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Hi, I'm Scott Galloway — I'm a consulting web / internet / systems / full-cycle, full-stack developer (it's complicated šŸ¤“) 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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Building a "Lawyer GPT" for Your Blog - Fine Tuning LLM Alternative: RAG with Qdrant and Generic Online LLMs
In my 8-part "Lawyer GPT" series, I showed you how to build a complete local RAG-based writing assistant using GPU acceleration, local LLMs, and vector databases. It's powerful, private, and runs...

Wednesday, 12 November 2025 22:45

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24 minute read

Hidden in Plain Sight: A History of Covert Communication Systems
While in this current 'manic' article writing stage I thought I'd share a sensitive project I built for a charity during COVID. This is a very sensitive topic so I have gotten all applicable...

Tuesday, 11 November 2025 18:00

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22 minute read

Agile Speccing: Writing Feature Specs That Actually Work
Over the years I've read / written hundreds of feature specifications. Some were brilliant; most were bloody awful. The difference between a good spec and a bad one isn't about length or formality;...

Tuesday, 11 November 2025 11:30

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63 minute read

Modernising Your Frontend Build Pipeline: From CDNs to Bundling
Over the past year, I've stumbled, experimented, broken things, and gradually modernised the frontend build pipeline for this blog. This wasn't some masterplan executed flawlessly—it was trial and...

Tuesday, 11 November 2025 02:15

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28 minute read

Filter Bar: Progress, Bugs, and Little Wins
I’ve been putting together a proper filter bar for the blog list: language, date range, sort, and pagination that stays snappy with HTMX. It’s close now—but as always, the last 20% is the spicy bit:...

Monday, 10 November 2025 14:10

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5 minute read

Filter Bar Progress (And the Date Range Shenanigans)
Over the last few days I've been hammering away at the new blog filter bar: language selection, ordering, and a date range picker that tries very hard to be smart (sometimes too smart). This post...

Monday, 10 November 2025 09:00

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Mermaid.js Deep Dive: How It Actually Works and How to Extend It
NOTE: This is part of my experiments with AI / a way to spend $1000 Calude Code Web credits. I've fed this a BUNCH of papers, my understanding, questions I had to generate this article. It's fun and...

Sunday, 09 November 2025 16:00

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16 minute read

How Neural Machine Translation Actually Works: A Developer's Guide
If you've been following this blog, you know I'm a bit obsessed with machine translation. I've written about using EasyNMT, building background translation services, and even improving EasyNMT. But I...

Sunday, 09 November 2025 14:30

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23 minute read

Docker Development Deep Dive: From Basics to Advanced .NET Containerization
Docker has fundamentally transformed how we build, ship, and run applications. What started as a simple containerization tool has evolved into a complete ecosystem for modern application development...

Sunday, 09 November 2025 14:00

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49 minute read

Keeping State Between Requests in ASP.NET Core: A Practical, No‑Nonsense Guide (MVC, Razor Pages, Minimal APIs)
UPDATE (2025-11-10): Added more practical examples from my actual codebase showing real-world patterns, trade-offs, gotchas, and the evolution from simple to sophisticated state management approaches....

Sunday, 09 November 2025 12:33

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53 minute read

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