John McCabe johnmccabe

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.

This gist has moved to the faasd repo

https://github.com/openfaas/faasd/blob/master/docs/MULTIPASS.md

58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

When making this website, i wanted a simple, reasonable way to make it look good on most displays. Not counting any minimization techniques, the following 58 bytes worked well for me:

main {
  max-width: 38rem;
  padding: 2rem;
  margin: auto;
}

2021 Update: Easiest option is Justin's repo and image

Just run this from your Mac terminal and it'll drop you in a container with full permissions on the Docker VM. This also works for Docker for Windows for getting in Moby Linux VM (doesn't work for Windows Containers).

docker run -it --rm --privileged --pid=host justincormack/nsenter1

more info: https://github.com/justincormack/nsenter1

There are three easy to make mistakes in go. I present them here in the way they are often found in the wild, not in the way that is easiest to understand.

All three of these mistakes have been made in Kubernetes code, getting past code review at least once each that I know of.

Loop variables are scoped outside the loop.

What do these lines do? Make predictions and then scroll down.

func print(pi *int) { fmt.Println(*pi) }

Lambda: standard

# Creating a lambda
l = lambda { |name| "Hi #{name}!" }

# Executing the lambda
l.call("foo") # => Hi foo!

	package main

	import (
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"time"
	)

	func work() error {
	for i := 0; i < 1000; i++ {

	# npm using https for git
	git config --global url."https://github.com/".insteadOf git@github.com:
	git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git://

	# npm using git for https
	git config --global url."git@github.com:".insteadOf https://github.com/
	git config --global url."git://".insteadOf https://

	package main

	import (
	"fmt"
	"os"
	"os/exec"
	"syscall"
	)

	func main() {

	name: "SameServerEntity Example"
	location: localhost
	services:
	- type: org.apache.brooklyn.entity.software.base.SameServerEntity
	id: parent
	name: Parent Entity
	children.startable.mode: background_late

	brooklyn.children:
	- serviceType: org.apache.brooklyn.entity.software.base.VanillaSoftwareProcess