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2026 Week 06 - Search and mixture of models

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Brett Dargan
Brett Dargan
Tech Co-Founder | Architect | Strategist

2026W06

Trying out Opencode with direct xAI provider.

Interesting paper on search / retrieval

Superlink bm25 and mixture of models.

GitHub - parthsarthi03/raptor: The official implementation of RAPTOR: Recursive Abstractive Processing for Tree-Organized Retrieval Airbnb Search Benchmarking - Comparison of retrieval techniques | VectorHub by Superlinked

Way back we used Elasticsearch for hotel search at Wotif.com, interesting this approach with mixing of models.

On Local-First

Watched an intewview with jamsocket creator in my local-first readings, plane is super interesting.

RAG from scratch

Safety

Blog reboot

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Brett Dargan
Brett Dargan
Tech Co-Founder | Architect | Strategist

Hello 2026!

It’s 2026, time to reboot the blog; unlearn and contemplate…

What skills can I learn/apply/refine to continue to add value and be useful in our ever evolving world? - There is certainly no lack of choice, I mean what a time to be alive!

Autonomous cars, AI, Robotics, data-centers in space. Climbing up that Kardashev_scale. Almost sounds like a Dr Who season teaser!

Last year I learnt my editor for the next 10-20 years in nvim.

I’ve tired of TS, sure I’ll have to use it as needed, but I’m really keen to learn new programming languages.

  1. Zig seems pretty useful and sounds more fun than Rust. It seems super versatile, not sure if I’ll be able to use it at work :(

  2. Gleam chosen for curiousity and a thirst for a statically typed functional programming that can target the Beam run-time or javascript - sounds interesting.