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2026-07-04
belderbos.dev
developer-tools

One Core, Two Interfaces, No Rewrites

Developer builds Ask the Canon with a functional core shared by CLI and web interfaces, using caching and pre-warming to avoid latency on first request. The architecture separates ranking logic from pā€¦

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2026-06-30
belderbos.dev
artificial-intelligence

Ask the Canon: Semantic Search Without a Vector Database

Developer built Ask the Canon, a semantic search engine over 100 public-domain books, using Hugging Face and NumPy without a vector database or external AI APIs. The system loads 79,292 passages as a ā€¦

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