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Notes on software, AI, and the craft of building things — typed systems, agentic tools, and the occasional detour.
The Boat License That Made Me Hand-Roll a RAG Chatbot
How studying for the French permis bateau côtier pushed me into building my own RAG pipeline — zero-dependency parsing, Voyage embeddings, a Mistral knowledge graph, and DuckDB — after — discovering that even top LLMs flunk basic navigation questions.
- RAG
- Python
- DuckDB
- LLM
- ·TypeScript
Effect.ts: The TypeScript Standard Library That Finally Clicked (Thank AI for That)
How Effect.ts went from 'syntax nightmare' to 'must-have in every TypeScript project' — thanks to AI-assisted coding, the best DI system in the ecosystem, and the standard library TypeScript always deserved.
- #Effect.ts
- #TypeScript
- #AI assisted coding
- #Dependency Injection
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LLM Privacy Policies Compared: What Data Do Providers Keep — and Can They Train on It?
A deep dive into the privacy policies of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Mistral, Qwen, DeepSeek, and Proton Lumo — comparing chat vs API, free vs paid.
- #AI
- #Privacy
- #LLM
- #Data Protection
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Automating My Daily Life with Hermes Agent
How I went from skeptical to relying on an AI assistant for daily routines
- #AI
- #Automation
- #Nix
- #Discord
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DishNow: From Idea to MVP
Building a recipe management PWA that solves real everyday cooking problems
- #PWA
- #Nuxt
- #Side Project
- #Vue
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RAVE: The Full-Stack Rust Template That Respects Your TypeScript
Rust backend, TypeScript frontend, one binary, zero friction
- #Rust
- #Axum
- #TypeScript
- #Full-stack
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