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Are you sure OneDrive has got your back(up)?

OneDrive has a huge, blind hole if you're using it in/as your backup strategy. It silently fails if you have too many files.

Banger: A Local Photo Culler That Doesn't Touch the Cloud

A files-only photo culler for the laptop. CLIP embeddings, MMR diversity, ArcFace identity clustering, and a Ridge regressor trained on your own taste. Copies keepers out, never edits the originals.

Does RAG Actually Help AI Coding Tools?

I benchmarked Claude Code and GitHub Copilot on the same model with and without RAG-powered semantic search across 60 queries. Both tools search equally well — but RAG cuts token consumption by 23% and helps on the hardest queries.

What's Actually in a Litre of Diesel

Brent crude hit $119.50, then crashed to $88, then bounced to $90, all in 48 hours. Your fuel bill moved 5p. The anatomy of a diesel price, why wars move it less than you'd think, and why the Chancellor is still a bigger threat than Iran.

It's Just Weights

A tiny neural network reproduces the Cortical Labs CL1 DOOM demo in your browser. 132 parameters vs 200,000 biological neurons.

goformersearch: Vector Search in Pure Go

Brute-force and HNSW nearest-neighbour search with zero dependencies. When to use which, backed by data.

goformer: BERT Inference in Pure Go

Loading HuggingFace models without leaving Go. No CGO, no ONNX, no Python.

Bitwise Cloud: Hosted Search for Embedded Documentation

Taking the bitwise-mcp local search tool and turning it into a hosted multi-tenant platform with a web app, REST API, and plugin marketplace.