TOON Format: Token-Oriented Object Notation for LLM-Friendly Data Exchange
Introduction If you build systems that pass structured data through large language models (LLMs), you eventually hit the same set of issues:
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2025
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Dec
2025
IMemoryCache Entry Invalidation (Manual Cache Busting)
IMemoryCache is great for speeding up expensive operations (database reads, HTTP calls, heavy computations). But many real systems need more than a TTL:
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Custom IFeatureDefinitionProvider: Feature Flags from Tests and Databases
Feature flags are a great way to ship safely, run experiments and keep production changes reversible. In .NET, the de-facto standard is Microsoft.FeatureManagement .
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Nov
2025
.NET 10 Release: What's New (LTS) and What to Upgrade First
.NET 10 is the next Long-Term Support (LTS) release in the .NET family. LTS matters because it’s the version many teams standardize on for the next 2-3 years: you get a stable baseline, predictable support windows and a …
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Oct
2025
Vaultwarden (Bitwarden) mit Docker auf Synology NAS selbst hosten
You can find the English version of this guide here: Self-Hosting Vaultwarden (Bitwarden) on Synology NAS with Docker Passwort-Manager-Dienste sind in den letzten Jahren deutlich teurer geworden. Gleichzeitig ist mein …
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Oct
2025
Self-Hosting Vaultwarden (Bitwarden) with Docker on Synology NAS
You can find the German version of this guide here: Vaultwarden auf Synology mit Docker selbst hosten Password manager services have become significantly more expensive in recent years. At the same time, my trust in …
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Oct
2025
Create Self-Signed HTTPS Certificates with a Custom Root CA
Once you’ve established your own Root Certificate Authority, the next step is issuing server certificates for your local services. This guide walks through creating HTTPS certificates that are automatically trusted by …
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Oct
2025
Create a Custom Root Certificate Authority for Self-Signed Certificates
When running multiple services in a local network-whether for smart home automation, home labs or development environments-HTTPS encryption becomes essential. Instead of accepting browser warnings for every self-signed …
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Sep
2025
Automatically discover tools for Azure OpenAI Realtime API
Azure now provides a unified Realtime API for low‑latency, multimodal conversations over WebRTC or WebSockets. If you’ve used the earlier preview versions (for example the GPT‑4o realtime preview), the new generation …
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Sep
2025
Test ILogger in .NET the easy way (with an in-memory logger)
Logging is part of the contract of many components: when things fail, when branches are taken, when work completes. If a class owns logic, it should own its log output too. That makes logs worth testing–especially for …
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