# Naveen Piedy's Blog
> Documenting things I find interesting.
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## Pages
- [About this site](https://www.npiedy.com/about.md) - I started this website as a way to chronicle my thoughts and as an attempt to put myself out there. At any given time, I'm probably deep in a problem I'm trying to solve programmatically, or reading a fantasy series, or engrossed in an RPG. Sometimes all at once, though it's not limited to just tha…

## Posts
- [Project Summer: Query Your Letterboxd Data with SQL and Claude](https://www.npiedy.com/project-summer-query-your-letterboxd-data-with-sql-and-claude.md) - Letterboxd is great, but it couldn’t answer my own questions. So I built Project Summer: a CLI and MCP server that turns my Letterboxd export into a DuckDB database I can query with SQL or just ask Claude about.
- [Jev Isn't an LLM, and That's the Point](https://www.npiedy.com/jev-isnt-an-llm-and-thats-the-point.md) - I tested TypeSafe's new Jev model against two years of my own journal entries, and the whole thing cost three cents. Here's what it got right, what it missed, and why it's 26x to 131x cheaper than reaching for an LLM.
- [How I Cleared the Claude Certified Architect Exam, and What Actually Helped](https://www.npiedy.com/claude-certified-architect-exam.md) - How I prepared for Anthropic's Claude Certified Architect exam, what actually helped, and how I passed with 865/1000.
- [Slay the Spire 2 - Video Games I Love](https://www.npiedy.com/slay-the-spire-2-video-games-i-love.md) - 82 hours in and still no burnout. A deep dive into why Slay the Spire 2's deckbuilding, roguelike structure, and character design keep me hooked.
- [Obsidian - Links, Bases, and a Rabbit Hole](https://www.npiedy.com/obsidian-links-bases-and-a-rabbit-hole.md) - Why I love Obsidian — the local-first philosophy, internal links, Bases, and a small Python bridge I built to pull my data into Polars
- [Building AMY — a persistent memory layer for LLMs](https://www.npiedy.com/building-amy-a-persistent-memory-layer-for-llms.md) - Amy is a MCP server that gives Claude a persistent, graph-based memory — no embeddings, no vector store, just Neo4j and local markdown files.
- [Gamifying My Life: How I Built an AI Game Master](https://www.npiedy.com/gamifying-my-life-how-i-built-an-ai-game-master.md) - I built elaborate knowledge systems with RAG and Neo4j. I tracked everything meticulously in Obsidian. But I still wasn't motivated to actually write. So I turned my life into an RPG with an AI game master—and it's working.
- [Building a Cricket Scraper for My Obsidian Vault feat. Google Antigravity](https://www.npiedy.com/cricket-scraper-obsidian-antigravity.md) - Building CricketCLI with Google Antigravity took an hour. It was impressively fast and strangely hollow. Here's what I learned about AI-assisted development.
- [The Missing Link: How LUNE Solved My Consistency Problem](https://www.npiedy.com/building-lune.md) - After building Emma and Clara for note-taking, I realized the bottleneck wasn't my tools—it was my consistency. LUNE uses daily rituals and structured prompts to finally solve the human problem in my productivity system.
- [A Lazy Saturday Upgrade: Adding RAG to CLARA](https://www.npiedy.com/adding-rag-to-clara.md) - CLARA could query structured data perfectly but struggled with contextual questions. Adding RAG solved this, creating a hybrid system that understands both facts and feelings.
- [One Note at a Time: Turning Notes Into a Personal Jarvis](https://www.npiedy.com/building-second-brain-with-ai.md) - How I built a second brain using Obsidian, Neo4j, local notes, and the Model Context Protocol to let AI query my thoughts.
- [Percy Jackson - The Chalice of Gods](https://www.npiedy.com/percy-jackson-the-chalice-of-the-gods.md) - My thoughts on the new Percy Jackson book - The Chalice of Gods
- [Thud - Racial Tension, Primordial Horrors of the dark and a Watchman](https://www.npiedy.com/thud.md) - My thoughts on Terry Pratchett's Thud. What a great book!
- [Oppenheimer - An Engaging Biopic](https://www.npiedy.com/oppenheimer.md) - My thought's on Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer
- [Mission: Impossible 7 and Barbie - Summer Blockbusters '23](https://www.npiedy.com/mission-impossible-7-and-barbie.md) - My thoughts on Barbie and Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
- [Night Watch - Time Travel, Revolutions and Hard boiled eggs!](https://www.npiedy.com/night-watch-terry-pratchett-discworld.md) - Me signing the praises of Samuel Vimes, Terry Pratchett and the book Night Watch
- [Spider-Verse and Asteroid City - Two Spectacular Movies](https://www.npiedy.com/spider-verse-and-asteriod-city.md) - My thoughts on Into the Spider-Verse and Asteriod City movies.
