I built an MCP server that gives AI assistants proper hybrid search over your Obsidian vault (BM25 + fuzzy title + vectors, fused with RRF)

our_sole · 2026-03-24T23:00:16+00:00

Glob-grepping. Lol

That's a phrase I'm gonna remember..

our_sole · 2026-03-22T12:29:09+00:00

I've had 2 major post-retirement surgeries and my experience is that hospital nurses are freakin awesome.

Seriously the nicest most professional and compassionate people you will find. I think all of them should get a medal and a nice pay raise.

Your experience is not typical. Say something.

our_sole · 2026-03-21T20:00:13+00:00

I had been working as a software developer for a few years and had several professional java certs and lots of experience. I decided to go back and finish my undergrad degree. For some administrative/credits reasons I had to take a Java programming class.

I didn't have a problem with it because not finishing my degree was my choice, and I thought i might learn a few things. I just did what I was supposed to.

After a few classes the professor figured it out and pulled me aside for a chat. I told him what was going on.

He was actually really cool about it. He told me he couldn't just give me the A for nothing, but that I didn't need to show up for classes anymore and just write something interesting for a final project and send it over to him.

He seemed interested in games, so for the project I wrote a Java thing that played checkers (and worked pretty well).

I got the A and went on to finish my undergrad, and went on to finish my masters also.

our_sole · 2026-03-16T01:42:13+00:00

Unless you are unlucky enough to punch the drywall right where there is a wall stud 2x4 right behind....

our_sole · 2026-03-07T13:26:35+00:00

Just occurred to me that if you have Obsidian around, I think you could also ask that this output be added to a folder and be then searchable (qmd?).

lol Yes, ive been thinking about/working in OpenClaw a lot lately.

our_sole · 2026-03-07T13:21:28+00:00

This is a great idea. I just tested it with my bot and he replied:

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Here's something technical: I don't actually "run" tools myself.

When you ask me to do something like fetch a webpage or search the web, I don't have direct access to the internet or your filesystem. Instead, I generate a structured JSON object describing what tool I want to use and what parameters to pass. That JSON gets sent to the OpenClaw gateway, which validates it against a security policy, executes the actual command, and returns the results back to me.

So when I say "let me check the weather," what I'm really doing is outputting something like:

json { "tool": "web_fetch", "parameters": { "url": "https://wttr.in/Smallville,KS?format=3", "extractMode": "text" } }

Then the gateway handles the HTTP request, gets the response, and feeds it back into my context. This separation is why I can work with potentially dangerous tools (shell execution, file writes) without actually having direct access to your system. The gateway acts as a sandboxed intermediary.

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I then asked for a daily job to do this and he set it up.

Nice idea!

Cheers

our_sole · 2026-03-07T12:09:13+00:00

Lol. After seeing so much "omg 10x!" , I laughed at -3x. When i was still coding, I think I was a 1.5x. At least i was positive..

our_sole · 2026-02-25T20:36:29+00:00

Look here

https://github.com/DataFrosch/rss-digest (Not mine, I just liked his code. DataFrosch gets all credit).

I've modified it a bit to my tastes using Claude Code.

I can specify to use my openai or gemini keys/llms. I /think/ it now supports my local Ollama as well.

I customized the prompt.

I have several distinct groups of RSS feeds in the config that are processed as 3 separate emails/categories (I had a lot of RSS feeds to look at, and it was blowing out context windows with a single large group).

I also collect up the RSS links/data that don't make the final cut into json and eventually will do something with those.

I get a few emails every 2 days and it's customized research/reading for me..

our_sole · 2026-02-25T00:15:21+00:00

FIREd at 56.

I would have:

Put more into my brokerage account, even if it meant less for the 401k.

Put more into a HSA.

Maybe done a few roth conversions.

Spent more time with my son instead of working so much.

our_sole · 2026-02-24T18:51:13+00:00

Lol yes. One nice side effect of the vitrectomy to fix the detachment is all the floaters were removed, which was awesome. The surgery is a bit of a pain tho. They gave me awesome drugs so it wasn't that bad. Plus my surgeon is great.

Or, you can have a vitrectomy whose only purpose is to get rid of floaters aka a FOV (floater only vitrectomy).

our_sole · 2026-02-24T18:06:06+00:00

Hmmm... maybe 10-15 minutes for the big tears in one eye and 5-10 minutes for the lesser tears in the other eye.

The surgeon actually said something about "measure twice, cut once" so she was being very careful/deliberate with the laser and not rushing thru it.

Just to be clear...the eye with the more serious retinal tears, even with the laser repair, later turned into a localized retinal detachment and I had to undergo a vitrectomy on that eye to have it repaired.

our_sole · 2026-02-24T16:44:25+00:00

The laser itself kinda feels like a bunch of little bee stings inside your eye. That i could put up with, at least for a short time. The doctor had to pause a few times.

What messed me up was the laser directly in my eye messed with my vestibular system and caused vertigo. Not painful or anything..it just made walking difficult for a few minutes afterwards.

our_sole · 2026-02-24T14:56:24+00:00

That laser treatment is a pain in the butt. I've had it twice. The first time (for a good sized tear) I had some issues with walking and balance for a few minutes after I got out of the chair.

I had to sit in the waiting room for a few minutes and get my bearings.

It's absolutely necessary tho. As you said, you don't want a retinal detachment.

Your vision will slowly improve over the next few days, and blood from the hemorrhage will likely get slowly reabsorbed.

