"Isn't DiSE Just Voyager?" - Why Structure Beats Brilliance

My system, DiSE, is a self-optimizing, self-assembling, software engineering grounded workflow builder. It generates testable code artifacts, evaluates them objectively, and evolves them over time without constant human supervision. But here's the thing:…

Resurrecting My Old Blog with Archive.org and a Lot of C#

So you might have noticed hundreds of "new" blog posts appearing recently. Well, they're not new at all - they're OLD. Like, 2004 old. I finally built a tool to rescue my content from the digital graveyard that was my old blog at mostlylucid.co.uk. Why…

A Word On Licensing Content From This Site.

Just a very quick response to a query someone had. Even though it says "© Scott Galloway 2024" at the bottom it's technically incorrect (well copyright is automatic but YOU have the absolute right to do what you want with it). The entire goal of this site is…

Under Pressure: How Queueing Systems Handle Backpressure with Examples in C#

Backpressure is the unsung hero of distributed systems. It's what keeps your queues from bursting at the seams when producers are firing messages faster than consumers can chew through them. Put simply: it's the system saying "hold on a moment" when things get…

Self-Hosted Vector Databases with Qdrant: A Deep Dive

📖 Related to the RAG Series: This article provides a deep dive into Qdrant, the vector database used in: Part 4: ONNX & Qdrant Implementation - Building semantic search Part 5: Hybrid Search & Auto-Indexing - Production integration Qdrant (pronounced…