Metal for Machine Learning in 2026
WWDC26 made Metal a first-class ML compute surface: Metal tensors for custom kernels, the M5 neural accelerator, real-time neural rendering, and MLX Swift.
AI & TechnologyWriting
Thoughts on design, development, AI infrastructure, and building products.
Accessibility in iOS 27: Reading Apps & Custom Controls
iOS 27 accessibility for reading apps and custom controls: text navigation linking, causesPageTurn, UITextInput, the adjustable trait, and direct touch.
AI & TechnologyWhat's New in visionOS 27 for Spatial Devs
visionOS 27 adds Spatial Preview from the Mac, Foveated Streaming from a PC, immersive Safari environments, metric-space object tracking, and RealityKit.
AI & TechnologyRealityKit And Reality Composer Pro 3 In 2026
WWDC26 matured Apple's spatial pipeline: RealityKit lighting and cloth, plus a standalone Reality Composer Pro 3 with live preview and Xcode plug-ins.
AI & TechnologyWhat's New in Swift (2026): The WWDC26 Update
Swift 6.3 and 6.4 from WWDC26: anyAppleOS availability, module selectors, borrow/mutate accessors, the Iterable protocol, Swift Testing interop, and MLX.
AI & TechnologyWhat's New in SwiftUI for iOS 27
iOS 27 reworks SwiftUI lists, documents, toolbars, and errors: drag-to-reorder, a readable/writable document model, toolbar overflow, item-based alerts.
AI & TechnologyFoundation Models in iOS 27: Tool-Calling Control
iOS 27 adds GenerationOptions.ToolCallingMode to steer how the on-device model uses tools, plus built-in Vision tools: OCRTool and BarcodeReaderTool.
AI & TechnologyOn-Device AI Across iOS 27: Spotlight and Media
iOS 27 threads the on-device model through the system: SpotlightSearchTool makes Core Spotlight LLM-grounded, and AVFoundation generates subtitles on device.
AI & TechnologyEvaluations: XCTest for Model Quality (iOS 27)
Apple's Evaluations framework (iOS 27, all platforms) measures AI feature quality in Swift: Evaluator, ScoreDimension, Metric, ToolCallEvaluator, and a Swift Testing trait.
AI & TechnologyHealthKit in iOS 27: Workout Zones, New Types
iOS 27 makes workout heart-rate zones first-class HealthKit data via HKWorkoutZoneConfiguration and HKWorkoutZoneGroup, plus new menopausalState types.
AI & TechnologyBuilding a Responsive Camera App in iOS 27
iOS 27 cuts camera launch in half with Deferred Start, adds Pro Video Storage for ProRes writes, and brings the Center Stage square front camera to your app.
AI & TechnologySwiftUI Performance and Interop in iOS 27
How iOS 27 SwiftUI handles lazy-stack scrolling, GPU shader effects, and AppKit/UIKit interop, drawn from three official WWDC26 UI Frameworks sessions.
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.