Sam's space

Plato and animal rights

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

What would have Socrates said about veganism and animal rights?

Reviving Flaubert - a chatbot from his letters

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

For the past months I’ve been chatting with Gustave Flaubert. Or rather: with the voice of his letters.

Introduction to RAG

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems have become the backbone of modern AI applications that need to combine the power of large language models (LLMs) with up-to-date, reliable, and custom information.

nvolt - think in graphs

Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

About a month ago I wrote a short post about nvolt, my little experiment in building a personal knowledge vault. Since then, the project has grown up a bit. It’s still a tool for storing and searching your notes and documents, but now it’s got a few new tricks up its sleeve.

why not vegan? - data-driven answers to common arguments

Sat, 10 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I am tired of seeing the same anti-vegan arguments recycled online.

nvolt - your ai knowledge vault

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A couple of hours, a couple of coffees, and a couple of nerds – that’s all it took to spin up a little PoC called nvolt. This time, I wasn’t alone: Soma (hargitaisoma.hu) joined the fun, and together we built something that scratches a very specific itch.

supercharging my workflow with cursor ide

Sat, 15 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been experimenting with ai-assisted coding a lot. After trying some options, I’ve settled on Cursor as my daily driver - a VS Code fork turbocharged with ai capabilities that has fundamentally changed how I approach work.

ai news aggregator

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I recently built a small and opinionated AI news aggregator site (ai.samu.space) to help filter through the noise and find meaningful AI-related news and research. The project took about 3-4 hours to put together, leveraging FastAPI, React, news APIs and OpenAI’s API.

Code execution

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve added a feature to my flashcard site that I’m really excited about. It’s something that I think will be a game-changer for my little flashcard app, especially for those users who, like me, are always trying to level up their programming skills. I’m talking about code execution.

What to learn as a backend dev - 2025 edition

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Note This is an updated version of a post I wrote five years ago. It has been rewritten to include technologies from the past five years and also emphasizes the knowledge (tools and technologies) regarding LLMs.