// ARTICLES BY ROB RAGAN
Data & Knowledge
PageIndex: Why This RAG System Ditches Vector Databases for Tree-Based Reasoning
AI Dev Tools
Smart Connections: How Obsidian Gets Semantic Search Without Breaking Mobile
AI Agents
OpenFang: The 32MB Rust Binary That Runs Autonomous Agents Without Prompting
AI Agents
IronCurtain: Treating AI Agents Like Untrusted Binaries
Developer Tools
Building Financial AI Agents with Claude: Anthropic's Dual-Deployment Architecture
Developer Tools
VoiceInk: Building a Privacy-First Voice Transcription System with On-Device Whisper
LLM Engineering
RuVector: The Rust Vector Database That Rewrites Its Own Index
AI Dev Tools
VibeTunnel: The Zero-Config Terminal Proxy That Brings Your Shell to Any Browser
AI Agents
Smart Ralph: Preventing AI Coding Agents from Drowning in Their Own Context
AI Agents
ralph-parallel: Orchestrating Concurrent AI Agents for Parallel Code Execution
AI Agents
Attractor: StrongDM's Radical Bet on Shipping Specifications Instead of Code
AI Agents