Duarte ClementeLow-code that bears load. Field notes on Microsoft Dataverse, Power Apps Code Apps, and Azure — from systems that shipped.https://duarteclemente.com/Five Gotchas That Make a Power Apps Code App Actually Runhttps://duarteclemente.com/posts/five-power-apps-code-app-gotchas/https://duarteclemente.com/posts/five-power-apps-code-app-gotchas/Code Apps feel like plain React until five undocumented runtime quirks turn a working local build into a blank screen in the host.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMTGraph's Convert-to-PDF Doesn't Return a PDFhttps://duarteclemente.com/posts/graph-convert-to-pdf-returns-a-302/https://duarteclemente.com/posts/graph-convert-to-pdf-returns-a-302/Microsoft Graph's convert-to-PDF returns a 302, not a PDF — and if your HttpClient follows redirects, it leaks your bearer token.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMTA Time Clock That Catches Labor Issues Before Payrollhttps://duarteclemente.com/posts/time-clock-compliance-before-payroll/https://duarteclemente.com/posts/time-clock-compliance-before-payroll/Anyone can build a clock-in button. The real engineering is watching active shifts as they run, so a missed break is a flag today, not a payroll surprise in two weeks.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMTSharing a Database Is Sharing an Attack Surfacehttps://duarteclemente.com/posts/shared-database-rls-hardening/https://duarteclemente.com/posts/shared-database-rls-hardening/A product I built shared one Postgres database with a third-party AI service — and inherited every table that service forgot to lock.Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTThe LLM Extracts the Numbers. It Never Calculates Them.https://duarteclemente.com/posts/llm-extracts-engine-calculates/https://duarteclemente.com/posts/llm-extracts-engine-calculates/A legal-tech tool that reads a contract and computes late-payment interest — where the AI extracts every figure and a deterministic engine, not the model, does the maths.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTGetting Large Files into SharePoint Without Base64-ing Through the Connectorhttps://duarteclemente.com/posts/large-file-uploads-past-the-connector/https://duarteclemente.com/posts/large-file-uploads-past-the-connector/The Power Platform connector caps your file size, and base64-ing bytes through a flow inflates them a third until it falls over. Here's the SAS-and-stream pattern that moves the file out of the connector entirely.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTReal React Apps That Run Inside Dataversehttps://duarteclemente.com/posts/react-apps-inside-dataverse/https://duarteclemente.com/posts/react-apps-inside-dataverse/Most people think Power Platform means canvas apps. It doesn't. Here's how a fleet of full React apps ran natively on the platform against Dataverse — and the read/write split that made it work.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTI deleted the server that merged my PDFshttps://duarteclemente.com/posts/i-deleted-the-server-that-merged-my-pdfs/https://duarteclemente.com/posts/i-deleted-the-server-that-merged-my-pdfs/Going fully client-side removed an Azure Function and a whole class of failure. Then the Power Apps SDK quietly ate every file I tried to read back.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTBuilding a 3M-File Document Management System on Power Apps Code Apps: What the SharePoint Connector Doesn't Tell Youhttps://duarteclemente.com/posts/sharepoint-connector-3m-file-dms/https://duarteclemente.com/posts/sharepoint-connector-3m-file-dms/Nearly every typed SharePoint connector action broke on the way to three million files. What broke, why, and the REST passthrough, retry policy, and business-key join that fixed it.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTWhen Copilot Studio is over-engineeringhttps://duarteclemente.com/posts/when-copilot-studio-is-over-engineering/https://duarteclemente.com/posts/when-copilot-studio-is-over-engineering/Copilot Studio is a suspension bridge. Most of your requirements are streams — and a form plus a flow crosses them just fine.Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT