[BLOGGED] Audio Notes is Live! Over the last few weeks and months, I built the Audio Notes Micro-SaaS MVP in public. I’ve worked on this when I had spare time. I estimate it took between 40 and 60 hours to create the entire solution. The AI centric solution use speech to text and document summarization to help you automatically generate concise notes from the spoken word. Powering the solution: - Azure AI services - Azure AI Speech services - Azure AI Language services - Azure App Service - Azure SQL - Coded in C# and JavaScript - Entity Framework - Microsoft .NET 8 Learn how to access, use cases, and benefits in the blog. A demo on YouTube is also available. jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2…

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[BLOGGED] Building an AI Home Security System Using .NET, Python, CLIP, Semantic Kernel, Telegram, and Raspberry Pi 4 – Part 2 In Part 2 we create a locally running CLIP server using Python. (Contrastive Language–Image Pre-training). CLIP is a neural network from OpenAI and can be run locally with minimal hardware. You can use CLIP to convert local images to vectors. This makes it ideal for image classification and recognition use cases. This forms part of a multi-part series that shows you how to build an AI home security system. Code and video demo included. Details: jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2…

Implementing a locally running CLIP server. (Contrastive Language–Image Pre-training). CLIP is a neural network from OpenAI and can be run locally with minimal hardware. You can use CLIP to convert local images to vectors. This makes it ideal for image classification and recognition use cases. In this image, CLIP is made available as an API endpoint. This forms part of a multi-part series that shows you how to build an AI home security. The first part was published a few weeks ago. You can find it here: jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2…

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[NEW COURSE] ChatGPT Pro: OpenAI o3-mini My course ChatGPT Pro: OpenAI o3-mini is live on @Pluralsight ! This course is aimed at beginners and lasts 25 minutes. The is split over 2 modules and I dive straight into demos. More details: jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2…

[BLOGGED] Building an AI Home Security System Using .NET, Python Semantic Kernel, Telegram, and Raspberry Pi 4 – Part 1 In this blog post, I show how to create an AI home security system using .NET, Python, Semantic Kernel a Telegram Bot, Raspberry Pi 4 and Open AI. This is part 1 of a 2-part series. In part 1, we learn about: - required hardware and software - main requirements - installing and testing the camera module - installing and testing the PIR sensor - creating code to detect movement - creating code to capture images - sending notifications to a Telegram bot It’s a lot to cover so has been split into 2 parts. Read: jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2…

[PODCAST] I was recently invited on a podcast with Grey Matter to share my experience, and thoughts from a development perspective. We discussed many topics. Naturally AI was mentioned. Listen: jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2…

[BLOGGED] Evaluating Your Generative AI Solution Responses using Microsoft AI Extensions RAG has been all the rage for the last 24 months. It can be easy to get caught up in the research and build process but at some point, you need to evaluate the effectiveness of your generative AI integrations and solutions. Read: jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2…

[NEWS] I recently discovered I had been added to the Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Agentic AI for 2025 list on Thinkers360. The list is generated using a unique patented algorithm and takes a holistic measure of thought leadership and influence. It can help brands find the right experts for their niche. Read and find others: jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2…

🙄Last year this time: "AI will make devs irrelevant! Stop studying Computer Science!" 😁Now: There is an 800% INCREASE in demand for this Forward Deployed Engineer role across all sectors. "Artificial intelligence groups are on a hiring spree for a rare kind of software developer who can code and talk to customers, as they race to increase adoption of their cutting-edge technology" Microsoft is hiring FDEs, Open AI is hiring FDEs, soon EVERYBODY gonna be hiring FDEs. Keep coding and keep working on your listening skills, kids. Thanks for coming to my TED talk ❤️ ft.com/content/91002071-7874…

[BLOGGED] Building a Cell Phone Accessible Home Security System Using Raspberry Pi Zero 2 and Zero Cam Read more: jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2…

[BLOGGED] Evaluating Your Generative AI Solution Responses using Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Evaluation Read more: jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2…

[BLOGGED] Elastic Search Cheat Sheet Ive been working with Elastic Search recently. A short reference when performing common tasks and creating code to integrate with Elastic Search using the Nest SDK. Read more: jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2…

[BLOGGED] Reading Appsettings.json from Class Library projects in .NET Short blog on accessing values in appsettings.json directly in class library projects. Info here: jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2…

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[SOURCE-CODE] Bulk Alt-Text Generator I hacked together a bulk alt-text generator web app. A time saver if you need to bulk create alt-text for many images. It uses ASP.NET and Azure AI services. Code here: github.com/jamiemaguiredotne…

[BLOGGED] How I Used Azure AI To Consume a 2 Hour Lex Friedman Podcast in 10 Minutes Read more here: jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2…

[BLOGGED] How To: Implementing Web API Logging to JSON Files Using .NET, Serilog, and VS 2022. Read here: jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2…

[BLOGGED] Using Configuration Builder to Read App Settings Stored with VS 2022 and .NET Read here: jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2…