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 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 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.
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.
DevelopmentPrepare Your App for iPhone Duo: A Worked Example
Prepare and submit an app for iPhone Duo: the SDK stamp that switches the layout on, a real app walked through every pose, screenshots, and App Store rules.
DevelopmentDeveloper ID Certification Authority Expires Feb 1, 2027
Apple's original Developer ID authority expires February 1, 2027, and .pkg files signed under it stop installing. Three commands show which authority you use.
DevelopmentmacOS 27 Release Notes: Deprecations, Breaks, and Fixes
macOS 27 Golden Gate shipped September 14 as 26A428. The notes read for Mac developers: what fires when you link on the 27 SDK, plus 13 deprecations checked.
DevelopmentiOS 27.2 Beta: What Is New for Developers, Beta by Beta
iOS 27.2 betas 1 to 3 for developers: the EU tracking prompt and its renamed API, zero UIView margins, the JSON .xcproj format, a deployment bug, no Duo SDK.
DevelopmentApp Store Screenshots That Sell the Why
37 App Store screenshot sets read frame by frame, Apple's 2026 asset rules, the A/B results that state their numbers, and a before-and-after from our own app.
Design & CultureXcode 27.1 Beta: Your App in the iPhone Duo Simulator
Xcode 27.1 beta ships the first iOS 27.1 SDK and an iPhone Duo simulator: what the SDK adds, what the device profile says, and what a probe reports per pose.
DevelopmentThe EU Tracking Prompt in iOS 27.2: What to Ship
iOS 27.2 adds an alternative App Tracking Transparency prompt for the EU, mandatory in five countries. The new API, the new Info.plist key, and what to ship.
DevelopmentmacOS 27 Golden Gate Is Out: What Changes for Developers
macOS 27 Golden Gate shipped September 14, Apple silicon only: Rosetta's last general release, installers defaulting to arm64, and the GA notes to read.
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.
