Hi, I’m Samuel. I’m documenting my DevRel journey as I live it.
This space is where I share thoughts, experiments, wins, and hard lessons from doing developer relations in real time. No heavy tooling. Just honest reflection and practical notes from the field.
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I benchmarked 5 embedding models across 4 datasets
I benchmarked five embedding models across four NanoBEIR datasets and found that bigger embeddings did not always produce better retrieval.
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Why reranking matters with cross-encoders
Bi-encoders make retrieval fast, but cross-encoders expose why reranking matters when meaning depends on the query.
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A beginner-friendly guide to the GGUF model format
GGUF made local LLM inference feel practical by packaging model weights, vocabulary, hyperparameters, and architecture metadata into one runnable format.