The iOS 27 Launch Screen Rule: Four Keys or Rejection
Apps built with the iOS 27 SDK must declare a launch screen or the App Store rejects them. The four keys, and how to audit a target with a generated plist.
DevelopmentWriting
Thoughts on design, development, AI infrastructure, and building products.
The @State Macro: What Xcode 27 Stops Compiling
Xcode 27 reimplements SwiftUI's @State as a Swift macro. The break lands on toolchain upgrade, not deployment target, and two patterns stop compiling.
DevelopmentOn Demand Resources Is Deprecated: What Background Assets Costs
Apple deprecated ODR in 13 words. The replacement forks three ways, sets an iOS 26 floor, and hands you back the disk management the system used to do.
DevelopmentThe App Store's Social Media Checkbox and What It Costs
September's App Store rule makes every submission declare social media capabilities. The under-13 carve-out costs an entitlement, an API, and a branch.
DevelopmentDesign Philosophy: Rei Kawakubo, Start From Zero
Rei Kawakubo built Comme des Garçons on a refusal: no explanation, no precedent, no finished meaning. Her in-between -- mu and ma -- treats the void as material.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Issey Miyake, A Piece of Cloth
Issey Miyake insisted he made clothing, not fashion. His pleats, his single pieces of cloth, and his refusal of the seasonal cycle argue that technology serves life, not spectacle.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Norman Foster, The Optimist's Machine
Norman Foster built the case that technology is how architecture cares for people: ecological skyscrapers, a glass dome the public walks above parliament, and an airport that reads as calm.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Renzo Piano, Piece by Piece
Renzo Piano calls architecture 'a socially dangerous art' because nobody can look away from a bad building. His answer: the workshop, lightness, and building piece by piece.
Design & CultureThe Mac App Store Won't Let Window Managers Exist. I Shipped One Anyway.
App Sandbox forbids the API every window tiler needs, and Apple said ship outside the store. 941 Tiles ships inside it: Apple's Shortcuts engine moves the windows.
Engineering & CraftCore ML vs MLX vs Foundation Models: Choosing Apple's On-Device AI Stack
Apple ships four ways to run models on-device. A decision framework with measured numbers: Foundation Models, Core ML, MLX, and iOS 27's Core AI.
Apple & iOSThe Robots Are Taking Exams in My Search Console
First-party GSC data: 91% of 3.8M impressions fail a human-query filter. Exam questions, pasted errors, and agent sweeps are rewriting what Search Console means.
AI & TechnologyThe Assistants Are the Audience Now
First-party edge data: AI assistants request my pages ~66x more often than humans visit, and most of it is live user-directed fetching, not training crawls.
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.