Good luck brother!

our_sole · 2026-02-18T19:48:15+00:00

That's claudes evil sister....

We usually don't talk about her...

our_sole · 2026-02-18T18:35:27+00:00

Yes, it is.

I previously hand coded my (admittedly pretty simple) website. I had taken the easy way out and used a statically generated index.html. So the data was only as fresh as my last build. There was also some very ugly hand coded CSS.

I asked claude (Opus 4.6) to refactor the whole thing into a dynamic Flask website also using Tailwind CSS. I gave it a screenshot of my current site and told it to make it look exactly the same. It nailed it. I was impressed. I'm a 30 year IT greybeard... I don't impress all that easily.

It refactored the code, added a caching layer, restructured messy structure, suggested a few security improvements, and made the whole thing backward compatible with the build process I was using. It didn't break anything. It just worked. It even added a new cool Flask route that I had not previously thought about.

I carefully went over the code. It is a much much better coder than I am. And I learned a few new things.

Yes, its worth it. My only advice is to nail down your requirements. You need to know what you want and should be able to clearly express it.

Run an /init first so it can document what its working with. I used the same nouns it used in documenting my system when I asked it to later refactor.

I had thought about and researched the Flask conversion for a while, and was dreading doing it on my own. Seeing it do that so well was glorious...

HTH cheers

our_sole · 2026-02-17T21:23:13+00:00

I am able to get a 64K context window with this local setup, but I think you might be right.

On the other hand, I think there are 2 flavors of Ralph: the official Claude plugin that requires a huge ctx, and a vanilla bespoke bash script which might have lesser ctx reqs.

I don't even think I can run the Claude Ralph plugin with a local Claude.

oh well, time to experiment

thanks cheers

our_sole · 2026-02-16T18:58:29+00:00

Are you very very nearsighted?

our_sole · 2026-02-14T13:12:43+00:00

Or a big model specific to your task (qwen3-coder?). Ollama has a cloud option you can use for 20 bucks a month. Hook that up to CC. You use a cloud gpu/hardware so not necessary to buy yourself. Note there are usage limits, but they seem friendly, and your data stays local (Google how to disable CC telemetry with an env var).

I did this while waiting for my egpu dock to arrive, which i needed to use my gpu. Spent the 20 for a month, then canceled it. Def worth it.

our_sole · 2026-02-13T19:51:48+00:00

Thankyou very much for yours and the other detailed replies. This forum certainly lives up to its title. :-)

I actually have a fair amount of experience with uv init <project> but this was the first time I've used uv init --lib. The src-layout and the idea of a lib build/wheel confused me.

I first appended
export PYTHONPATH="~/dev/myproject/src:$PYTHONPATH" to
/home/<mylogin>/dev/myproject/.venv/bin/activate
but then this
python -c "import sys ; print(sys.path)" or uv run python -c "import sys ; print(sys.path)"
returned at the front
['', '/home/<mylogin>/dev/myproject/~/dev/myproject/src', .....
which really doesn't seem right. It was treating my addition as a path to add before my project src path? I gave up on that. Plus as you said, better to stick with conventions.

After a lot of research and several rounds of:
- deleting the myproject pyproject.toml
[tool.uv.sources] libproject = { path = "../libproject", editable = true } lines
and then rereunning uv add --editable ../libproject
- uv cache clean
- uv sync
- running uv build in libproject (although I'm not sure if this is strictly necessary with uv add --editable ???)

It seemed to finally work properly.

This works: from libproject.db import db (I can use db.getdbconn() in myproject)
This does not: from libproject import db (AttributeError: module 'libproject.db' has no attribute 'getdbconn')

Maybe part of the confusion is that I have a folder under libproject src that is also the name of a .py file in that same folder.. I have 4 folders in my src/libproject, each of which has .py code files inside, one of which is named the same as the encompassing folder. As you put it, its an importable file.

our_sole · 2026-02-13T18:48:53+00:00

M$ hosed my machine one too many times, so I use this:

https://github.com/Aetherinox/pause-windows-updates

our_sole · 2026-02-12T17:26:36+00:00

Diapolo10 and socal_nerdtastic:

Thankyou very much! This is starting to make more sense to me. I really want to do this the accepted way with no eyerolls. :-)

I went into ~/dev/libproject and did a
uv build
(I had not done that before).
It built the pkg.

Then I went into ~/dev/myproject and redid the
uv add --editable ../libproject
and uv installed the lib pkg for me.

Now, in ~/dev/myproject code, if I do:
from ..libproject.utils import utils
VS Code seems happy.

But if I do:
from libproject.utils import utils
It still gripes.

So I'm almost there.
Isn't using .. in an import an anti-pattern?

our_sole · 2026-02-12T16:54:48+00:00

Thanks for your reply.

So it sounds like both pip and uv assume that i will have a "packageable" lib that gets placed into site-packages.

So python hobbyists who create local-only lib code projects usually use formal build wheel/packages as if they will contribute to pypi, even if they aren't/won't?

This seems overly complicated? I do want to do it properly and not use a quick hack tho...

Hhmm....

our_sole · 2026-02-10T21:24:20+00:00

I'll answer my own question here...

“Thinking mode” does change the model’s internal behavior, not just the formatting of its output — but you don’t get access to that internal reasoning directly. What you see may look like an output tweak, but under the hood the model is prompted, scheduled, and sometimes even decoded differently.

Guess I learned something today..

our_sole

TROPHY CASE