Still Rooms: AI Composition, Not AI Generation
How Still Rooms, the album inside Return, was written as a score by a model, rendered from named instruments, released lossless, and in 5.1 inside the app.
AI & TechnologyWriting
Thoughts on design, development, AI infrastructure, and building products.
Pixel-Art Town Layout: Pallet to Pelican Town, Measured
Sixteen Pokémon towns measured in walk cells from source, plus Pelican Town and Narshe: first doors, signs, street widths, exits, and an iPhone town plan.
DevelopmentReading a Graded Card's Label: PSA, BGS, CGC and the Rest
What PSA, Beckett, CGC, SGC, TAG and ACE print on a graded card's label, from their own pages: grade words, qualifiers, dates, cert numbers, look-ups.
CollectingPokémon Card Holo Patterns by Era, English and Japanese
Which holofoil pattern each Pokémon card era used, in English and Japanese; which names are official; how reverse holos changed; and what one catalog records.
CollectingPixel-Art Light: Day, Night, Weather and Shadows
How Pokémon Crystal and Emerald keep a day, rain and shadow, measured from their source, and a brief for day, weather and shadow in Kiradex's pixel town.
DevelopmentPixel-Art Interfaces: Text Boxes, Fonts and Japanese
How Emerald, Crystal and Final Fantasy VI size text boxes, fonts and text speed, measured from source, with Japanese pixel fonts and a type brief for Kiradex.
DevelopmentApple HomeView for Developers: What Apple Said on Day One
Apple announced HomeView on October 13, 2026. What Apple said about apps, widgets, Siri AI and home hubs, what developers can build today, and what is absent.
DevelopmentmacOS Full Disk Access and AI Agents: What Apple Said
On October 2, 2026, Apple said granting Full Disk Access will take very explicit user action, citing AI agents. How agents get it today, and what to do now.
DevelopmentMultiseat Subscriptions: What to Build Before Winter
Multiseat purchases sell seats of your subscription to teams and organizations. What StoreKit 2 and the App Store Server API document, and what to change.
DevelopmentThe 2026 App Store Product Page: Every Surface, Measured
Apple's header, search asset, Asset Library and iPhone Duo uploads went live October 5, 2026: every size, limit and rule, and the brief our app agents use.
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 Ledges, Stairs and Bridges in a Tile World
How Pokémon Red to Emerald handle height, measured from source: ledges as one-way edges, stairs, bridges and the hop, and an elevation brief for Kiradex.
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.
