Michael Chen mechiland

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.

Example of Kamal deployment from Github Actions.

Add your applications .env variables to the Github repo as a repository secret, you can find this under the repo settings => secrets and variables => actions

https://github.com/username/repo_name/settings/secrets/actions

you are going to need an ssh private key that your deployment server is aware of (add public key to servers .ssh/authorized_keys) and add the ssh private key as a repo secret

create action workflows

Problem

Installing mysql2 gem errors on MacOS Catalina with MySQL 5.7.

Solution

Make sure openssl is installed on Mac via Homebrew.

brew install openssl

For MacOS Catalina, visit Install mysql2 on MacOS Catalina

Problem

Installing mysql2 gem errors on MacOS Mojave.

Solution

Make sure openssl is installed on Mac via Homebrew.

Shadowsocks Proxy

Server-side setup

apt-get install python-pip
pip install shadowsocks

sudo ssserver -p 443 -k password -m aes-256-cfb --user nobody -d start

Docker - How to cleanup (unused) resources

Once in a while, you may need to cleanup resources (containers, volumes, images, networks) ...

delete volumes

// see: https://github.com/chadoe/docker-cleanup-volumes

$ docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -qf dangling=true)

$ docker volume ls -qf dangling=true | xargs -r docker volume rm

	import { randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
	import * as os from "os";
	import Aigle from "aigle";
	import { UtilityProcess, utilityProcess } from "electron";
	import { compact, flatten, values } from "lodash";
	import { z } from "zod";
	import { trpc } from "../trpc";

	type ServerEntry = {
	id: string;

	// Copyright 2017 Palantir Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.
	// Licensed under the BSD-3 License as modified (the “License”); you may obtain a copy
	// of the license at https://github.com/palantir/blueprint/blob/master/LICENSE
	// and https://github.com/palantir/blueprint/blob/master/PATENTS

	@import "~@blueprintjs/core/src/components/forms/common";
	@import "./common";

	// ReactSelect does not conform to our naming scheme
	// stylelint-disable selector-class-pattern

	# !/usr/bin/env python
	# -- coding: utf-8 --

	import sys
	import json
	from urlparse import urlparse, parse_qs

	import requests

	window.addEventListener "trix-initialize", (e) =>
	Utility.TrixMentions.prepare($(e.target))