Hey everyone so I restarted the blog back in November and have been steadily puping out the articles but...it's got to the point where I've stopped enjoying it.
The blog landscape has changed since I...
Saturday, 31 January 2026 05:00
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1 minute read
Deep Research without Deep Pockets.
When "Deep Research" landed in the premium AI tools, I was curious: what is this, actually? So I pulled it apart. And once I understood the architecture, I realised...
Thursday, 29 January 2026 10:00
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22 minute read
A glyph-based terminal renderer using shape-matching algorithms. Supports images, animated GIFs, videos, YouTube playback, and live subtitles with multiple render modes including Braille for maximum...
Saturday, 24 January 2026 12:00
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21 minute read
As I've been building lucidRAG I'm reading social media where people keep asking the same thing. 'How you you get features from scanned text?' the category error is always 'just use an LLM'...which...
Wednesday, 21 January 2026 12:00
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19 minute read
"How do I build an MCP server?" is the wrong question.
SDKs exist. An LLM can scaffold one in seconds. The real question is:
What role should an MCP server play inside a system that must not lie?
The...
Tuesday, 20 January 2026 16:00
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13 minute read
LLMs (Large Language Models) are being used as sensors. That is a category error: using a probabilistic synthesizer where a deterministic boundary device is required.
This isn't developers' fault....
Sunday, 18 January 2026 15:33
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13 minute read
NOTE: This is not a conventional blog article. It is a design spec written for a concrete feature in lucidRAG.
I iteratively feed this document to code-focused LLMs during development to reason about...
Saturday, 17 January 2026 14:00
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12 minute read
Status: In development as part of lucidRAG.
Source: github.com/scottgal/lucidrag
Where this fits: VideoSummarizer is the orchestrator of the lucidRAG family, combining five pipelines into a unified...
Thursday, 15 January 2026 19:00
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25 minute read
Search is one of those features everyone underestimates. It looks trivial until real users start typing real queries -acronyms, half-remembered technical terms, punctuation-heavy names like "ASP.NET",...
Wednesday, 14 January 2026 12:00
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14 minute read
Status: AudioSummarizer.Core is currently in development as part of lucidRAG, a forthcoming mostlylucid product for multi-modal RAG. The implementation is complete and working—this article documents...
Monday, 12 January 2026 18:00
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34 minute read
