Every modern web application has work that shouldn't block an HTTP request—sending emails, processing files, syncing with external services, running scheduled maintenance. ASP.NET Core provides...
Thursday, 27 November 2025 09:00
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24 minute read
Need to test a snippet of C# code without spinning up a full project? C# Script files (.csx) let you write and run C# code like a scripting language. No Program.cs, no .csproj, no build step - just...
Wednesday, 26 November 2025 20:00
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28 minute read
I've been running this blog for a while now, writing detailed technical articles on ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework, HTMX, and all sorts of .NET goodness. Yet my search rankings were... underwhelming....
Wednesday, 26 November 2025 14:00
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10 minute read
"We're building an AI-powered knowledge assistant that will revolutionise how our employees access information..."
Every job advert, pitch deck, and consultancy proposal in 2024-2025
Introduction
I've...
Wednesday, 26 November 2025 09:00
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29 minute read
Want to get nice, descriptive alt text for images on your sites or jsut extract text from them? mostlylucid.llmalttext uses Microsoft's Florence-2 vision language model to generate high-quality alt...
Tuesday, 25 November 2025 14:00
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12 minute read
📖 Part of the RAG Series: This is Part 4a - core implementation:
Part 1: RAG Origins and Fundamentals - What embeddings are, why they matter
Part 2: RAG Architecture and Internals - Chunking,...
Tuesday, 25 November 2025 11:00
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23 minute read
📖 Part of the RAG Series: This is Part 4b - search features and UI:
Part 1: RAG Origins and Fundamentals - What embeddings are, why they matter
Part 2: RAG Architecture and Internals - Chunking,...
Tuesday, 25 November 2025 09:00
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15 minute read
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...
Monday, 24 November 2025 23:00
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2 minute read
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...
Monday, 24 November 2025 18:00
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16 minute read
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...
Monday, 24 November 2025 12:00
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10 minute read
