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Bonsai Search @bonsai.io · 05/06/2026

Max (@max.io) walks us through using agentic retrieval to improve search results relevancy via SID. Next-level search quality! bonsai.io/blog/agent-s...

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Agentic Search Models with OpenSearch and Elasticsearch

We introduce agentic tool-based retreival models, and show how they are shaping the future of search quality.

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Stephen @tgk.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Today is a great reminder that we can never be too ready.

A chart outlining the RIP BOZO Readiness Condition (RIPCON), which is a riff off of DEFCON. There are 5 levels, with 5 being lowest and 1 being the highest. The chart details descriptions of these levels, examples and actions to take in the event something occurs.

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Keifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be

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Nick Zadrozny @nz.omc.io · 07/11/2025

Hello world! I'm putting together a series of talks and team trainings on Nix and NixOS. (Two is a series, right?) There's a lot to narrow down. So I would love to know: if you're Nix-curious, what questions do you have, or frustrations have you experienced?

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Nick Zadrozny @nz.omc.io · 05/09/2025

Clever hidden design element for the new City of Austin logo: a cheeky little “y” that represents “y tho”

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Nick Zadrozny @nz.omc.io · 21/08/2025

Bring back high quality local tech meetups!

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Nick Zadrozny @nz.omc.io · 29/07/2025

We have some very pragmatic search content going out on the @bonsai.io blog and I am chuffed. More on the way.

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Nick Zadrozny @nz.omc.io · 02/06/2025

For so many software product builders, learning the fundamentals of search relevancy is like unlocking a super power. Come join Doug and me and find out for yourself!

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Nick Zadrozny @nz.omc.io · 29/05/2025

Happy door to door roofing sales day to all my Austinites who celebrate.

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Nick Zadrozny @nz.omc.io · 14/05/2025

The true nuggets of wisdom in search relevancy are surprisingly hard to find.

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Nick Zadrozny @nz.omc.io · 24/04/2025

Anyway how's your day going.

A git diff line count showing 51,735 lines added and 2,514 lines deleted

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Angel of the Lord: He is not here, He is risen, just as He said. Come and see the place where He lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead. Alito: Okay, first of all, this violates ALL sorts of rules Thomas: This was a LAWFUL execution, who is God to interfere

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Nick Zadrozny @nz.omc.io · 04/04/2025

And they’re all still billionaires. Anyway this is the stick. Next comes the carrot: targeted relief in exchange for greater fealty.

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Nick Zadrozny @nz.omc.io · 01/04/2025

I Iike Rust but I also write a lot of Ruby. So I ported Result and Option to Ruby and integrated Option into ActiveRecord. Sounds like an April Fool’s joke. But no, just the usual unhinged behavior over here.

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Nick Zadrozny @nz.omc.io · 14/03/2025

It seems to prevent Republicans from illegally dismantling government, @schumer.senate.gov will courageously vote to let them go ahead and make it legal? Cool cool cool

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Nick Zadrozny @nz.omc.io · 06/02/2025

The engineers will do a great job rearchitecting your product not to need what they’re supposed to be helping to sell 🤫

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines. The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds. It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

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Max Irwin @max.io · 27/01/2025

👋 where my search nerds at?

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Nick Zadrozny @nz.omc.io · 24/01/2025

Big AI: you can train and use generative AI to answer all your domain specific questions and run your entire business and fire all your employees! Me: "what is a friendly but professional salutation for someone who signs their email like this:"

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Nick Zadrozny @nz.omc.io · 10/01/2025

Alright I think it's time for me to start blogging about my team's #Nix journey. Three interesting milestones: All-In-Rewrite (Spring '24), Tinkering In Dev (Fall '23), and First Demo From @grahamc.com (what was that—2016?!)

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Nick Zadrozny @nz.omc.io · 07/01/2025

Had one of those "surely I'm doing it wrong" afternoons writing some #Rust. The kind of code that has me calling match on a &str. Alas, quick prototypes do not allow pausing for perfection. Onward!

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Nick Zadrozny @nz.omc.io · 02/01/2025

So I spent some time this holiday break getting a development environment set up in Windows, and it was... surprisingly reasonable?! Interesting that #Rust played a notable part in that for me...

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Nick Zadrozny @nz.omc.io · 06/12/2024

The internet has some real "Let them eat cake" energy lately and I am here for it.

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Nick Zadrozny @nz.omc.io · 03/12/2024

Elasticsearch did a convenient thing with storing the document _source, but for so many use-cases, it's redundant. Trying to think about reasons why—for, you know, search—it should ever be used, and that list is coming up a lot shorter than reasons not to store it… 🤔

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Nick Zadrozny @nz.omc.io · 03/12/2024

So if Engineering is the bones of search, and if Information Retrieval / Data Science / ML is the mind… then Product is the heart and flesh, the will and motivating force behind it all.

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Nick Zadrozny @nz.omc.io · 02/12/2024

Thought I would try my hand at the whole starter pack thing — here's a group of the excellent and interesting search engineers from the Relevant Slack group! go.bsky.app/9pqVhAw

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Relevant Devs

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Nick Zadrozny @nz.omc.io · 25/11/2024

By your 40s you should have: - a working knowledge of OTC medications - a drawer with three bottles of what you were out of last time you were sick - an empty box of what you need this time wtf I just need to sleep

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Peldi @peldi.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Hi BlueSky! I'm looking for other SaaS founders of $5-10M ARR companies. Who should I follow?

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Nick Zadrozny @nz.omc.io · 18/11/2024

So many developers are introduced to Elasticsearch and OpenSearch in an analytics / faux-database paradigm. This is important work to better equip engineers working on actual, you know… search.

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Nick Zadrozny @nz.omc.io · 16/11/2024

If you haven’t tried @zed.dev I’m pleased to report that it’s my daily driver these days for Rust, Nix and Ruby.

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Heath Stewart @heaths.dev · 16/11/2024

Not a starter pack, but a custom feed that is somewhat popular and seems to be pretty good so far. Not just watching #rustlang, but any mention in a way that I’ve not seen posts about the game or movie (a problem with people using just #rust, for example). bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Nick Zadrozny @nz.omc.io · 15/11/2024

Alright bsky peeps, who’s got the Rust starter pack?

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Nick Zadrozny @nz.omc.io · 14/11/2024

People with children in their lives, please tell me: is three years old a bit on the young side for my child to be telling me that he will miss me when I'm dead? 💀

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Nick Zadrozny @nz.omc.io · 14/11/2024

Timed myself yesterday when setting up a new M4 MacBook Pro yesterday. It took less than 15 minutes to go from packaging off to fully useful development environment. Nix is magic, y'all. Steps: iCloud, Jamf, 1Password, GitHub, Google, Nix, nix-darwin (from cloned configs), then run whatever I want.

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