How to Build a Local RAG Pipeline with Open Source Tools (Without Losing a Weekend)

Build a Local RAG Pipeline with Open Source Tools

I broke my first local RAG pipeline before I even got to the fun part — the retrieval was returning garbage chunks and I spent two hours blaming the embedding model when the real problem was my chunking script silently truncating documents at 512 characters. So this guide is the version of that weekend I … Read more

How to Build a Local RAG System with Open WebUI and Ollama (Without Losing a Weekend)

I spent a Saturday afternoon fighting a local RAG system with Open WebUI and Ollama that kept “forgetting” the PDFs I’d just uploaded, and the fix turned out to be something I’d never have guessed. Once you get the pieces lined up, this setup gives you a private, offline way to chat with your own … Read more