And That Is Where I Decided To Wear A Watch Again

This week has sucked in a variety of ways, but it turns out I have been quite productive.

• The Adam Curtis image searching site, BUT THIS WAS A FANTASY has been refactored to use Qdrant as the backing vector store, which means it now has proper series filtering instead of the hacks I’d lashed together for it. All ready for Shifty!
• I’m about half-a-million entries into my latest synthetic data project
• I finally wrote up the proposal & demo for my new search research — Four Candles (and yes, it is)
• I built an MCP server for Lucidworks AI
• I created a model for [REDACTED] (it’s rubbish, but I did it…although I need to do more there)
• I built a semantic typeahead service that has a p50 time of under 1ms, and a p99 that just crosses 2ms. In Python, too!

There’s no way I’ll keep that pace up for all of June, but it’s a pretty good start.

The bad news is that on Saturday night, I discovered this Swatch website and Choices Were Made.

I mean, just look at this beauty.

Yes, sure it’s absolutely hopeless at actually telling the time (though surprisingly, nowhere near the worst in vintage Swatches, it turns out), but just look at it. Somebody thought this was a great idea for a watch. AND THEY WERE RIGHT.

(also, 1989 was a very good year if you wanted your watch to look like a Peter Saville New Order record cover. Which apparently is actually something I now covet)

Okay, I will now go back to refreshing windows to see if Switch 2 is back in stock anywhere in the Cincinnati region…