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Being a Technical IT Leader

Posted on August 10, 2026

When leading a large technical team, I’ve found that all things are circular. As you slowly tweak for people and problems, you often find yourself implementing “fixes” that you had before, but slowly diverged away from. This list serves as a reminder of all the things that actually work -... [Read More]

Tags: leadership

Running coding models on an Apple Mac mini M4

Posted on June 17, 2026

With the price of tokens set to soar, and coding with AI now the norm, running local models is becoming increasingly important to minimise costs. [Read More]

Tags: apple ai

Setting up replication for MongoDb v4

Posted on July 14, 2025

This post is a reminder to myself for setting up replication for MongoDb for Disaster Recovery, as all the AI agents seemed to have this wrong and/or missed a number of steps. This should work for versions 5 and 6 of MongoDb, but for the purposes of this article it... [Read More]

Tags: mongodb

Setting up a new machine with winget

Posted on June 13, 2025

I got a new laptop for work, and decided to take the future pain out of setup using WinGet. WinGet comes baked into Windows version 24H2 and above, and is a convenient way to keep all your applications up to date. [Read More]

Tags: windows winget

Vertically Sliced Architecture

Posted on February 28, 2025

This post is as a result of watching a video on YouTube presented by Chris Sainty at NDC Oslo. [Read More]

Tags: architecture

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) using Functions with Mistral and .NET

Posted on February 15, 2025

This blog is the third of three, where I decided to try out Mistral.AI. This article covers how to use Mistral’s large language models (LLMs) in conjunction with functions that are exposed to Mistral. The LLM will then choosse to execute/use those functions if it feels they provide additional context... [Read More]

Tags: mistral ai

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Mistral and .NET

Posted on February 15, 2025

This post is the second of three, where I decided to try out Mistral.AI. This article covers how to use Mistral’s large language models (LLMs) to use Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to query your own documents. [Read More]

Tags: mistral ai

Storing embeddings in PostgreSQL using Mistral and .NET

Posted on February 15, 2025

This post is the first of three, where I decided to try out Mistral.AI. This article covers how to use Mistral’s large language models (LLMs) to create embeddings from your own documents using .NET. [Read More]

Tags: mistral ai

Adding user name and email address to an Auth0 access token

Posted on November 13, 2024

When creating a Single Page Application (SPA) with a backend API using [Auth0], there are two types of tokens you will encounter: [Read More]

Tags: auth0

Assigning custom application roles in Entra Admin Center

Posted on September 5, 2024

I find the Entra admin center completely unintuitive when it comes to assigning custom roles to my own enterprise applications, so this post is a reminder to myself as to how to create and assign the roles. [Read More]

Tags: azure