Design 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 & CultureWriting
Thoughts on design, development, AI infrastructure, and building products.
Core 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 & TechnologyThe Shader Gallery That Lied: Debugging 216 WebGL Presets
A user said the shader playground looked broken. Pixel-readback testing found 30 dead presets, 11 that never compiled, and the fallback that hid it all.
Engineering & CraftContext Compaction Is Becoming a Training Objective
Context compaction is moving from an inference-time patch operators babysit to a training-time objective models optimize. CompactionRL is the signal.
AI & TechnologyThe Agent Stack Has a 1998 Problem
A cluster of agent-tool CVEs in mid-2026 is not bad luck. It is the structural signature of an AI agent ecosystem shipping at 1998-era security maturity.
AI & TechnologyAgents Want to Compile
The agent stack is separating deciding from executing: models compile intent into replayable workflow scripts and DAGs, and deterministic runtimes run them.
AI & TechnologyThe Check Becomes the Spec
Coding agents building to the test: near-perfect oracle scores, dead library shipped. What your checks omit stops being the job.
AI & TechnologyRecreating MacPaint in the Browser: The 1984 Source Code Is the Spec
I rebuilt MacPaint 1.3 in the browser and checked every tool against Bill Atkinson's released Pascal source. What faithful software recreation takes.
Engineering & CraftClaude Code Hooks Explained: The Deterministic Layer Around Your Agent
Claude Code hooks run shell commands at lifecycle events — guaranteed. Every event, exit-code semantics, and five patterns from Prettier to a Stop gate.
AI DevelopmentDesign Philosophy: Massimo Vignelli — Design Is One
Massimo Vignelli mapped the New York subway in 45-degree angles and beige water, and ran a career on four typefaces. One discipline at every scale.
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.
