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Ralph-looping Claude to build a DOCX editor in js from scratch

Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

At Eigenpal, one of our core pipelines maps unstructured data into templated Word documents. We rely on on the backend, and for a while we…... Read more >>>

Elasticsearch MCP Server: Chat with your Index

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Access to external knowledge plays a crucial role in improving LLM responses in modern AI workflows. But managing context efficiently…... Read more >>>

How to Implement Featured Snippets for Search Applications

Sat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Featured Snippets really stand out to me as a feature in Google search. They are displayed at the top of results for certain search queries,…... Read more >>>

3D Printing an Aerobar Armrest Riser

Sun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT

This weekend, I experimented with installing aerobars on my gravel bike in preparation for the Warta Gravel, an ultra-endurance race…... Read more >>>

Question Answering with LangChain, HuggingFace, and Elasticsearch

Wed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Let’s build a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline powered by a LLM that can run locally in a notebook. We’ll use the content of…... Read more >>>

Elastic Data Connectors - Elasticsearch Ingestion Made Simple

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT

In any search application, the is an underlying ingestion pipeline that indexes the data. While developers often focus on speedy searches…... Read more >>>

Exploring Apache Lucene - Part 3: Running at Scale

Sat, 16 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Let’s explore real-world solutions that enable us to deploy and operate Apache Lucene at scale and discuss the advantages that a stateless…... Read more >>>

Nrtsearch Tutorial - Indexing Web Content for Search

Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Let’s use nrtsearch - an open-source search engine built by Yelp - to support text search for any website. In this tutorial, I’m using my…... Read more >>>

Exploring Apache Lucene - Part 2: Search and Ranking

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT

In the last post Exploring Apache Lucene - Part 1: The Index, we took a deep dive to look at the building blocks of the Lucene index. Here…... Read more >>>

The Tech Stack of Fast, Free, and Customizable Blog

Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT

To Blog or Not We are living in the digital age - publishing content has never been easier thanks to social platform tech giants. After all,…... Read more >>>

Exploring Apache Lucene - Part 1: The Index

Mon, 16 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT

When I joined Yelp in 2020, as a software engineer, I became part of the Ranking Platform team. The team is responsible for the development…... Read more >>>

Geometric Deep Learning - an overview

Wed, 10 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Non-Euclidean domains Spectral methods Spatial methods Why spatial is better than spectral Introduction by example: GCN implemented in…... Read more >>>