Elegant Code https://elegantcode.com/ Thu, 17 Apr 2025 22:19:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://elegantcode.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/cropped-image-32x32.png Elegant Code https://elegantcode.com/ 32 32 APIs are the new fuel https://elegantcode.com/2025/04/14/apis-are-the-new-fuel/ Mon, 14 Apr 2025 20:18:56 +0000 https://elegantcode.com/?p=7051 We all know LLMs can write emails, summarize documents, and even generate code. But on […]

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]]> Starting a new TypeScript project https://elegantcode.com/2025/03/31/starting-a-new-typescript-project/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 23:05:40 +0000 https://elegantcode.com/?p=7040 I am putting this here for myself. I don’t want to have to search for […]

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]]> Using immer for immutable state in React https://elegantcode.com/2025/03/24/using-immur-for-immutable-state-in-react/ Mon, 24 Mar 2025 19:04:26 +0000 https://elegantcode.com/?p=7034 Using JavaScript’s spread operator is all well and god, but doing so when updating complex […]

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]]> Foundations of Computing: Software Engineering Principles https://elegantcode.com/2025/03/17/foundations-of-computing-software-engineering-principles/ https://elegantcode.com/2025/03/17/foundations-of-computing-software-engineering-principles/#respond Mon, 17 Mar 2025 19:51:29 +0000 https://elegantcode.com/?p=7024 Looking back at my first job as a software engineer, wow, there’s so much I […]

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]]> https://elegantcode.com/2025/03/17/foundations-of-computing-software-engineering-principles/feed/ 0 Talking to Azure AI Foundry in .NET is easier than you think. https://elegantcode.com/2025/03/12/talking-to-azure-ai-foundry-in-net-is-easier-than-you-think/ https://elegantcode.com/2025/03/12/talking-to-azure-ai-foundry-in-net-is-easier-than-you-think/#respond Wed, 12 Mar 2025 23:27:36 +0000 https://elegantcode.com/?p=7021 I am going through the exercises in a great lab series on Generative AI in […]

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]]> https://elegantcode.com/2025/03/12/talking-to-azure-ai-foundry-in-net-is-easier-than-you-think/feed/ 0 Taking a sabbatical: A new chapter https://elegantcode.com/2025/03/04/taking-a-sabbatical-a-new-chapter/ https://elegantcode.com/2025/03/04/taking-a-sabbatical-a-new-chapter/#respond Tue, 04 Mar 2025 17:25:57 +0000 https://elegantcode.com/?p=7009 After more than seven years in my second stint at Microsoft, I’ve decided to step […]

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]]> https://elegantcode.com/2025/01/10/switching-to-the-apple-ecosystem/feed/ 3 Shaping Ollama’s JSON chat response format https://elegantcode.com/2024/12/13/6998/ https://elegantcode.com/2024/12/13/6998/#respond Fri, 13 Dec 2024 22:33:02 +0000 https://elegantcode.com/?p=6998 If you need to control the JSON output format of Ollama’s response, keep reading. Ollama […]

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]]> https://elegantcode.com/2024/12/13/6998/feed/ 0 Chatting with Ollama’s API https://elegantcode.com/2024/12/03/chatting-with-ollamas-api/ https://elegantcode.com/2024/12/03/chatting-with-ollamas-api/#respond Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:36:55 +0000 https://elegantcode.com/?p=6988 There are plenty of reasons to run L(local)LMs on your own machine, and there are […]

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]]> https://elegantcode.com/2024/12/03/chatting-with-ollamas-api/feed/ 0 Disable caps lock on Mac https://elegantcode.com/2024/11/17/disable-caps-lock-on-mac/ https://elegantcode.com/2024/11/17/disable-caps-lock-on-mac/#comments Sun, 17 Nov 2024 18:32:07 +0000 https://elegantcode.com/2024/11/17/disable-caps-lock-on-mac/ One of the things I slightly regret is not learning to precisely touch type, but […]

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]]> https://elegantcode.com/2024/11/17/disable-caps-lock-on-mac/feed/ 2 Installing all the things on my new Mac https://elegantcode.com/2024/11/16/installing-all-the-things-on-my-new-mac/ https://elegantcode.com/2024/11/16/installing-all-the-things-on-my-new-mac/#respond Sat, 16 Nov 2024 18:20:42 +0000 https://elegantcode.com/2024/11/16/installing-all-the-things-on-my-new-mac/ After about five years of an Apple hiatus I just couldn’t resist the new M4 […]

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]]> https://elegantcode.com/2024/11/16/installing-all-the-things-on-my-new-mac/feed/ 0 Some articles I’ve written about the Azure Marketplace https://elegantcode.com/2024/03/14/some-articles-ive-written-about-the-azure-marketplace/ https://elegantcode.com/2024/03/14/some-articles-ive-written-about-the-azure-marketplace/#respond Thu, 14 Mar 2024 14:29:01 +0000 https://elegantcode.com/?p=6915 An introduction to marketplace deployment architectures Exploring SaaS Offers in the Microsoft Commercial Marketplace: Essential […]

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]]> https://elegantcode.com/2024/03/14/some-articles-ive-written-about-the-azure-marketplace/feed/ 0 Refactoring Bloated Controllers with [FromService] https://elegantcode.com/2022/12/01/refactoring-bloated-controllers-with-fromservice/ https://elegantcode.com/2022/12/01/refactoring-bloated-controllers-with-fromservice/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2022 18:23:00 +0000 https://elegantcode.com/?p=6894 In my previous article, Refactoring Bloated Controllers with IServiceProvider, I explored using the Service Locator […]

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]]> https://elegantcode.com/2022/12/01/refactoring-bloated-controllers-with-fromservice/feed/ 3 Refactoring Bloated Controllers with IServiceProvider https://elegantcode.com/2022/11/26/refactoring-with-iserviceprovider/ https://elegantcode.com/2022/11/26/refactoring-with-iserviceprovider/#comments Sat, 26 Nov 2022 17:07:30 +0000 https://elegantcode.com/?p=6874 I have come into an ASP.NET MVC project that has a HomeController that takes at […]

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