The Illustrators of Pokémon Cards, by the Numbers
Who draws Pokémon cards, counted: 392 English and 314 Japanese illustrator names in one card index, by era, year and set, each count with its unit and date.
CollectingWriting
Thoughts on design, development, AI infrastructure, and building products.
Pixel-Art Rooms: Furniture Grids, Caps and Scoring
How Emerald, Animal Crossing, Habbo, Stardew and FFXIV cap, grid and score a decorated room, measured from source, and a furnishing brief for Kiradex.
DevelopmentWhat App Review Looks For, as Far as We Know: October 2026
Apple's App Review as of October 2026, from the public record: who reviews, how long it takes, what gets apps rejected and the exact words, the 2025–2026 rule changes, and a card-collector app red-teamed against the checklist before its first submission.
DevelopmentHonoring the Old Pokémon Games Without Borrowing Them
What made the Game Boy Pokémon games feel alive, measured from their decompilations; the fan-game and Palworld record by law; and an homage brief for Kiradex.
DevelopmentHow Card Centering Is Judged, and How to Measure It
What PSA, BGS, CGC, SGC, TAG and ACE allow for centering at each grade, front and back, from their own pages, and how to measure a card's borders at home.
CollectingPixel-Art Motion: Walks, Cameras and Doors on iPhone
How Pokémon Red, Crystal and Emerald walk, lock the camera and fade, measured from source, and a 60 Hz brief for Kiradex's walk, doors and haptics on iPhone.
DevelopmentA Pixel Town Alive When Nobody Is Online: NPCs and Ghosts
Emerald's 158 townspeople measured, Stardew's schedules, other players' traces, presence buffers and Apple's child rules: keeping a pixel town alive offline.
DevelopmentPixel-Art Routes: Map Connections and Districts on iPhone
How Pokémon, Stardew and Animal Crossing build the land between towns, measured from source: routes, seams, gates, map screens, and a brief for Kiradex.
DevelopmentPokémon Card Rarity and Set Symbols, English and Japanese
How to read a Pokémon card's bottom line: English rarity symbols by era, Japanese codes, set codes, secret numbers, and the regulation marks behind rotation.
CollectingPixel-Art People: Characters and a Creator on iPhone
How the best pixel-art games build and dress their people, measured, and how we rebuilt Kiradex's collector, its wardrobe and its creator screen on iPhone.
DevelopmentPixel-Art Worlds on iPhone: What the 16-Bit Masters Knew
How Final Fantasy VI, Pokémon and today's best pixel-art games were made, the rules that follow, and a tested recipe for crisp pixels on iPhone and iPhone Duo.
DevelopmentPixel-Art Structures: Houses, Halls and Interiors on iPhone
How Pokémon, the SNES RPGs and Stardew build houses, interiors and floors, measured from source, and how Kiradex's town got real buildings on iPhone.
DevelopmentExternal Publications
Technical writing published at Introl
Local LLM Hardware Pricing Guide 2025
Comprehensive hardware recommendations and cost analysis for running large language models locally.
H100 vs. H200 vs. B200: Choosing the Right NVIDIA GPUs for Your AI Workload
GPU selection guide comparing NVIDIA's latest datacenter accelerators for different AI workloads.
TPU Architecture: Complete Guide to Google's 7 Generations
Deep technical dive into Google's Tensor Processing Unit evolution from TPUv1 to TPUv5.
GPU Memory Pooling in Multi-Tenant Kubernetes
Resource sharing strategies for GPU clusters in containerized environments.
Ray Clusters: Distributed AI Computing Infrastructure
Guide to building and managing distributed AI computing with Ray framework.
DeepSeek V3 Open Source AI Cost Advantage
Analysis of open source LLM economics and DeepSeek's competitive positioning.
NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPU 600kW Racks 2027
Future datacenter power requirements and NVIDIA's next-generation GPU roadmap.
SMR Nuclear Power for AI Data Centers
Small modular reactor solutions for powering next-generation AI infrastructure.
DeepSeek MHC Architecture Breakthrough
Technical analysis of DeepSeek's Multi-Head Compression architecture innovations.
