Conway's Game of Life
An interactive cellular automaton where simple rules create complex, emergent behavior.
Writing
Thoughts on design, development, AI infrastructure, and building products.
Rule 110 Cellular Automaton
Wolfram's Rule 110 - a one-dimensional cellular automaton proven to be Turing complete.
Beauty and Brutalism: How I Designed blakecrosley.com at the Intersection
I built my site at the intersection of beauty and brutalism: structural honesty with precise typography on absolute black.
Design & UXThe 15x Cost of a Bad Database Decision: Lessons in Decision Timing
I measured the cost of a database decision across three systems. Migration cost grew 15x in three years. A framework for when to decide fast vs slow.
Systems & ProductivityCommands, Skills, Subagents, Rules: What I Learned Organizing 139 Extensions
Claude Code offers four extension types. After building 95 hooks, 44 skills, and dozens of commands, I learned which abstraction fits which problem.
AI DevelopmentBuilding Design Teams That Ship: What 12 Years at ZipRecruiter Taught Me
After 12 years leading product design at ZipRecruiter, I learned which team structures ship and which polish endlessly. The patterns surprised me.
Design & UXHow LLMs See Text: What My i18n System Taught Me About Token Economics
Translating my site into 6 languages revealed that Korean costs 2.8x more tokens than English for identical content. An interactive visualizer shows why.
AI & TechnologyClaude Code + Cursor: What 30 Sessions of Combined Usage Taught Me
I tracked 30 development sessions using Claude Code and Cursor together. The data shows where each tool wins and where the combination fails.
AI Development16 Design Case Studies: The Four Patterns I Adopted Into My Own Work
After studying 16 products in depth, four cross-cutting patterns changed how I build interfaces. Here's what I learned and what I stole.
Design & UXHamming Codes: How Computers Catch Their Own Mistakes
Every time you use RAM, read a QR code, or receive data from space, Hamming codes fix errors. An interactive exploration of self-correcting math.
Interactive ExplorationsFrom 76 to 100: Achieving a Perfect Lighthouse Score
How a personal portfolio site went from a 76 mobile Lighthouse performance score with 0.493 CLS to a perfect 100/100/100/100 across all categories.
AI & TechnologyExternal Publications
Technical writing 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.