I've been running this blog for a while now, writing detailed technical articles on ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework, HTMX, and all sorts of .NET goodness. Yet my search rankings were... underwhelming....
Wednesday, 26 November 2025 14:00
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10 minute read
"We're building an AI-powered knowledge assistant that will revolutionise how our employees access information..."
— Every job advert, pitch deck, and consultancy proposal in...
Wednesday, 26 November 2025 09:00
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29 minute read
Want to get nice, descriptive alt text for images on your sites or jsut extract text from them? mostlylucid.llmalttext uses Microsoft's Florence-2 vision language model to generate high-quality alt...
Tuesday, 25 November 2025 14:00
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12 minute read
📖 Part of the RAG Series: This is Part 4a - core implementation:
Part 1: RAG Origins and Fundamentals - What embeddings are, why they matter
Part 2: RAG Architecture and Internals - Chunking,...
Tuesday, 25 November 2025 11:00
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23 minute read
Well I finally wrote an app to use Archive.org to fetch all the old content from my first blog. Which ended in 2010. mostlylucid.co.uk.
Apparently I changed the server AND how I updated it throughout...
Monday, 24 November 2025 23:00
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2 minute read
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Introduction
📖 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...
Monday, 24 November 2025 20:41
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15 minute read
My system, DiSE, is a self-optimizing, self-assembling, software engineering grounded workflow builder. It generates testable code artifacts, evaluates them objectively, and evolves them over time...
Monday, 24 November 2025 18:00
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16 minute read
So you might have noticed hundreds of "new" blog posts appearing recently. Well, they're not new at all - they're OLD. Like, 2004 old. I finally built a tool to rescue my content from the digital...
Monday, 24 November 2025 12:00
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10 minute read
Running MigrateAsync() at startup? You're giving your app database owner rights and hoping nothing goes wrong. There's a better way - EF migration bundles let you run migrations as a controlled CI...
Sunday, 23 November 2025 18:39
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10 minute read
Just a very quick response to a query someone had. Even though it says "© Scott Galloway 2024" at the bottom it's technically incorrect (well copyright is automatic but YOU have the absolute right to...
Sunday, 23 November 2025 18:39
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Less than a minute
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...
Sunday, 23 November 2025 14:00
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17 minute read
📖 Related to the RAG Series: This article provides a deep dive into Qdrant, the vector database used in:
Part 4: ONNX & Qdrant Implementation - Building semantic search
Part 5: Hybrid Search &...
Sunday, 23 November 2025 13:00
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9 minute read
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...
Sunday, 23 November 2025 10:35
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19 minute read
Why treating your branch as a sandbox—and play as legitimate work—produces better software with less stress.
Hot take: Most developers are trying to be perfect at every stage of development, and it's...
Sunday, 23 November 2025 10:00
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20 minute read
📖 Part of the RAG Series: This is Part 5 - production integration patterns:
Part 1: RAG Origins and Fundamentals - What embeddings are, why they matter
Part 2: RAG Architecture and Internals -...
Saturday, 22 November 2025 12:00
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8 minute read
In Part 1 of this RAG series, we covered the fundamentals of Retrieval-Augmented Generation—what it is, how it works, and the underlying technology (embeddings, vector databases, LLM internals). Now...
Saturday, 22 November 2025 10:00
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20 minute read
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we covered RAG's origins, fundamentals, and technical architecture. You understand what RAG is, why it matters, and how it works under the hood. Now it's time to...
Saturday, 22 November 2025 10:00
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21 minute read
In Part 1, we covered RAG's origins, fundamentals, and why it matters. You understand the high-level concept: retrieve relevant information, then use it to generate responses. Now we dive deep into...
Saturday, 22 November 2025 09:30
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24 minute read
Ever searched for "deployment guide" and got nothing, even though there's an article about "publishing to production"? RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) solves this by understanding meaning, not...
Saturday, 22 November 2025 09:00
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16 minute read
Daily standups aren’t inherently bad — but when they become ritual instead of alignment, they waste time and damage trust. This article explores why ceremony is tax, how to measure its value, and...
Friday, 21 November 2025 09:30
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29 minute read
