Constrained Fuzziness: A Control System Pattern for Probabilistic Components

The Pattern That Kept Emerging It started with my blog's translation tool. The cache kept only 5 tasks per user, with 6-hour absolute and 1-hour sliding expiration. Sixth task? Oldest evicted. After an hour of inactivity, everything expired. Most developers…

Deterministic Voice Forms with Blazor and Local LLMs

A Ten Commandments–Compliant Architecture In which we build a voice-to-form system that doesn't hand the keys to the AI kingdom Here's the thing about voice interfaces: everyone wants them, nobody trusts them. And they're right not to. Most voice forms fail…

DocSummarizer Part 5 - lucidRAG: Multi-Document RAG Web Application

This is Part 5 of the DocSummarizer series, and it's also the culmination of the GraphRAG series and Semantic Search series. We're combining everything into a deployable web application. 🚨🚨 PREVIEW ARTICLE 🚨🚨 Still working out some kinks and adding…

Zero PII Customer Intelligence - Part 1: The Philosophy

What This Series Builds This series builds a working ecommerce system that proves you can have sophisticated customer intelligence without storing personal information. What We Build How It Works Semantic segmentation Vector embeddings group similar interests…

Zero PII Customer Intelligence - Part 1.1: Generating Sample Data (and Images) Locally

In Part 1 we covered the philosophy: transparent segmentation without PII. Part 2 covers session profiles, signals, and segment definitions. But first: how do you validate any of this without ever touching real customer data? For this series I generate a…