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Eric Pugh

@dep4b.bsky.social
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Search and Gen AI (?) guy!

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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Full text search is everywhere, which means lots of teams working to make it really really fast! BM25 remains a incredibly powerful toolkit.
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Dealing with dependency upgrades by learning from the movie Pacific Rim. claude.ai/code/artifac... (and lists.apache.org/thread.html/... for the thinking)
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Claude Artifact
Try out Artifacts created by Claude users
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hot on the heels of OpenSearchCon Norht America we have release 3.9! I am excited about the xg boost improvement in the LTR plugin and the simplifying of defining vector fields. opensearch.org/blog/get-to-...
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Get to know OpenSearch 3.9
OpenSearch 3.9 adds a native engine for neural sparse search, new vector compression options, a unified alerts view, and adaptive cluster protection.
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
WTF? <input> is now valid HTML? A "void" type? Sigh. Okay.
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Tried to run Qwen 3.8 on my 32 GB M4 Air, github.com/keithschacht..., but no joy.. Just not enough ram and horsepower... Cool tool though!
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GitHub - keithschacht/qwaude: Claude Code on Qwen
Claude Code on Qwen. Contribute to keithschacht/qwaude development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
markviewer.com is awesome! Just what I wanted.
markviewer.com
MarkViewer — Markdown Viewer & Editor for Mac (Free, Offline)
Free Markdown viewer and editor for Mac. Open .md files instantly on macOS, render GitHub-flavored Markdown with live WYSIWYG. Native, offline, lightweight.
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just went to turn on my laptop after remote coding from phone…. Oops, it’s at the office.
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I took the 2026 #Rails Community Survey. You should too! railsdeveloper.com/survey/
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2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey
The 2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey is now open. Add your voice to the community data. Brought to you by Planet Argon.
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OpenSearch Project @opensearch.org · 20/05/2026
Five years ago, OpenSearch began with a goal of creating a truly open source path for search and analytics has grown into a global community. Now we want to hear from you. How is your organization using search and observability tools today? Take our 5 min survey: www.research.net/r/GTB2M5Z
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
“Do we even need search” panel kicking off…. #haystackconf
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I’ll be talking about the new Solr MCP tool with the creator Aditya Parikh and how we handle security, governance, testing of this new class of software!
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
@danielwrigley.bsky.social is kicking off day two of #haystack with the work we did with Bobby Muhammed and the aws OpenSearch team to do agentic relevance tuning.
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Listening talks at #haystackconf
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Now @softwaredoug.bsky.social is introducing us to the “search” in auto-research. #haystackconf
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
A great customer practical use case featuring @github.com by @davidtippett.bsky.social
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Now Trey Grainger is talking about Learning to Understand!
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
We are very lucky to have Angel Maldonado of Empathy keynoting #haystackconf and sharing their unique perspective on AI.
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The best intro to Quepid is still this one from TEN years ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KdN...
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Quepid Working Draft Demo
YouTube video by Eric Pugh
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
OpenSearch's Learning to Rank (LTR) plugin had a busy year! @sstults.bsky.social shares a year in review: opensourceconnections.com/blog/2025/12.... #opensearch #learning_to_rank
opensourceconnections.com
A Year of Transformation for Learning to Rank in OpenSearch - OpenSource Connections
A year-in-review of the OpenSearch Learning to Rank plugin, covering modernization, security upgrades, testing improvements, XGBoost enhancements, new releases, and community growth throughout 2025.
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
First new mac in six years, Macbook Air M4 with 32gb of ram. Compared to my old intel one, Solr testsuite in 18 minutes instead of 52 minutes. "tidy" in 18 seconds compared to 52 seconds.
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
OpenSearch UI means... working on my React skills with my buddy Claude... I never thought I would add "React" to my list.... Sigh.
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
AI works best in processes where evaluation and trial and error is already in the process today. That’s why it fits into coding so well.
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
The BEST conference in Virginia (other than Haystack of course): www.reddit.com/r/Charlottes...
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From the Charlottesville community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the Charlottesville community
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Nice visual of AI Agent concept in Deep Research at the #openseachcon Unconference. Thanks Jakub of @zetaalpha for sharing.
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Has the observabikity world ever moved up the “Business Stack” to proactively monitor business events? Seems like all that infrastructure for monitoring systems is almost ther to measure your BusinessOps? #opensearch #opensearchcon. Tell me what exists out there right now!
