RealityKit And Reality Composer Pro 3 In 2026
WWDC26 matured Apple's spatial pipeline: RealityKit lighting and cloth, plus a standalone Reality Composer Pro 3 with live preview and Xcode plug-ins.
AI & TechnologyWriting
Thoughts on design, development, AI infrastructure, and building products.
Foundation 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & TechnologyWhat's New in SwiftUI for iOS 27
iOS 27 reworks SwiftUI lists, documents, toolbars, and errors: drag-to-reorder, a readable/writable document model, toolbar overflow, item-based alerts.
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 & 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 & TechnologyApp Intents in iOS 27: Background, Sync, Spotlight
iOS 27 gives App Intents background execution past 30 seconds via LongRunningIntent, cross-device identity with SyncableEntity, and Spotlight reindexing.
AI & TechnologyYour Agent Has Two Untrusted Inputs
AI agents have two untrusted inputs: code the model writes and tool output it reads. One now has a real WASM sandbox; the other, MCP tool poisoning, does not.
AI & TechnologyEngineering Philosophy: Adi Shamir
Adi Shamir is the S in RSA and a master cryptanalyst -- he builds secure systems by also learning to break them. Attack to defend, turning clean number theory into mechanism.
Engineering & CraftEngineering Philosophy: Yann LeCun, Learning the World, Openly
Yann LeCun built deep vision on convolution, then bet that real intelligence comes from learning the world unsupervised and publishing it openly -- not bigger LLMs.
Engineering & CraftExternal 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.
