Software engineering, AI systems, machine learning, and computing education notes from Suranjan Poudel, a developer and computing lecturer in Plymouth. https://www.suranjan.co.uk/ Design decisions, experiments, and implementation notes from building a fully local RAG pipeline with PDF parsing, embeddings, FAISS, llama.cpp, and ROCm. https://www.suranjan.co.uk/blog/local-rag/ https://www.suranjan.co.uk/blog/local-rag/ Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT A practical refresher on JavaScript fundamentals, including hoisting, variable scope, arrow functions, asynchronous programming, and the event loop. https://www.suranjan.co.uk/blog/learn-js/ https://www.suranjan.co.uk/blog/learn-js/ Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT