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Thinking Out Loud
Long-form thoughts on code, philosophy, psychology, and the chaos in between.
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Building a Two-Stage Document Ingestion Pipeline for AI Agents at Scale
Most RAG tutorials show you how to split a PDF and push vectors into a database. That is the easy part.1 The original RAG paper (Lewis et al., 2020) proposed a clean retrieve-then-generate loop. …
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Running Multiple Apps on a Single VPS with Kamal (And Why I Built a TUI for It)
2026-02-03
The Lobsters Are Organizing: AI Agents Now Have Their Own Reddit
2026-01-30
Generative AI and the Future of Programming: A Historical and Economic Analysis
2026-01-29
Why Teams Can't Decide: The Pathology of Collective Choice
2026-01-29
How the X Algorithm Actually Works: A Deep Dive into the Open-Sourced Code
2026-01-20
What Heavy Metal Taught Me About Life
2026-01-20
What Lifting Taught Me About Shipping Code
2026-01-07
What the Stoics Taught Me About Being On-Call
2026-01-06
The Perfect Writing Stack: Obsidian + Hugo + Cloudflare Pages
2026-01-05
Why Engineers Should Care About Taiwan
2026-01-05
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Writing Things Down
2026-01-04
What Transformers Taught Me About Attention
2026-01-03
Nietzsche Would Have Hated Agile
2026-01-02
The Psychology of Code Review
2025-12-28