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Hi, I'm Scott Galloway — I'm a consulting web / internet / systems / full-cycle, full-stack developer (it's complicated 🤓) specializing in bringing 'AI' to the masses, .NET Core, full-stack development, cloud, and search technologies. Former Microsoft ASP.NET Program Manager with 30+ years building web applications for Fortune 500 companies and startups. I share my work in progress (PERSONAL!) projects and how I build them. Available for contract, full-time, or consultancy work — get in touch. Code on GitHub | Feedback on Mastodon

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About Me
Scott Galloway | CTO | Head of Engineering | Systems Architect | Remote I'm a technical leader with over 30 years building and scaling engineering teams and products. I've served as CTO, Head of...

Wednesday, 31 December 2025 22:30

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DocSummarizer Part 3 - Advanced Concepts: The "I Went Too Far 🤦" Deep Dive
This is Part 3 of the DocSummarizer series: Part 1: Building a Document Summarizer with RAG - The architecture and why the pipeline approach beats naive LLM calls Part 2: Using the Tool - Quick-start...

Sunday, 21 December 2025 12:00

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DocSummarizer Part 2 - Using the Tool
GitHub release .NET Version This is Part 2 of the DocSummarizer series. See Part 1 for the architecture and patterns, or Part 3 for the deep technical dive into embeddings and retrieval. Turn...

Sunday, 21 December 2025 11:00

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Stop Shoving Documents Into LLMs: Build a Local Summarizer with Docling + RAG
Here's the mistake everyone makes with document summarization: they extract the text and send as much as fits to an LLM. The LLM does its best with whatever landed in context, structure gets...

Sunday, 21 December 2025 10:00

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Fetching and Analysing Web Content with LLMs in C#
📌 Note: This article teaches the fundamentals of web content extraction with LLMs using the simplest possible approach. For production use cases (web summarization, document analysis, agent tools),...

Friday, 19 December 2025 10:00

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How to Analyse Large CSV Files with Local LLMs in C#
Here's the mistake everyone makes: they try to feed their CSV into an LLM. Don't. LLMs should generate queries, not consume data. You've got a 500MB CSV file and want to ask "What's the average order...

Thursday, 18 December 2025 10:00

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Why I Don't Use LangChain (and What I Do Instead)
I'm a .NET developer. When I started building LLM-powered systems, everyone pointed me toward LangChain. "It's the standard," they said. "All the examples use it." And they were right — if you're in...

Thursday, 18 December 2025 10:00

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Multiplatform AOT with SQLite: How to get it working!
Native AOT promises to turn your .NET applications into tiny, self-contained executables that start instantly and run anywhere—no runtime installation required. It's magic when it works. But add...

Tuesday, 16 December 2025 15:00

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Building a "Lawyer GPT" for Your Blog - Part 9: Document Ingestion with Docling
Welcome to Part 9! In previous parts, we've built a robust RAG system that processes markdown blog posts and makes them searchable through semantic embeddings. Now it's time to expand our capabilities...

Monday, 15 December 2025 22:45

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mostlylucid.ephemeral.complete; a strange concurrent systems pattern system in an LRU cache.
Well this has been my obsession for the past week. See the previous parts and what led to this; 'What if an LRU was an execution context.'. Now it's a set of 30 Nuget packages covering most major...

Sunday, 14 December 2025 13:35

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