- [Jingo - Politics is dumb, also maybe not](https://www.npiedy.com/jingo.md) - My thoughts on the excellent book "Jingo" by Terry Pratchett
- [Project Ook: My Library Management tool](https://www.npiedy.com/project-ook-my-library-management-tool.md) - My latest side project - A tool to manage a collection of books.
- [Feet of Clay - Murders, Golems and Political Commentary!](https://www.npiedy.com/feet-of-clay.md) - My thoughts on Feet of Clay By Terry Pratchett!
- [The Mysterious Affair At Styles - One for the Intervals](https://www.npiedy.com/the-mysterious-affair-at-styles.md) - My thoughts on "The Mysterious Affair At Styles" by Agtha Christie
- [Men At Arms - Books I love](https://www.npiedy.com/men-at-arms.md) - My thoughts on `Men At Arms` by Terry Pratchett
- [More Demigods, Dragons and Guards - Books I've Read - March '23](https://www.npiedy.com/more-demigods-dragons-and-guards.md) - My thoughts on books I have read during the month of March ('23). These include Percy Jackson series books 2-5 and Guards! Guards! By Terry Pratchett.
- [Running a Café, More Witches and Familiar Demigods - Books I've Read - Feb 23](https://www.npiedy.com/books-ive-read-feb2023.md) - My thoughts on the three books I've read in Feb 2023. Lords and Ladies by Terry, Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree and The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
- [Books I read - Jan 2023](https://www.npiedy.com/books-i-read-jan-2023.md) - Just my thoughts of books that I read in Jan 2023. Witches Abroad, Crooked House and Lessons in Chemistry.
- [Wyrd Sisters - Books I enjoyed](https://www.npiedy.com/wyrd-sisters.md) - My thoughts on Wyrd Sisters, the second book in Discworld Witches series
- [Discworld - Death Sub series](https://www.npiedy.com/discworld-death-sub-series.md) - My thoughts on Discworld's Death sub-series.
- [The Murder of Roger Ackroyd](https://www.npiedy.com/the-murder-of-roger-ackroyd.md) - My (non-spoiler) thoughts on one of the most famous and divisive Agatha Christie books ever written.
- [Hogfather - Books I love](https://www.npiedy.com/hogfather-books-i-love.md) - My thoughts on the book Hogfather by Terry Pratchett.
- [And Then There Were None - Books I enjoyed](https://www.npiedy.com/and-then-there-were-none.md) - My thoughts on the book "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie. Spoiler Free.
- [TV Shows I love - Frasier](https://www.npiedy.com/tv-shows-i-love-frasier.md) - My thoughts on the sitcom - Frasier
- [Mid-Year Report - Movies of 2022](https://www.npiedy.com/movies-mid-year-report-2022.md) - My thoughts on the movies that I watched and were released in 2022.
- [Elden Ring - Video Games I love](https://www.npiedy.com/elden-ring-video-games-i-love.md) - I go over the reasons why I love and keep coming back to Elden Ring. One of the best single player open world RPGs ever made.
- [The Royal Tenenbaums - Movies I love](https://www.npiedy.com/the-royal-tenenbaums.md) - Reviewing the movie "The Royal Tenenbaums" directed by Wes Anderson
- [Avatar: The Last Air Bender and World Building](https://www.npiedy.com/avatar_the_last_airbender.md) - Avatar the last air bender appreciation.
- [CSK Bowlers '22 - Mid-Season Analysis](https://www.npiedy.com/csk-bowlers-22-mid-season.md) - As a CSK fan, this season has been painful for plenty of reasons. The biggest one for a lot of people, including me, are the lack of quality bowlers, specifically Deepak Chahar. While on the outset, this might seem the biggest, I wanted to take a closer look at the numbers to back up this opinion.…
- [Making sense of my YouTube Watch History](https://www.npiedy.com/making-sense-of-my-youtube-watch-history.md) - For a long time, I have heard the phrase `You are what you eat`. A variation of that which I sparingly have heard is 'what you read'. And now even though I haven't heard it, I have at least pondered 'Am I, what I see and read online?' The question mark is present because I wonder about freedom of c…
- [Reflecting On Movies Watched (Jan 1 2022 - Apr 8 2022)](https://www.npiedy.com/reflecting_movies_jan_1_apr_8.md) - At the time of writing, I have watched 98 movies this year, at the pace of one movie per day. I logged each movie on my letterboxd account [https://letterboxd.com/naveenpiedy/] and ingested them to a local database to gain some insights. This is a way for me to share some of the movies that I enjoy…

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