A while back I built Synapse, a small app that answers questions using my own notes. I did every part of it by hand: load the files, turn them into vectors, find the closest ones to the question, and hand those to an LLM. It worked, and I understood ...

After finishing my JavaScript refresher, TypeScript was next. I’ve used TypeScript before, so I went into this thinking it would mostly be a case of reminding myself of things I already knew. That was partly true. The basic stuff came back pretty ...

I’ve been revisiting JavaScript recently. Not because I’ve never used it before, but because I realised there were a lot of things I could recognise when I saw them in code without feeling fully confident that I understood them properly. That disti...

Yesterday, I took the time to go through 31 pages of my own notes on NLP, notes I had carefully created during an AI engineering course. However, I found that I understood very little of it. It felt odd and disheartening to have written something d...