Backpressure is the unsung hero of distributed systems. It's what keeps your queues from bursting at the seams when producers are firing messages faster than consumers can chew through them. Put simply: it's the system saying "hold on a moment" when things get…
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When you've been blogging since 2004 (yes, really), you accumulate a lot of digital detritus. I recently imported my old posts from 2004-2009 ( https://www.mostlylucid.net/blog/category/Imported) and discovered that approximately everything was broken.…
When I first integrated Umami analytics into my blog platform, I quickly ran into a frustrating reality: Umami's API documentation is... let's be charitable and call it "minimal." Error messages are cryptic at best, non-existent at worst. Parameters change…
WARNING: THESE ARE DRAFT POSTS WHICH 'ESCAPED'. It's likely much of what's below won't work; I generate these as how-to for ME and then do all the steps and get the sample app working...You've been sneaky and seen them! they'll likely be ready mid-December.…
WARNING: THESE ARE DRAFT POSTS WHICH 'ESCAPED'. It's likely much of what's below won't work; I generate these as how-to for ME and then do all the steps and get the sample app working...You've been sneaky and seen them! they'll likely be ready mid-December.…
WARNING: THESE ARE DRAFT POSTS WHICH 'ESCAPED'. It's likely much of what's below won't work; I generate these as how-to for ME and then do all the steps and get the sample app working...You've been sneaky and seen them! they'll likely be ready mid-December.…
WARNING: THESE ARE DRAFT POSTS WHICH 'ESCAPED'. It's likely much of what's below won't work; I generate these as how-to for ME and then do all the steps and get the sample app working...You've been sneaky and seen them! they'll likely be ready mid-December.…
Welcome to Part 4! We've set up our GPU (Part 2), understand embeddings and vector databases (Part 3), and have the overall architecture (Part 1). Now it's time to build the ingestion pipeline - the system that processes all your blog posts and makes them…
Welcome to Part 3! We've got our GPU stack working (Part 2), and we understand the architecture (Part 1). Now it's time to dive into the magic that makes semantic search possible: embeddings and vector databases. NOTE: This is part of my experiments with AI…
Welcome to Part 2! In Part 1, we laid out the vision for building a writing assistant that uses your blog as a knowledge base - like how lawyers use LLMs trained on case law to draft documents. Now it's time to get our hands dirty with the foundation: making…
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