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Claude

  • Help With Zoning

    Looking for help to answer zoning questions.

    I had the idea that if Claude had access to prior legal cases, it could be helpful to find cases related to zoning and find out who the lawyer was. This could be a good person to help answer...

  • Catio - Thinking in Components

    As it was snowing this morning, I was staring out the window at the catio. As a computer programmer, I often think in terms of "How can I build a reusable component?" Looking at the walls—each one an independent 32" section that ties together—I realized I take that component thinking even into my woodworking projects. :-)

    Catio - Thinking in Components
  • Connecting M365 Copilot to an On-Premises Knowledge Base Through Azure API Management

    Many organizations have internal knowledge bases that employees need to query daily — but those systems live on-premises, behind corporate firewalls. With Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio, you can build an AI-powered agent that lets anyone in your organization ask natural language questions against that internal KB — without ever exposing it to the public internet. This post walks through the architecture and steps to make it happen, using Azure API Management as the secure bridge.

    Connecting M365 Copilot to an On-Premises Knowledge Base Through Azure API Management