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

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.

OpenSearch UI means... working on my React skills with my buddy Claude... I never thought I would add "React" to my list.... Sigh.

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.

The BEST conference in Virginia (other than Haystack of course): www.reddit.com/r/Charlottes...

Nice visual of AI Agent concept in Deep Research at the #openseachcon Unconference. Thanks Jakub of @zetaalpha for sharing.

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!

Want more Python and less JSON for building algorithms for search in #OpenSearch? Buttonhole these members of the Tech Steering Committee! #opensearchcon

Thanks David Smiley and Jason Gerlowski for hosting the Search Track Hackathon at @apache.org Community/Code conference:

My colleagues did the SIGIR challenge…. opensourceconnections.com/blog/2025/08...

Just saw a tool to explain hour Rails app to a LLM. I love the humor in the readme ;-). github.com/seuros/rails...

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...

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" ;-)

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...

Interested in Team Draft Interleaving for A/B testing? Check out this RFC by @davidfisher1960.bsky.social github.com/opensearch-p...

Quepid now has lovely API docs thanks to github.com/a-chacon/oas..., my favorite OpenAPI compliant documentation tool for Rails!

I love that at @mices.co BarCamp that each group does a quick read out to everyone so I do lt get FOMO!

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

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.

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!

Just registered for Community/Code NA! Search Track on Friday and Saturday looks awesome! communityovercode.org/schedule/.

One of my favorite movie characters…. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Looking forward to doing filters next!

I’ll be the hype man…

Just landed in Amsterdam, ready for #opensearchcon this week!

Planners (query, indexer, etc) are key to these new complex systems that make nondeterministic choices…. Learning about how Aryn manages its complex processes.

Thanks Froh for sharing github.com/msfroh/lucen...

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

Thanks Aruna for sharing why search is hard!!!

Great conclusions on evaluating search from PM perspective

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"....

I always assumed cosine was just the one to use in vector math…

I think it’s going to be a good day…

It’s Haystack Week!

Looking forward to hosting a BBQ with all the early arrival Haystackers tonight. It's going to be an awesome week of learning and exchanging ideas! Shout out to my daughter Alanna for pulling the brisket out of the smoker at 11:30 PM so I could go to bed on time ;-).

🚰 Talked with @dep4b.bsky.social extensively about the tools for making search more relevant. Measuring search can be hard but with the right tools it's 10x easier. Especially with new LLM generated judgements in Quepid 👀 make sure to listen along! open.spotify.com/episode/7lgs...

Cranking out some gnarly Angular1 code! Feeling both proud of my javascript skillz and also feeling like a COBOL programmer...

@dannysullivan.bsky.social I was searching for some background on the statement "Search is a Conversation" and GPT led me to you? As the first person to use that phrasing? I'm giving a talk, and want to talk about how Gen AI is actually making that true (at least in the enterprise space!)..

Time to stop talking about Relevance and start talking about Multi Objective Optimization?

Charlie makes Quepid do some amazing stuff!

Frustrated with Github search? Help @taidesu.bsky.social out by giving your unvarnished feedback airtable.com/appK4fhniAgz...

Where am I!???

Trip to Spain yay! Experiencing two spring forwards in one year boo!

Just checked in for STAMP conference. psas.scripts.mit.edu/home/2025-st...

Come join 150 of the most awesome folks building amazing search to figure out this changing landscape at Haystack! haystackconf.com. Early bird tickets through Sunday. Come early for Haystack and attend PyData Virginia! 2 conferences in one week! ti.to/pydata/pydat.... BBQ at my house too!

Does being able to step through your code encourage bad coding practices? I *think* I write better more testable code when I don't have the ability to just step through each line of code in a debugger.....

I love a “test” that is meant to measure how much pain your users will take. And by love I mean hate. m.slashdot.org/story/439949

Proud that we are participating in the LiveRAG Challenge! Thanks @mkrio.bsky.social and @danielwrigley.bsky.social for putting together a compelling proposal! liverag.tii.ae

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This resonates with me…. www.construct.net/en/blogs/ash.... Why community building is key to prevent the above problems…