Chris Schmitz ccschmitz

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.

Installing an SSL certificate on Apache

Create a private key:

openssl genrsa 2048 > private-key.pem

Create a Certificate Signing Request (CSR):

Data Migrations in Rails Apps

If you need to manipulate existing data when your code is deployed, there are two main ways to do it:

Create a rake task to migrate the data after the code is deployed. This is ideal for more complex data migrations.
Use ActiveRecord models in a migration. This is acceptable for smaller data manipulations.

Regardless of the method you use, make sure to test your migrations before submitting them.

	Rspec.configure do \|config\|
	# ... all our other config ...

	Capybara.register_driver :selenium_chrome do \|app\|
	options = Selenium::WebDriver::Chrome::Options.new
	options.add_extension(Rails.root.join('spec', 'chrome_extensions', 'react-devtools.crx'))
	options.add_extension(Rails.root.join('spec', 'chrome_extensions', 'redux-devtools.crx'))

	chrome_options = {
	browser: :chrome,

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>

	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
	<title>Normal Plot</title>
	<meta name="description" content="">
	<script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
	<style type="text/css">

	<ul class="some-list" ng-controller="someListController">
	<li ng-repeat="item in items">{{item.name}}</li>
	</ul>

	<ul class="pagination-links">
	<li ng-repeat="page in totalPages">
	<a ng-click="getItems(page)">{{page}}</a>
	</li>
	</ul>

	/**
	* Your Stylesheet
	*
	* This stylesheet is loaded when Atom starts up and is reloaded automatically
	* when it is changed.
	*
	* If you are unfamiliar with LESS, you can read more about it here:
	* http://www.lesscss.org
	*/

	<div id="fb-root"></div>
	<script>
	function showDiscountCode(response) {
	// if they unliked you...
	if (response && response.state === 'off') {
	hideDiscountCode();
	} else {
	$('.discount-code').slideDown('slow');
	}
	}

	// Use Gists to store code you would like to remember later on
	console.log(window); // log the "window" object to the console

	namespace :spree_tools do
	desc "Generate random coupon codes in bulk."
	task :generate_coupons => :environment do
	puts "How many codes would you like to generate?"
	number_of_codes = STDIN.gets.strip.to_i

	puts "\nHow much would you like this discount to be for?"
	amount = STDIN.gets.strip.to_f

	puts "\nWhat product should this promotion apply for? (use product name)"

Chris Schmitz ccschmitz

LLM Wiki

The core idea

Installing an SSL certificate on Apache

Data Migrations in Rails Apps

Data Migrations in Models