hundreds of "new" blog posts appearing recently. Well, they're not new at all - they're OLD. Like, 2004 old. I finally built a tool to rescue my content from the digital graveyard that was my old blog at mostlylucid.co.uk. Why…
Docker has fundamentally transformed how we build, ship, and run applications. What started as a simple containerization tool has evolved into a complete ecosystem for modern application development and deployment. This is the fourth and most comprehensive…
I forget where I shamelessly ripped this off from...but I did - if it was you, please leave a comment berating me in some way...Anyway, a new version of Ghengis , the excellent .NET Windows Forms control toolkit has been released...if you haven't checked this…