Architecture

How the systems behind this portfolio are built — their structure, decisions and trade-offs, with the detailed architecture document where one exists.

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Photography Search Architecture

How my photo archive's search keeps metadata, meaning, appearance and concepts as separate signals, and lets a human-judged benchmark decide what ships.

Published October 5, 2026·Includes architecture PDF

Photography Assistant Architecture

How a grounded LLM assistant over my photo archive works: retrieval and an eight-photo evidence pack bound what the model sees; validators gate what it may say.

Published October 5, 2026·Includes architecture PDF