Why I Built a SaaS Boilerplate and Why You Should Use It I built a white-label SaaS boilerplate to save me from reinventing the wheel every time I had an itch to scratch with a SaaS idea. Read: https://jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2025/09/26/why-i-built-a-saas-boilerplate-and-why-you-should-use-it/

I've been playing with public FBI crime data, building an animated map of the US that shows how crime rates have shifted state by state, year by year, from 2000 to 2024. You drag a slider (or hit play) and watch the whole country change color as the numbers move over time.

Capturing memories using dailytracker.co

[BLOGGED] Evaluating Your Generative AI Solution Responses using Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Evaluation Read more: https://jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2025/03/08/evaluating-your-generative-ai-solution-responses-using-microsoft-extensions-ai-evaluation/

Check my @Pluralsight course "Developing an Artificial Intelligence Strategy for Your Organization". Over 1,200 each month are taking this course! Details: https://jamiemaguire.net/index.php/pluralsight-courses/

[BLOGGED] Microsoft Semantic Kernel: Creating a Webchat Agent Using Open AI GPT-4, and C#. Code & demo included. Read here: https://jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2024/07/27/semantic-kernel-creating-a-custom-webchat-agent-using-semantic-kernel-open-ai-gpt-4-and-asp-net-core/

My Microsoft MVP award has been renewed for another year! 8 years in a row. Happy to be recognised as a Microsoft Foundry MVP (AI) again. Shout out to Microsoft the award and the community for engaging with me. Keep updated with AI developments on my blog: jamiemaguire.net

[NEW COURSE] Generative AI Stakeholder Alignment My new course is live on Pluralsight! Did you know 95% of organisations see little return on their AI efforts? This course shows how to plan and manage AI projects that succeed. Find it: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/jamie-maguire

[BLOGGED] How to Get the Most Out of Claude Code. What I do: → short CLAUDE.md → plan mode before anything non-trivial → /clear between tasks → hooks → checkpoints Read: https://jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2026/07/04/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-claude-code-tips-from-real-world-use/

[BLOGGED] A Developer’s Guide to Building RAG Systems: Lessons from the Trenches I built pipelines across multiple engagements and wrote up 26 lessons. Read: https://jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2026/06/27/a-developers-guide-to-building-rag-systems-lessons-from-the-trenches/

[BLOGGED] When an Azure WebJob Aborts With No Error: Diagnosing a Silent Kill in a RAG Ingestion Pipeline WebJob aborted overnight. No error, no stack trace, no crash dump. Read: https://jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2026/06/20/azure-webjob-aborts-no-error-rag-ingestion-pipeline/

[BLOGGED] RAG Chunker Fast Path That Measured a Placeholder Instead of 40 KB of Code Read: https://jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2026/06/12/rag-chunker-fast-path-that-measured-a-placeholder-instead-of-40-kb-of-code/

[BLOGGED] The 8192-Token Cliff: Why Your .NET RAG Pipeline Throws Random 500s Affecting RAG agent. Cause: the embedding model caps at 8192 tokens. Multi-turn history pushed the query to 40k tokens. Read: https://jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2026/06/06/8192-token-cliff-net-rag-pipeline-random-500s/

[BLOGGED] The RAG Workbench I Actually Needed Read: https://jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2026/05/23/the-rag-workbench-i-actually-needed/

[BLOGGED] Your RAG Pipeline Is Slow Because You’re Sending Entire Pages to the LLM RAG pipeline taking 18-25s per query. Suspected chunk size. Suspected the model. Wrong both times. Full post with fix: https://jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2026/05/16/rag-pipeline-slow-sending-entire-pages-llm/

[BLOGGED] MCP in .NET: The Practical Guide Nobody Wrote. OAuth Bugs, Transport Gotchas, and What Visual Studio Can’t Do Read: https://jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2026/04/27/mcp-dotnet-practical-guide-oauth-transport-vs2022/

[OPEN SOURCE] Visualising AI Job Exposure in the UK + EU Karpathy's karpathy.ai/jobs maps Digital AI Exposure across US jobs. Excellent tool but US only. I vibed a UK+EU version. Blog: https://jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2026/03/20/visualising-ai-job-exposure-and-risk-across-the-uk-and-eu-markets/

I'm helping over 3.5K people each month upskill with AI on Pluralsight. Whether you're a developer or decision-maker, we've got you covered. Courses include: Gen AI Stakeholder Alignment, Vector Databases, and Crafting an AI Strategy. Read: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/jamie-maguire

[BLOGGED] Microsoft Agent Framework: Implementing Human-in-the-Loop (HIL) AI Agents Read: https://jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2025/12/06/microsoft-agent-framework-implementing-human-in-the-loop-ai-agents

Skip the Boilerplate, Build Your SaaS Complete ASP.NET Core platform with Stripe subscriptions, user management, and modern UI. Save 2-3 months of development time using a production-ready foundation. Focus on features. Not boilerplate. Read more: https://shipsaasfast.com

[BLOGGED] RAG Chunker Fast Path That Measured a Placeholder Instead of 40 KB of Code An embedding API kept rejecting chunks as too big - but the failing pages were the short ones. Read: jamiemaguire.net/index.php/20...

I've turned years of my technical writing into something you can have a conversation with. Hundreds of blog posts, indexed by meaning rather than keywords. Ask it about Microsoft Agent Framework, RAG, Azure AI, .NET architecture or stakeholder management etc.

[BLOGGED] Your RAG Pipeline Is Slow Because You’re Sending Entire Pages to the LLM KNN vector search was flooding the LLM with duplicate page chunks, 19,700 tokens instead of a few focused ones. The fix was one GroupBy line. Read: jamiemaguire.net/index.php/20...

[BLOGGED] MCP in .NET: The Practical Guide Nobody Wrote. OAuth Bugs, Transport Gotchas, and What Visual Studio Can’t Do Every MCP tutorial covers the same ground: add the NuGet package, register your tools, run the server. That part genuinely does work first time.

I automated my entire content pipeline because screen time outside work was getting out of hand. One command now writes my blog post, builds slides, narrates them in my actual voice, injects images, and publishes everything. My blogs are just notes to myself.

AI Home Security System Built using the Microsoft Agent Framework. Accessible from mobile.

Karpathy's karpathy.ai/jobs maps Digital AI Exposure across US jobs. Excellent tool - but US only. I built a UK + EU version and added real 3yr employment trends per occupation. Cashiers: 9/10 exposure, already down 22%. Software devs: 8/10, still up 12%. Blog: jamiemaguire.net/index.php/20...

[BLOGGED] How I Use Audio Notes and the Microsoft Agent Framework to Save Hours Each Week Keeping up with long-form content is one of the biggest time sinks for developers and knowledge workers.

I am helping almost 3,000 people each month upskill with AI on @pluralsight.bsky.social . From developers to decision makers, we have you covered.

Audio Notes 2.0 I rebuilt Audio Notes from the ground up. v2.0 now uses Open AI via Semantic Kernel for summaries, scales key takeaways based on content length, and shows you how much time you saved. Here, we see it being applied to an @anthropic.com podcast. A 37 min podcast = 1 min read.