Building a Perplexity Clone with 100 lines of code

Apr 15, 2024 AI, Open Source, LLM, Software Engineering, Just For Fun

AI search apps like Perplexity.ai are really cool. They use an LLM to answer your questions, but pull in real-time search results to augment the answer (eg RAG) and list citations. I wanted to know how it works and decided to build my own version. Getting it to work is surprisingly simple and...

Recreating my Site as a 90s Webpage

Dec 22, 2022 Web Development, Just For Fun

I revisited the look of early web design by recreating my home page with a 90s theme. Drawing inspiration from iconic sites like Space Jam, I incorporated classic elements such as gif badges, pixelated fonts, and dithered images to capture the era's distinct look.

The Wisdom of David Henke

Nov 30, 2015 External Writing, LinkedIn, Leadership, Just For Fun

A hero to the engineering and operations world, here’s a collection of some of David Henke’s greatest quotes and sayings like “you are only as good as your lieutenants” and “what part of 24/7 don’t you understand?”.

Fantasy football drafter GUI

Dec 23, 2009 Fantasy Football, Java, Open Source, Just For Fun, Draft Punk

Last football (fantasy) season, my league had a live draft. I didn’t want to do the old magazines, web printouts, highlighter, scratch paper, etc deal, so I decided to write a simple GUI that showed me the fantasy ranks from various online sports sites. Of course, once a player is removed, I ...

Burkard Keller Trees

Nov 10, 2009 Algorithms, Java, Open Source, Just For Fun

Implemented the BK Tree the algorithm myself in Java and posted the result to google code