notes from the build log.
write-ups on the systems i've had to understand well enough to explain: scrapers, agents, retrieval, and the glue between them.
posts
- ten portals, one morningsep 18, 2026
what it takes to watch procurement sites that were never built to be watched.
- when the agent should stop talkingjul 2, 2026
the handoff rule that made small-business owners trust an ai with their inbox.
- a control surface in the notchmay 21, 2026
building latch, and why the hook forwarder is the most important part of it.
- rag that never leaves the machinenov 12, 2025
a personal knowledge base on chromadb and ollama, and what offline forced me to get right.
- "is that cpu enough?"mar 4, 2025
rewriting follow-up questions before retrieval, and why it fixed more than a bigger model did.