Microsoft released in the mid of December 2024 an open-source utility called MarkItDown. This utility converts files like PDF, JPG, JSON, XML, HTML, ZIP, and Office documents (PowerPoint, Word, Excel) into Markdown format. You can find a full list of supported file formats from here. Markdown itself is a lightweight

My previous blog post showed how to create a RAG application using .NET Aspire, Ollama, and Semantic Kernel. If you're interested in local small language models and .NET Aspire setup in general I recommend you to check that post first. This blog post continues the development of the

I have been planning this now for a while and now I had time to investigate and explore this topic a bit more. In this blog post, I'll show how to create a .NET Aspire-powered RAG application that hosts a chat user interface, API, and Ollama container with

Electricity prices are seeking all-time high figures in Finland and most of Europe. I wanted to investigate my electricity consumption a bit more and use Azure AI services to find anomalies in the consumption data. I'll show in this blog post how to create a small console application

Did you know that Azure provides a comprehensive amount of AI services that enable you to create ex. voice-controlled applications? More information about the Azure AI Platform can be found here.  This blog post introduces you briefly to Azure Cognitive Service & Azure Question Answering Service and shows how to