A Microsoft Foundry MAI Image Plugin for Hermes Agent
A reusable Hermes Agent image-generation plugin for Microsoft Foundry MAI models, with text-to-image generation, image editing, and Web UI configuration.
Joe Raio
Practical notes from cloud work, software, and the home lab.
I write about Azure and the projects I build, sharing useful details from the work—including the parts that take a few tries.
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A Read-Only OneDrive MCP Server for AI Agents
Search, browse, and download personal OneDrive files from Hermes, Open WebUI, or VS Code. Setup, Microsoft Graph permissions, examples, and privacy limits.
Bridging Open WebUI and Azure's MAI Image Models with a Tiny OpenAI-Compatible Shim
Why Open WebUI can't talk to Azure AI Foundry's MAI-Image models directly, and the small proxy that fixes it.
LunaTV: A Mobile-First HDHomeRun Client for the Browser and Roku
LunaTV is a mobile-first, self-hosted HDHomeRun client for the browser and Roku — live TV guide, QSV-accelerated HLS transcoding, and friendlier device admin.
How to Reformat an ARM-Based Surface Laptop (Snapdragon) Without USB Boot Headaches
A practical guide to reformat Surface Laptop ARM devices using Microsoft's official recovery USB process from another Windows machine.
YTPI: A LAN-First YouTube Downloader for a Home Server
A current guide to YTPI, a Flask and yt-dlp downloader with a Material-style dashboard, persistent jobs, playlist synchronization, and LAN-only access.
Upgrading My PRS CE24 with a Mannmade USA Tremolo
Upgrading my PRS CE24 with a Mannmade USA tremolo — stability, feel, and build quality improvements that transformed the guitar.
Test Azure Functions locally with Azure Active Directory
Test Azure Functions locally with Azure Active Directory
Working at Microsoft, four years in...
This week marks four years that I have been working at Microsoft. It’s been an incredibly fun & humbling journey so far! In thinking about the past four years...
Azure environment variables for Cloud Custodian in Windows
Learn how to set up Azure service principal authentication environment variables for use with Cloud Custodian control plane.