DocSummarizer Part 5 - lucidRAG: Multi-Document RAG Web Application

This is Part 5 of the DocSummarizer series, and it's also the culmination of the GraphRAG series and Semantic Search series. We're combining everything into a deployable web application. 🚨🚨 PREVIEW ARTICLE 🚨🚨 Still working out some kinks and adding…

HTMX with ASP.NET Core Partials: The Server-Side Renaissance

If you've built traditional ASP.NET Core MVC applications, you know the problem: that dreaded "click flash" when users navigate between pages. Full page reloads, the browser chrome flickering, content jumping around as the new page renders. It works, but it…

RAG for Implementers: Semantic Search in Action

📖 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, tokenisation, vector databases Part 3: RAG in Practice -…

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: dates, caches, and “why does that work locally but not after…

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 walks through what I built, why a few things went sideways…

PagingTagHelper v1.0.0: Enterprise-Ready Pagination for Modern ASP.NET Core

NOTE: COMING SOON, just putting the finishing touches to it. Follow along on GitHub! . This is just to show you all I AM making progress with this control! It'll be worth the wait. Introduction After months of evolution and valuable feedback from the community…

A Whistle-stop Tour of HTMX Extensions and Using HTMX with ASP.NET Core

HTMX is a powerful JavaScript library that allows you to create dynamic web applications with minimal JavaScript. It enables you to make AJAX requests, swap HTML content, and handle events directly in your HTML attributes. I've been using HTMX for about two…

An Alpine.js and HTMX 'Clear Query String Parameter(s)' tag helper for ASP.NET Core

Just a quick one, I had a need in a work project for the ability to 'clear' URL parameters from a URL. This is useful when you have a URL with multiple parameters, and you want to remove one or more of them (for example for a search filter). The Problem My…

An Auto-Update Partial Updater with Alpine.js and HTMX

So in what's becoming a series, in a work project I wanted to add the ability for a partial to auto-update on a given timescale. Here's how I did it using Alpine.js and HTMX. Requirements So I wanted this to be reusable; so it should be simple and…

Using SweetAlert2 for HTMX Loading indicators (hx-indicator)

On a work project I've been using and abusing HTMX to build an admin UI. As part of this I'm using the lovely SweetAlert2 Javascript library for my confirmation dialogs. It works great but I also wanted to use them to replace my HTMX loading indicators. This…