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 with Docling - a powerful document processing library that…
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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 concurrent execution patterns (in TINY 5-10 line packages). Get…
How many times have you been blocked waiting for backend APIs to be ready? Or spent hours maintaining brittle mock data that becomes stale the moment requirements change? Enter mostlylucid.mockllmapi - a production-ready ASP.NET Core mocking platform that uses…
A tiny primitive that turns concurrent work into a coordinated, adaptive system. "The Ephemeral Signals Pattern" In Part 1 we built ephemeral execution - bounded, private, self-cleaning async workflows. In Part 2 we turned that into a reusable library with…
In Part 1: Fire and Don't Quite Forget, we explored the theory behind ephemeral execution - bounded, private, debuggable async workflows that remember just enough to be useful and then evaporate. This article turns that pattern into a reusable library you can…
Most async systems either remember too much (logs, queues, persisted junk you never wanted)… or they remember nothing at all (fire-and-forget black holes that vanish the moment something goes wrong). This article introduces something different: A pattern where…
Most systems degrade when overloaded. Memory fills up, queries slow down, users complain, servers crash. A few unusual ones get better. This article shows how an LRU-based behavioural memory becomes self-optimising when it hits capacity - and how this pattern…
Most software architectures assume the system is static. DiSE assumes the system is alive. Note: This is Part 4 in the "Cooking with DiSE" series. See Part 1, Part 2: Graduated Apprenticeships, and Part 3: Untrustworthy Gods for background. This article is the…
Scrapers are about to start using AI to mimic real users - so I built a bot detector that learns, adapts, and fights back. Read Part 2: How Bots Got Smarter - The New Frontier in Bot Detection 👉 See It Live: StyloBot.net - This is the real production system…
By someone who can't stop analysing patterns, even their own. As the category says, this is a far more personal essay than my usual work. I don't mind if you skip it...but if it resonates leave a comment! I read them all (and it needn't be public). <!-- [TOC]…
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