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Want more Python and less JSON for building algorithms for search in #OpenSearch? Buttonhole these members of the Tech Steering Committee! #opensearchcon
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Thanks David Smiley and Jason Gerlowski for hosting the Search Track Hackathon at @apache.org Community/Code conference:
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
My colleagues did the SIGIR challenge…. opensourceconnections.com/blog/2025/08...
opensourceconnections.com
SIGIR LiveRAG Challenge Report - OpenSource Connections
OpenSource Connections participated in the SIGIR 2025 LiveRAG Challenge, where teams built RAG systems in 2 hours to answer 500 questions.
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Just saw a tool to explain hour Rails app to a LLM. I love the humor in the readme ;-). github.com/seuros/rails...
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GitHub - seuros/rails_lens: Comprehensive Rails application visualization and annotation tool - precision optics for the Rails universe
Comprehensive Rails application visualization and annotation tool - precision optics for the Rails universe - seuros/rails_lens
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
This is an amazing Code Review comment! I didn't appreciate how good it is until re-reading it with @sstults.bsky.social. Thanks Martin! I aspire to this level. github.com/opensearch-p...
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Add Import Capability for externally run Search Evaluation by epugh · Pull Request #120 · opensearch-project/search-relevance
Description This addresses Issue #46 which allows importing of documents and evaluation results. This is a re-implementation of the work that @sstults did in #73 after the discussion about using th...
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Ugh, I just asked an LLM to count the number of words in a article I am writing (goal is 2000!). 10 to 15 seconds later, after it read every word, it did give me an answer... Or I could have done "wc -w fast_accurate_relevant_intuitive.md" ;-)
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Using Claude on Rails to write large swaths of code, but Zed's built in Claude integration to tweak/fine tune code on a more file by file basis...
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Interested in Team Draft Interleaving for A/B testing? Check out this RFC by @davidfisher1960.bsky.social github.com/opensearch-p...
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[RFC] Team Draft Interleaving for A/B Testing · Issue #18383 · opensearch-project/OpenSearch
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe OpenSearch offers extremely limited capabilities when it comes to measuring search result quality and experimenting with different sear...
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Quepid now has lovely API docs thanks to github.com/a-chacon/oas..., my favorite OpenAPI compliant documentation tool for Rails!
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GitHub - a-chacon/oas_rails: Generate Automatic Interactive Documentation for Your Rails API
Generate Automatic Interactive Documentation for Your Rails API - a-chacon/oas_rails
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I love that at @mices.co BarCamp that each group does a quick read out to everyone so I do lt get FOMO!
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
My highschol science fair project was a HyperCard based simulation of dissecting a fetal pig…. Never could have imagined the project without what Bill Atkinson invented. Thank you. m.slashdot.org/story/442967
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Slashdot
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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Time for another interesting format: The Hyperwood Exchange Format (HEF). Based on the cubicle exchange format, coming from an 3d editor based on voxels (remember Comanche?), HEF is a language for building furnitures. And Hyperwood is the idea of open source furniture.
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Hyperwood
Objects in three-dimensional space made of two-dimensional slats, generated by parameterized algorithms.
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I *may* be the dog that caught the car. In September I'll give four unrelated talks at two conferences back to back! First at OpenSearchCon NA and then Community/Code NA Search Track!
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Just registered for Community/Code NA! Search Track on Friday and Saturday looks awesome! communityovercode.org/schedule/.
communityovercode.org
Sessions Schedule
Please note: All session times are in Central Daylight Time (UTC -5). You must be registered for Community Over Code NA 2025 to participate in the sessions. If you have not yet registered but would…
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
One of my favorite movie characters…. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Alligator that starred in 'Happy Gilmore' dies of old age in Colorado
Morris, who was at least 80, had also appeared in "Interview with the Vampire,” as well as “Coach,” “Night Court” and “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.”
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Looking forward to doing filters next!
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I’ll be the hype man…
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Just landed in Amsterdam, ready for #opensearchcon this week!
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Planners (query, indexer, etc) are key to these new complex systems that make nondeterministic choices…. Learning about how Aryn manages its complex processes.
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Thanks Froh for sharing github.com/msfroh/lucen...
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GitHub - msfroh/lucene-university: Self-contained worked examples of Apache Lucene features and functionality
Self-contained worked examples of Apache Lucene features and functionality - msfroh/lucene-university
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
There are two kinds of people in search. Those who think ETL is bad and those who don’t even think about. Thanks for sharing @paradedb.bsky.social
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Thanks Aruna for sharing why search is hard!!!
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Great conclusions on evaluating search from PM perspective
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I like Valentin von Seggern's comment "with GPT, it's easier to get an aggregated view, but raw view is still important to build empathy"... Completely agree, and we should push our engineers as well to give them the "why"....
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Eric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I always assumed cosine was just the one to use in vector math…
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