Evan Schwartz
emschwartz.me
Evan Schwartz
@emschwartz.me
Inventor & software engineer building Scour (https://scour.ing), a personalized content feed that scours noisy sources for articles related to your interests.

Blog and details at: https://emschwartz.me #rust #rustlang
When you do a search or add an interest, I do call their API to embed the query. However, for interests you've configured, I store the embedding so I don't need to call their API each time
October 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Glad to hear it! I’m using their API to generate the embeddings but I’m storing them myself in SQLite
October 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
In both the RSS and Atom specs there is a source property on the item that I think is meant for this purpose
July 16, 2025 at 3:20 AM
(And meant to mention that Scour also turns every user feed and interest-specific feed into an outbound RSS feed!)
July 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Better Air Purifiers (www.jefftk.com/p/better-air...)

Super interesting -- and creative DIY solution!
Better Air Purifiers
Are you looking for a project where you could substantially improve indoor air quality, with benefits both to general health and reducing pandemic risk? I've written a bunch about air purifiers over...
www.jefftk.com
June 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Using 'Slop Forensics' to Determine Model Ancestry (www.dbreunig.com/2025/05/30/u...)

Such a neat technique!
Using ‘Slop Forensics’ to Determine Model Ancestry
Yesterday, after playing with some smaller models, I started to experiment with the idea of a flowchart for determining a model’s ancestry with a few prompts. For example, could you ask it about state...
www.dbreunig.com
June 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
RaBitQ: Quantizing High-Dimensional Vectors with a Theoretical Error Bound for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...)

I ❤️ reading about other binary embedding quantization techniques!
dl.acm.org
June 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I came across the paper Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings (arxiv.org/abs/2505.12540) and The Platonic Representation Hypothesis (arxiv.org/abs/2405.07987). It's pretty wild that different models converge on similar representations of the same data!
Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings
We introduce the first method for translating text embeddings from one vector space to another without any paired data, encoders, or predefined sets of matches. Our unsupervised approach translates an...
arxiv.org
June 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Thanks for letting me know! I'll DM you to get more details and figure out what's going wrong
May 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Thanks! It was quite a bit more work than I anticipated 😅
April 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Thanks @8hantanu.net for the inspiration to think of it as a stack! 😊
March 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I’ve heard good things about Refactoring UI from the Tailwind folks.

Haven’t gotten around to reading it yet so I’ve been using picocss.com 😅
Pico CSS • Minimal CSS Framework for semantic HTML
Minimalist and lightweight starter kit that prioritizes semantic syntax, making every HTML element responsive and elegant by default.
picocss.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Glad you liked it!

I've currently got it running on a shared 8-CPU, 2GB RAM Fly.io instance. That'll definitely change over time but it's been good enough so far.
Deploy app servers close to your users · Fly
Fly.io
March 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Thanks Ade!

I briefly looked at both of those but a) they didn’t seem that mature so I was worried about breakage and b) wanted to avoid shipping a big wasm bundle. I imagine the reactivity might feel nicer than the htmx model though
March 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM