Customizable Select: Style the Real <select> at Last
Safari 27 and Chrome 135 let you style the real select element: appearance: base-select, ::picker(select), rich HTML in options, and a swappable button.
Web DevelopmentWriting
Thoughts on design, development, AI infrastructure, and building products.
Loop Engineering: Loops Win Where Verification Is Cheap
Loop engineering, checked against Boris Cherny's full transcripts: every loop he names has cheap verification. That constraint decides what to automate.
AI & TechnologyWhat's New in Instruments 27 for App Responsiveness
Instruments 27 adds Top Functions, Run Comparisons, a Swift executors instrument, and a new Inspector panel to diagnose CPU, actor, and syscall hangs.
AI & TechnologyMetal 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 & 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 & TechnologySwiftData in iOS 27: Observation and History
iOS 27 gives SwiftData first-class change observation with ResultsObserver, persistent-history observation with HistoryObserver, and codable attribute storage.
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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & TechnologyAccessibility 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 & TechnologyExternal 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.
