Neural Link — A Local RAG System That Remembers My Projects

What is it? Neural Link is a project memory system I built that lets me query all my project notes, documentation, and context using natural language — and get accurate, specific answers back. It runs entirely on my MacBook Air M2, no cloud, no subscriptions. Think of it like a search engine that actually understands what you’re asking, but trained only on my own notes. It lives at brain.taciturn.uk. ...

19 April 2026 · 4 min · Orlando Valdes-Scott

Building Taciturn — What I've Learned Building an Algo Trading System From Scratch

Where It Started Taciturn started whilst I was starting out trading, the idea came in the vision of a terminal that could give me financial insights on what the market of my choice was doing, whether it was near the daily high or daily low, and after coding a trend manager i could receive financial call outs via this terminal, telling me to buy or sell there was alot of other infomation which id look at usually whilst trading such as session deltas, yesterdays highs and lows, data id usually look at manually this was about 700 lines of code no broker integration no execution ...

28 March 2026 · 4 min · Orlando Valdes-Scott

Building Taciturn — What I've Learned Building an Algo Trading System From Scratch

Where It Started Taciturn started whilst I was starting out trading, the idea came in the vision of a terminal that could give me financial insights on what the market of my choice was doing, whether it was near the daily high or daily low, and after coding a trend manager i could receive financial call outs via this terminal, telling me to buy or sell there was alot of other infomation which id look at usually whilst trading such as session deltas, yesterdays highs and lows, data id usually look at manually this was about 700 lines of code no broker integration no execution ...

28 March 2026 · 4 min · Orlando Valdes-Scott