Nick K articles - 22 total
Org-Level Email Campaigns are Somehow an Unsolved Problem
Defining the Goal We launched new community discord and slack bots recently at Mintlify...
How I Use Claude Code on My Phone with Termux and Tailscale
There's a mini gold rush to put Claude Code on your phone. Some startups are building custom apps,...
Respect Content Negotiation to serve Markdown instead of HTML to LLMs
Agents don't need to see websites with markup and styling; anything other than plain Markdown is just...
Building SSR with Vite: A Custom getStaticProps Replacement
For the complete source code of our implementation, check out the clients/react-server/ directory in...
How I Snagged `patron.com` and Why You Should Just Ship It 🚀
The Plot Twist That Changed Everything Picture this: It's 2022, I'm fresh out of college...
Why VPS Rocks for Quick Deployments: My Story + Build an LLM-over-DNS agent in Under 30 Mins!
My most valuable skill as a hacker/entrepreneur? Being confident enough to deploy random stuff that...
Debugging a mysterious HTTP streaming issue
We recently encountered a frustrating issue with HTTP response streaming at Mintlify. Our system uses...
The Bug That Drove Me So Crazy, I Got Hired Just to Fix It
The Itch I Couldn't Scratch Picture this: You're searching through documentation, typing...
From side project idea to Hacker News front page: A 7,112 user retrospective
I was burnt out from my startup and wanted to recover some of my creative energy, so I decided to...
How to Build Agentic RAG for any PDF in 10 minutes
Introduction Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has revolutionized how we build AI...
Beyond the Hype: A Look at 5+ AI Coding Agents for Your Terminal
If you're looking to supercharge your development workflow on the terminal, you've got options – lots...
Web Developer's Guide to Midjourney
Midjourney's learning curve is steep, but climbing it unlocks a superpower for developers and...
How to Build Agentic Rag in Rust
The Problem: RAG That Searches for Everything Traditional RAG systems have a glaring...
LLM Codegen go Brrr – Parallelization with Git Worktrees and Tmux
If you're underwhelmed with AI coding agents or simply want to get more out of them, give...
Cheating at Search with LLMs
We've been doing this thing for a while at Trieve that we've been calling "cheating at Search with...
Building a Retro Neo-Brutalist UI Library with Astro
I've recently embarked on a fun project: launching a new website with a retro neo-brutalist 8-bit...
Building an Open Source Alternative to Patreon in 100 days
I just launched a new GitHub repo at patroninc/patron to build an open-source Patreon alternative in...
Accurate Hallucination Detection With NER
Using a LLM-as-a-judge for hallucinations is slow and imprecise relative to simple NER. We share...
Stop Gaslighting Me - AI Won't Replace Human Devs Anytime Soon
I have seen lots of recent discussion that goes something like this: AI is going to build your...
PGVector's Missing Features
Trieve's infrastructure contains both Postgres and a dedicated search engine which is not ideal. It...
Launching our JS/TS SDK for AI Search and RAG
If you have used Trieve in a JavaScript application, you probably know that you need to make most of...
How we Built 300μs Typo Correction for 1.3M Words in Rust
We launched our Hacker News search and RAG engine with a half-baked typo correction system. Our first...