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Alex Jacobs

alex-jacobs.com

Technical blog by Alex Jacobs covering AI/LLM engineering, Python, RAG architectures, vector databases, and full-stack development

AI / MLPythonDatabases

’22’23’24’25’26
Posts
14 from 3 Apr 2022 to 19 Aug 2026
Posting
now and then (3 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 3

  1. I Am Morally Opposed to Updating My CLAUDE.md
  2. 42 Is Not a Random Number
  3. Beating BERT? Small LLMs vs Fine-Tuned Encoders for Classification

2025 4

  1. The Case Against pgvector
  2. A Production Framework for LLM Feature Evaluation
  3. A Computer Made This
  4. RAG: From Context Injection to Knowledge Integration

2024 1

  1. Python Async Programming: A Deep Dive into async/await and the Event Loop

2023 2

  1. Integration Testing FastAPI: Mocking Auth, MongoDB, S3, and External APIs
  2. CheeseGPT

2022 4

  1. Effective Error Handling
  2. Running Jupyter Lab Behind NGINX: Authentication and Securing the Proxy (Part 2)
  3. Running Jupyter Lab Behind NGINX: Reverse Proxy Setup with Docker (Part 1)
  4. Splitting SRA into FASTQ with SRAToolkit, Python, and Docker