knowledge

A small public knowledge garden — notes I keep on languages, tools, and patterns. Topic-based, not chronological. Each file is meant to stand on its own.

This is the public-facing subset of a larger personal KB. The published files have no personal, machine-specific, or work-context content. New entries will land here as topics come up.

Browse

Start at index.md for a topic-grouped table of contents.

Query it as a RAG corpus

Designed to pair with local-rag, my hybrid (vector + BM25) RAG library. Clone both:

git clone https://github.com/jblenman/local-rag.git
git clone https://github.com/jblenman/knowledge.git

cd local-rag
pip install -r requirements.txt
ollama pull nomic-embed-text

# Point the indexer at this corpus instead of the demo
RAG_CORPUS_ROOT=../knowledge python kb_index.py
RAG_CORPUS_ROOT=../knowledge python kb_search.py "what is reciprocal rank fusion"

The two repos are independent — you can use this corpus with any RAG/search tool, and local-rag can index any markdown corpus.

Contents at a glance

• languages/ — Per-language notes: gotchas, idioms, version compatibility. Two stubs (javascript.md, swift-ios.md) are placeholders waiting for content.
• patterns/ — Reusable design patterns and reference material: SQL Server encryption, view semantics, data-security architecture, LLM prompting philosophy, Windows admin idioms.
• tools/ — Configurations, templates, and reference material for specific tools. Currently just an AGENTS.md template for Codex CLI; more to come.

Contributing back to your own version

Fork it, point your own local-rag instance at the fork, add files in the same structure. No build step — just markdown.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.