Stories by softwaredoug

The Invisible Layers Holding Games Back [video]

The Problem with Left-Wing NIMBYism [video]

Let the Clicks Speak: A Simple Score for Popularity-Driven Ranking

Three mistakes of new AI teams

Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful, US judge rules

Updating a vector database is no simple thing

The Remote Work Challenge: Lessons from 5 Cities

Ingo Swann

Namespace Branching

AI slop is swamping a House office that drafts US laws

Filtered Vector Search: What Acorn Fixes, and What Fixes Acorn

How Not To Program in C++ (2003) [pdf]

The Qdrant Output Connector

Elasticsearch Hybrid Search Recipes – Benchmarked (2025)

Don't classify, hallucinate

How do we prove our newsroom isn't AI?

Christopher Nolan's Collapsing Worlds

I Added Hybrid Search to Fix Retrieval. It Made It Worse

Just brute force your embeddings

Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise

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