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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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DocSummarizer Part 4 - Building RAG Pipelines
NuGet npm .NET Node.js This is Part 4 of the DocSummarizer series. See Part 1 for the architecture, Part 2 for the CLI tool, or Part 3 for the deep dive on embeddings. The hard part of RAG isn't the...

Tuesday, 30 December 2025 17:00

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16 minute read

Why You Probably Shouldn't Use Microservices (Yet)
Microservices have become the default "serious system" architecture. If you want to sound mature, you talk about service meshes, event buses, distributed tracing, and "independent deployability". If...

Monday, 29 December 2025 20:00

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23 minute read

HTTP Over the Decades: A Story of Physics, Latency, and Grudging Adaptation
HTTP didn't evolve. It was forced to change by physics, latency, and misuse. Every version exists because the previous one hit a hard constraint. If you understand those constraints, you understand...

Sunday, 28 December 2025 18:00

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23 minute read

No, Small Models Are Not the "Budget Option"
Small and local LLMs are often framed as the cheap alternative to frontier models. That framing is wrong. They are not a degraded version of the same thing. They are a different architectural choice,...

Sunday, 28 December 2025 16:00

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GraphRAG Part 2: Minimum Viable GraphRAG
In Part 1, we explored why GraphRAG matters. Now let's build a minimum viable GraphRAG with three extraction modes: Mode LLM Calls Best For Heuristic (default) 0 per chunk Fast indexing, structured...

Saturday, 27 December 2025 14:00

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13 minute read

GraphRAG: Why Vector Search Breaks Down at the Corpus Level
Your RAG system is great at "needle" questions: retrieve a few relevant chunks and synthesise an answer. It struggles with two common query types: Sensemaking: "What are the main themes across this...

Friday, 26 December 2025 12:00

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21 minute read

Probability Is Not a System: The Ten Commandments of LLM Use
I keep seeing the same failure mode in "AI-powered" systems: LLMs are being asked to do jobs we already solved decades ago - badly, probabilistically, and without guarantees. This isn't cutting edge....

Thursday, 25 December 2025 12:40

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15 minute read

DataSummarizer: Fast Local Data Profiling
Most “chat with your data” systems make the same mistake: they treat an LLM as if it were a database. They shove rows into context, embed chunks, or pick “representative samples” and hope the model...

Monday, 22 December 2025 18:30

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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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30 minute read

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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21 minute read

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