Josh McKenna ag14spirit

LLM Wiki

A pattern for building personal knowledge bases using LLMs.

This is an idea file, it is designed to be copy pasted to your own LLM Agent (e.g. OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode / Pi, or etc.). Its goal is to communicate the high level idea, but your agent will build out the specifics in collaboration with you.

The core idea

Most people's experience with LLMs and documents looks like RAG: you upload a collection of files, the LLM retrieves relevant chunks at query time, and generates an answer. This works, but the LLM is rediscovering knowledge from scratch on every question. There's no accumulation. Ask a subtle question that requires synthesizing five documents, and the LLM has to find and piece together the relevant fragments every time. Nothing is built up. NotebookLM, ChatGPT file uploads, and most RAG systems work this way.

Vaultwarden Debian 11 Install

This is how I installed the Rust implementation of bitwarden into a Proxmox Debian 11 LXC Container. It should work on any Debian 11 install (virtual or metal). I dislike running docker inside LXC containers for obvious reasons, so this is how I did it.

References

Prepare Base System

$ sudo apt update

Excel formulas to calculate IP values - Works in Excel and Google Sheet.

Updated 2023-12-11: Hosts calculation updated to support CIDR or 31 and 32.

Prerequisites:

A1 contains an IP address, such as 10.0.0.2
B1 contains the number of bits in the netmask (CIDR) such as 24

The below formulas then go into C1, D1 etc. to perform the various calculations. Some calculations depends on other calculations.

SC1000 $ is not used specially and should therefore be escaped.
SC1001 This \o will be a regular 'o' in this context.
SC1003 Want to escape a single quote? echo 'This is how it'\''s done'.
SC1004 This backslash+linefeed is literal. Break outside single quotes if you just want to break the line.
SC1007 Remove space after = if trying to assign a value (or for empty string, use var='' ... ).
SC1008 This shebang was unrecognized. ShellCheck only supports sh/bash/dash/ksh. Add a 'shell' directive to specify.
SC1009 The mentioned parser error was in ...
SC1010 Use semicolo

Example Git Branching Diagram

You can use this diagram as a template to create your own git branching diagrams. Here's how:

Create a new diagram with diagrams.net (formerly draw.io)
Go to File > Open From > URL
Insert this url (it points to the xml data below): https://gist.githubusercontent.com/bryanbraun/8c93e154a93a08794291df1fcdce6918/raw/bf563eb36c3623bb9e7e1faae349c5da802f9fed/template-data.xml
Customize as needed for your team.

Unofficial Bash Strict Mode

Sometimes a programming language has a "strict mode" to restrict unsafe constructs. E.g., Perl has use strict, Javascript has "use strict", and Visual Basic has Option Strict. But what about bash? Well, bash doesn't have a strict mode as such, but it does have an unofficial strict mode:

set -euo pipefail

set -e

Ctrl + Alt + Space

	// Copyright 2020 Google LLC
	//
	// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
	// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
	// You may obtain a copy of the License at
	//
	// https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
	//
	// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
	// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

	// Column names in sheet.
	const EMAIL = 'Email';
	const GOOGLE_GROUP = 'Google Group';
	const ALLOWED = 'Allowed';
	const EMAIL_TEMPLATE_DOC_URL = 'Email template doc URL';
	const EMAIL_SUBJECT = 'Email subject';
	const EMAIL_STATE = 'Email state';

	// These represent whether an email was sent or not for a given row.
	const EMAIL_STATE_VALUE = {

	const MY_DOMAIN = "agodrich.com"
	const START_PAGE = "https://www.notion.so/gatsby-starter-notion-2c5e3d685aa341088d4cd8daca52fcc2"
	const DISQUS_SHORTNAME = "agodrich"

	addEventListener('fetch', event => {
	event.respondWith(fetchAndApply(event.request))
	})

	const corsHeaders = {
	"Access-Control-Allow-Origin": "*",