Motion Grammar: When Animation Earns Its Frames
Interface animation is a language with a small grammar: four duration bands, two easing rules, and one blunt test. If you can't say why it moves, delete it.
Design & CultureWriting
Thoughts on design, development, AI infrastructure, and building products.
Designing for AI Agent Surfaces
My site serves 40x more requests to AI agents than human visits -- and the agents read different pages. Craft rules for the reader that renders nothing.
Design & CultureThe Forms Canon: Every Field Is a Question
Form design has a canon: one column, visible labels, forgiving inputs, errors that teach, and never losing the user's work. The rules and why each exists.
Design & CultureIcons Are a Vocabulary, Not Decoration
Interface icons work like a language with about a dozen words everyone knows. Label by default, one family per product, one metaphor per action.
Design & CultureThe Five Spacing Decisions That Fix Most UI
Most interfaces have a spacing problem, not a color problem. Five decisions, one scale, and the Gestalt rule that lets whitespace replace borders.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Hideo Kojima, Director of Constraints
Hideo Kojima codified the stealth genre because his hardware could not draw bullets, then spent decades smuggling cinema into a medium that kept telling him no.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Fumito Ueda, Design by Subtraction
Fumito Ueda made three games in twenty years, removing everything that did not serve one emotion. Design by subtraction, from the painter who cut the chair.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Miyamoto, The Player Is the Protagonist
Shigeru Miyamoto turned a childhood cave into Zelda and 'fun' into a testable property. The most influential game designer alive, on what ideas are for.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Kengo Kuma, Losing on Purpose
A decade of exile taught Kengo Kuma that buildings should lose: dissolve into wood, place, and craft. Then he built Japan's national stadium that way.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Gunpei Yokoi's Withered Technology
Gunpei Yokoi built the Game Boy from parts everyone considered obsolete, and it outsold every superior rival. A principle software teams still ignore.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Peter Zumthor, Atmosphere as Material
Peter Zumthor works from a Swiss village, takes years per building, and treats how a room feels as material -- from Therme Vals to a chapel formed by fire.
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 & CultureExternal 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.
