99% of My Traffic Was Fake
28 million page views. 200K daily uniques. I was about to build an SEO conversion funnel. Then I checked Google Analytics and found 121K visitors from Lanzhou, China with 0 seconds engagement.
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Thoughts on building systems and products.
Why Hybrid Search Was Returning Garbage
Search 'Sam Altman on AGI' and get 'Here's Sam Altman.' back. I traced the bug through BM25 scoring, kNN retrieval, and a 384-dim embedding model to find out why.
Gas Pipeline Data Sources: EU vs North America
A quick exploration of where to find gas pipeline data across different markets - and why the EU is ahead on transparency.
Building the First MCP Integration for Claude
How I built Audioscrape's MCP server in Rust to let Claude search through 1M+ hours of podcasts in real-time.
Building Real-Time Trading Systems with Kafka
Lessons from 3 years building gas trading platforms with Kafka. Architecture patterns, pitfalls, and what actually works in production.
Kafka REST Proxy: Lessons from an Enterprise Integration
What I learned integrating with Kafka via REST Proxy in an enterprise environment - and why you should probably go native instead.
EmbedElite on Microsoft DevBlog: A Game-Changer for Context Retrieval
Our EmbedElite plugin was featured on the Microsoft Semantic Kernel blog after winning the hackathon.