The 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 & CultureWriting
Thoughts on design, development, AI infrastructure, and building products.
Icons 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 & CultureDesigning 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 & CultureMidjourney Sref Codes Are Version-Bound: Fix Your Library
A Midjourney sref code only means what its style system says it means. Which --sv each code era needs, and how to build a library that survives new versions.
AI & TechnologyMidjourney V8 vs V7: The Prompt Anatomy That Changed
Midjourney V8 executes prompts far more literally than V7, and half the control surface changed underneath. What migrates, what breaks, and the costly gotchas.
AI & TechnologySuno's Style of Music Field and Style Influence Slider
Suno's Style of Music field defines the vocabulary; the Style Influence slider sets how strictly it's obeyed. The 4-7 descriptor rule and what silently fails.
AI & TechnologyThe 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: 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: 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: 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 & CultureSign in with Apple Sends Four Notifications, Not Three
Apple's announcement names three server-to-server notification types. The API defines four. Here is the full contract, and what Apple leaves undocumented.
AI & TechnologyThe Skills My Agent Could Not See
Five skills in my Claude Code setup reached the model as bare names. The description budget drops routing information silently, and nothing warns you.
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.
