Well I finally wrote an app to use Archive.org to fetch all the old content from my first blog. Which ended in 2010. mostlylucid.co.uk. Apparently I changed the server AND how I updated it throughout the years so TRICKY. Hence why it's so customized; it's the…
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My system, DiSE, is a self-optimizing, self-assembling, software engineering grounded workflow builder. It generates testable code artifacts, evaluates them objectively, and evolves them over time without constant human supervision. But here's the thing:…
So you might have noticed hundreds of "new" blog posts appearing recently. Well, they're not new at all - they're OLD. Like, 2004 old. I finally built a tool to rescue my content from the digital graveyard that was my old blog at mostlylucid.co.uk. Why…
Just a very quick response to a query someone had. Even though it says "© Scott Galloway 2024" at the bottom it's technically incorrect (well copyright is automatic but YOU have the absolute right to do what you want with it). The entire goal of this site is…
Backpressure is the unsung hero of distributed systems. It's what keeps your queues from bursting at the seams when producers are firing messages faster than consumers can chew through them. Put simply: it's the system saying "hold on a moment" when things get…
📖 Related to the RAG Series: This article provides a deep dive into Qdrant, the vector database used in: Part 4: ONNX & Qdrant Implementation - Building semantic search Part 5: Hybrid Search & Auto-Indexing - Production integration Qdrant (pronounced…
When you've been blogging since 2004 (yes, really), you accumulate a lot of digital detritus. I recently imported my old posts from 2004-2009 ( https://www.mostlylucid.net/blog/category/Imported) and discovered that approximately everything was broken.…
Why treating your branch as a sandbox—and play as legitimate work—produces better software with less stress. Hot take: Most developers are trying to be perfect at every stage of development, and it's killing both their creativity and their productivity. Here's…
📖 Part of the RAG Series: This is Part 5 - production integration patterns: Part 1: RAG Origins and Fundamentals - What embeddings are, why they matter Part 2: RAG Architecture and Internals - Chunking, tokenisation, vector databases Part 3: RAG in Practice -…
In Part 1 of this RAG series, we covered the fundamentals of Retrieval-Augmented Generation—what it is, how it works, and the underlying technology (embeddings, vector databases, LLM internals). Now it's time to put that knowledge into practice. This article…
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